Phones

Joint best money-no-object phone, with the best screen, camera and battery life, refined almost to perfection.

Joint best affordable phone, with a smooth 90Hz display and more care put in than rivals.

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

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

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

Pleasant but overpriced for what it is, when £500 nearly buys a real flagship.

The original Redmi Note impressed him with premium hardware at a price nobody could guess.

Mentioned as a Xiaomi foldable priced similarly to Samsung's foldables.

A better 4a, but not as good value; a solid option.

The 2020 budget phone the Freedom Phone appears to be a copy of, using a chipset with known vulnerabilities.

He sees it as a rebadged cheap Chinese phone sold at a huge markup with a misleading privacy pitch, and says not to buy it.

Sponsored unboxing in which he praises the Nord CE as a well-rounded mid-range phone with a good screen, camera and battery for €299, thoug…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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