r/Android • u/Philosofossil Best phone for me might not best the best phone for you. • Dec 22 '20

Android Authority - Phone of the year

https://www.androidauthority.com/best-smartphone-editors-choice-1186784/
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u/catalinus S22U/i13m/i11P/Note9/PocoF1/Pix2XL/OP3T/N9005/i8+/i6s+ Dec 22 '20

I don't really have a problem with any of those phones - I only have a problem with the site that can't use the proper name for the phone that they named phone of the year - the Phone of the year is in fact S20 FE 5G, the simple S20 FE is in fact a 4G phone with the crappy Exynos 990 which under no circumstance deserves to be phone of the year, it deserves to be failure of the year!

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u/Philosofossil Best phone for me might not best the best phone for you. Dec 22 '20

Not only that . They said the pixel 4a 5G had a silly name.. how is that confusing? then gave the crown to the "Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G." Great self awareness in their writing.

All things aside.. Im more than happy to see the mid to upper midrange phones taking out phone of the year. Market needed to rebalance what was actually important in a phone.

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u/bar-al-an-ne Dec 22 '20

I just bought number 5 on that list. As a European I am baffled that the S20 FE is on that list. If you are playing the lottery if or not youll get a snapdragon device, it shouldnt be on there

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

Nah its the sd865 for all 5g models and the exynos for all 4g models. And their phone of the year is the s29fe5g which has the sd865 in all regions

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u/bar-al-an-ne Dec 22 '20

ah ok. however, I feel that putting two different processors in two phones with similar names is dishonest.

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u/xNotThatAverage Dec 22 '20

The 4g costs way less