Need recommendation for relatively inexpensive 5G phone

[schmidtj]

Hi, I'm an iPhone user but would like to contribute to things like cellmapper.net. T-Mobile is handing out "free" lines like popcorn so I have a few unused to devote to my quest. I know pretty much nothing about Android phones. Is there such thing as an inexpensive 5G phone capable of running cellmapper? It would need the current LTE and NR bands 71,41,66,12,2 ... Is there a standout favorite I should look for? Do

Thanks,
J

[Trip]

I believe this $400 phone is as cheap as you're going to get right at the moment: 

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/t-mobile-revvl-5g

5G-NR is just too new, and the really cheap phones don't have it yet.

- Trip

 

 

[Paynefanbro]

You can get a Samsung A51 5G for $400. I'd recommend that over a Revvl 5G. With the Samsung phone you can use dialer codes to view the amount of spectrum that's being used and what bands are being aggregated. It's much better for tracking network deployments.