Smartphone Awards 2025!
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The 2025 Smartphone Awards: Best, Worst, and Most Improved Devices
Discover which flagship phones earned top trophies in the 2025 Smartphone Awards. This breakdown reveals the year's most significant leaps in battery tech, controversial designs, and true budget champions.
Short Summary
- Crown the iPhone 17 as the MVP for finally delivering a complete, non-compromised base model experience.
- Award the Oppo Find X9 Pro the Camera Trophy for exceptional consistency and groundbreaking hardware attachments.
- Recognize the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max for maximizing large screen real estate and delivering top-tier performance.
- Identify the CMF Phone 2 Pro as Best Value for offering premium features at an aggressive budget price point ($279).
- Call out the iPhone 16 as the Bust of the Year due to high cost despite severe feature omissions.
This document structures the annual MKBHD Smartphone Awards for 2025, recognizing hardware excellence and major industry trends. Analyze the winners across ten distinct categories, noting the rise of silicon carbon batteries and significant base-model upgrades.
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Top Comments (10)
Marques, bring back the blind camera test, please, it was the most fun, thank you!
It’s time for a best software feature category
Fundamentals 🤝Fun. Appreciate the recognition!
Apple winning both "Bust and Best phone of the year" award is iconic and ironic at the same time!!
Shawl collar dinner jacket with a hoodie is diabolical
I completely forgot iPhone 16e existed 😂😅
I like how no A.I features were talked about
Ive come to wait for these awards every year, thank ye Marques!
YouTube with ads user here… at&t had me cracking up after every award category announced, the timing of the ad just flat out starts with “The iphone 17 pro!” Pretty much pounding the iphone 17 pro as winning all categories…
Where was the best sound/speaker award ?!
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Top Comments (10)
Marques, bring back the blind camera test, please, it was the most fun, thank you!
It’s time for a best software feature category
Fundamentals 🤝Fun. Appreciate the recognition!
Apple winning both "Bust and Best phone of the year" award is iconic and ironic at the same time!!
Shawl collar dinner jacket with a hoodie is diabolical
I completely forgot iPhone 16e existed 😂😅
I like how no A.I features were talked about
Ive come to wait for these awards every year, thank ye Marques!
YouTube with ads user here… at&t had me cracking up after every award category announced, the timing of the ad just flat out starts with “The iphone 17 pro!” Pretty much pounding the iphone 17 pro as winning all categories…
Where was the best sound/speaker award ?!