The Best Smartphones that you should buy in 2022

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 and Nokia’s doing a lot of great stuff right now. Their phones are all inexpensive. They’re bloatware free. Nokia gives extended warranties and loads of software support. Their entire angle is sustainability smartphones that you buy and you keep it really is an admirable message. But they focused a little too much on this at the cost of how capable their phones actually are like for the 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 absolutely crushed by even the cheaper phones from companies like Xiaomi.

Samsung A52 and Oppo X3 Pro and ZTE AX130 Ultra

So we’ve 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 taken one of their top end phones and made everything a bit worse.

But for 500 in today’s market you can nearly buy yourself an actual flagship. 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 co-incidence. 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 the microscope camera on the back. it’s unlike anything i’ve 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 Oneplus flagship that launches a month later. Both companies use very similar components and materials and 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 actually 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 the AX130 Ultra genuinely is worth talking about because it has the highest end Snapdragon 888, Chipset a 144 Hertz Refresh Rate, amoled Display, Big Battery, Fast Charging, Stereo, Speakers really everything and it even looks an awful lot like Samsung’s Note 20 Ultra which is not a taller criticism and most significantly this is going to cost 800. We tested the Cameras and they really revealed just how much progress the competition has made everything from the interface to the image processing feels really behind.

Iphone 12 Mini

The iphone 12 mini what is? it has not been a commercial hit when apple first came out and announced that they built a fully flagship 5G Iphone that literally fits into your palm. We think a lot of us thought that’s gonna 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 because a the price is so close to the much bigger Iphone 12 combined with B. The apple has kind of built an association between their smaller phones being their cheaper phones. Which may have created the perception that the iPhone 12 Mini was an inferior product. But really it is the same speedy experience with a great camera as the iPhone 12 that we can recommend to any Iphone fan who doesn’t need a power user’s level of battery life.

ASUS ROG 5

Now we’re getting on to the really good phones. The Rog Phone 5 is a beast. It’s the highest performing smartphone have used today. It’s six thousand Milliamp hour Battery is ludicrous actually earning it. The best battery phones so far in 2021 and 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. But what kind of surprised me almost as much as phone number one is going to surprise you is that even though ASUS has been dominating the Gaming space for a while. Now we don’t think they’re the best value anymore.

Lenovo Legion Phone Dual 2

Enter the Lenovo Legion Phone Dual 2. It almost exactly matches the ROG in specs. But you get 50 more Ram 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.

Zenfone 7

The greatest selfie machine of all time well this is basically 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 taken last year’s Zenfone 7 and given it a slight spec bump and that’s just not enough against companies. Who are really pushing still though.

Iphone 12 Pro

This could be an unlucky one again fashion fruit. It’s the Iphone 12 Pro this is a great phone. But the reason that it’s not higher up on the list is that the way we see it. It’s just an optional extra to the 12. It offers a few fairly minor features like a Lidar 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 basically 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 iPhone 12 pro. 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 had pick one off the table use it for a good five minutes only to realize. We picked the wrong one up. This phone is just as powerful. The screen is almost identical. You still get all the same IOS 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 an a grade and just above that we would put Samsung space flagships.

Samsung S21 and Samsung S21 Plus

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 side grade 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 our books and in a bit of a surprise turn of events. They’re cheaper than last year’s. We’re in the top 10.

Xiaomi Mi 11

There is the Xiaomi Mi 11. It’s great, it’s cheaper than the SM S21 in just about every region. But the 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 the Mi 11 is there’s a high-end flagship all around with the best in-class display. The only potential hurdle is Xiaomi’s Miui software skin which to be honest we like. The Oneplus 9 now, this phone had a bit of a rough launch. We think what happened is that Oneplus basically 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 actually arrived hasselblad might as well not have been involved. You couldn’t tell and so justifiably most reviewers came down pretty hard on this.

OnePlus9 and Google Pixel 4A

It is a good camera system and even without optical image stabilization. It takes crisp smooth video plus of course being a Oneplus 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 and because of this they’ve managed to keep to their tradition of staying more affordable than their competitors. Definitely A grade phone, then we’ve got the Oneplus 9 Pro which is the 9’s more expensive counterpart and the reason it’s above. It is that if you have the budget it’s worth it. It’s basically the Oneplus 9. But with all those little bits that had to be trimmed put back into it. It’s not quite an Ultraphone. But it is a fully fleshed out flagship and in my eyes the best flagship phone under one thousand dollars. 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 all the way 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.

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 worrying about speed. But as much as we do like the pixel.