hi guys it's sbit and welcome to a huge
video now on this channel I am lucky
enough to get my hands on and review
hundreds of different smartphones and as
a result I often get asked by a lot of
you guys what's the best smartphone
what's good for camera what's good for
battery etc so instead of answering
everyone individually I thought what I
would do as we come up to the turn of
the year I would go over my top 5
smartphones that are available to buy
right now and going into early 2020 and
we would go over 5 upcoming smartphones
in early 2020 that you might possibly
want to wait for if you're not quite
sold on that's available right now and
if that's not enough I'm also going to
chuck in two more smartphones that
deserve a mention but didn't quite make
the list and I've got the giveaway
announcement so without further ado
let's get straight to it
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right now you may or may not have seen
my video a couple of weeks ago on my top
seven smartphones that you might never
have known existed the underdog story if
you will the non flagships that didn't
get the line like they deserved and I
strongly recommend you watching that
after this video if you're interested in
that but in today's video it's all about
the big hitters they will range in price
but they all have a big reputation so
straight into it the first phone on the
list is the latest in a series which is
often referred to as the pinnacle of the
Android smartphone world no compromises
full-featured pure unadulterated
flagship it is of course the Samsung
Galaxy Note 10 time with the note 10
they actually split the device into two
tiers and move that at the time and
still now I didn't and don't think was a
is a great idea but out sort of that and
the fact that they didn't increase the
display refresh rate from 60 Hertz to
match the likes of 1 plus and a Zeus of
real me this phone is true beast
Snapdragon 855 or the in-house Exodus 9
8 to 5 up to 12 gigabytes of RAM 512
gigabytes of storage and a micro SD card
slot for additional external storage
it's got an industry-leading 6.8 inch
quad HD + dynamic AMOLED display a hefty
4300 mAh battery capacity with wireless
charging power share and up to 45 watts
fast charging which is crazy quick great
stereo speakers ip68 water and dust
resistant and a camera that while not
the best in every situation performs
very solidly across the board and gives
you great customization that will suit a
lot of people it's also the only real
solid device on the market that comes
with stylus integration the s-pen allows
you to control music take photos and
much much more
all with the stroke of a pen or an air
gesture which as I stated in my launch
video over in New York I'm not a massive
fan of you also have the added bonus of
Dex compatibility so if you want to hook
your phone up to a monitor
for that almost full office experience
you can do that one final feature that's
a little bit bittersweet for me is
software
I love Samsung's 1u I what they've done
with it how they've changed it from
recent TouchWiz etc is brilliant but
with all Samsung devices they are late
to upgrade that software the note 10
range launched almost that pretty much
the same time as Android 10 yet it
launched with Android 9 and you won't be
seeing Android 10 until probably spring
in 2020 if other Samsung devices are
anything to go by so it's a beautiful
looking phone and if you don't mind the
punch hole cut out all the substantial
price tag it's a full-featured
powerhouse that's really hard to argue
against next up is the latest and
greatest from a company who kind of
started up as a bit of a cult brand with
a focus to deliver the best possible
smartphone for the best possible price
to change the status quo in the industry
shake things up and upset the applecart
with the big boys I am of course talking
about oneplus sรกmi is on and the
landscape has changed slightly for them
as with a continuous rise in price they
can no longer really be classed as a
flagship killer but there's one thing
for sure they now make killer flood
ships yeah flagship killer killer yeah
so in this video I am of course talking
about the one +70 pro but it's the
McLaren Edition we've got here which is
the pinnacle with a few shortcomings
like no wireless charging and no IP
rating to drive the price down a little
there is still so much phone here for
the price that still just about
undercuts the competition it's not
dragon eight five five plus twelve
gigabytes of RAM and IMAX 256 gigabytes
of storage now a key selling feature
with this device is of course the
much-hyped 6.67 quad HD plus Samsung
fluid AMOLED display with his 19 Hertz
refresh rate and buttery smooth oxygen
OS over the top of Android 10 it is my
favorite phone to use to navigate
through social media browse the Internet
and just generally use the phone as a
phone really by a mile if it's triple
camera setup comprising of a wide
telephoto and ultra wide-angle lens
which is good but not industry-leading
was better at point-and-shoot speed like
the pixel for this would probably be my
daily Drive well into next year and with
its max 4k at 60 frames a second
capabilities video again does the job
for most people but it can't really
match what Apple have done with the
iPhone range the 70 Pro McLaren Edition
is propped up by a 4000 and 85 million
power battery with walk charge 30 T
providing in full day's use in about 30
minutes charge and this combined with
ufs 3.0 stereo speakers it's a hell of a
phone now from a company that provided
flagship killers we're gonna go to the
complete opposite Apple the traditional
flagship provider great products for
some people not everybody but everybody
can agree that they price themselves
right at the top end rightly or wrongly
but the phone I'm actually talking about
today is not believe it or not their
latest flagship it's not the iPhone 11
Pro or the 11pro Maxx which I do use a
lot alongside my Android contingent the
phone I'm talking about is the standard
