The best-sounding smartphones and tablets of 2024

01 January 2025


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  • 01 Jan 2025

Most useless article of the year already.

Gsmarena still thinks, that we gather around a smartphone with our close ones to listen to the latest hits/movies. Apart from calling, which you do not even test, we do not care about it at all.

This is the age of Bluetooth. Yet you do not test which codecs are present on the device and how is the end result.

Jack is gone. So please update your testing finally and get to the relevant stuff. It is the first day of 2025. A good day, to better yourselves.

    Why is the ROG Phone 9 not included in the flagships list? With some treble boost in the Audio Wizard, it easily beats others in this list. Listen especially in track 5 and 7, the ROG Phones are basically the only ones to actually produce the bass notes. I tuned mine to have a basically flat response from 180Hz to 12kHz at 75% volume.

    Also, I personally really like the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra. It's loud, clear, and warm without any distortion whatsoever. The Xperia 1 VI is extremely loud and full-bodied, but suffers from compression artifacts. In my opinion, the S24 Ultra is too thin sounding - it has too much treble.

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      • JJc
      • 01 Jan 2025

      Hanif Fikri, 01 Jan 2025Iphone is the last one since I couldn't adjust equaliz... moreMy words. You can tune basically any Android to sound great if you take yourself some time. PowerAmp EQ is great.

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        • Honor is trash
        • 6vM
        • 01 Jan 2025

        How do you put Honor in the best phone in the middle class this phone has when it is not balanced in sound and quality in terms of speakers The left is weaker than the right I don't know, you might be driven to say humiliation

          Iphone is the last one since I couldn't adjust equalizer so when I adjust android phones equalizer it turns out to be huge difference plus can combo with Poweramp equalizer app(EQ apps on iOS doesn't exist)..all these phone speaker comparisons are in default/factory settings..

            AnonD-1185368, 01 Jan 2025And LG. 🥲And Meizu

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              • xjH
              • 01 Jan 2025

              Haidy, 01 Jan 2025I miss HTC. 🥺And LG. 🥲

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                • A{Q
                • 01 Jan 2025

                The article writer needs to explain better the methodology of the tests in the introduction of the article.

                  I miss HTC. 🥺

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                    • A{Q
                    • 01 Jan 2025

                    I'm looking for a phone has its focus on its speakers. Best experience for watching Music video clips, no need for headphones, and also best experience for listening Music on room space, the best replacement can be achieved for a portable speaker.

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                      • SjE
                      • 01 Jan 2025

                      Microphone quality and performance in high SPL situations is important to me, is there anything GSMarena can say about the best microphones in smartphones?