Every year, fashionable tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee (better known arsenic MKBHD) holds his ain Smartphone Awards, successful which helium chooses the champion smartphones successful antithetic categories. While past twelvemonth the iPhone was awarded successful 3 antithetic categories, Apple’s smartphone mislaid the spotlight to its competitors astatine this year’s awards.

Just similar past year, MKBHD has acceptable aggregate grant categories for smartphone. They are:

• Best Big Phone
• Best Small Phone
• Best Camera System
• Best Battery
• The Design Award
• Value Award
• Bust of the Year
• MVP (Phone of the Year)

Unsurprisingly, determination are a batch of Android smartphones competing for the awards, portion Apple presently sells lone 8 antithetic iPhone models – and conscionable 5 of them were released this year. Of course, though the awards are based connected MKBHD’s ain criteria, helium considered some method aspects and his idiosyncratic acquisition with each instrumentality competing for the awards.

But however does the iPhone comparison with each the different Android smartphones?

Best Big Phone

iPhone 14 Pro Max is surely a large telephone with its 6.7 inch screen. However, MKBHD chose Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra arsenic Best Big Phone of 2022. According to the YouTuber, the S22 Ultra takes vantage of the monolithic 6.8-inch surface with the stylus combined with bundle optimized for the ample screen, the 5,000 mAh battery, and 4 camera lenses connected the backmost of the phone.

MKBHD besides praised the ASUS ROG Phone 6, which is considered a gamer smartphone, successful the aforesaid class for having “incredible, monolithic stereo front-facing speakers” and a headphone jack. The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 besides got an honorable notation for having the aforesaid thickness arsenic a regular telephone erstwhile folded.

Best Small Phone

Last year, Apple won the Best Small Phone class with iPhone 13 mini. After all, determination aren’t galore tiny phones near connected the market, and iPhone 13 mini was fundamentally an iPhone 13 with premium hardware wrong a assemblage with a 5.4-inch screen. But this year, Apple killed the iPhone mini and replaced it with the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.

So the victor of the Best Small Phone of 2022 was the ASUS Zenfone 9. It’s surely not arsenic tiny arsenic the iPhone 13 mini since it has a 5.9 inch screen, but it’s inactive considerably smaller than astir smartphones today. With flagship specs, “surprisingly large camera,” a headphone jack, and bully artillery life, MKBHD says the Zenfone 9 is “easily the champion telephone successful this size.”

Oppo Find N2, which is simply a foldable phone, got an honorable notation successful this class for looking highly compact erstwhile it’s folded.

Best Camera System

Choosing the champion camera connected a smartphone tin beryllium highly subjective, particularly since determination are antithetic criteria for photos and videos, and each idiosyncratic has their ain preferences erstwhile it comes to colour level and sharpness. A fewer days ago, MKBHD shared the results of its unsighted smartphone camera test, successful which Google’s Pixel 6A took archetypal place, portion the Pixel 7 Pro came successful second.

But what astir MKBHD’s preferences? Although helium praised the photos taken with the Pixel 7 and Vivo X90 Pro+, iPhone 14 Pro Max won Best Camera System this year.

The YouTuber says that the iPhone has a much coagulated camera experience, which includes however accelerated it is to unfastened the Camera app and instrumentality a picture, the consistency betwixt each lenses, and however bully the instrumentality is astatine shooting video compared to each Android smartphones.

Best Battery

The victor of Best Battery of 2022 is the ASUS ROG Phone 6. Since it’s considered a smartphone for gamers, ASUS enactment a 6,000 mAh artillery wrong the phone. At the aforesaid time, it supports accelerated charging up to 65W, which lets users recharges the artillery from 0% to 100% successful little than an hour.

Last year, iPhone 13 Pro Max won the Best Battery award, and galore different reviews besides praised the artillery beingness of past year’s iPhone contempt the summation of the 120Hz display. However, iPhone 14 Pro Max failed to connection the aforesaid artillery acquisition arsenic iPhone 13 Pro Max since Apple kept the artillery the aforesaid size and added an Always-on Display.

Interestingly, Marques praised the artillery beingness of the iPhone 14 Plus, which beats the iPhone 14 Pro Max since it has a regular 60Hz show without the Always-on feature. As a result, iPhone 14 Plus consumes little powerfulness than the Pro model.

The Design Award

The plan class is besides rather subjective, and adjacent MKBHD agrees with this. And the smartphone that won The Design Award successful 2022 is the Nothing Phone. Looking from the sides, the Nothing Phone reminds 1 of the latest iPhones. However, Nothing Phone has a transparent backmost afloat of LEDs that tin beryllium utilized for aggregate things similar notifications and flash airy portion you’re filming.

“It decidedly skirts the enactment close betwixt gimmick and feature. […] I find it truly neat. I deliberation it’s chill that you tin spot however overmuch artillery is arsenic you’re charging. […] Little things similar that. You don’t spot a batch of phones trying caller stuff.”

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 got an honorable notation successful the plan class for being a foldable telephone that looks overmuch much coagulated than different foldable phones.

Value Award

Last year, Google’s Pixel 6 won the Value Award, and this twelvemonth the grant was fixed to the Pixel 7. MKBHD argues that the Pixel 7 is the champion successful its $599 terms range, and it adjacent beats immoderate much costly flagships with its specs. “It’s truthful bully that it made the [Pixel] 7 Pro benignant of consciousness similar not that bully of a deal,” helium added.

ASUS Zenfone 9 erstwhile again received an honorable mention, this clip successful the Value Award class for offering a “really unsocial combo” that includes a 120Hz show for $699.

Bust of the Year

The 2021 Bust of the Year was Microsoft’s Surface Duo 2, which has 2 abstracted screens and was launched astatine a $1,500 terms tag. This year, however, MKBHD chose the OnePlus 10T arsenic Bust of the Year for having a “pretty large delta betwixt expectations and possibilities versus existent results.”

MVP (Phone of the Year)

Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra was the 2021 victor of Phone of the Year. But what astir this year? The victor for 2022 is Google’s Pixel 7. Just arsenic mentioned before, MKBHD says the Pixel 7 has large worth with its bully cameras, show and battery, positive “flagship bundle experience” portion it costs overmuch little than different premium smartphones.

With akin arguments, ASUS Zenfone 9 besides won an honorable notation arsenic Phone of the Year. In 3rd place, MKBHD chose the Galaxy S22 Ultra for this category, which helium defines arsenic “boring” and “expensive,” but astatine the aforesaid clip 1 of the champion phones 1 tin get successful 2022.

Wrap up

From 3 categories successful 2021, the iPhone has present lone been awarded successful 1 of the categories successful 2022. And yet, MKBHD pointed retired that helium prefers the iPhone camera due to the fact that of its outstanding prime for shooting video.

When it comes to photos, MKBHD has already said successful his videos that the iPhone 14 Pro’s camera exaggerates post-processing effects similar HDR, which makes immoderate photos look precise unrealistic – and personally I hold with that.

What are your thoughts connected the results? Would you person a antithetic database than MKBHD for the champion phones of 2022? Let america cognize successful the comments conception below.

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