Phones

Loves the concept, customisation and cover-screen focus, but the camera downgrade, foldable niggles and Apple ecosystem friction mean he is…

Highlights the V29's textured design, soft Aura Light portrait flash and wide 50MP selfie camera without giving an overall verdict.

The most extreme smartphone he has used, with a borderless screen, big battery and a very serious cooling system.

A compact, well-judged flip phone with a genuinely useful cover screen and decent cameras, though folding makes it expensive for the specs…

Mentioned as more ambitious than the Flip 5 thanks to its edge-to-edge cover screen.

Mentioned for its crease-free folding design, which the Flip 5 lacks.

A fake-spec phone with bad bezels that would not charge past 35%, had no signal and could not run Google Play, his worst product ever teste…

One of the only genuinely premium phones in such a small size, and good value at $699.

Used as the older flagship benchmark against the S23 Ultra to show how much faster top-end phones have become.

The $70 fake comes with lots of extras and a comfortable shape, but it is slower, has a worse screen and most of its camera lenses are fake.

His second phone, used mostly for sharper, more cinematic photos and Google's editing tools.

Samsung's foldables have the best software and the widest availability, with a taskbar he calls a game changer.

Brilliant Harry Potter presentation with genuinely improved specs, and worth the effort of importing from China.

Thorough, outlandish packaging, but the phone itself is just plain black and hard to justify at $3,000.

A more accessible limited edition whose red colour looks better than the default, though not a true collab.

Premium, cohesive Genshin Impact packaging and theme with 160W charging, though the back design is only so-so.

Stunning artwork, luxury experience and incredible display, but the invisible front camera quality is awful.

His favourite core phone design so far, with a smooth rounded body and clever photochromic glass.

Ordinary flagship made interesting by the Xperia Stream fan, ethernet and HDMI case, though how useful it is remains questionable.

Great finish and metal middle frame with a built-in fan, but over-sharpened wallpapers and cluttered icons feel cheap.

He calls it the most intelligent phone camera he has seen, with standout night shooting and video thanks to a dedicated imaging chip.

Last year's model already had the best phone speakers on the market.

Tiny enough to vanish in a pocket and surprisingly usable for web pages, but typing is fiddly and the camera is the weaker of the two.

Offers a lot for around $150 and has excellent battery life, but is propped up by pre-installed sponsored apps, a stripped-back software sk…