Concept & rare

A properly redesigned phone with brilliant theming and a well-executed camera filter, and probably OnePlus's coolest limited edition.

Rumoured rollable Samsung phone he finds fascinating, scoring the concept 7 out of 10.

Hyped as a cinema-camera phone, but the cameras were worse than flagships and the promised modules never arrived.

Nailed the look and has a headphone jack, but the rear screen just shows '2021' and the display is poor.

A knockoff with arguably the ugliest phone front he has seen, though at least the design is original.

A very standard iPhone X lookalike with 'megapixel' text on the camera; rated 4/10.

Feels firmly built with impressive attention to detail for the price, but the camera is bad; rated 7/10.

Surprisingly liked this thin, comfortable mini phone that's easy to use one-handed; rated 7/10.

More bezel than screen, with a smartwatch-style OS; interesting but with major compromises.

Surprisingly good looks, bright screen and smooth performance; rated 8/10.

Another iPhone clone with odd double bezels and text on the back; rated 5/10.

A non-smart brick phone dressed up as an iPhone that doesn't pull it off; rated 3/10.

Nice back and smooth with a working home button, but the front is worse; rated 6/10.

Passes as an iPhone 11 Pro at a third of the size, but the front looks ugly.

Impressive that it runs full Android at this size, though screen colours and contrast are well off.

Crazy pricing for a non-smartphone, but bright screen, backlit buttons and internet access; typing is painful.

The smallest phone of the bunch is actually not bad, with a decent screen and normal interface.

Superb build and packaging, if he had to use a BlackBerry this would be it, but the software let it down.

A quirky colour-changing phone he finds unique and fun, and a glimpse of where phone finishes could go.

Lovely packaging and a fun green glitter theme, but too much text and not much elegance.

A gorgeous-looking phone that almost never reached customers, from a company with doubtful claims about its encryption and materials.

Marketed as the most secure phone on the planet, it came with a lavish unboxing but was a scam with a basic phone inside.

A fashion-focused budget phone from a former Apple CEO that looked like a toilet seat and did not solve a real problem; it flopped twice.

The thinnest smartphone ever at 4.75mm, still a beautiful engineering marvel even if impractical today.