Vote for our Reader's Choice Award for the best phone of 2025! (Voting Closed)

Updated Thursday, December 18, 6:00 AM ET: Voting has now closed at all outlets. Tomorrow, we will announce the winner of the Reader’s Choice Award for the best smartphone of 2025 along with a bunch of data on the voting process. Stay tuned!

Original article, Monday, December 15, 6:00 AM ET: Can you feel it? 2026 is rumbling in the distance, getting ever closer. That can only mean one thing: It’s time to figure out the best smartphone of 2025!

Here at Android Authority, we give out two major phone awards at the end of the year. One is our Editor’s Choice Award for the year’s best phone, which we decide internally based on a year’s worth of objective testing, data collection, and our general expertise. Our Editor’s Choice Award 2024 went to the Google Pixel 9 Pro.

The second major yearly award is the Reader’s Choice Award, which is completely determined by you, our readers. We have no say in this matter: We simply provide you the platform to speak your voice, and whichever device gets the most votes walks away with the trophy. You chose the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra as the Reader’s Choice Award 2024 winner.

If you’ve been reading Android Authority for years now, you probably know the drill here. For everyone else, let me explain how things will go!

Best phone of 2025: How Reader’s Choice Award voting works

There are three rounds for the Reader’s Choice Award voting. First, there’s the elimination round. In this round, 38 phones (!!) duked it out to become one of the surviving four. Those final four moved onto the semi-final round. With that complete, only two remain. One phone will walk away from this with the claim of being the best phone of 2025, as decided by you.