Ask HN: Mobile phone for pragmatists

My Samsung S4 LTE recently died, I'm looking for a new phone and find it hard to cut through all the marketing speak.

All I really need is a phone for light to medium use. I'm a developer, so it's sitting on my desk most of the day, no heavy duty features needed. I don't play games, I don't do anything special with it, mostly messaging and taking the occasional picture.

So what I'm looking for is an affordable, just all around solid phone without bells and whistles and without a 200 € markup for a brand name.

If you could point me in any direction, thanks.