I've gone hands-on with more than a dozen of this year's newest smartphones, so believe me when I say it's been a very strong year for everyone's favorite pocketable smart device. As a result it's hard to nominate an outright champion. But I know that my own personal pick for phone of the year is the OnePlus Open, a foldable that feels like the biggest step forward for the category since folding phones first appeared half a decade ago.
If you've looked at our best foldable phones guide, you'll see that the Open sits right at the top, as you would hope. It has a spot on our best phones overall too, although nowhere near the top. Foldables unfortunately are still not a good fit for the general smartphone buyer, although OnePlus is leading the way in changing that with the Open, and doing it in a number of ways.
