How can it almost be 2026? It feels like just a moment ago that we celebrated the beginning of 2025, before welcoming the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, then the Google Pixel 10 lineup, and of course later the iPhone 17 models, and… well, here we are in December.
It’s been a huge year in the world of smartphones – we saw a renewed battle of the base models as the iPhone 17 and Pixel 10 each launched with hardware upgrades to rival the Galaxy S25, phone batteries got bigger than ever culminating in the iPad-beating OnePlus 15 (also the year's only 5-star phone review), and the folding phone market was rocked by super-thin handsets like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.
