Best of Android 2018: the best gaming smartphone

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2017's Razer Phone revitalized the concept of a gaming smartphone, delivering that slick 120Hz display and the gaming brand's aesthetics. We've seen plenty of pretenders to the throne in 2018, but there can only be one king of the gaming phones this year. Instead, we opted to use 3DMark as our primary gaming phone benchmark, and the results display that the ROG Phone just edged out the Xiaomi Black Shark. In saying so, the benchmark shows that most these gaming phones are rather powerful, by the Honor Play in last place. And the time you pair the higher refresh average by AMOLED screens, you've got a combination that's hard to beat.

Best of Android 2018: The best innovations

Just look at our Best of Android 2018 results: there's no runamethod winner, but you won't find any really bad product on the list either. That's causes of we turned to good-old-fashioned human intuition and polled our inhabitant team of over 30 Android experts for the best phone innovations of 2018. 3) Vivo: In-display fingerprint readersIn just one year, in-display fingerprint sensors went from proof of concept to a genuinely useful feature available on multiple mass-market devices. From where we're standing, Duplex, flexible displays, and in-display fingerprint readers are the most important and exciting innovations of 2018. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the best Android phone of 2018.

Best of Android 2018: the best displays

according to After Analyzing the best Android has to offer in 2018, we can give you a more complete picture of the best displays than ever. For an extreme example, the LG G7 does this by wildly tuning the default monitor color to a bluish tint. If you need a phone display that does everything well, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the best in the biz. It's not as technically accuaverage as the Samsung Galaxy S9, but it's close enough. Be sure to check back for more Best of Android 2018 coverage as the days march on: