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This year has finally shaken up the smartphone markets we've had

new contenders phones that have vastly improved as well as past .Giants who'vejust fallen off the radar so because it's been such a big one .I have custom designed 10 different trophies to award to the winners of our 10 different categories all leading up to the single best smartphone in the market right now and the winner of this giant thing so.let's start with the most improved awardwhich company has made the biggest jump from their last phone and it has to beGoogle look at this Beast of a trophy.I'm so proud of this when their pixel 6 launched last year it gave us this glimpse of something special a bit ofnever before seen software magic but it was kind of hard to appreciate it when the phone was plagued with reception issues bugs and glitches all round a wonky fingerprint scanner and some pretty grainy looking video recording I can see pixels in the pixel so considering all of that I am genuinely shocked that in one year they fixed all of those issues with the pixel 7s and that allows you to focus on what actually makes them so special things like the Lively animated software and the incredible photo processing this award is all yours Google..so then we've got kind of the opposite award what's the most timeless phone or in other words which phone from last year still holds up the best this year for whichthe iPhone 13 feels like a bit of a no-brainer partly because it's still a solid phone it's fast it's got good battery and it's got four more years of full-on software support from now and it's partly the fact that it's replacement the iPhone 14 is almost the same phone now I am someone who would normally always side with paying a little bit more to get the latest but in this particular case for an extra hundred dollars you'd only be getting a camera that's very slightly better a chip that's basically the same and then a battery life that's actually slightly worse or leading the iPhone 13 to set as a prime disc counted sweet spot phone right now but what if you like it tiny I've got some good news for you that'sright it's time for the best small phone award I've even got this mini trophy made just for it oh that's adorable and this one's actually been really easy for me because yeah you've got great smallphones like the pixel 7 like the Samsung. 

Galaxy s22 but the Asus Zenfone 9 is notjust even smaller than all of them butit's also doing that while basicallybeing a top of the line Flagship it's got the fastest chip you can get up to 16 gigs of RAM a really responsivescreen and even a six axis gimbal stabilized camera which lets it take some of the smoothest Video available on a smartphone oh yeah and on top of everything elseels it has a headphone jack now you're just  showing off Asus but this trophy is

rightfully yours the Samsung Z flip 4 is

also one of my favorite small phones

given that the thing can literally fold

in half but you do have to pay about one

and a half times the price for that

luxury so it's not for everyone speaking

of foldables though if you've already

decided that this is the route that you

want to go down then who do you pick

given that Oppo is now making foldables

Vivo is making foldables xiaomi's making

foldables well I have to say I think

that as of right now Oppo is the one who

currently has the best foldable Hardware

they're the only ones who currently have

a shape that makes sense in both folded

form where it's basically a slightly

podgy but pretty normal feeling thrown

and then unfolded where it's a tablet

that's actually widescreen and you 

watch videos on whilst almost

eliminating the crease then you've got

xiaomi who's got by far the thinnest

foldable to the point where even when

it's folded up the thing is barely

thicker than a normal single layered

phone but then Samsung is the one who

has the best foldable software and

really if you're going to spend over

fifteen hundred dollars on Hardware then

I would say that nothing is more

important than software that lets you

best take advantage of it like this

taskbar at the bottom is an actual game

changer I'm flying through all of my

most recent and most used apps and you

can even save combinations that you'd

normally want to open at the same time

plus the thing that seals the deal for

Samsung's foldables is the availability

this is changing and I'm really excited

about it but for now most other

companies have only released their

foldables in China more as a proof of

concept before going full-on global mass

production I can't wait to see what this

table looks like when we've got all the

trophies out I'm really excited about

this next one this

the gaming awards for the last six

months I've been absolutely addicted to

this phone game called Bloons Tower

Defense it looks simple but as you get

further into the game the amount of

particles on screen gets completely out

of control to the point where it pushes

your phone to its absolute limit and so

I've been keeping an extra eye out for a

phone that can actually handle it and

there's any really three globally

available contenders there's the iPhone

14 pro which is great because Apple's

a16 chip is basically the most powerful

thing you can get on any smartphone and

that games on Apple tend to be a bit

more optimized than games on Android but

it doesn't quite win it for me the phone

gets hot after a period of time it

crashes when you really really push it

and it's also just not the most

comfortable thing to hold for hours at a

time there's the red magic 7s Pro which

is a really tempting package being one

of the only gaming phones with a

borderless display with also really

powerful hardware for the 800 you get it

for there's definitely a place for this

one but you also kind of get what you

pay for what you gain in Hardware you

lose in software support you'll only get

most likely one year of major Android

updates Plus in order to get this

bezel's design they've had to use an

under-display camera which is just not

quite there yet you can actually see the

pixel arrangement of the screen in front

of the camera on the light behind me so

the phone that I think really deserves

the win here

so heavy the Rog phone 6 Pro it's pretty

much halfway in between red Magic's

philosophy of let's just throw some

stupidly high-end specs together and see

what happens and the iPhone which is

meticulously planned out and highly

optimized and what that leads you to is

really powerful hardware and great

cooling that's also had some care put

into it on the software front and that

makes it one of the only gaming phones

that doesn't feel like gaming is its

sole purpose it's just a general

multimedia Powerhouse with also the best

speakers and the best battery of any

mainstream device no biggie and if

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game changing what if you don't want to

spend a thousand dollars though well the

way that it tends to work in the phone

market is that the lower down you go on

the budget ladder the more dominated the

market becomes by xiaomi and Oppo or

more specifically the spin-off companies

that they've created because these guys

focus on a higher volume of sales as

opposed to profit per unit they're the

only companies who even consider it

worth it to pack in genuinely strong

Hardware into these sub 300 packages

like this guy the OnePlus Nord ce2

cringes it sounds this is one of the

first times that I think a phone has

genuinely held up to its own tagline

their page describes it as a little more

than you'd expect and whether it's

performance or charging speed or the

screen you can feel it here you've also

got real me who I would say are even

more militant were just cramming in

every spec that they possibly can for

prices that you didn't see coming and

they tend to pair that with these

incredibly bright bold designs that I

personally find delightful but I could

also see how you might think they look

like toys the phone that just edits it

out though and for me the winner of 2022

budget smartphone of the year is the

Poco X4 Pro and we've even got a budget

font to show for him it's got the spec X

it's got the design and it also

prioritizes battery life which is just

one of those consumer friendly moves

that I want to see more and more

companies doing these trophies are so

cool you've managed to get the separate

elevation of each different part of the

camera module and now just before we get

to the best Flagship and the overall

phone of the year we've got a really

competitive lineup of mid-ranges this

time around we talked about the pixel 7

that just goes above and beyond there's

the 2022 iPhone SE the only phone at

this price to actually give you full

Flagship performance the Poco F4 which

is a glowing example of how capable

apocal phone can be when you give the

company more budget to work with

Samsung's mid-range phones which have

felt like a bit of a return to form

after a few years of some not so great

offerings but I'm not giving the award

to any of these phones this award is

going to a new Contender a company who's

just entered the smartphone market and

considering that has hit a complete home

run I'm talking about the nothing phone

one it's got intriguing design Reliable

Software and cameras and more noticeably

a level of attention to detail that you

only get from an ambitious company

trying to prove themselves in an

unforgiving Market I'm genuinely excited

to see what is coming next from these

guys alrighty it's Flagship time and

what I've decided to do is to split this

into best iPhone Flagship and their best

Android Flagship because let's face it

most people have already decided what

platform they're going to go for so if

your iPhone then the best iPhone

Flagship this is going to blow your mind

it's the latest iPhone the 14 pro and

the 14 pro Max they've got fantastic

cameras blindingly bright displays and

even though I have turned off the new

always on display feature and even

though the battery has taken a slight

hit from last year they are still

undeniably the best iPhones ever made

and then while we're at it if you are in

the market for iPhones but don't want to

spend that much money then here is my

advice the iPhone 14 plus is a good

unique option that gives you remarkable

battery life for noticeably less money

at 899 the normal sized iPhone 14

probably isn't worth it for 799 if

you're considering that and I would

instead get the incredibly similar

iPhone 13 for 699 and if you want to

spend less than that then my

recommendation would be instead of going

for the 429 iPhone SE which is a pretty

compromised screen and Battery to just

go used or refurbished and get an iPhone

12. there's a lot more options on the

Android end because while not every

company wants to make budget phones

everyone does want to make flagships

that's where you actually earn some

sizable profit so you've got every brand

competing together Samsung Vivo Sony

Oppo xiaomi OnePlus and you know what

this isn't a super popular opinion but I

actually rate the OnePlus 10 Pro quite a

lot it's not as groundbreaking as some

of their earlier flagships but the

smartphone market is quite an equalizing

system meaning that when a phone is

unpopular you'll find that it's priced

very quickly tumbles to try and correct

that and that results in situations like

this where you have a near top spec

Android phone and yet you can find this

on the official store for 699 brand new

which is a bargain obviously there's

Samsung 2 which is the default option

for a lot of Android users for a reason

and while I would probably skip the

standard s22 for its weaker battery life

the s22 plus is a very reliable

all-rounder and then the s22 ultra is

kind of like the everything button every

2022 smartphone feature insane camera

zoom built-in stylus long lasting

battery it just has all of it not to

mention Vivo and xiaomi who are also

both just killing it right now they have

probably the two best phones for

photography on the market but the lack

of availability means that there's a

decent chance you would have to import

and so the smartphone that is actually

taking home this trophy for the best

Android phone of 2022 is the Google

pixel 7 Pro it is the easiest Flagship

to recommend for two reasons one that

it's incredibly simple and simple to set

up with a fast transfer adapter in the

Box simple to use with software that's

both intuitive and filled with helpful

tutorials and also simple to take

incredible photos with with a camera

that doesn't overload you with options

but instead just does all the hard work

without you even realizing and then two

it's 899 which is 100 to 200 cheaper

than most top-end Flagship phones if

you're a company watching this by the

way then please do ask for these

trophies they are all yours so who wins

this then who has really thought about

the user who has cut the things that

perhaps didn't matter as much who is

going above and beyond in terms of

delivering value to the consumer well in

my eyes the answer is again

Google pixel 7 Pro

and you have this trophy to show for it

I've seen a few people say that the 599

base pixel 7 is better value but I

genuinely think that the pro has more

than enough perks to justify the 300

difference so let's say that you do end

up buying one of these best phones of

the year the case defy bounce is one of

the best cases to protect it with the

company figured out that 70 of phones

when they fall hit the ground on one of

their corners and it's when all the

force is concentrated into a small area

like that that you're most likely to

damage it so they've created specialized

air cavities in these bounce Corners

they're inspired by Air Max sneaker

culture and they're there to add

rigidity and create structural support

and it's kind of insane because this

combined with the ecoshock material

makes this bounce case drop proof all

the way up to 21.3 feet or in other

words six times military grade

protection at this point you'll be

having to try to break your phone

they've got over 2 000 designs to pick

from support for straps so you don't

drop it in the first place and the

cherry on top is that this entire case

is made from recycled older cases link

below to check it out

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