iPhone 11 and that's because starting
from 729 pounds in the UK it's not cheap
but it's significantly cheaper than the
pro and the pro max with not a great
deal of compromise the only real camera
sacrifice from the pro model is the lack
of a telephoto lens but you still get
the primary and the ultra wide-angle
which I personally think is the two
lenses that I would choose over a
telephoto lens subjectively it takes
some of the best photos around and is
particularly popular for great landscape
shots with good HDR and it's portrait
shots and selfies but objectively
the iPhone 11 range has the best video
capture capabilities of any smartphone
on the planet for cat 60 frames a second
on both the rear and the front cameras
is the highest available at the time of
recording this video and the audio
quality is really excellent as well if
you are a pro video ography and you're
looking to add some quick shots using
just your smartphone if you don't have
your proper DSLR for example on
you then can't look past the iPhone 11
range for that need the battery is also
pretty respectable not as good as the
pro and certainly doesn't match the
insanely good battery of the pro max but
again for a standard days use it usually
gets me comfortably through the day the
weakness in battery over the pro and pro
max is mainly down to the fact that the
phone has an LCD panel and not OLED like
it's more expensive brothers / sisters
we're you know an equal right channel
after hall so because it's LCD the
backlight is always on even when parts
of the display are showing black so for
the fact the screen is LCD and only a
1792 by 828 resolution is probably the
phones biggest weakness for me it's
probably not a deal-breaker for large
portions of the average consumer but if
you are a pixel peeper and displays
incredibly important to you then this is
not for you it's got 4 gigabytes of RAM
which may not seem a lot based on
today's standards but this combined with
iOS 13 and Apple's a 13 Bionic chip the
phone performs brilliantly well and the
benchmarks will be right at the top even
going quite a long way into 20/20 stereo
speakers ip68 water and dust resistant
wireless charging round off a very
competitive phone and if you're one of
these people that is heavily ingrained
in the Apple ecosystem you've got an
iPad you've got a MacBook you've got air
pods for example then it's another it is
another selling point next up is a
hugely controversial one this is the
huawei mate 30 pro in my opinion this is
one of the most striking phones this
year and feels the nicest and most
premium in the hand not sucide which has
a purpose housing a 3d facial
recognition system this is one sexy
phone with its beautiful waterfall edges
the immersion levels here are off the
chart the six point five three inch
display is only full HD plus and it's
only 60 Hertz refresh rate but this OLED
panel is still something of beauty it's
very similar in design to the vivo next
three which I did a video on quite
recently and if aesthetics is one of the
big selling points for you then look no
further
but this
phone does way more than just look good
it's one of the most sophisticated
camera setups on the market quad lenses
including a 40 megapixel primary a 40
megapixel ultra wide and an 8 megapixel
telephoto and a depth sensing
time-of-flight lens to wrap it up night
mode is industry-leading
the point-and-shoot nature of this phone
is on point and overall if we forget
video for a second because that's
certainly an area where while we could
improve in the future it's probably one
of the most advanced camera setups
available the 4500 mAh battery cell is
so well optimized by the in-house Kirin
990 SOC and Huawei's emui software it's
one of my go-to devices for that kind of
more of a day's play phone and even if
you do run out of juice while way
unknown for their rapid fast charging
technology which means for battery
lovers who want a really nice package
this might be the phone for you battery
lovers are also usually power users so
with 8 gigabytes of RAM and 256
kilobytes of storage should have you
covered now there's one reason and one
reason only that this device is being
held to ransom in terms of sales and
that is the fact that it had to ship
without Google services now you may be
thinking hang on you've got Google Apps
installed and yes I do as there are
workarounds that almost bring this
device up to speed but there are a few
glitches and security-wise it's not
really the best as you're relying on
third-party installations and you just
don't really know potentially where your
informations going probably
scaremongering a little bit but it's
just the honest truth right now
that's the third-party workarounds not
far away themselves in my opinion and
it's of course all an opinion game right
now
unfortunately this trade friction as men
that the phone right here in front of
you is in my opinion one of the best
this year has to offer but I can't
recommend it and the world is much worse
off because of it slightly dramatic but
it's just painful to see such a great
device not getting into enough consumers
hands next up is a device rightly or
wrongly like it or not
that is different and deserves great
credit it is of course the Samsung
Galaxy fold it's the first mass-marketed
big branded folding device
to launch I feel they got a few key
things wrong mainly the 4.6 inch front
display because it's simply not
practical for everyday use it's just too
small and while I love the fact I can go
to a larger seven point three inch when
folded out I feel the way it's been
designed I have to go into tablet mode
for any real usage and sometimes using a
tablet is simply impractical but
forgetting that for a second it's truly
amazing that in a stagnating smartphone
market that this product actually exists
it's open the door not only to Samsung
to produce refined versions but it's
also given other manufacturers
validation to experiment in this way
because even though Samsung weren't the
