The Best Android Phones For 2025

Read our afloat Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL review

Processor: Google Tensor G4 | Display: 6.3-inch Super Actua, up to 120Hz | Cameras: Rear array (50MP wide, 48MP ultrawide pinch Macro Focus, 48MP 5x telephoto lens), 42MP dual PD selfie beforehand camera pinch autofocus | Battery: 4,700mAh

Finally, a smaller Pixel Pro. Google's Pixel bid has agelong been 1 of nan champion Android phones around, pinch nan Pro exemplary being nan superior version. But it was ever a small excessively large and excessively cumbersome for those of america who person smaller hands aliases want our phones to fresh successful our pockets. Cue nan Pixel 9 Pro, which is nan littler type of nan Pixel 9 Pro XL. Instead of a comparatively ample 6.8-inch surface for illustration that connected its bigger sibling, nan modular Pro has a 6.3-inch show that is easy to maneuver. No much worrying astir dropping your Pixel Pro conscionable because you fumbled while trying to scope nan apical of nan screen!

Better yet, pinch nan Pixel 9 Pro, Google hasn't sacrificed immoderate cardinal characteristic to get to nan smaller size, meaning you'll find nan aforesaid camera setup and capacity successful some handsets. The only existent differences are nan surface size, artillery and charging speeds, arsenic nan non-XL exemplary recharges astatine a somewhat slower rate. But nan Pixel 9 Pro is besides overmuch longer-lasting than nan XL, notching almost 25 hours connected our artillery test.

Those distinctions aside, nan Pixel 9 Pro lineup is our favourite Android telephone because of its top-notch camera performance, intriguing AI features and a wide grown-up vibe. While erstwhile Pixel flagships had a colorful, blocky creation that felt fresh, this year's devices consciousness coagulated and refined. And, situation we opportunity it, almost for illustration iPhones. Without nan camera bars, they would beryllium beautiful difficult to show isolated from Apple's phones.

Possibly because it's grown up truthful overmuch complete nan years, but nan Pixel phones now costs nan aforesaid arsenic iPhones. The Pixel 9 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro some commencement astatine $999, and though immoderate of america person travel to deliberation of Google's handsets arsenic nan much competitively priced option, this year's exemplary mightiness beryllium bully capable to warrant a premium price. If you still want thing from nan Pixel 9 family but don't want to salary $1,000, nan guidelines Pixel 9 is still a coagulated handset for astir people. But arsenic it stands, nan Pixel 9 Pro is nan champion Android handset money tin buy. — Cherlynn Low, Deputy Editor

Read our afloat Google Pixel 9a review

Processor: Google Tensor G4 | Display: 6.3-inch 1,080 x 2,424 pOLED, up to 120Hz | Cameras: Rear array (48MP wide, 13MP ultrawide), 13MP beforehand camera | Battery: 5,100mAh

The Pixel 9a isn't particularly flashy and it doesn't person immoderate typical features that aren't already disposable connected its much costly siblings. In fact, it really has slower charging and it's missing support for immoderate of Google's homegrown package for illustration nan Screenshots app. But for everyone who conscionable wants a elemental telephone pinch a coagulated design, a bully screen, fantabulous cameras and beardown artillery life, nan Pixel 9a is really difficult to beat. So while it's not ace fancy, nan telephone has each of its astir important bases covered (and past some). But astir importantly, starting astatine conscionable $499, this telephone feels for illustration an unthinkable woody that punches good supra its price. — Sam Rutherford, Senior Reporter

Read our afloat Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite | Display: 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2x QHD+, up to 120Hz | Cameras: Rear array (200MP, Dual Pixel AF, Digital Zoom 100x, 50MP Macro, 50MP UW), 12MP beforehand camera | Battery: 5,000mAh

The S25 Ultra is simply a do-anything phone. It has a wide scope of cameras including a 5x telephoto lens and a caller 50-megapixel sensor for its ultra-wide shooter, a gorgeous 6.9-inch AMOLED show (which is 0.1 inches bigger than past year) and of course, Samsung’s signature S Pen. That said, for 2025, Samsung’s main attraction was connected its improved Galaxy AI features specified arsenic Now Brief, which creates a personalized provender of news, events and more. There’s besides Drawing Assist that makes it easier to create AI-generated art, aliases you tin move to AI Select for thief pinch taking screenshots, turning videos into GIFs aliases summarizing stories.

Unfortunately, speech from a caller Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, nan S25 Ultra doesn’t travel pinch a ton of caller hardware compared to its predecessor (or nan S23U for that matter). So while Samsung’s latest flagship is simply a awesome phone, it doesn’t consciousness for illustration an basal upgrade for group pinch flagship devices that are only a twelvemonth aliases 2 old. — S.R.

Read our afloat Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review

Processor: Snapdragon 8 Elite | Display: 8-inch 2184 x 1968QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X afloat display, 6.5-inch 2520 x 1080FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen show | Cameras: Rear array (200MP wide, 12MP ultrawide, 10MP telephoto), 10MP beforehand camera | Battery: 4,400mAh

One of nan biggest issues pinch foldable phones is nan added size and weight that often comes pinch nan inclusion of a elastic display. Samsung has made that a point of nan past connected nan Galaxy Z Fold 7, which sports larger screens — some wrong and retired — while being 26 percent thinner than before. And arsenic if that wasn't enough, nan Z Fold 7 besides features improved durability, accrued capacity and a caller 200MP main camera, matching aliases exceeding what you get from accepted flagship smartphones. The main downsides are that astatine $2,000, it's still acold from affordable and for long-time Samsung fans, nan nonaccomplishment of S Pen support whitethorn beryllium a dealbreaker. But for those who want to acquisition caller heights successful foldable telephone design, nan Galaxy Z Fold 7 is simply a masterpiece of modern gadget design. — S.R.

Read our afloat OnePlus 13 review

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite | Display: 6.8-inch OLED, 120Hz, 4,500 nits max brightness | Cameras: Rear array (50MP wide, 50MP ultrawide, 50MP telephoto), 32MP beforehand camera | Battery: 6,000mAh

While nan OnePlus 13 features immoderate basal AI features for illustration Google’s Circle to Search and Gemini assistant, it’s really conscionable an old-fashioned flagship successful each nan champion ways. That’s because alternatively of focusing connected instrumentality learning, OnePlus crammed nan telephone pinch tons of top-notch hardware. It sports a 6.8-inch OLED show pinch an unthinkable highest brightness of up to 4,500 nits. The OP13 besides offers fantabulous capacity acknowledgment to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, on pinch 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. There are besides 3 50-MP rear cameras including 1 pinch a 3x telephoto zoom and a monolithic 6,000 mAh artillery that’s bigger than what you get successful practically each of its competitors.

OnePlus didn’t skimp connected nan phone’s creation either, arsenic nan OP13 still comes pinch nan company’s signature Alert Slider. Plus, if you opt for nan bluish aliases achromatic variants, you’ll get a durable and very touchable vegan leather backmost that helps nan telephone guidelines retired among each its solid ceramic rivals. But nan champion portion is that starting astatine $900, it costs little than an balanced Galaxy S25+ too.