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this smartphone top picks is sponsored by university of phoenix i took myself back to school to learn how to make my internet usage safer to keep my kids safer and generally keep TechnoBuffalo safer you ever see a phoenix waived all fees for the course I'm taking if I want to learn more be sure to stay tuned to the end of the video we are already halfway through 2018-2019 starting to peak around the corner and by my math and took a long time 832 phones have been released this year we've reviewed a lot of them it could be tough to find the best phone if you Quagmire a quandary you don't know which phone is the best so I'm gonna break it down for you we're gonna give our smartphone awards mid 2018 and much like our vs. videos so that can be a cop-out where we give you a runner up there's one winner so get your rage fingers ready for the comments down below so before we get started the one disclaimer these are just phones that we've already reviewed and tested here at TechnoBuffalo we'll do another video towards the end of the year with phones that we haven't taken a look at and phones that haven't come out yet things like the note 9 pixel 3 Excel 2018 iPhones and whatever else might come out between now and then let's our screen this should come as no surprise to anyone who follows a smartphone world the best screen that was released in 2018 thus far Samsung Galaxy S 9 and s 9 plus they are bright they're beautiful they're vibrant color reproduction is incredible it's good in direct sunlight surprisingly it's beautiful indoors I challenge you to find a better quality screen out there I'm seriously I dare you fight me in the comments the next category is the best value what phone out there is gonna give you the biggest bang for your buck that's a pretty obvious one too it's a 1 plus 6 and it's especially the $529 variant you're gonna get 6 gigs of ram it snapdragon 845 getting a beautiful screen you're getting dual cameras you're getting almost everything that you could want save for some some wireless charging and significant IP protection from water but this is an incredible value if you don't know what phone to get and gonna make sure that your dollar is going as far as it can go just go to one plus comm and pick out a phone they got one in red now next this category I know is important to a lot of you best camera no surprise here pixel 2 and pixel to excel in fact most phone manufacturers have had almost a year to catch up to what Google did this one came out at the end of 2017 and still nothing has beat it it is absolutely incredible you combine awesome optics and Google's machine learning you got a recipe for the best camera setup I have ever seen and it does it all with a single sensor on the back it's up to you Samsung an apple so this next category is something new to our smartphone Awards it's the most unique phone there's been a lot of really interesting designs that have come out especially over the past few weeks but the first phone that I saw that had a mechanized camera that would pop up the vivo necks taking this cake and there's certainly been other phones that have mechanical parts that have popped up the people next me the first time that I saw it was absolutely incredible you all take that coupled with an in screen fingerprint that actually works you got a recipe for a really unique phone it's not perfect though I'm not sure I even recommend that you buy it I wouldn't trust it if it drop the UI is a mess you gotta jump through 30,000 hoops put your own launcher on and have it actually stay when it comes to a unique feature set if you absolutely nailed this one with so many phones coming out in 2018 the flagships tend to get a lot of the press but there are a lot of phones and went under the radar the most underrated phone of 2018 is one we just reviewed and that is a moto g6 it used to be if you spent 250 bucks or less on a phone you got an absolute garbage pile of diarrhea that wasn't gonna perform well it's gonna break and not last not true anymore you're getting an incredible device and a lot of people see the spec sheet and then go Snapdragon 450 I don't want any part of it but do the homework for you it compares really favorable in a 2015 Snapdragon 810 and almost every category except for Ram speed that was a processor that was in things like the Nexus 6p phones people are still using you're getting three gigs of ram we're getting a really beefy battery you're getting a phone that you can actually use more importantly one that I can actually recommend without breaking your bank you can actually buy four of these for the cost of an iPhone 10 so I mentioned flag just get a lot of the press and certainly there were a lot of flying ships that came out but the best flagship of 2018 and thus far is a Samsung Galaxy S 9 and s9 plus there's a little warm spot in my heart for the note but I think what Samsung did with the s9 was perfect what they did with the note 8 the camera sensor is absolutely incredible their screens are