first company to deliver a concept like
this into a product and release it
Samsung have given it mass market appeal
and as far as I'm aware the sales
figures have done better than expected
especially considering what happened
with that first group of devices all top
specs good battery life a note 10 esque
camera array means that if you can
afford the expensive price tag and love
experimenting with a first gen product
then this might be the way to go for you
now before we get on to my top five
upcoming smartphones to honorable
mentions number one the Google pixel for
excel for planing simply as you would
expect the camera it's the reason why no
matter how good other phones have been
before or since
I still find myself creeping back to
this little cheeky other phones actually
have a more complete camera setup COFF
COFF wink-wink ultra wide angle lens
Google what but no phone has the
point-and-shoot capabilities of the
pixel for the post-processing quality
Google have at their disposal means the
run-and-gun approach you can add to your
photography is absolutely impossible to
match if you want a phone that gives you
the most reliable chance to capture
life's magical moments then don't look
anywhere else other than a pixel
seriously Google on your next device all
you have to do is create a phone that
has this camera add an ultra wide-angle
lens
give it a battery which matches other
flagships that are
in 2020 and just fix up that design and
bring it into 2020 just a tiny bit and
your sales will literally go through the
roof it's so frustrating watching pixel
launches their potential is so big and
it just hasn't happened
the second honorable mention goes to the
real me x2 Pro in a short time I've had
hands-on with it and knowing the specs
it offers means the product you get for
the price is absolutely insane
Snapdragon 805 5 plus 12 gigabytes of
RAM 90 Hertz AMOLED display quad camera
4000 mAh battery 50 watts fast charging
all for around three to four hundred US
dollars
it's absolutely ridonculous and that's
not a word it is now now let's turn our
attention to the upcoming and what we
know right now the first device which is
launching imminently
if you believe the leaks is the xiaomi
redmi k 30 pro the phone that's
following on from the incredibly
successful K 20 Pro and that would have
made my early list had it not been for
the imminent launch of the 30 it's due
to feature the brand-new upcoming
Snapdragon 86 5 have a quad camera set
up a 4500 mAh battery capacity and a
full screen display with a punch all cut
out next up is the oneplus 8/8 pro slash
an unconfirmed by one plus eight light a
cheaper wallet friendly version the
oneplus equivalent to the Samsung S 10
II if you will we believe oneplus are
adding this and continuing their other
two-tier trend even though at times it
got a little bit confusing last year
especially with the immense improvements
of the 70 and the incrementals of the 70
pro but potentially three devices on
launch again the snapdragon 865 punch
all cut out in the AMOLED display and if
early links are to be true the eight
will have a single punch hole and the
pro will have a dual punch hole cutter
the latest renders appeared to show the
camera setups on the top left in a
rectangular fashion on certain models
again unconfirmed and also the pro model
is tipped to be ever so slightly smaller
than last year's seven pro and 70 pro
improve
the form factor for a strong pet peeve
of people that have small hands Samsung
are up next and the triple T is set to
continue here as well s11 s 11 plus and
the S 11 e with a max capacity of the
plus model expected to reach 5000 mAh
expect a powerhouse we are due to see a
larger battery across the board from the
STM range so expect a larger chunkier
phone as a result something else that
will be larger is the camera sensors
with an exclusive custom sensor already
in the works
potentially exceeding what we've seen on
the Xiaomi me Note 10 that just got
released expect a real step up in camera
performance from Samsung with all the
top 20/20 specs also expect Samsung to
skip the 90 Hertz and go straight to 120
Hertz in their display technology which
in my opinion is a real must considering
they were a little bit behind last year
in that last year this year we're at the
turn of the year who knows next up is a
mysterious one in the form of the Xiaomi
me mix for the mixer is is one of my
favorite series of any brand striving to
push design to the forefront of
everything the phone is about elegant
stylish and just a beautiful bit of kit
it was a series that pretty much started
this bezel-less wave in mainstream phone
design but it's now gone mysteriously
quiet the last phone was the me mix 3a
Mac got launched in October 2018 over a
year ago so you'd be forgiven for
thinking that Xiaomi had forgotten about
this series but fresh leaks have hinted
at the four coming in the
not-too-distant future my guess would be
probably around MWC in February there
have been leaked photos of the apparent
mix for supporting under the display
front cameras which would be the first
in a commercially available smartphone
and could give the series a much-needed
new lease of life in a market that has
caught them up no leaks have been
confirmed of course from Xiaomi with an
apparent 120 Hertz display all the top
specs including the snapdragon 865 and
5g compatibility this could be huge and
then we have another from huawei the p40
pro expect 5 cameras including a similar
periscope set
to the p30 Pro which is going to enable
it to have optical zoom up to ten times
and even better sensors taking the 20/20
smartphone camera game to the limit wow
that was a juicy video and I hope you
did enjoy it let me know in the comment
section below what you think about all
of the phones you've heard today ones
that are available ones that are coming
what are you most excited about and what
phone do you have
and which phone do you want as always
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