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

Best foldable available and a great piece of engineering, but specs are a generation behind for the price, so he would not personally buy i…

Nicely made and works well with the phone, but you are paying for software rather than materials and the style never made sense to him.

A well-judged phone with few sacrifices in the areas that matter, at roughly half the price of many flagships.

The hardware looks ultra premium, but he thinks the Porsche-designed software skin clashes and looks worse.

A pretty impressive phone for not a huge amount of money, and strangers guessed it cost far more than its £250 price.