Phones

A huge, pricier gaming phone with brilliant pop-out shoulder buttons and display, but not for everyone and weak on camera.

Very similar to the Ultra but smaller and cheaper, with a camera that trades blows with it.

A nice budget phone with a 120Hz display, but hard to buy outside India so it did not make the list.

A thousand-dollar flagship with little missing, which could be top level if the software is good.

Mentioned only as the cheapest of the three P40 phones.

A very fast, surprisingly affordable gaming phone held back by dated software and poor camera processing.

Superb zoom and night photography even months later, though the US ban makes him advise waiting.

Interested in the extra 3x and 10x zoom cameras and ceramic body, but he has not used it yet because it is stuck in customs.

The rollable concept made Arun's confidence in foldables wobble because the form factor finally made sense to him.

The Snapdragon version is clearly the better phone, with stronger performance, cooler running, slightly better photos and much better batte…

The Exynos version runs hot, throttles in long gaming sessions and has worse battery life and slightly weaker photos than the Snapdragon mo…

A beautifully made and desirable limited edition, but poor value with unremarkable software tweaks.

Great idea and beautiful when opened, but the execution is compromised, so it ranks as a mild fail.

A rushed, bulky and buggy first foldable that gave the whole category a bad start.

A 50-day battery phone so thick it was impractical, and it sold almost nothing.

A comically bad, overpriced phone that was just a portal to Amazon and cost the company $170 million.

Futuristic-looking phone, but the company's claims far outstripped what it delivered.

Not BlackBerry's worst phone, but it embodied their failure to grasp the importance of apps.

A strange new kind of phone that looked fascinating but never launched before Essential shut down.

A weak follow-up to the HTC One that helped seal HTC's decline.

Believes Apple's reasoning was genuine, but secrecy made it look malicious.

Used as a two-and-a-half-year-old comparison to show how far mid-range phones have improved.

The larger Pixel 4 with the better battery, which he sees as the sensible choice if battery life matters.

The smaller Note 10 is solid but its 1080p screen is an odd fit for a flagship price.