Cheap doesn't always mean landfill
I can't speak for the A1, but I'm very chuffed with my Xaomi Note X4. It's a grey import in the UK for £150 from a UK reseller. A very nice piece of kit, excellent battery life, decent screen, runs fast enough for all my needs, takes two sims (or in my case one sim and an SD card). Works a treat day to day, camera is decent without being great - that's clearly more of a low-mid range item. Out the box the stock theme looks a bit Apple-esque, but Nova Launcher soon fixed that.
Will it be landfill after two years? Maybe, at £150. But in the first week the battery has lasted five days and 14 hours, so it isn't going to be recharged that often, and internet teardown analysis suggests that it is probably far easier to replace the battery than on any mainstream UK product from Samsung or Apple.
I really can't recommend it highly enough for the price. Well done Xiaomi.