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Selecting the best phone to buy
has suddenly got extra-tough,
so we’ve weighed up the latest
contenders and picked out
the cream of the crop
here’s something
strange going on with
the 250th-issue Stuff
smartphone supertest.
Rather than being filled with flagship
phones released throughout the
year, most of the mobiles paraded
here have landed in the last few
weeks. Whether it’s a desperate
bid to beat Brexit stealing all the
column inches or the insatiable
pursuit of your Christmas cash,
tech companies have gone a little
bit launch-crazy.
So an apology: Nokia, LG, Samsung
and others don’t feature because
we only have so much paper. All
make wonderfully unique phones
- and if you don’t believe us, head
over to Stuff.tv and trawl through
our encyclopaedia of reviews to
find your perfect match. We’ve also
largely ignored 5G due to its current
niche status.
No prizes for guessing that most
of the phones featured get five stars;
but before moaning that we’re going
soft in our old age, a reminder that
the first iPhone arrived in 2007, and
after 12 years and countless billions
in R&D it’s little wonder makers have
started to get the hang of this.
2 Huawei Mate 30 Pro
No Google Play, no
party? Perhaps, but
Huawei hasn’t stopped
making bad phones
and we certainly rate
this Mate.3 Motorola One Zoom
The wild-card bargain
of the bunch wants
to bedazzle you with
an OLED display and
not one but four rear
cameras.1 Oppo Reno2
It’s been a big year for
the Chinese upstart
and the Reno 2 joins
a burgeoning line-up
of bold phones with
pop-up selfie-cams.T