I spent over a week with the Pixel 11 Pro XL. The telephoto camera won me over completely. The Tensor G6's benchmark scores did not.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the most exciting phone Samsung has made in years. It's pricey and makes a deep compromise, but what it offers is plenty of utilitarian charm, reliability, and longevity in a versatile shell.

The Red Magic 11S Pro is an unapologetic gaming phone with extreme performance, active cooling, strong emulation chops, and enough weird bits to remind you it was never chasing normal.

Xiaomi’s latest T-series Pro phone delivers Leica-tuned cameras, excellent battery life, strong gaming performance, and a polished design, though its size and software quirks may not be for everyone.

The Motorola Razr Fold is expensive and imperfect, but its polished design, excellent displays, strong battery, and useful stylus support make it a serious foldable rival.

After years of writing off foldables, the Honor Magic V6 made me a convert. The folding screen is outstanding, the battery is remarkable, and the cameras are the best on any large foldable right now. It is not perfect, but it is hard to argue with.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the best showcase of consistent excellence and a solid return to innovative streak, despite not being the beefiest warrior in the Android ecosystem.

The middle child is out. For years, Samsung has stuck to its holy trinity formula for the Galaxy S lineup: the regular, the Plus, and the top – tier Ultra (formerly known as “we killed the Note but kept its soul”). And somewhere in that evolution, the Plus model quietly lost its identity. Quick Take […]

The Galaxy S26 delivers the familiar Samsung flagship formula in a compact form, though the lack of meaningful hardware progress keeps it from feeling truly exciting.

The OnePlus 15R takes some unpacking, but see past its higher-than-expected price and pared-back feature set and you'll find a solid and reliable Android.

The OnePlus 15 is neither brash, nor bold. It's more like a subtle refinement that manages to deliver high on practicality, with some signature performance-centric oomph.

Meet the new iPhone 17. It's the most complete non-Pro iPhone ever made, and it solves all the problems with last year's iPhone 16. The result? The best iPhone for most people.

The Google Pixel 10 Pro is a fantastic smartphone that is among the best you can buy, but last year's model was so good that it lacks the wow factor of key rivals.

If you've been waiting for Google to challenge the Galaxy S25 Ultra, look no further: the Pixel 10 Pro XL is the Pixel Ultra I've always wanted and one of the best phones you can buy. Here's why.

The Google Pixel 10 is an excellent smartphone. It excels in photography and offers AI tools that are actually useful.

Instant Insight The start of July saw the launch of not one, but two, brand-new ultra-thin folding phones. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 was launched on July 9 and measures 4.2mm thick, which would have made it the world’s thinnest folding phone had Honor not launched the Magic V5 a week earlier. Measuring 4.1mm thick, […]

Move over Samsung and Motorola, there's a new flip phone sheriff in town. Meet the Jimmy Choo-inspired Honor Magic V Flip 2, which offers a large 200MP camera, the biggest battery and the fastest charging on a flip phone. It's so good, there's only one problem: its availability.

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is the best folding phone for most people. It's thinner, lighter and sleeker than ever, and the design is so nice you'll want to forgive its shortcomings.

The Galaxy S25 Edge is just a thin smartphone, right? Yes, but as we found out using it for a while, it's a lot more than that. Here's our in-depth review.

The Moto G Stylus is one of the only phones in its class that caters to note-takers, casual doodlers, and anyone who likes having a little extra control in their hands.

The Motorola Razr 2025 is designed to be the affordable entry to flip phones for most people. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of the Razr Ultra, but it offers 80% of the core experience at just over half the price. There's no better bang-for-your-buck folding phone.

I've used the bright orange CMF Phone 2 Pro for a while, and this is why I think it deserves a place on your phone shopping list.

The Garmin Vivoactive 6 is Garmin's newest fitness wearable, but is this subtly smart fitness watch worth your money?

The combination of a great design, solid performance, decent camera results and great battery life (with speedy charging) make the Motorola Razr Ultra 2025 the flip phone to beat for this year.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is a real powerhouse, but competition is tough, so has it got what it takes to beat them?

We've been using the Google Pixel 9a to see if it's worthy of being your next smartphone. We've got good news, as you'll find out in our in-depth review.

The term Ultra has quickly become a way for companies to showcase their best smartphone innovations across all the areas that matter to customers. Made popular by Samsung with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, almost every company has launched an Ultra competitor in the five years since, yet most of these aren’t sold in Western markets. […]

The OnePlus 13R may not be the flashiest phone to launch in 2025, but in terms of raw value and bang for your buck, it's one of the best you'll find.

We've used the Poco F7 Ultra as our main phone, and it may be the best Poco phone yet. Here's our in-depth review.

The iPhone 16 Pro Max is big, powerful, and expensive. If you can handle its size and price, it's a fantastic iPhone.

The Oppo Find N5 is the best folding phone you can buy, except, you can't easily just buy it. It's the best foldable but also the hardest to get, here's why.

The iPhone 16e offers a great first iPhone experience. it prioritizes battery life and the essentials over all else, for a no-frills iPhone experience. Here's why.

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra's incredible camera specification has us really excited. Can the phone lived up to our very high expectations. We find out.

The Samsung Galaxy A56 needs to be a fantastic phone as the competition is tough. We found out if it's up to the task in our review.