Huawei Y9s

A pop-up selfie camera was still a novelty back in 2019, and the Y9s uses one to keep the front glass free of a notch or punch-hole. That 16MP shooter rises out of the frame when needed and tucks away otherwise, paired with a 6.59-inch LCD panel running at 1080 x 2340 resolution. Inside, Huawei's own Kirin 710F chipset handles daily tasks, backed by 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, which is a generous amount for this price bracket.

The rear setup is a triple-camera array: a 48MP main lens, an 8MP ultrawide, and a 2MP depth sensor for portrait shots. Huawei Y9s price in Malaysia starts from RM899, and that gets you a 4000 mAh battery for all-day use, though charging tops out at 10W so it's not a fast-charging phone by today's standards. Side-mounted fingerprint unlock, a Type-C port, and a 3.5mm jack with active noise cancellation round out the practical bits.

Running Android 9.0 with EMUI 9.1 on top, it's a phone built for a specific era of Huawei's software before the Google services shift, so that's worth checking before you commit.