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hello there i'm gary sims from andrew authority and i'm here to tell you which was the best phone of 2017 now when people talk about the best of something that can be pretty subjective if i asked you what is the best sports team or the best car or the best type of music i'm sure I would get whole load of different answers from you guys out there so when we've come to look at the best of android for 2017 we're trying to be as objective as we possibly can and to do that we have actually devised a set of tests that test these phones so we come to bat flies directly measuring battery performance when it comes to the camera we've actually got some camera testing equipment when it comes to audio we've used audio equipment to test the quality of the signals and so on now if you go over to the and authority comm website you're going to see all of our testing procedures laid out there for you in black and white and I really would encourage you to go over and read those so that you know that we have done the best we can to be objective about these tests now before we get into tests is time to talk about our finalists the top ten phones that we have pitted against each other for this year's best of Android 2017 now I'm going to list them to you in alphabetical order based on the OEM so we start with b4 blackberry now the BlackBerry key one is a fairly unique phone in this year's lineup because of course it comes with that physical keyboard something that Blackberry were very much known for in years gone by it's also got the weakest processor in terms of the Qualcomm lineup it uses a core comp six to five where's all the other phones that use cocom in this lineup have got the core comm eight three five however it does come with four gigs of memory it does have a four point five inch screen with greater than full HD resolution and of course it's got a 12 megapixel camera and a 3500 five our battery next up is the Google pixel to excel and that comes with a snapdragon 835 4 gigabytes of RAM the huge six inch display it's got at least quad HD resolution a 12 megapixel camera and a 3,500 and 20 milliamp hour battery next up with the huawei mate 10 Pro with its Kirin 970 processor it's the only device in this year's lineup that doesn't have a Qualcomm processor course you've got the nice six inch display a 2k resolution and of course the dual cameras a 12 megapixel camera and a 20 megapixel camera plus you've got that nice four thousand milliamp hour battery next comes the LG G 30 with the snapdragon 835 got a 6 inch screens but quad HD resolution got 4 gigabytes of RAM it's got dual cameras and it's got a 3300 milliamp hour battery next up is 30 novo moto said to force again with the Snapdragon HD 5 this time with 6 gigabytes of RAM 5.5 inch display quad HD and dual cameras with a two thousand seven thousand thirteen million power battery it's nice to see Nokia back in the android market and this year the Lafayette 8 has made its way into the finalists for the best of Android series Nokia 8 comes with a stamp dragon III 560 bytes of ram a 5.3 inch screen quad HD resolution and a 2 13 megapixel cameras all backed up by a 3019 milliamp hour battery no showdown would be complete without the 1 + 5 t again Snapdragon 835 8 gigabytes of memory 6 inch display greater than Full HD and dual 16 milliseconds and then for the power it's got a 3300 milliamp hour battery much has been said and written about the razor phone and it's also made it into our top 10 finalists razor comes with the Snapdragon 835 eight gigabytes of memory a 5.7 inch quad HD display dual 12 megapixel cameras and a four thousand milliamp hour Factory moving on to s4 samsung we've got the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 cause that comes with the Snapdragon 835 got six gigabytes of RAM but the huge 6.3 inch display got a greater than quad HD screen resolution and you've got module cameras and a 3300 milliamp hour battery and the other s in our lineup is s4 Sony the Sony Xperia x2 z1 and of course that comes with the Snapdragon III 5 4 gigabytes of ram a 5.2 inch full HD display and 19 megapixels single lens camera and a 2007 with milliamp hour battery so let's start with the display 4 of I devices this show our LCD devices that's the Nokia 8 the BlackBerry key one the Sony xz1 and the razor phone the rest are all AMOLED devices now which one offers the brightest display and of course that's important when you want to read the phone outside and actually it's the Nokia 8 and the BlackBerry key one that offered the brightest displays out of our lot and in third place comes the Sony Xperia X is 8 1 now when it comes to color representation we look at the color temperature and look at we display we found the keynote 1 the Nokia 8 and the LG G 30 all have the coolest types of displays and the others are much warmer and so once you consider all the different parameters including the brightness including the color representation our testing has shown that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is the winner of the display category in second place comes the wild wave make 10 pro and it's great to see the Nokia 8 in third place now the quality of the audio that comes out of our devices is essential because if we're not speaking then at least we're listening to music or we're watching Netflix or YouTube or we're playing a game and all of them involve some kind of audio output now the loudest phones in our roundup are the pixel 2 XL and the Nokia 808 in terms of noise is the razor phone which actually had a minus 106 DB noise level which is very very impressive however close behind we have the Galaxy Note 8 the Nokia 8 the LG v 30 and the pixal to excel which all achieve - 100 DBS of noise and in terms of harmonic distortion the LGV 30 is the clear winner then the note 8 then the key 1 and finally the huawei make 10 Pro the devices that support the greatest range of Bluetooth codecs are the pixel to excel but make 10 Pro and the sony x8 1 now when you throw that all up together including the volume of distortion and the noise level and the codec support these are our winners in first place you've got the LGB 30 in second place you've got the Google pixel to excel and in third place you've got the huawei mate 10 Pro now when it comes to performance we've used a whole range of different benchmark when it comes to and 2 to the 1 + 5 t is the clear winner with a score of over a hundred and eighty thousand for GFX bench is actually the note 