13 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Other Phones to Consider

We trial a ton of Android phones. We similar the ones below, but you'll beryllium amended disconnected with 1 of the options above. If you haven't yet done so, cheque retired our Best Cheap Phones and Best Folding Phones guides for more.

Google Pixel 9 bid for $599+: The Pixel 9 bid (9/10, WIRED Recommends) from 2024 is inactive a large bargain if you tin find them connected sale. The Pixel 9 is akin to the Pixel 9a but with amended physique prime and larger camera sensors. The Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL person the 5X optical camera and the vapor enclosure cooling, among different perks. The cardinal is to marque definite you debar paying MSRP. These person dipped reasonably often successful terms during merchantability events, and now, arsenic banal gets cleared, you tin astir apt find a slayer woody if you clasp out.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 for $1,100: Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip7 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) got immoderate large upgrades implicit its predecessor, but it wasn't capable to dethrone the Razr Ultra 2025 arsenic my apical flip telephone pick. Still, it's worthy considering if you're buying for a folding telephone of this category, due to the fact that the cameras are solid, the displays are fantabulous and larger than ever, and the screen surface is simply a small much utile (though not arsenic versatile arsenic connected Motorola's phone). Battery beingness is adjacent worse present implicit the Fold7, truthful snag a power bank portion you're astatine it.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge for $950: Samsung's latest innovation is to slim down the smartphone to an amazingly bladed 5.8 mm. That's not arsenic awesome arsenic phones from the past, but the Galaxy S25 Edge (6/10, WIRED Recommends) is inactive awesome erstwhile you clasp this lightweight 6.7-inch telephone successful your hand. It maintains respective features from the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but there's nary S Pen stylus, nary telephoto cameras whatsoever, and artillery beingness is not bully astatine each for a telephone of this size and price. I routinely had to support it topped up passim the day. But if you're an mean to airy user, you whitethorn find it sufficient, and possibly you'll beryllium capable to admit the bladed and airy size adjacent more.

Nothing Phone (3a) for $379 and Phone (3a) Pro for $459: Here's different well-rounded smartphone that doesn't person an exorbitant price. The Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are sub-$500 Android phones, and they are some fantastic. They're identical successful each mode but the cameras, wherever the Pro exemplary has a flimsy vantage successful zoom and low-light capabilities. I deliberation the Phone (3a) looks nicer and is simply a amended value. Run done the database of specs and you'll beryllium hard-pressed to find responsibility with the hardware. The show is wonderfully creaseless with its 120-Hz refresh rate, and it's nary conflict to spot successful the sun. Performance is snappy, artillery beingness is reliable, and the camera prime is decent for the money. There are immoderate drawbacks—these phones are lone IP64-rated, truthful don't driblet them successful the pool. There's nary wireless charging, and connectivity isn't seamless. While it'll enactment champion connected T-Mobile, you'll lone get 4G connected Verizon and AT&T until you inquire the carriers to whitelist the instrumentality for 5G access. That process is definite to beryllium frustrating.

Samsung Galaxy S24 FE for $650: Samsung's Galaxy S24 FE is simply a amended bargain present that the flagship Galaxy S24 bid is harder to find for sale. It's a perfectly susceptible smartphone with a triple-camera array (including a 3X telephoto camera), and it delivers bully performance. It has wireless charging, is IP68 h2o resistant, and has coagulated day-long artillery life. It's a shame the design’s a spot drab. It's worthy pointing retired that we're coming up connected a twelvemonth since the S24 FE launched, truthful expect an S25 FE existent soon.

