We've all got at least one mobile phone each, right? We've probably
got about three or four nowadays, and that counts giving your old Nokia
3310 to your Mum a few years ago.
But now the world has changed,
and from Apple to Samsung to HTC to a host of up-and-coming names,
choosing your next greatest smartphone is a tricky task.
This is
where we make it easy: we thoroughly test hundreds of top smartphones
and have found the ten best you can spend your money on. It needs to be
good, after all, given it will reside in your pocket for the next two
years.
Our ranking of the best mobile phones available in the UK
today celebrates the brilliance of the smartphone, the functionality
they bring to our lives, as well as looking at the cost - meaning a
low-price handset doesn't always need to have high-spec functions to be
in our top 10.
We only feature the latest handsets available too
(unless an older model has become hyper-cheap and still offers decent
functionality) as the newer models will stay serviced with software
updates for longer, safeguarding you from having a broken phone with no
hope of updates in a year's time.
We're deep into 2014 now, and with theand here to challenge the heads of state in the smartphone world - namely the the and the - we've got a real royal rumble at the top, looking at the best on the market and adding in such unknown gems as the .
If that still doesn't help, well, there's always our extensivepages as well - or check out our personally crafted smartphone buyer's guide:
When you've decided which new phone to buy (and checked out thewhy not cash in your old one with our ?
Here are our rankings for the best mobile phones around, currently available in the UK.
10. OnePlus One
You've
probably never heard of OnePlus... but if you have, you'll know why
this unknown brand is suddenly sitting at number seven of our list of
best smartphones in the world.
The reason is simple: it's a phone
that has all the power, specs and functionality of the top dogs, adds in
super-customisable software and does it at nearly half the price. We're
talking big savings on cost (£229 for the 16GB version and £269 for the 64GB variant) without much in the way of compromise.
In
fact, the only things it's really missing are a microSD slot and
removable battery, and those are elements more for the purists than
absolutely necessary.
If we're being super picky, it's not got the
greatest camera set up and the design is a bit... efficient, but at
this price point it really doesn't matter. And given the target audience
is those that care about raw power over style, it makes sense that this
is where the costs could be saved.
Quick verdict
We love
the fact that a new contender can maintain such a high place in the
ranking of the best phones in the world - it means that it's not just a
case of 'big budget means best phone'.
We were debating whether
the OnePlus One could even have gone higher, but there's one big problem
that you'll have if you want to get your hands on one: they're
impossible to find. Numbers won't ramp up for a while, and probably
never to the level of availability of the better-known names.
But
if you want a phone that offers supreme power at a really low cost: the
OnePlus One is it. It's what the Nexus range used to be, and if Google
ditches that program, then thankfully OnePlus has shown there will be
brands to pick up the slack.
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