It may be an unlucky number for some, but the OnePlus 13 has proven to be a lucky newcomer to the Android phone market. A price increase from OnePlus may leave a bad first impression, but the OnePlus 13 excels in areas you've come to expect such as screen quality, battery life and charging speed, while also offering the image quality necessary to make it one of the best phones you can buy.
Granted, the OnePlus 13 has a first-mover advantage by launching literally in the first week of 2025. It's also one of a handful of phones already using the latest Snapdragon chipset for strong performance while matching its rivals for AI features. That said, updated models from Samsung and Google will arrive in 2025 — the Galaxy S25 should be here very quickly, in fact — and those phones could offer improvements of their own that the OnePlus 13 can't match. Not without software updates, at any rate.
