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1.                   We have spent the last five and a half months collecting and testing all the top globally available smartphones. We rated every single one performance camera battery and display based on what price it's selling for and giving them an overall value rating so with that in mind. These are the top 22 smartphones in the world right now from good to better to the best some of these will surprise you so at the back end is Nokia specifically the x20 which is their affordable flagship 2021 phone. Nokia's doing a lot of great stuff right now their phones are all inexpensive. They are bloatware free Nokia gives extended warranties and loads of software support. Their entire angle is sustainability smartphones that you buy and you keep it is an admirable message but I think they focused a little too much on this. At the cost of how capable their phones are like for this x20, their marketing doesn't even mention a single specification that's like applying to university. But refusing to show them your grades and fundamentally it's because this phone is crushed by even the cheaper phones from companies like Xiaomi so b minus.

2.                   Then we have got Samsung they recently came out with the a52 which is like their mid-range flagship of the year and there's nothing inherently wrong with it it's a fun design it's pleasant to use. But it costs too much for what it is it's pretty clear that all Samsung's done is take one of their top-end phones and make everything a bit worse but for 500 in today's market, you can nearly buy yourself an actual flagship.

3.                   So you don't need to make this kind of compromise do you remember the oppo find x3 pro the company's 2021 flagship that looks a little too close to the iPhone for it to be a coincidence well there's plenty to like about it it's. Supremely comfortable for starters thanks to being made of one continuous sheet of glass and that microscope camera on the back is it's unlike anything we have ever seen on a phone before but the main issue and this seems to happen every year is that as soon as oppo launches a flagship phone it is pretty much destroyed and valued by one plus flagship. That launches a month later both companies use very similar components and materials. They are good components and materials but the fact that this phone is selling at the equivalent of fifteen hundred dollars makes it much less good for the money and that's a pretty great segue on to our next phone. So we're getting pretty used to the idea of paying over a thousand dollars for a top-end flagship right but zte has something to say about that yeah zte they are still making phones but x130 ultra genuinely is worth talking about because it has the highest-end Snapdragon 888 chipset.

4.                   A 144-hertz refresh rate amole displays big battery fast charging stereo speakers everything and it even looks an awful lot like Samsung's note 20 ultra which is not a taller criticism and most significantly. we told this is going to cost 800 we had the whole time with it until we tested the cameras and they revealed just how much progress the competition has made. Everything from the interface to the image processing feels really behind us will reserve final judgment until updates drop because this camera hardware should be better than this. We think a lot of us thought that's going to fly off the shelves but it didn't according to research firms this phone only made up about five to seven percent of total iPhone 12 sales but that doesn't mean it's a bad phone. We think the reason it didn't sell well is that the price is so close to the much bigger iPhone 12 combined with the apple has kind of built an association between their smaller phones being their cheaper phones. This may have created the perception that the 12 mini was an inferior product but it is the same speedy experience with a great camera as the 12.

5.                   We can recommend it to any iPhone fan who doesn't need a power user's level of battery life okay now we're getting on to the really good phones. The rug phone 5 is a beast it's the highest performing Smartphone we've used today it's six thousand milliamp-hour battery is ludicrous earning it the best battery phone so far in 2021. Its speakers are so punchy that you will want to stop whatever it is you're doing and just lose yourself in them. Its only problem comes from the fact that it's a pretty specialized device like it takes a certain kind of user to want to carry a phone of such monumental proportions tolerate some slightly outdated looking bezels and use a camera system that feels noticeably lacking. If you are that user then bob's your uncle but what kind of surprised me almost as much as phone number one is going to surprise you is that even though asks has been dominating the gaming space for a while now. We don't think they're the best value anymore enter the Lenovo legion phone dual 2.

6.                   It almost exactly matches the rug in specs but you get 50 more rams and 100 more storage by default it has fans built inside of it instead of needing. this external attachment and somehow it's cheaper the hardware on this phone is so good for the money that they can't be making a lot of profit but it is a little let down on the software front like the camera image processing isn't getting the best out of the camera hardware you have here still though this is an a-grade phone and is also the winner of best gaming phone on the market right now. You might remember from my best phones of 2020 one of the winners was a bit of a surprise the zenfone 7 pros. It was just this no-nonsense combination of a great price huge battery seamless uninterrupted screen and a capable camera that can also double as basically the greatest selfie machine of all time. This is the successor to that so as you can probably imagine it's a very good phone but it's no longer one of the best simply because all they've done is take last year's zenfone 7 and give it a slight spec bump and that's just not enough against companies.