absolutely beautiful a checks the boxes of almost every single flagship feature you could want we've got Samsung pay you've got ip68 you've got wireless charging snapdragon a 45 six degrees of RAM anything that you could want from a modern phone samsung has in there and they made it customisable they took a huge step back on TouchWiz or modern UI and made the features that are in there really usable I like the UI if you gotta buy the best flagship out there look no farther than the samsung galaxy s 9 NS 9 plus so that was the best flagship what about my favorite phone what phone pulls at my heartstrings and maybe makes me irrationally or rationally love it my favorite phone the phone that I've carried with me more than any other device thus far in 2018 for me was surprising is the iPhone 10 I've actually carried this more than any other iPhone in previous years it is almost always in my pocket that's my primary phone or secondary phone I was reticent when it came to face ID and I know I'm alone in the office here but I really like face ID using it to unlock apps has been awesome use against unlocked my phone has been easy it's worked well the camera well maybe not being the best has been good enough I love having wireless charging on and the battery life has been surprisingly good really like the iPhone 10 taking out the whole iPhone versus Android debate it's made my life the easiest thus far my family uses iMessage my parents use iPhones be able to share photos make things a lot easier and made my life a lot simpler which is why is my favorite phone of 2018 they're obviously a lot of smart phones to pick from you also have a lot of choices when it comes to education and where you're gonna get your learn on there was a big gap in my knowledge but it came to Internet I run an online business that's been hacked and taken down it was something that I wanted to learn I was necessarily working towards the degree I just had a gap in my knowledge that I wanted to fill so the past five weeks I took a course on internet security and learns how to keep a TechnoBuffalo safer and also as my kids get older try to keep them safer and keep them away from from bad folks a lot of things I didn't know I was surprised first at how easy the eCampus was to use when I went to undergraduate school and graduate school I went to a physical campus so I wasn't quite sure how the experience is gonna go but they made it pretty seamless I was able to take the course on my own time which was a huge I generally only get like two hours with my kids when I come home from work so I didn't have to give up at that time once they were asleep I could allocate 45 to an hour per night I can go through the course material I was able to interact with the instructor pretty easily and it got answers back to questions in a pretty seamless way so that was one hurdle I was able to get past pretty easily and beyond that when I work with my developer now on implementing new services TechnoBuffalo updating WordPress I now speak the language with what he's doing I think more importantly I know the questions to ask as to how we are keeping the website safer that's been a big thing that I needed to know so being able to ask the right questions be able to understand the answers I think is gonna help me keep the website safer keep people that come to the website safer keep that information safe and generally just keep the website a safer place to be I said safer a lot because that was the theme that's what I really wanted to fill University of Phoenix helped me do that there's a ton of courses that there's a topic you want to learn you can learn those topics you want to work towards a degree can work towards degree all the way up to even doctoral degrees me though I just wanted to fill in the knowledge that I didn't have and I do want to thank you versi Phoenix for making this a really cool experience I haven't gone back to school in a long time and I was a little nervous to give a bunch time to our five-week course but it was fun it was interesting most importantly I learned something new if what I've said sounds interesting you want to know the class that I took hit the link in the description to learn more so you guys are probably rage in the comments or maybe some of you guys agree with my choices even the comments down below and let me know and if you're going to yell at me at least tell me what phone you would pick for each category and tell me why I'm wrong I'd like to hear it maybe you could change my mind when we do our best phones at the end of 2018 whether you love me or hate me now please give the video a thumbs up and really appreciate of course all that stuff that YouTube makes us do because you don't see notifications anymore subscribe hit the bell I got a lot more videos coming up we got a brand new series with Robert Roosevelt it just launched called the lowdown where you run down the top three texts or it's gonna be going up every Tuesday and Thursday definitely check that out I'm gonna exhale I'm John Rhett injure detective Buffalo you