My top 5 phones of 2024 - Sagar

04 January 2025
These are my favorite smartphones of 2024.

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Vegetaholic, 06 Jan 2025If you own flagship you should use it for minimum 4 years. ... moreIn fact, audio performance in earphones and total memory availability has gone down by a huge margin from any such 2019-20 flagship.

    Enigma, 08 Jan 2025I'd pick Nord 4 over Nord CE4 as immediately post CE4 ... moreCE4 has a memory card slot, capable of a 1TB high speed card. Nord 4 doesn't.

    Plus, by the time Nord 4 launched (months later than CE4), I had already suggested CE4 to 2 contacts of mine, and had convinced them of merits of a microSD slot.
    Nord 4 is faster than CE4, yes.
    But, CE4's Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is also good, faster than Snapdragon 865, its enough for most people.
    CE4 lite on the other hand, is the proper weakling here, with the newbie-aimed SD695.

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      • 08 Jan 2025

      Sam N8 808 owner, 05 Jan 2025Firstly, let me say its nice to see an Indian name, Sagar i... moreI'd pick Nord 4 over Nord CE4 as immediately post CE4 release Nord 4 came with a barely higher price tag (when appropriate sales where on) which would make every CE4 buyer question why they bought their device. Individually, I've no argument against CE4, but given the market and even CE4 lite starting with an OLED screen this year onwards) CE4 kinda lost its meaning.

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        • 08 Jan 2025

        Why all products feel BMK electronics only 🤔

          Anonymous, 06 Jan 2025Too bad battery will die after 2 years max. If phone don&#... moreBattery does not die, I used S10 for 4 years and battery still alright and lasted all those 4 years without problem. I have One Plus 11 now, for almost 2 years and battery is almost as new. At 93% of capacity. If you charge and game all day battery will not last 1 year due to insane heat strains. You need to also know how to use your device correctly and do not destroy your battery, Also I don't game and I don't use my phone while charging 🙂

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            • 06 Jan 2025

            Vegetaholic, 06 Jan 2025If you own flagship you should use it for minimum 4 years. ... moreToo bad battery will die after 2 years max.
            If phone don't have audio jack , then battery will die even faster due to usb-c power hungry socket

            Your idea is very idealistic. It would reduce e-trash in the world and the oceans!
            You are a dreamer

              If you own flagship you should use it for minimum 4 years. Considering smartphones evolution completely stagnating for past 6 years. There is literally barely improvements comparing flagships from 5 years ago and now. Cameras barely improving, screens are all same and the only noticeable improvement is performance, and only if you play games. If you don't even that is not noticible.

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                • GfX
                • 06 Jan 2025

                The close up of that camera island looks RAD. Wish some of this was fully compatible with NA

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                  • 05 Jan 2025

                  Sam N8 808 owner, 05 Jan 2025Firstly, let me say its nice to see an Indian name, Sagar i... moreAre you talking about the Samsung Galaxy XCover 7?

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 05 Jan 2025

                    I saw this person's previous top phones list and while they are also BBK dominated they do have other brands mentioned, so doesn't look "based" to me.

                    You can read them yourselves.

                    https://m.gsmarena.com/my_top_5_phones_of_2021_sagar-news-52505.php

                    https://m.gsmarena.com/my_top_5_phones_of_2023_sagar-news-61138.php

                    I found non-BBK reviews also and they look neutral enough to me.

                    https://m.gsmarena.com/apple_watch_series_8_41mm_aluminum_gps_cellular_long_term_review-news-59774.php

                    https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_xcover7_hands_on_review-news-63712.php

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                      • Anonymous
                      • B4X
                      • 05 Jan 2025

                      Looks like a lot of people didn't read the first and last paragraphs here and saw only the list and commenting based on that.

                      The guy said this in the first paragraph:

                      "But before I proceed, I'd like to mention that, as always, I've compiled the list of smartphones from the ones I got to use myself here in India for an extended duration, so there's always a chance that you may not see some phones in the list, no matter how good they are and how much of a high praise they received from us. We are talking about our personal favorites, after all. With that disclaimer out of the way, these are my top 5 phones of 2024, in no particular order."

                      And then this is the last paragraph:

                      "I used smartphones from other brands as well, and they were good, but not good enough to be in my top 5."

                      Anyone with basic English understanding can tell the dude used phones from other brands as well but didn't like their products enough to include in them in their top 5. If it was top 10 maybe we could have seen those. The first paragraph also says personal favorites and that's what these picks in the list are.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • B4X
                        • 05 Jan 2025

                        Sam N8 808 owner, 05 Jan 2025Firstly, let me say its nice to see an Indian name, Sagar i... moreI think you meant the XCover 7. They have the review.

                        https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_xcover7_hands_on_review-news-63712.php

                          Firstly, let me say its nice to see an Indian name, Sagar in the editorial team.
                          Way to go GSMArena for being diverse!

                          Secondly, for the question raised by Sagar in reference to Realme, let me say I used my last phone for 7 years. My current phone is on its 4th year so yes they need to extend their software support.
                          My idea is that they should improve stock android slightly in menus and all, then apply their apps on top of it, otherwise the research turns out too much for them.
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                          Although, I must say, all these phones are just the latest flagships. I expected top phones to be a composite mix.
                          For example, my list would've included Nord CE4, a phone with memory card slot and Snapdragon 7 Gen 3, still faster than a Snapdragon 865 after all.
                          Extending to 1TB memory in a sub 25k almost-flagship phone is no less than a power.
                          Also, that Samsung Galaxy Activ 7 phone which has removable battery and microSD slot, I can't recall the name.

                            floydb1982, 04 Jan 2025They left out the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra that should have... moreif it has a samsung or apple it's not paid but if it doesn't, it's paid? What are you on? The same can be said of any list that has apple or samsung phones, since they have the most common and most popular flagship phones in their list, those list makers are paid. How about that?

                              Jony74, 05 Jan 2025That is why we need to have alternatives like Fairphone to ... moreyet you'll see all these scamsung and apple fanboys lining up and hating on Fairphone for not having decent hardware for the price. Extremely ironic and sad that people defend anti-consumer practices and attack pro-consumer ones.

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                                OneBraincelledWunkus, 04 Jan 2025We're getting based list after based list, it started ... moreBased.......another clueless keyboard warrior. ...........

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                                  DarlingYext, 04 Jan 2025OMG an almost all vivo list, truly based!Based ? Makes no damn sense ❗Don't use words you don't know the mean of or are unfamiliar with. 😉

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                                    • 05 Jan 2025

                                    Grrat to see the Vivos get mentioned as they did get included in any of the various phone categories of 2024 even though they got such stellar reviews on GSMARENA. 😁

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                                      • 05 Jan 2025

                                      Hello Sagar, why did IQOO make smaller batteries for their model ? And why do Indian cellphone variants have smaller batteries compared to other versions ?

                                        Glad there's no scamsung in the list