Best Android Phones: Holiday 2018

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In our series of best product guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Android Smartphone list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing (November 19th).

Sizing up the Android smartphone market, late fall is a very tough timing in terms of buying smartphones. The fall is all almost entirely monopolized by Apple and the iPhone, so the vast majority of line-ups from Android vendors are seeing only inter-generational updates this time of the year. There’s only a few exceptions for this rule, and by and large this is instead a better time to take advantage of seasonal sales of existing smartphones released earlier in the year.

This quarter, the most interesting new devices were Huawei’s new Mate 20s. The Mate 20 Pro, while certainly Huawei’s best device to date, does seem to have some few issues around the edges that prevents it from quite justifying its price. Also newly released were OnePlus’ 6T, a very straightforward successor to the OnePlus 6 which we reviewed this summer high recommendations. Finally Google’s new Pixel 3 phones offer fantastic software performance while showcasing leading computational photography, however it’s arguable if this alone is enough to carry the high price-tags of the new Pixels.

Full reading: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9770/best-android-phones