Best smartphones of 2025 - buyer’s guide
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- Anonymous
- 3xN
- 26 Nov 2019
Note 10 Plus in Number 1 for Flagship makes sense, so does the best camera phone.
Can't wait to see what Samsung do with their improved camera sensor for the S11.
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- Anonymous
- i84
- 26 Nov 2019
not even 1 huawei device..
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- Panos
- gLs
- 26 Nov 2019
More than 10 years after the Iphone came to light, there is not yet a device with an excellent camera with a O.I.S., huge battery, fast processor at a budget cost! Pity...
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- Sonu4678
- BLf
- 26 Nov 2019
Anonymous, 26 Nov 2019You don't need to be a geek to install gcam, you only need ... moreWell, very few have an IQ above room temperature. You might want to look at the real people around you.
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 26 Nov 2019
Sonu4678, 25 Nov 2019"Most people" are not geeks. They don't visit GSMA like us.... moreYou don't need to be a geek to install gcam, you only need to install an apk file like any other app.
Anyone with an IQ above room temperature can do it.
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 26 Nov 2019
Anonymous, 25 Nov 2019Rog phone2 is not an all rounder,,performance is good,,came... moreIt is an all rounder. Cameras are good as well. Gcam makes it on par with my S10 in 97% conditions.
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 26 Nov 2019
patoka, 25 Nov 2019LO It doesn't. How do I know? Coz I just replaced my ROG 2 ... moreTL;DR
All YouTubers unanimously declared ROG 2 crushing every phone in its price segment.
Only OnePlus fanboiiss will disagree.
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- Anonymous
- 6wN
- 26 Nov 2019
Not helpful at all. I think I will go for Xiaomi Redmi Note 8.
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- Rey
- xYG
- 26 Nov 2019
It would be great if there's a category for best designed phones ... Cheers ...
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- Wangbu
- 2Au
- 25 Nov 2019
US is wins to remove Huawei from this list.
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- Anonymous
- Jdg
- 25 Nov 2019
Very good buyers guide.. I go for Mi 9 SE...
Thank you for your advice.
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- patoka
- ntk
- 25 Nov 2019
Anonymous, 25 Nov 2019Good phone but we all know that Rog 2 has destroyed the One... moreLO It doesn't. How do I know? Coz I just replaced my ROG 2 with Oneplus 7T. The thing with the ROG 2 Tencent Edition is that you either go with the Chinese firmware filled with bloatware, untranslated stuff, missing Armory Crate functions, and more, and keep the OTA updates or go with the WW ROM, which has LTE issues, no OTA, no easy manual update unless you change the fingerprint of the firmware (which absolutely no average consumer will go through) and more. And the camera is ridiculously bad - GCam is better but it suffers random freezes and crashes and every time you use the zoom the resolution resets to 48mp.
Yeah, the ROG 2 has better speakers, 3.5mm jack, air triggers, awesome battery life and other cool stuff but the Tencent Edition has a lot of shortcomings and is more of a niche product. The global version surely will be better but it no longer costs more than double what the 7t does currently. And the 7T works well out of the box with no firmware issues, going through pages of xda threads and risking to brick your phone. And believe me, most people will choose something that has timely OTA updates, doesn't require any in-depth android knowledge and has no software shortcomings because the specs and all the bells and whistles mean nothing if the overall software experience is sub-par
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- Anonymous
- s3C
- 25 Nov 2019
Best flagship killers 2019 .... Lenovo z6 PRO 128GB 8GB RAM - $315 AliExpress... Everywhere is underestimated...
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- Anonymous
- utB
- 25 Nov 2019
Anonymous, 25 Nov 2019Good phone but we all know that Rog 2 has destroyed the One... moreRog phone2 is not an all rounder,,performance is good,,camera is not that good
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- pt020
- ncr
- 25 Nov 2019
Lucky me my phone is not in this list.
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- Sonu4678
- BLf
- 25 Nov 2019
Anonymous, 25 Nov 2019Most people on budget phones and even flagships use gcam mo... more"Most people" are not geeks. They don't visit GSMA like us. There are not interested in technical details.
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 25 Nov 2019
Aakash7T, 23 Nov 2019I have been using the OnePlus 7T from over a month now and ... moreGood phone but we all know that Rog 2 has destroyed the OnePlus 7t at that same price
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 25 Nov 2019
Reatmos, 25 Nov 2019I think because ASUS ROG PHONE II has 120Hz Display. That i... more10% battery life sacrifice isn't worse when you compared to how much the user experience is enhanced.
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- Anonymous
- KSu
- 25 Nov 2019
Sonu4678, 25 Nov 2019Most people don't use Gcam mods so that's irrelevant. It's ... moreMost people on budget phones and even flagships use gcam mod since it improves picture quality by a huge margin.
200$ Smartphones matching flagship quality phones in 90% of cases. Why wouldn't people install it.
It is available for 80-90% of Android phones.
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- Riton72
- Mxi
- 25 Nov 2019
Hello,
I am really eager to read your review of the Xiaomi mi note 8T. Especially to use your image comparison tool and figure out how it compares with my favorite ones in the same price range.
So far my preferred one for the camera is the Moto G7plus - but this phone suffers from a too low autonomy - so I will be also interested to see your test of the Moto G8 plus that feature a decent battery.
I have been disappointed by mi note 8 pro camera