9to5Google Gift Guide: The top 5 best Android phones you can gift this year

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as mentioned in In this Best Android Phones Gift Guide, let's take a look at our picks for the best Android phones you can buy today, and some of the best holiday deals on those devices too. The best gifts for Android usersTHE BEST ANDROID PHONESGoogle Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XLAndroid's best experience, and its best cameraWhen you're talking about Android, one of the best options going to always be directly from the company that makes it. As you'd expect, Samsung's Galaxy S9 and S9+ hit the mark straight on by great hardware, excellent features, and solid cameras. Especially at their prices points starting at roughly $700, that makes the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ a couple of extremely compelling devices. that easily earns it a list on our best Android phones gift guide, and it helps that T-Mobile purveys the device and it now works on Verizon, too.

9to5Google Gift Guide: The five best affordable Android phones you can gift this year

We've slimmed down the massive number of affordable phones on the market to five in our Best Affordable Android Phones Gift Guide. THE BEST AFFORDABLE ANDROID PHONESNokia 7.1The best Android One phone on the marketIt used to be the time you thought about affordable Android phones, that the idea of a slow, clunky experience would come to mind. With the Nokia 7.1, the company has managed to deliver the best Android One phone we've seen thus far. The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 rocks a Snapdragon 845, a massive 6GB of RAM, 64GB/128GB of storage and a 4000mAh battery. For the rest of the world, the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 is the perfect method to get a powerful Android phone on a budget.

Best of Android 2018: best performing phones

according to Beyond that, picking the "best" performance is a little sticky, given folks use their smartphones for drastically different things. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro's Kirin 980 has the best performance, by caveatsWhen it comes to silicon, for the moment you need Huawei's Kirin 980 powering your smartphone. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is not the best phone in eextremely benchmark we ran, it's simply the best overall results. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro sits at a rather advantageous position, as its processor is an early entrant into next year's generation of chips. Razer and Asus eclipsed the Mate 20 Pro here, as that benchmark isn't limited by the displays, for example.