The Honor Magic V3 is going global, making further strides towards pocketability, while also setting standards for durability, and improving upon the camera system.
The Honor Magic V3 is going global, making further strides towards pocketability, while also setting standards for durability, and improving upon the camera system.
The vivo's key selling points are its unusually competent camera setup, excellently-specced displays, and largest battery capacity in the form factor.
Google Pixel 8a seems like a solid little flagship, one of the very few on the market, and also one that doesn't cost a thousand dollars/euros. The slow 18W wired charging is a glaring omission on the spec sheet, though.
A few small but meaningful upgrades to the camera system, tweaks to the build and display, and the mandatory chipset refresh - we can't be mad at the Xiaomi 14 Ultra for its short list of changes, when last year's model was already one of the best cameraphones in existence.
The vivo V30 Pro builds on top of the balanced V30 mid-ranger with a more professional approach towards the camera department. It introduces new colorways and a triple Zeiss camera on the back, making for one of the most interesting phones for photography on the go.
With an Active Use Score of almost 14 hours, the Xiaomi 14 is among the best in its class.
Honor has another spectacularly-specced cameraphone for us once again - the Magic6 Pro goes global.
The Galaxy S24 Ultra surprised us - we didn't expect it to have any flaws, and suddenly, we have a cons section.
A proper high-end package, the 12 starts things off with a supreme display that has it all - resolution, brightness, adaptive high refresh rate, Dolby Vision - the lot.
The Xiaomi 13T Pro brings some nice firsts for the series, like the more advanced camera and the IP68-rated design. But it also keeps one dated legacy feature and probably the only potential setback we can foresee - the 20MP Quad-Bayer selfie camera.
[V]ivo is continuing to churn out V-series updates twice a year and the latest entry in the lineup is the V29 - a competent midranger for the global market.
The ugly gap is gone, but the Fold5 still feels more like a facelift than an entirely new model.
The gapless folding design is finally here, so the handset no longer looks like a prototype - it's sexier this way but also simply more compact.
[T]he 7a gets closer to the 'high-end' models than any previous offering with an 'a' in its name, and comes in at a not-insignificant [...]
There's a smartphone strapped to that Leica-co-engineered marvel of a camera system, and it's a proper high-end one too.
The new vivo V27 Pro is a notable upgrade over the previous V23 Pro and V25 Pro. While they were both camera-centric midrangers, this one trumps them with supposedly better camera kits and a flagship-grade chipset.
The Xiaomi 13 Pro is one of the easiest recommendations we've ever given despite its horrible grip experience (beauty has its price, obviously, but please, buy yourself a premium case).
There is little missing on the vivo X90 Pro in terms of modern day features. The phone is IP68-rated, made for the global markets, it uses flagship screen, cameras, chipset, charging solutions.
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra brings predictably minor upgrades - camera tweaks here and new chipset there, mostly - but how much can you really improve on the S22 Ultra in just a year?
We see the OnePlus 11 as a strange mixture between the OnePlus 10 Pro and the OnePlus 10T from last year. Compared to the Pro, it has a couple of notable downgrades, but in the context of the 10T, it offers a substantial upgrade.
The Poco X5 Pro doesn't deviate much from the established formula - there aren't major upgrades, though there are enough improvements across the board to make you want to switch to the new model.
[T]he Phantom X2 Pro is a well-rounded flagship device that doesn't skimp on any particular part of its specs sheet.
After last year's Pixel return to the flagship scene, 2022 brings more of an evolutionary upgrade to Google's phone lineup. The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro come with the usual chipset upgrade, a camera tweak here or there, and a refined design, on top of a handful of software novelties.
It seems Apple has addressed many of the omissions from the past generations, and we have the best iPhone ever.