8 that comes out on top followed closely by the Sony Xperia x8 one when it comes to Geekbench the single core score go to the 1 plus 5t and then the multi-core score goes to the mate 10 Pro over at second place you do get the Nokia 8 and the Razer phone and finally looking at 3d mark the winner there is the note 8 followed by the Nokia 8 when you put all those scores together the clear winner in terms of performance is the 1 + 5 t so well done 1 + then you have the Razer phone and finally you have the note 8 from Samsung ok test the camera we've done two different methods first of all we've got a camera shootout which we displayed on the annual thority website with lots of different pictures of sceneries and low-light and different types of shots and you the readers of a garage comm voted for what you thought were the best pictures and secondly we did some technical testing we've got some very complicated software and we've got all these special patterns that you take pictures of and then from that you can check things like the color reproduction and the sharpness and amount of noise in the picture and so on so let's first of all look at the shootout results well as you can see here the readers have had their say and in third place comes the 1 plus 5t second place comes the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the winner according to the readers vandura of course comp is the Google pixel to excel now with the technical testing there's a huge mound of data that we've collected and a lot of those results are published over at all andrew thority comm have a leader some of the highlights for you when it comes to color accuracy a number of phones did a really good job including the note 8 the pixel to excel the sony xperia x8 one the Moto Zed force to the huawei mate 10 Pro and none of the flagship had any problem in with noise when it was good light particularly the Google pixel to excel and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 when it comes to low-light things are a bit different and the winner in the low-light category was the five teeth 1 + 5 t in terms of sharpness in first was a note 8 then the Nokia 8 and then the 1 + 5 t and finally we did a test using 4k video which phone had the best sharpness for 4k video and that was the note 8 followed by the pixel to excel now when you gather all those results together the winner for the best camera in terms of its technical aspects is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 for a very closely behind by the mate 10 Pro and then the pixel 2 X L now back to life keys a key characteristic for many many of us so we've done lots of different battery testing and first of all for just doing mixed kind of activities that means a bit of gaming a bit of web browsing a bit of music a bit of video and so on the best phone is actually the key one from blackberry followed by the mate 10 Pro and then the z2 force however if you kind of just do more web browsing than maybe you do video or playing games then again the key one from blackberry comes in first place then again the make 10 Pro in second place and finally in third place is the Nokia n8 however if you are a heavy gamer then the 1 + 5 t will give you the best battery life followed by the z2 force and then the huawei mate pro- the kind of person that's always dashing around and you plug your phone in for just a few minutes to try and get that extra bit of charge before you - out somewhere else then the phone that charges that quick is is actually Lisette - force then actually behind that is the mate 10 Pro and finally the 1 + 5 t now overall when you have all those different types of battery tests the winner is the huawei mate 10 Pro followed very closely by the 1 + 5 t and in third place we have the is it - force now to judge the user experience we actually came up with 191 points available to be divided across a whole range of categories from hardware to software to camera and so on and we're looking at things like the screen to body ratio does it have a headphone jack doesn't have dual speakers does it have optical image stabiliser they have wireless charging clit support and micro SD card does it have any IP rating what version of Android does it come on and so forth so we tied up all the points and actually we found that in terms of user experience the LG TV 30 is the clear winner next is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and in third place you've got these huawei mate 10 Pro now before we get them to look at the final scores there is one more category and that is value for money now the blackberry key one cost just $500 was at the other end of the extreme is the note 8 which can cost over $900 there's a $400 difference between them so when you compare the features that these phones have with the price the overall winner for value of money is the 1 + 5 t their next comes the nokia 8 are generated nokia there in that second position and many third place is the moto z2 force okay so let's look at the final results now when you boil it all down there are just four phones that have shown themselves strong through all those categories the mate 10 won one category and was in the top three for four other categories the V 30 from LG won two categories but it didn't get a top three position in any of the other categories the 1 plus 5t itself one two categories and it was in the top three for a further one other category and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 one two categories and it was in the top three for two other categories so let's take the result in reverse order starting with third place in third place we get the 1 plus 5t and then in second place we have the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the winner of the best of android award for 2017 goes to the huawei mate 10 Pro I'm going to endure authority and I really hope you enjoyed this video a big shout out to all my colleagues over and Resorts comm who put together this best of android series it really was a group effort a collaborative work and if you go over to the android comm website you'll see lots of in-depth articles about all of these different areas I really recommend you go and check out those articles if you like this video please do give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to and royal authority is YouTube channel hit that Bell icon so that you get a notification every time we release a new video and last but not least do go into and rota comm because we are your source for all things Android