Very few smartphone makers can eke out as much value from a device as Xiaomi. We often look at the company’s line-up and wonder how small its margins must be if it can delivery such high specs at such low […]

There aren’t very many good budget phones in the United States. There are a few standouts, like the Nokia 6.1 and Moto G6, but most pale in comparison to budget devices sold in Asia and parts of […]

For several years now, Sony fans and critics have been calling for the Japanese company to move away from its boxy, dated hardware design language and join its rivals in releasing a modern Android smartphone. […]

When it was first released, Essential’s entry into the phone market was a bit of a flop. Reviews for the PH-1 weren’t profoundly negative, but the phone’s almost $700 price was humorously high considering its […]

The LG V40 is almost certainly the best smartphone the company has ever released. It has the best cameras, the best display, the best performance, and the most refined design of any LG phone I’ve ever used. […]

Android has become the most popular computing platform on the planet, but Google has had problems selling very many Android phones itself. It tried for years to make Nexus devices “a thing,” but they never […]

Despite being frozen out of the US market due to political opposition, Huawei still managed to surpass Apple this summer to become the world’s second largest phone maker behind Samsung. The Chinese m […]

It’s not easy to turn heads in the mobile industry in 2018. At best, we see new handsets come out to critical acclaim but also a sense of stifled boredom. Maybe it is the best of its kind yet, but so what? Apart […]

For as long as there have been smartphones, there have also been weird smartphones. While mainstream models tend to keep things basic, giving you slightly faster and more feature-rich versions of devices that […]

In the smartphone world, Xiaomi is the epitome of value for money. Now ranked fourth worldwide, it sells nearly one of every ten smartphones. But when companies start operating at such a large scale, the […]

Good specs in a (relatively) cheap package has been OnePlus’ schtick since the original OnePlus One, and with few flops it’s stuck to that formula, bringing us to the OnePlus 6T. Deep down inside, it’s basically […]

At an event held in the depths of the historic brutalist Barbican Centre in London yesterday, Xiaomi formally announced its entry into the UK market. Numerous devices were introduced on stage, including various […]

Just a few short years ago, Nokia was seldom mentioned on Android Police… or much of anywhere, really. Microsoft gobbled up Nokia’s renowned smartphone division and still couldn’t make Windows Phone work. […]

Unlike most phones we review, the Palm Phone does not claim to be the equal of another device. It doesn’t even necessarily claim to be good. The Verizon-exclusive Palm Phone is billed as a companion to the […]

Huawei’s Mate 20 Pro might take the company’s ultimate flagship title this generation, but the slightly lower-end Mate 20 is still a phone worth considering with its own strengths. It swaps a 1440p OLED […]

OnePlus is something of a Cinderella story in the smartphone world. It seemed to appear out of nowhere, releasing a phone with numbers that matched the best the likes of Samsung and HTC had to offer – and did […]

Smartphones have achieved the ridiculous level of market penetration they have thanks in no small part to their universal utility: While in the not-too-distant past you might have carried around a separate MP3 […]

Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi is a jack of all trades. It makes a variety of connected gadgets, including TVs, toothbrushes, scooters, and even kettles. Yet, we know it mostly as a smartphone maker, and it’s n […]

Yesterday, Google officially launched the Android P beta and imagine my reaction when I found out that I could test it on my Nokia 7 Plus. Unfortunately, nTel didn’t want me to be great, so it took so […]

Remember how excited I was when I read that John Legend’s voice was coming to Assistant? Unfortunately, John Legend isn’t among the six new Assistant voices that Google recently debuted (His voic […]