if you buy xiaomi stay away from redmi models they made it extraordinarily painful for non-chinese users to unlock bootloader anymore so buy poco or something that comes with global rom...or not buy xiaomi
In my country there are some phones with higher rating than the least ones on this list. The Honor 8 is available on Amazon for about 227 euros, albeit it is already 2 years old by now as the Zenfone 3 with 5.2 inch sized display wich is available for 189 euros at MediaWorld. In this case there is the display tech brought from 4k tvs that can be found nowhere right now and also the display itself is brigther than most phone in this range and the phone sports other nice and premium features like 5 magnet speakers and hi res audio, the build quality too so maybe it can be considered worthy still. however the performance in real world according to pc mark scores is not on par with current mid range anymore. There are also the Moto Z 2 Play wich can be bought for 326 euros on Amazon, so it is very close to the mark, the Zenfone 4 at MediaWorld for 309 euros, the Moto Z for 275 euros on Amazon, the Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro was discounted to about 280 at Asus Shop until some days ago but is now 329 at MediaWorld. Lastly the Honor 9 hovers around 313 and 330 currently.
Whats the point of wasting money on another Samsung phone who use my money for advertisements and most phones are not protected from day one accidents.
I am trying to upgrade wife old mobile. She is using my Moto G4 Plus these days, but it is big for her. I would like to see some list of TOP 10 smartphone with display less then 5''.