Figures as published (August 8, 2026). Prices written in the article text are our catalog's figures when it was written, and prices move — each phone's current price and its status (observed with a date, or an estimate) are on its page and in the “Phones mentioned” cards below, and any device or brand count above belongs to that date.
We added 12 brands to the site in a single batch, taking the catalog to 32 brands and 3600 devices. The new entries total 555 phones, ranging from old handsets at JOD 20 up to devices at JOD 749. What most of these brands share is that they have no official distributor here — they arrive through importers or local resale listings, which changes both the price and the warranty. More on that at the end.
Global names back in the catalog
The two biggest additions by volume are Sony and Asus. Sony came in with 58 devices, from old Xperia models at JOD 20 up to the Sony Xperia 1 VII at JOD 699: a 6.5-inch OLED at 120Hz, a Snapdragon 8 Elite, and a performance index of 94 out of 100. Asus came in with 52 devices and a wider spread, from JOD 20 to JOD 749 for the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro — a gaming phone with a 5800 battery, a 165Hz screen and 16GB of RAM, also scoring 94. One detail worth noting: Asus has a median price of JOD 80, meaning half its catalog is cheap older hardware, not flagships.
The rest of the group is smaller in count but clearer in identity: - Nothing: only 13 devices, from JOD 95 for the Nothing Phone (1) to JOD 459 for the Nothing Phone (3) at an index of 88, with a median of JOD 189. The catalog is small simply because the brand is young. - Meizu: 44 devices between JOD 22 and JOD 369, topped by the Meizu 22 at JOD 369 with an index of 88 on a Snapdragon 8s Gen4. - Lenovo: 49 devices between JOD 20 and JOD 359, and the story here is the Legion gaming line — the Lenovo Legion Y70 (2026) at JOD 359 with an 8000 battery and a 2K OLED screen. - HMD: 18 devices between JOD 49 and JOD 319, the company that was behind Nokia phones and now ships under its own name, led by the HMD Skyline at JOD 155.
Rugged brands: it all comes down to the battery
Three of the new brands work mainly in rugged phones, a category that had no representation here before. Ulefone arrived with 52 devices between JOD 55 and JOD 429, topped by the Ulefone Armor 29 Ultra at JOD 429 with a 21200 mAh battery and an index of 86 — roughly four times what a normal phone carries. Oukitel arrived with 39 devices between JOD 62 and JOD 399, topped by the Oukitel WP500 Ultra at JOD 399 with a 10000 battery and 1024GB of storage. Umidigi plays at the budget end instead: 37 devices between JOD 31 and JOD 119 with a median of JOD 58, so cheap more than genuinely rugged.
This category makes sense if you work on site, in a workshop, or away from a charger and want something that survives a drop and lasts two days. The downsides are real though: the phones are heavy and thick, most of the affordable models run Unisoc chips, and software updates are not a strength for any of these brands.
Names that stopped shipping
LG is the largest brand in the whole batch by count — 79 devices — but all of them sit between 2016 and 2021, and its newest entry here is the LG W41 Pro at JOD 46. Its highest-scoring device is the LG V60 ThinQ 5G UW at JOD 139 with an index of 58, and the entire price range runs from JOD 20 to JOD 139. Prices are low precisely because nothing new arrives and everything available is second-hand with no distributor warranty. HTC brings 64 devices between JOD 21 and JOD 189; the name that once fought at the top now peaks at the HTC U24 Pro at JOD 189 with an index of 62, while its current releases are entry-level Wildfire models like the HTC Wildfire E7 Plus at JOD 89. Alcatel brings 50 devices between JOD 20 and JOD 105 and still ships new hardware such as the Alcatel V3 Ultra at JOD 105, but it left the high end a long time ago.
Before buying from any of these brands, keep this in mind: most have no official distributor, so the warranty you get is a shop warranty rather than a manufacturer one, and parts and repairs are harder and more expensive than with Samsung or Xiaomi. Availability swings too — a device like the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro may simply not exist at the listed price outside of one or two importers. Our prices for these devices are estimates built from local resale listings and market averages, so treat them as a reference point for comparison rather than a fixed price.
What this analysis is based on
The figures here are computed from the Phones JO catalog itself — specifications taken from manufacturers’ official announcements, and prices from dated observation runs of OpenSooq listings for new units. This is not rewritten from other sites, and we have not tested the phones ourselves. Our method in detail ›
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