Best Phones of 2018
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9The last Note that kept everything: the headphone jack, the microSD slot, the big battery, and the plot.Read the review- Huawei P20 ProHuawei P20 ProThe phone that made a 40 megapixel sensor, a monochrome helper and a handheld night mode the template every flagship camera copied.
Vivo NEXThe pop-up selfie camera started here, and so did the two years of phones with a motor where a notch should be.
Google Pixel 3Night Sight made one small sensor the best camera of 2018; four gigabytes of RAM made sure you noticed the $799 price.
Poco F1Snapdragon 845 for $300 in a plastic body, and every corner it cut was the right one.- Oppo Find XOppo Find XThe whole camera array rides up out of the body on a motor, and for six months nothing else looked this futuristic.
HTC U12+A capable last flagship undone by buttons that did not press and a maker that had already sold its engineers to Google.