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2 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
Members-only articles read this month: 1/2 Create a free account to browse without limitations. The Vivo X200 Ultra is not just any camera phone. Just look at it — there is just no way you can mistake it for anything else! It's got a giant camera bump that sticks out more than ever before, so much so that everyone who picked it up noticed that right away. What's hiding in that massive bump is Vivo's suggestion for a new take on the smartphone camera system.
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2 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
Members-only articles read this month: 1/2 Create a free account to browse without limitations. I've never liked a phone I would never buy so much. The Galaxy S25 Edge goes against every common lesson the smartphone history has taught us so far — namely, that phones with small battery will inevitably disappoint users. Even if they are just as compact as those users dream of. Even if they are impossibly thin.
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2 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
The Pixel remains a favorite camera thanks to the way it processes detail and the natural colors. It’s been almost a year since Google released the Pixel 9 series. As someone who is constantly looking for the best camera phone for that next trip to Italy, I have continued pitting it against not only the iPhone 16 Pro and Galaxy S25 Ultra, but most Ultra camera phones from China.
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2 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
Great camera, industry-leading battery life. What else do you need? We have tested the battery life of nearly one hundred phones in the past two years and we're not easily impressed by big batteries, but this phone really stands out. The Vivo X200 Ultra has the longest battery life of any phone in the past two years, only beating the Vivo X200 Pro which was already in the top charts.
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3 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
No new silicon-carbon battery tech, but can a new processor squeeze more juice out of the 5,000mAh battery? If you've forgotten that Sony still makes smartphones, we can forgive you. Sony's last Xperia flagship, the VI, was not officially sold in the United States, and the recent announcement of the Xperia 1 VII was so quiet that few even noticed.
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3 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
The biggest fear about the Galaxy S25 Edge is its small battery size. Is it a deal-breaker? We now have the answer. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge might be the most controversial phone of 2025 with its super slim design, but also a battery that is much smaller than other phones.
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3 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
In the past couple of years, something has changed in the way we talk about smartphone cameras. While it used to be that the iPhone, Google's Pixel series and Samsung's Galaxy devices were the leading camera phones, these days not a camera article goes by without someone mentioning three other brands: Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo. Flagship phones out of China all have a distinct camera edge.
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3 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
Samsung has just unveiled its super-thin flagship model, the Galaxy S25 Edge, and there is a lot of excitement about this new and lighter form factor. But having a thinner phone inevitably means that some compromises had to be made. One is that the battery size is much smaller, but not least - we are also getting fewer cameras!In fact, this is the first Samsung flagship phone in years that does not have three cameras on its back but only two.
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3 weeks ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
You would think that in 2025, nearly 20 years since the first smartphones arrived, we would finally be able to buy a no-compromise phone for a budget price. But that hasn't really been the case. In the past few years, smartphone prices have gone up, not down. And the quality of budget phones has honestly improved in very slow increments. Just look at devices like the $200 Samsung Galaxy A16 with a processor that still stutters and lags, making an easy argument to upgrade to a more expensive device.
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1 month ago | 
phonearena.com | Victor Hristov
I'm stuck with my iPhone, and I can't move on (and trust me, I want to). In the past few years, all of my attempts to move away from the iPhone have failed. I pick up the latest flagship Android phone and I love so many things about it, but then I realize it is missing the one simple feature I use dozens (if not hundreds) of times every days. Yep, Face ID. Android phones have just given up Why has Android still not copied Apple's secure Face ID unlock system is honestly beyond me.
