We know why you're here: you want to
find out the best smartphone 2015. Come on, it makes sense: we've all got at
least one mobile phone, 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.
We only feature the latest handsets available (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.
Here's a quick video roundup of our
current top 10.
We're just beginning 2015, and at
the end of the year the Apple iPhone 6 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus challenged the
heads of state in the smartphone world - namely the LG G3
and the HTC One M8.
But if you're currently considering
your next mobile phone, don't forget we're not far away from the next crop: the
HTC One M9
and Samsung
Galaxy S6 are tipped to be coming at Mobile World Congress in March,
so it might be worth waiting to see what appears then before making your
decision.
- MWC 2015: What to expect
If that still doesn't help,
well, there's always our extensive mobile phone
reviews pages as well.
When you've decided which new phone
to buy (and checked out the best mobile
phone deal), why not cash in your old one with our phone recycling price comparison
service?
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 in 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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