Fancy a new smartphone? This is a great time to buy, and our best phones guide will help you compare and contrast the very best handsets on the market today in 2021. We'll show you the very best smartphones no matter who makes them, what OS they run or how much they cost. If you already prefer a particular platform, such as Android or iOS, we also have a dedicated guide to the best Android phones and one for the best iPhones. Some of these phones are quite expensive, but you don't necessarily need to spend tons of cash on a new smartphone. In addition to the affordable models we've covered here we've also put together an entire guide to the best cheap phones, and if you're looking for a compact device rather than an enormo-screened obelisk you'll find plenty of choice in T3's best small phones feature.
iOS is the operating system for iPhone, iPad, and other Apple mobile devices. Based on Mac OS, the operating system which runs Apple's line of Mac desktop and laptop computers, Apple iOS is designed for easy, seamless networking between a range of Apple products.
An Android phone is a powerful, high-tech smartphone that runs on the Android operating system developed by Google and is used by a variety of mobile phone manufacturers.
Windows Phone is Microsoft's smartphone operating system and a brand for the numerous hardware designs that run on it. Windows Phone uses a Metro-derived user interface, closely reflecting and relying on the tile-like interface introduced with the desktop systems.
Samsung Galaxy S21 ultra 5G, it is Samsung’s flagship smartphone for 2021, and it competes with the best of the best in the industry, including the Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max, OnePlus 9 Pro, and the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra. Since there hasn’t been a new Galaxy Note series smartphone this year, Samsung’s hopes are tied to the Galaxy S21 Ultra.
Vivo X70 Pro+ is the latest smartphone from the brand that has given us a lot of firsts in the smartphone industry. Be it an in-display fingerprint scanner or a pop-up camera setup for selfies. Vivo is now offering what no other handset maker is even trying. And, that's putting a gimbal set up on a smartphone.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro is cost-effective, well-designed, and an impressive piece of technology that brings a powerful performance (as per its price tag), hefty battery size, and a fast-charging tech on board. It has stereo speakers, a headphone jack, and a dedicated memory card slot which are some of the most-wanted features on a smartphone. But the grass looks greener on the other side because Redmi Note 10 Pro has an MIUI 12 UI which although it is known for constant updates, is still filled with a lot of bloatware.
Huawei considers the Mate 40 Pro to be the main phone in the series, and it sports the company’s 5nm Kirin 9000 processor. The US trade ban means that the Mate 40 series is the last Huawei flagship family to use Kirin chips across the board.
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL up to this point. We know that’s a bold statement, but bear with us here. Save for the phone’s specifications, if there’s one thing we’ve learned evaluating the 950 XL over the last few weeks it’s that virtually everything from the OS to the camera app has been changed or updated very recently, and it has affected battery life, responsiveness, and browsing, among many other things. Information published about the Lumia 950 XL that's any more than a couple of weeks old is simply outdated.
HP Elite x3 is, indeed, a beautiful, powerful phone (at least on paper, as we’ve yet to test it). Its Desktop Dock and Mobile Extender show a compelling way to make the phone the center of your work life. HP’s even working on ways to drag legacy apps onto the platform via HP Workspace (which we won’t cover in this article).
