The Best Smartphones for 2023!

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've just fallen off the radar. So let's start:

1) Most Improved Award:                                Which company has made the biggest jump from their last phone and it has to be Google. When their Pixel 6 launched last year.

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Mrwhosetheboss

It gave us this glimpse of something special a bit of

• Never 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. 
• Some pretty grainy looking video recording. 

So considering all of that I am genuinely shocked that in one year they fixed all of those issues with the Pixel 7 

and that allows you to focus on what actually makes them so special things like the 

• Lively animated software.
• The incredible photo processing.
  
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2) Most Timeless Phone:                                  What's the most timeless phone or in other words which phone from last year still holds up the best this year. iPhone 13 feels like a bit of a no-brainer partly because it's still a solid phone.   Credit: Mrwhosetheboss

• It's fast. 
• It's got good battery.
• 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 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.
•  Then a battery life that's actually slightly worse. 
  
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3) Best Small Phone:

It's time for the best small phone award. This one's actually been really easy for me because you've got great small phones like the pixel 7, Samsung Galaxy s22 but the Asus Zenfone 9 is not just even smaller than all of them but it's also doing that

while basically being a top of the line Flagship

• It's got the fastest chip you can get up to 16 gigs of RAM.   Credit: Mrwhosetheboss
  
  
   
• A really responsive screen.
• Even a six axis gimbal. stabilized camera which lets it take some of the smoothest Video available on a smartphone.

4) Gaming Award:

1. There's the iPhone 14 pro which is great (credit:Mrwhosetheboss) 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."
2. 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. 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."
3. Phone that really deserves the win is 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 the iPhone which is meticulously planned out. Credit : Mrwhosetheboss
   
   "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 alsothe best speakers and the best battery of any mainstream device."

4) Best Budget Smartphone:

What if you don't want to spend a thousand dollars. 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 (Credit: Mrwhosetheboss)

because these guys focus on a higher volume of sales as opposed to profit per unit.                                                                 (Credit:Mrwhosetheboss)

The winner of 2022 budget smartphone of the year is the Poco X4 Pro.

"It's got the design. It also prioritizes battery life which is just one of those consumer friendly moves."

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5) Best Mid-range Smartphone:

This award is going to a new Contender a company who's just entered the smartphone market. I'm talking about the Nothing Phone One.                                                                               Credit:Mrwhosetheboss

"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."

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I'm genuinely excited to see what is coming next from these guys.

6) Best Flagship Phone:

It's Flagship time. Most people have already decided what platform they're going to go for so if you're iPhone then the best iPhone Flagship is the latest iPhone 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."

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7) Best Android Phone:

The best Android phone of 2022 is the Google pixel 7 Pro.

It is the easiest Flagship to recommend for two reasons:

1. 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 simple to take incredible photos with a camera that doesn't overload you with options.
   
2. It's $899 which is 100 to 200 cheaper than most top-end Flagship phones.              

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8) Best Smartphone:

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.

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. 

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