The Huawei Ascend G7 is a low-key phone that deserves a bit more attention than it’ll probably get. It’s not heading to a half-dozen carriers and won’t be supported by millions in advertising.

However, it’s a phone we’d strongly advise seeking out.

It’s available for under ?200 SIM-free, but that gets you the sort of specs and build quality you’d have to fork out at least ?300 for if you were desperate for a Samsung phone. At every turn, it pretty much matches the Samsung Galaxy A5, but has a bigger screen.

The software is a little quirky, the camera slightly slow on occasion and the screen a little low-res, but otherwise the Huawei Ascend G7 is a phone all budget buyers should consider this year. It offers excellent value.

The first surprise of the Huawei Ascend G7 is its design. Despite selling for around the same price as the 5-inch Moto G, this phone is not too thick, or made largely of plastic.

It has more in common with Huawei’s higher-end phones than its direct predecessor, the plasticky Huawei Ascend G6. Most of the back is aluminium, with a unibody style that is pretty rare in phones of this price.

Huawei’s phones are rarely style icons, and neither is this one, but among its price peers it looks and feels great. It’s hard and dense, and much slimmer than most at the price. It’s only 7.6mm thick, making sure it’s fairly easy to hold and use despite having a large 5.5-inch screen.

Past Huawei design blunders have been avoided too. There are no naff-looking soft keys because they’re all-software here and the slim body dimensions haven’t been achieved by using a tiny battery. We’ll be testing it fully later in this review, but here’s a spoiler: thanks to a 3000mAh unit the Huawei Ascend G7’s stamina is very good.

It’s also practical. The power button has been moved from its traditional spot on the top edge to the side, within reach of your thumb, and even has a different texture to the volume rocker above. This makes feeling it out in your pocket a doddle.

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