Motorola Moto G Power 2025 for $300: The caller Moto G Power (7/10, WIRED Recommends) isn't arsenic great as its predecessor, and that comes down to 1 reason: Due to a lesser chipset, there's a flimsy deed successful performance, and it feels a spot much sluggish to use. However, the show is bully capable that you won’t consciousness frustrated. Outside of this, it's a singular $300 phone. The greenish faux leather backmost exudes luxury, and it's bully and slim. The cameras are solid, and the 6.8-inch LCD surface has a 120-Hz surface refresh complaint and gets plentifulness bright. Best of all, the institution retained the wireless charging it debuted successful past year's model, making it 1 of the lone sub-$300 phones with this convenience. Another country of improvement? It's IP68/69-rated, truthful you won't person to babe this telephone adjacent a pool; it tin grip a dip conscionable fine. Motorola has besides extended bundle updates connected the Moto G series, promising 2 Android OS upgrades, with the aforesaid 3 years of information updates. There's a just magnitude of bloatware, but you tin region astir of these preinstalled apps.

Minimal Phone for $399: Having occupation curbing your surface time? Instead of going acold turkey with thing similar the Light Phone III, effort the Minimal Phone (6/10, WIRED Review). This is an e-paper Android telephone with a carnal keyboard. The extremity is to fto you entree the accustomed Android apps, but due to the fact that the surface is ill-suited to videos and astir societal media, you'll people beryllium capable to debar those distractions. It's palmy successful this task, but the changeless surface ghosting and plasticky physique dampen the experience.

Mobile Accessories You Might Need

We person lawsuit recommendations for a fewer fashionable devices, similar Samsung's Galaxy S25, Galaxy S24, and Galaxy S23, oregon Google's Pixel 9 series. It's astute to slap a lawsuit connected these solid sandwiches and adjacent a surface protector to support the show escaped of scuffs and scratches. Here are a fewer different noteworthy accessories, including charging adapters, which galore phones don't see anymore. Read our Best USB-C Cables guide for different recommendations.

Anker 45-Watt Charger for $28: This tiny charger volition beryllium capable for astir radical to complaint astir smartphones. It's compact, reliable, and cheap, positive the prongs fold up. More smartphones than ever tin spell up to 45-watt charging speeds, truthful instrumentality vantage with a 45-watt charger.

Counterpart Retractable The Charger for $44: It's not the champion value, but this design-forward charger has a retractable 4-foot cablegram that makes it a fantastic two-in-one—no request to battalion a abstracted charger and cable! It outputs 35 watts, which is plentifulness to fast-charge astir phones and tablets, and the prongs fold successful for travel.

Peak Design Samsung and Pixel Everyday Case for $50: If you person a Samsung oregon Pixel telephone and you often equine your telephone to a motorcycle oregon scooter, you beryllium it to yourself to snag this lawsuit and Peak Design's motorcycle mount. The lawsuit snaps perfectly into the mount, is dormant elemental to release, and has yet to autumn disconnected aft years of riding. Peak Design besides sells several different accessories you tin connect to the backmost of these cases, bringing Android into Apple's MagSafe ecosystem.

Nimble Champ Portable Charger 10,000 mAh for $60: This portable artillery is tiny capable to permission successful a container but has capable powerfulness to afloat recharge your telephone erstwhile oregon twice. There's a USB-C and USB-A port; it delivers 18 watts of power, truthful it tin recharge your tablet oregon phone, and it's housed successful 73 percent post-consumer integrative with plastic-free packaging.

Nomad ChargeKey V2 for $29: When your telephone dies, it's astir ever erstwhile you hide to bring a charger oregon artillery pack. The ChargeKey is simply a nifty solution—it's similar clipping a tiny USB-C charging cablegram to your keychain. Just plug 1 extremity into your telephone and the different into immoderate benignant of powerfulness root (a friend's telephone oregon a charging adapter if you negociate to find one), and you tin apical up your phone. Native Union besides has a akin item that's cuter but astir arsenic capable.

Choose a Wireless Charger: Our usher to the champion wireless chargers includes dozens of models successful varying colors, shapes, and materials, and adjacent immoderate designed for circumstantial phones. Not each Android telephone supports wireless charging, but it's a luxury you'll privation to instrumentality vantage of. Take a gander astatine our usher for our favorites.

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