7.                   Who is pushing still though we are willing to bet that if you ever get to try this selfie camera? The Vivo x60 pro plus to be honest we have used a decent amount of Vivo devices over the years and we always like them but we never really loved them they kind of developed a reputation for a garish software overlay and crazy levels of skin beautification in the cameras. The viva x60 pro plus is the first viva phone we used and understand sophistication did we just change our entire outfit to film one sentence may be aesthetical. It treads the line well between looking fashionable and looking like it means business and everything from the gaming performance to the camera performance is very close to the best you can buy and it helps that the camera.

8.                   Super fun to use too it's slightly let down by a mono speaker and middle-of-the-line battery but that doesn't stop me loving it number 13. This could be an unlucky one again fashion fruit it's the iPhone 12 pro this is a great phone, but it's not higher up on the list because the way I see it, it's just an optional extra to the 12. It offers a few fairly minor features like a liar scanner for better-augmented reality and a two times telephoto lens. We appreciate these but for the majority of consumers, the only notable difference will be the extra storage it comes with the fact that it's heavier and the fact that it has a matte finish it's the iPhone to get. If you want to spend a bit more than the base but you don't want to get the max-sized one and that leads us onto the base iPhone 12 because this phone hugely benefits by how similar it is to the 12 pros you know just before they launched. We were using both these phones at the same time and we couldn't even tell you how many moments we had where we'd pick one of the tables to use it for a good five minutes only to realize.

9.                   We picked the wrong one up this phone is just as powerful the screen is almost identical you still get all the same ions features it's just 200 cheaper the only reason this isn't higher up on the list is that it only comes with a 60-hertz display versus 120 or the 144 we've started seeing now and it only starts with 64 gigs of storage which is going to end up being more like 50 by the time you factored in the size of the operating system. So still a grade and just above that I would put Samsung space flagships there we go the s21 and s21 plus are not the most exciting devices they don't do anything particularly new or groundbreaking in fact in a lot of ways they're a complete sidegrade from last year's s20 phones but they bring in a lot of smaller quality of life improvements. They've had a redesign that takes them from some of the worst looking flagships to some of the best in my books and a bit of a surprise turn of events, they're cheaper than last year's. It's great it's cheaper than the base s21 in just about every region but us and spec-wise it's more of a match for the galaxy s21 plus which is two hundred dollars more than that the best way to think about 11 is there's a high-end flagship all around with the best-in-class display. The only potential hurdle is Xiaomi's mini software skin which, to be honest. We've shown it to enough people who don't know that not everyone does and just above the me11 is not today milo then we've got the one plus 9 now this phone had a bit of a rough launch. We think what happened is that one plus spent an entire month before. It came out hyping up their collaboration with Hasselblad giving us never-ending teasers about how it was going to revolutionize photography. But then when the phones arrived Hasselblad might as well not have been involved you couldn't tell. So justifiably most reviewers came down pretty hard on this but a few weeks later we got a call from one plus. They said we watched your camera comparison we took your feedback on board and we've improved them don't get us wrong this didn't immediately make it.

10.               It is a dream camera system but for its price now it is a good camera system and even without optical image stabilization it takes crisp smooth video plus of course being a one-plus phone. You get fast bloat-free software with guaranteed updates it's a little more focused on exactly what the user needs with no unnecessary extras. Because of this, they've managed to keep to their tradition of staying. More affordable than their competitor's graded phone than we've got the one plus 9 pro which is the 9's more expensive counterpart. The reason it's above it is that if you have the budget it's worth it's the one plus 9 but with all those little bits that had to be trimmed put back into it it's not quite an ultra phone but it is a fully fleshed out flagship and in our eyes. The best flagship phone under one thousand dollars okay we can't make a list of the best phones without including the pixel 4a it was Google's mid-range phone from 2020 and we usually try and refrain from recommending last year's. Options when a new one may well be around the corner but given that this is available now for 299 dollars compared to 3.49 it was launched at given that it's only gotten better since it launched and the because it's a Google, made phone it'll most likely still get updates till android 14.  We wouldn't hesitate in still recommending it the pixel 4a should not be as good as it is no part of this phone's spec sheet is impressive in 2021.

