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Well, 2022 is simply a wrapper and I tin accidental it was a rather... stale year. We can't ever person breathtaking years, of course, but the information that I've reverted to utilizing a past year's phone, the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, speaks for itself.

That doesn't mean I didn't person my favorites among this year's harvest and present they spell successful nary peculiar order.

Asus Zenfone 9

Just similar past year, I would similar to footwear disconnected this database with an Asus phone. Of course, this year, it's the Zenfone 9. I've ever had a happening for compact flagships and I deliberation Asus erstwhile again nailed it. In fact, I deliberation the caller Zenfone 9 is the prettiest telephone successful 2022. The plan is truthful simple, yet ace elegant and premium.

It besides checks astir each boxes for a 2022 flagship phone, but the telephoto camera. But astatine a 5.9-inch diagonal, it's hard to inquire for one. But astatine slightest it delivers an fantabulous camera acquisition with the ones it has.

Additionally, I'm a immense instrumentality of cleanable Android bundle and Asus' ZenUI is astir apt 1 of the champion successful this regard. It feels stock, but inactive provides immoderate precocious and geeky proprietary features. Battery beingness is amazingly bully and adjacent beats immoderate bigger devices with overmuch larger batteries.

Google Pixel 7 Pro

The cleanable Android is conscionable 1 of the reasons I liked the Pixel 7 Pro. The camera, of course, is different 1 - I conscionable loved the processing of the stills. There's thing astir those I can't enactment my digit connected it, but the Pixel photos person immoderate distinguishable vibe to them. And I similar it a lot.

I besides similar however astute this telephone is. Google's AI-powered features similar telephone screening, code to substance and vice versa conversions are great, arsenic good arsenic the representation and substance extraction from photos. The Pixel 7 Pro is the existent explanation of a smartphone. Or astatine slightest I deliberation it's the closest happening we got to a smartphone.

If it wasn't for its constricted marketplace availability, I would astir apt beryllium rocking a Pixel 7 Pro close now. Also, galore of the astute features are not applicable successful my location country. After all, code designation bundle has its limits.

And though quirky, I truly similar the plan this year, though it's astir identical to the 6 series. Last but not least, this year's Pixel merchandise isn't plagued with galore hardware and/or bundle issues arsenic was the norm for Google phones.

The tiny Pixel 7 gets an honorable notation since it's a compact flagship with a coagulated acceptable of features and a amazingly competitory price.

Pixel 6a

I'm not a Pixel fanboy, don't get maine wrong. Yet, it's hard to contradict that Pixels are beauteous bully phones this year. I truly can't deliberation of a midranger that stands retired from the assemblage this twelvemonth but the Pixel 6a.

It's affordable, runs connected past year's flagship SoC from Google, offers flagship-grade camera experience, gets each the benefits of being a Google telephone successful presumption of bundle updates and it's a well-rounded telephone successful general. If it's disposable successful your country, you should decidedly see it.

Xiaomi 12S Ultra

I'm presently utilizing the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra and I'm utterly disappointed that the 12S Ultra is unusable extracurricular China. I'm fortunate capable to beryllium capable to clasp the 12S Ultra successful my manus and it's a large phone.

It has each the bells and whistles and it's arguably the champion cameraphone connected the market. The telephoto camera show is unrivaled successful my opinion.

Also, I'm a large instrumentality of the design. I find the faux leather and the circular camera module beauteous unique, portion the aboveground feels large to the touch. It provides fantabulous grip and possibly amended durability than your modular solid sandwich build.

I've besides precocious grown fond of Xiaomi's MIUI. It's feature-packed, polished, customizable and blazing-fast.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Like astir of my colleagues, I'm choosing the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra arsenic 1 of my favourite phones of 2022 and that's not due to the fact that we are getting escaped Bugatti's from the Korean tech giant, but mostly due to the fact that the S22 Ultra is the closest happening we person to a zero-compromise flagship this year. It is the telephone to yet unite the Note and S lineups and present an wide unbeatable product.

It's truthful feature-packed that it's hard not to entreaty to the masses. Hell, it adjacent has 2 telephoto focal lengths and that's 1 of the champion things astir this phone.

The bundle is 1 large crushed I'm liking this year's Ultra. One UI is much polished than ever, it has a ton of really utile features and it's possibly the champion customized Android tegument designed to beryllium utilized with 1 hand. That was One UI's archetypal cardinal selling constituent a fewer years backmost and it has stayed existent to its roots.

One disapproval astir One UI 5.0 I person is that adjacent though it feels mode smoother than its predecessor, it's inactive a spot sluggish compared to its competitors. I spent the amended portion of this twelvemonth with the S22+ and I tin accidental that astir different Android iterations, if not all, consciousness faster and much responsive.

And yet, I judge astir radical wouldn't announcement the quality and won't beryllium astir arsenic bothered by this arsenic I am.

Hopefully, 2023 volition bring much innovative and captivating phones to speech astir but, much importantly, a planetary merchandise of my favourite ones.