Top 2021 Smartphones in the World

Top 2021 Smartphones in the World

so i've spent the last five and a half months collecting and testing all the top globally available smartphones i've rated every single ones performance camera battery and display based on what price it's selling for and giving them an overall value ratin so with that in mind these are the top 22 smartphones in the world right now from good to better to the best. some of these will surprise you. 

Nokia x20

So 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 i think they focused a little too much on this at the cost of how capable their phones actually are like for this 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 so minus.

Samsung A52

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. 

Oppo find x3 pro

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 coincidence 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 that microscop camera on the back is 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 possible 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.

ZTE

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 i'm told this is going to cost 800 excuse me i was having a whale of a time with it until i 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 i'll reserve final judgement until updates drop because this camera hardware should be better than this but in its current state. 

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 i think a lot of us thought whoa 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 i 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 12 mini was an inferior product but really it is the same speedy experience with a great camera as the 12 that i can recommend to any iphone fan who doesn't need a power user's level of battery life.

Rog phone 5

Now we're getting on to the really good phones the rog phone 5 is a beast it's the highest performing smartphone i've 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 if you are that user then bob's your uncle 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. 

lenovo legion phone dual 2

Now i don't think they're the best value anymore 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 pro

You might remember from my best phones of 2020. that one of the winners was a bit of a surprise the zenfone 7 pro it was just this no-nonsense combination of a great price. huge battery seamless uninterrupted screen and a capable camera that can also double as basically 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 i'm willing to bet that if you ever get to try this selfie camera. 

Vivo x60 pro plus

The vivo x60 pro plus to be honest i've used a decent amount of vivo devices over the years and I've always liked them but I've never really loved them they kind of developed a reputation for a garish software overlay and crazy levels of skin beautification in the cameras but the viva x60 pro plus is the first viva phone I've used that understands.