Thinking of buying a new phone? We’ve got the best smartphones of the moment all listed here – and we’ve got the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus handsets duking it out with the iPhone at the top of our list.
Here’s the ranking we’ve spent hours whittling down to a top five phone for the year 2017. We take into account the power, specs, design and, most importantly, value for money of each handset.
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- Samsung Galaxy S8 – The best smartphone in the world, for a few reasons, – it’s a work of art, but none more so than the display: it makes every other handset on the market look positively antiquated.The camera is still excellent, the screen quality the best that can be found right now and it’s smashed through all our benchmarking tests.While it costs a lot to own, there are a lot of premium reasons for the premium price, and with the screen Samsung has managed to find some impressive innovation at a time when there’s very little to be found in smartphones.
Weight : 155g | Dimensions : 148.9 x 68.1 x 8mm | OS : Android 7 | Screen Size : 5.8-inch | Resolution : 1440 x 2960 | CPU : Exynos 8895 | RAM : 4GB | Storage : 64GB | Battery : 3000mAh | Rear Camera : 12MP | Front Camera : 8MP
- iPhone 7 Plus – The iPhone 7 Plus is the best iPhone available right now, giving you a whole heap of power, water resistant body, not one, but two cameras on the back and super slick performance.It does use the same design as previous handsets, and Apple’s removed the headphone jack and upped the price – but if your pockets are deep and headphones wireless you’ll love the 7 Plus. The camera is a big improvement on the 6S Plus, while the improvement in power makes usage even slicker and battery life is better than previous iPhone.
Weight: 188g | Dimensions: 158.2 x 77.9 x 7.3mm | OS: iOS 10 | Screen size: 5.5-inch | Resolution: 1080 x 1920 | CPU: A10 Fusion | RAM: 3GB | Storage: 32/128/256GB | Battery: 2900mAh | Rear camera: 12MP+12MP | Front camera: 7MP - OnePlus 5 – The OnePlus 5 is one of the more affordable devices in this list and offers one of the best Android phone experiences on the market. It comes with a more refined and comfortable to hold design than previous OnePlus handsets as well as dual-cameras round the back and some phenomenal power under the hood.
Weight: 153g | Dimensions: 154.2 x 74.1 x 7.3 mm | OS: Android 7.1 Nougat | Screen size: 5.5-inch | Resolution: 1080 x 1920 | CPU: Snapdragon 825 | RAM: 6GB/8GB | Storage: 64GB/128GB | Battery: 3300mAh | Rear camera: 20MP + 16MP | Front camera: 16MP - iPhone 7 – The new iPhone is rather iterative: it comes with a similar look and feel to previous models, but it’s still the iPhone many will hanker for. Apple’s refusal to lower the price of its flagship phones over time also harms its place in the list, but then again, if you’re an iPhone fan you’ll probably look past the cost. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad phone though. Actually, far from it – with a power boost under the hood, water resistant and a decent camera upgrade all on offer there’s enough to keep potential buyers interested.
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus – The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus fits a monstrous 6.2-inch curved display into an acceptably large body that doesn’t feel too different from its predecessor, the Galaxy S7 edge.That’s not all that’s impressive. It features the best phone display, chipset and camera of any phone to date, plus it’s still water- and dust-resistant and it features 64GB of internal storage plus a microSD card slot for expandable storage.The battery life is very good, it can power the next generation of mobile VR games and it has software that rivals stock Android. Aside from Bixby and some slightly clunky biometrics, the Galaxy S8 Plus is the perfect phone for anyone looking to maximism smartphone screen real estate.
- Samsung Galaxy S8 – The best smartphone in the world, for a few reasons, – it’s a work of art, but none more so than the display: it makes every other handset on the market look positively antiquated.The camera is still excellent, the screen quality the best that can be found right now and it’s smashed through all our benchmarking tests.While it costs a lot to own, there are a lot of premium reasons for the premium price, and with the screen Samsung has managed to find some impressive innovation at a time when there’s very little to be found in smartphones.
Weight: 173g | Dimensions: 159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1mm | OS: Android 7 | Screen size: 6.2-inch | Resolution: 1440 x 2960 | CPU: Exynos 8895 | RAM: 4GB | Storage: 64GB | Battery: 3,500mAh | Rear camera: 12MP | Front camera: 8MP