The Vodafone Smart N8 is a sub-£100 phone with a fingerprint scanner

When evolution bestowed fingers upon us, it can only have been with one ultimate aim in mind: that one day we’d use them to unlock our smartphones. Well, evolution must be feeling rather smug right now, because the Vodafone Smart N8 is a sub-£100 phone which has a fingerprint scanner. And there aren’t many of those about. That’s far from the Smart N8’s only selling point, either – a 13MP rear camera and 5MP selfie cam are good offerings at this price, while the quad-core Mediatek processor and 1.5GB RAM should cope well enough with the installed Android 7.0. Sure, the 5in screen’s only 720p, but then again this phone only costs £85. 

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Marc was until fairly recently Editor of Stuff.tv, but now edits a site about cars instead. He has been a committed geek since getting a Tomytronic 3D aged seven, and a journalist since the week that Google was founded (really). He spends much of his free time taking photos of really small things (bugs, flowers, his daughters) or really big things (galaxies and the like through a telescope) and losing games of FIFA and Pro Evo online. You can email Marc at marc.mclaren@haymarket.com