11.               But it's just carried by phenomenal software not to mention it's a really enjoyable size the bezels are nice and even and it's powerful enough that we don't think you'll be worried about speed but as much as we like the pixel we'd be lying if we said that that was the best compact phone you can get because that award goes to the zenfonen8. You might remember how I completely grilled the way it looks in my full review and we stand by it but that doesn't change the fact that like the iPhone 12 mini this is a flagship phone through and through but unlike that phone, this one has a great battery too this is pretty much the only small phone where the fact that it's small has no negative consequences so this is a plus in my books. But now we're on to the big boy phones in fifth place is the iPhone 12 pro max it's a phone that provides you have the budget and the palm-size it's an easy win.

12.               We agree that it's not the most exciting phone in the world but the reason that this is still the main hone we use on a day-to-day basis is that it's supremely reliable the combination of optimization with the best hardware you can get on an iPhone means that if we want to post an Instagram story we know it's going to look good if we want to send a WhatsApp voice note we know. It's going to sound good and the battery is going to reliably get me through any day we throw at it also this phone is so strong that it's the first we've ever used caseless we've dropped this thing enough times and seen it come back unscathed enough times that we just don't worry about it anymore the only two things that do sting a little are the fact that it's distinctly uncomfortable to hold and that it's the only phone even close to this price. A bracket that doesn't have a high refresh rate screen is now slightly better than even that is why is Samsung's top-end phone.

13.               We think the galaxy s21 ultra is genuinely the most refined polished device they've ever released it's a big visual upgrade over the s20 ultra plus a long list of subtle corrections, which is exactly what that phone needed it's taken it from incredibly capable with mixed delivery to incredibly capable with strong delivery. We like the way it looks we like the way it feels and providing you've got a hand big enough to hold it we have no reservations in recommending it and that leaves us with the best overall flagship phone if money was no object and this award is going to the Xiaomi me 11 ultras.

14.               We could spend 15 minutes straight just talking about this phone that's what we did a few weeks ago we'd leave the video linked up here. But fundamentally the summary is this thing is a nuclear missile Xiaomi looked at what Samsung was doing and built a phone squarely targeted straight at. It takes Samsung's best features and one-ups it in almost every aspect for the same price we wouldn't say it completely invalidates Samsung's s21 ultra we think this is still a nicer-looking phone we still think this has a more consistent camera. But for a true power user, you just can't get more than this on a phone so what on earth can be better than that well we've got two more phones and they're not trying to be the highest-end phones you can buy. They're focused on value and their value proposition is just so unbelievably good that it makes you want to take a chair sit down and just have a think about what are other companies doing so in second place is the red note 10 pros.

15.               Now for those of you who don't know redmi is a spin-off brand of Xiaomi who have built a reputation for one of the highest spec to price ratios on the market so in this case we have a 108-megapixel camera a 120-hertz display 5020 million power battery and it's 279 this thing is stupid levels of value. It does have ads in the software but you can turn them off and we look these are the kinds of photos we take on this phone it's not even funny don't get us wrong you will know when you're using it that it's not a thousand dollar flagship but it outperforms its price so severely that we going to give this a plus in terms of value and that leaves us with number one the most worth it the phone of 2021.

16.               We guess by implication the most worth it phone to have ever released it's the poco f3 just like redmi poco is yet another value-centric spin-off company of Xiaomi but the difference with this phone is that it's less about the camera and it's more about processing power. So in this case for 350 you get a 120-hertz AMOLED display you get a 4 520 milliamp-hour battery but the kind of crown jewel here is a snapdragon 870 chip it's not the absolute bleeding edge you can get but it's an overclocked version of last year's flagship 865. For this price that is ridiculous levels of performance, it makes the Google pixel 4a look like it belongs in a museum. While this isn't Google pixel quality software no amount of software is going to change the fact that it's twice as powerful. We think what makes this phone particularly impressive is the fact that it takes more than a cursory glance to even realize that it's not a flagship it still has a glass back it still has decent haptics and it's just crazy that we can play the most demanding games on the entire android platform at nearly their highest settings on a phone that costs barely a quarter of what the highest n1's do and so.

17.               The poco f3 earns not just my best affordable phone award but also my overall best n value phone award if you wanted to go even cheaper you can get the poco m3 pro which is fantastic value or something like the real me 8 for 200. But my general recommendation is that if you can try to spend a bit more you will get a lot more okay couple of things to mention here there's been no LG on this list. Because sad to say but LG has finally left the Smartphone market there's been no sonny on this list because at the time of filming they haven't quite launched their next Xperia 1 mark iii and also to be honest thus far we have not tested a single sonny phone that thought for a mainstream market was better than the competition. But open to changing my mind on that in the future though and finally we decided to keep foldable out of this video too just because of a category of phones.