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While the flagship phones are the headliners of the market, the midrange phones are the real deal. These are the handsets that the masses actually buy in large numbers, and why not! The mid-range segment has undergone a massive transformation this year with certain handsets offering exceptional features and value that one would only expect in phones at least 1.5x their cost till a year ago.

Redmi Note 7 Pro
Redmi Note 7 Pro was perhaps the phone that made us drop the word ‘lower’ from the lower midrange category at the start of this year. It was the first phone under Rs 15,000 to introduce the segment to a 48 MP camera, something unthinkable till then. And it wasn’t just the megapixel count but the actual picture quality that received a shot in the arm since then. It set a new standard for that price bracket.

Realme XT
If 48 MP camera and Snapdragon 675 were impressive, then how about a 64 MP camera and Snapdragon 712? That’s what Realme XT brought to the table. Add to that a Super AMOLED display, in-display fingerprint scanner, a quad-camera setup, and the stakes were raised further in the sub-20K segment. What we also liked about Realme is that they bundled a 20 W VOOC 3.0 fast charger that could charge the phone’s 4,000 mAh battery from 0 to 100 in under 90 minutes.

Honor View 20
Moving on the sub-30K segment, the Honor View 20 has been a constant presence in many a list of ours throughout the year. It was priced a bit higher when it was launched in Jan this year, but the price quickly dropped under Rs 30,000 making it an excellent buy. It has an eye-catching design with a 6.4-inch Full HD+ notch-less display and an in-display punch-hole front camera. At the back, you get the Aurora Nanotexture finish that creates an optical illusion and happened to mesmerise one of us.

Redmi K20 Pro
While the Honor View 20 looked to take on the OnePlus 7 at launch, the Redmi K20 Pro was created to simply take it down. The K20 Pro was supposed to do what the Poco F1 did last year, but with more style and substance, and it did that pretty well. While a Snapdragon 855 chip in a sub-30K phone was the major selling point of this device at launch, the design and camera departments were equally impressive.

Realme X2 Pro
The Realme X2 Pro is one of the more recent launches of 2019, and it dares to go toe to toe with the OnePlus 7T despite a sub-30K price tag. It is one specs monster from the Oppo sub-brand boasting of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ chipset with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. You also get a 12 GB RAM variant with 256 GB storage, in case you like showing off. It not only tries to match up to the OnePlus 7T in terms of processing power but you also get a 6.5-inch 90 Hz Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with 20:9 aspect ratio to go with it.