Newest iPhones, Android Devices Hit the Market - AARP

Vibrant displays, professional-grade cameras and different awe-inspiring show and show features are attracting a batch of attraction successful the latest harvest of top-tier smartphones.

Whether you’re a tech aficionado oregon not, you indispensable admit that taking a decent photograph has ne'er been easier, phones person ne'er been faster and you whitethorn astatine slightest beryllium toying with buying thing new. But arsenic prices commencement astatine $599 and spell mode up from there, deciding which telephone champion suits your needs and manner is key.

The newest features for iPhones and Androids

Apple. Apple, which had astir 55 percent of the mobile telephone marketplace successful the U.S. successful September, went each successful connected information with its iPhone 14 bid models that debuted that aforesaid period for $799 connected up. The exigency SOS diagnostic that lets you telephone for assistance via outer erstwhile cellular and Wi-Fi are unavailable is simply a imaginable lifesaver.

So is the phone’s quality to observe a superior car mishap and automatically summon assistance if the operator oregon passengers are unresponsive, a diagnostic that has been disposable connected Google Pixel Android phones for a while. Of course, that diagnostic is 1 you anticipation to ne'er use, but it’s decidedly a motion of the future. 

Apple besides beefed up the processor successful the pricey iPhone 14 Pro devices and replaced the oval-shaped “notch” cutout astatine the apical of the show connected different iPhones with a clever caller mode to showcase notifications, dubbed the Dynamic Island.

Google. Among the features that whitethorn gully radical to Google’s caller $599 Pixel 7 oregon $899 Pixel 7 Pro Android smartphones is an exclusive tool, coined Photo Unblur. It whitethorn not enactment perfectly every time, but it tin automatically sharpen your blurriest photos arsenic good arsenic those you’ve taken with different devices.

For the visually impaired, different charismatic Pixel diagnostic is its caller Guided Frame, which uses audible cues and vibrations to assistance you instrumentality a selfie.

If you telephone definite toll-free numbers with the Pixel, you whitethorn spot hold times connected the telephone fastener earlier you pat it. When you bash spot a call, transcribed paper options look connected the surface for assorted businesses earlier they’re spoken. For example, if you telephone Home Depot, you volition spot an enactment you tin pat that says, “If you're calling astir a large appliance, property 1.”

And Google added an opt-in cough and snore detection bedtime Pixel diagnostic to assistance you amended recognize wherefore you are oregon are not getting a bully night’s sleep.

Samsung. People intrigued by unconventional hardware designs whitethorn privation to look at a foldable Android phone. Budget permitting, they whitethorn beryllium consenting to splurge connected the Galaxy Z Fold 4 that Samsung unveiled successful August.

In its unfurled position, the telephone boasts a small-tablet-size 7.6-inch display, the largest surface disposable connected a smartphone. The surface whitethorn simplify enactment if you request to multitask. When folded, it fits successful your pocket.  

But the telephone comes with a hefty terms tag.. The Fold 4 costs astir $1,800, astir 3 times the terms of Pixel 7 and treble the terms of immoderate caller iPhones. And iPhones are not known for being inexpensive.

Options to marque smartphones much affordable

If you request a caller telephone but person a choky budget, you tin trim sticker daze by trading successful an older handset or stretching retired payments implicit 24 to 30 months. You tin besides question fantabulous feature-rich smartphones astatine somewhat little prices by considering models from reliable brands that see Motorola, OnePlus and TCL. Samsung besides sells mid-tier models.