78 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020FEATURE BUILDING THE PERFECT ANDROID FRANKENPHONE
Frankenphone, built using the best parts of
the best phones of the year.DISPLAY: ONEPLUS 7 PRO
You can’t have a great phone without a great
display, and the OnePlus 7 Pro had it this
year—even better than the Galaxy S10+ and
Note 10+. Samsung might supply the display
OnePlus uses, but the 7 Pro does it better.
Why? Because of its 90Hz refresh rate, which
makes scrolling super speedy. It’s not just that
the 7 Pro is one of only a handful of phones
that offer a refresh rate higher that 60Hz, it’s
that OnePlus has delivered it in a displayA
ndroid phones didn’t just break
the bank in 2019, they also
broke speed, photography, and
display records. Samsung and
OnePlus delivered handsets that were as
groundbreaking as they were gorgeous;
Google pushed the limits of smartphone
photography; and LG continued to march to
its own drum, crafting some truly unique
beats along the way.
But for all their strengths, there’s no
perfect Android phone. So this year, I
decided to build one. Well, on paper.
Without further ado, here’s the 2019 AndroidYou can build a killer Android phone with a piece of every great handset released in 2019.