The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a fairly minor hardware update for Google’s folding phone line, which makes it slightly lighter, smaller, brighter and faster, while keeping its overall look and feel the same.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a fairly minor hardware update for Google’s folding phone line, which makes it slightly lighter, smaller, brighter and faster, while keeping its overall look and feel the same.
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is a bit of a curio from Samsung. Having forged the way with narrower book-style foldables, suddenly offering a squat, passport-shaped version seems like an odd step.
The Magic V6 is another very attractive book-style foldable from Honor, but it fails to move things on from last year in an increasingly competitive category.
The Galaxy S26 Ultra remains the most capable of all slab phones, packed with an unrivalled set of features. If you want everything and the kitchen sink in a phone, this is the Android for you.
The Pixel 10a is a great mid-range Android phone with almost all the trimmings of flagship devices but at two-thirds of the price.
The Phone 3 is a good but not great Android from Nothing. It is more interesting than rivals, but you have to actively want something different for it to make sense as you can easily get better-performing and longer-lasting handsets at about this price.
The Pixel 9a shows Google knows how to make a cut-price flagship phone at a mid-range price better than any other. The combination of top-tier chip, long battery life, great screen and a class-leading camera beats phones costing a lot more.
The Ultra is a great phone that will go the distance. Just don’t buy it for the overhyped AI features.
The OnePlus 13 is the most expensive non-folding smartphone the company has made, but the money has mostly been spent wisely to create a top-tier phone that rivals the best in the business on many, if not all fronts.
The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold is the best folding phone-tablet hybrid design yet and is a massive leap over its predecessor.
The Pixel 8a is the best mid-range phone available by a wide margin. You would have to spend almost double to get a better Android handset than this.
The OnePlus 12 is a solid phone that is caught in no man’s land. It has the performance but lacks the features to match its high-end rivals.
It is close, but overall the Fold 5 is the best folder you can buy, if you can stomach the wallet-emptying price.
The Flip 5 is no longer the only folding-screen flip phone in town, with good rivals from Oppo and Motorola available. But it is the best on the market, and a more interesting alternative to a standard premium phone.
The Pixel 7a is the best mid-range Android phone available. It squeezes even more of the premium smartphone experience into a smaller, cheaper model.
If ever there was a phone worthy of the “ultra” moniker, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is it. The phone is unrivalled in size, power, capability and battery life on Android, while its camera is more capable than any other on the market.
The OnePlus 11 is a solid phone offering a lot of performance, battery life and very fast charging for the money but otherwise struggles to stand out in the crowd.
The Pixel 7 Pro builds on the success of last year’s model, with meaningful upgrades to its camera that put it on a level with the most capable and expensive models from Samsung. It is a well-made phone with a great screen, good performance and reasonable battery life.
If you must have the most advanced device available, the Z Fold 4 is it. Just don’t let your kids anywhere near it and buy insurance in case the worst happens.
Buy it for the performance and charging, not the camera, and the OnePlus 10T is a good top-spec phone at a highly competitive price. But with extremely good mid-range phones such as the Pixel 6a [...]
The Pixel 6a is the best mid-range phone you can buy and a fantastic option if you’re looking for a smaller Android.
The 12 Pro is Xiaomi’s latest attempt to take on the best of Samsung and Apple at the top of the premium market, which delivers in some areas while falling short in others.
It is not quite as exciting as some of the new breed of folding phones. But the S22 Ultra is the best Android superphone money can buy and will take some beating this year.
For everyone else there are better, lighter options.
