PhoneArena Awards: best phones, tablets, and smartwatches of 2017

0. phoneArena posted on 22 Dec 2017, 09:36

It's that time of the year again! Let's honor the best smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches that we got to check out this year...

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posted on 22 Dec 2017, 18:47 4

96. darkkjedii (Posts: 27823; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

Phone of the year: Note 8
Design of the year: iPhone X.
Watch of the year: Apple Watch series 3
Tablet of the year: iPad 10.5.

The iPhone X is an excellent all around device, but lacks some key features, that would make it truly outstanding. It's got the sickest design on the market, and the more I use it (found a good deal on Craigslist this past Wednesday), the more I like it.

It still needs a few more (like 10 key features) to truly be a Note 8 competitor
The Jedi has spoken.

posted on 22 Dec 2017, 19:01 3

99. makatijules (banned) (Posts: 835; Member since: 11 Dec 2017)

Phone - Note 8
Design - S8
Watch - Apple Watch 3
Tablet - iPad Pro

If I could have kept my X, I was also gonna get an Apple Watch 3 with Cellular.

But oh well. I may buy it at a reduced price next year. I don't have to have new toys right now.

posted on 22 Dec 2017, 19:49 1

101. darkkjedii (Posts: 27823; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

I think Apple did a great job with the series 3. The new heart rate monitoring, and the fitness app overhaul are tops for me. Great device. I kept my eye out for an X on OfferUp, and craigslist, and just like clockwork...found a 256 gig X for $600.

Didn’t bother asking the guy why he was selling it so cheap, but the cheap price was alarming, so I had him meet me at AT&T. Everything checked out, now I have the space grey. Series 3 coming soon.

The flock thinks I hate Apple...nahhh, I just tell it like it is.

posted on 22 Dec 2017, 20:51

107. shnibz (Posts: 470; Member since: 18 Sep 2011)

Aka the Apple and Samsung awards... No thanks

posted on 22 Dec 2017, 21:11 2

111. dazed1 (Posts: 745; Member since: 28 Jul 2015)

IPhonex winning over Note 8 is a C O M P L E T E - J O K E

posted on 23 Dec 2017, 21:50 1

141. darkkjedii (Posts: 27823; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

No it’s not, it’s their choice. Make your own website, and do your own reviews and polls.

posted on 22 Dec 2017, 21:42

113. TypicalGeek (Posts: 184; Member since: 19 Feb 2015)

But can it take great selfies? After testing Pixel 2 XL, iPhone X, Note 8, V30 and 5T, iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL are the only two phones deserve BPOTY. I don't mind either one. Apple Swipe takes a little to get used to, and Pixel artifact in blurring the portrait can be annoying, but they will only get better over the time.

posted on 23 Dec 2017, 04:50

126. Elnas228 (Posts: 1; Member since: 23 Dec 2017)

Well really prefer the site more than any flagship

posted on 23 Dec 2017, 13:50

137. imlegitcusimthasht (Posts: 214; Member since: 30 Jan 2017)

iphonearena believes the iPhone X is best phone. Come on, Note 8 lets you do a lot more and runs smooth as butter

posted on 23 Dec 2017, 15:52

138. KingSam (Posts: 1067; Member since: 13 Mar 2016)

I know the honor 7x just launched but its better than the g5s. Moto G is falling off on value.

posted on 23 Dec 2017, 18:00

140. ColinW (Posts: 385; Member since: 04 Jun 2014)

I cannot see how such a flawed phone as the X is the best. It is a WIP and catch-up phone that adds little to the progress that has been made in smartphone design and features in recent years.

posted on 24 Dec 2017, 10:37

144. darkkjedii (Posts: 27823; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

https://youtu.be/zIzNQTl-t8g

I’m shocked at this one.

posted on 25 Dec 2017, 02:12

146. lightyears (Posts: 69; Member since: 24 Aug 2015)

Note 8 is the king. Unfortunately no competition

posted on 25 Dec 2017, 23:56

147. GrosseFatigue (Posts: 174; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)

Note 8 and S8+ are mature phones, beautiful designs and screens limited only by their 835 chip. I said 2 years ago that Samsung would have the upper hand because with their screens. Apple now buy their screens from them. Beside the X and their chip their other phones are really lagging two generations behind but that does not seem to bother Phone Arena. All I know is that having lived with high res Samsung screens since the Note 4 and 1080p Amoled before that, I cant go back to an LCD and a lower res. I still have a Note 3 around to check lower res -and super Amoled. I don't like it.

posted on 27 Dec 2017, 04:54

149. osterrich21 (Posts: 51; Member since: 14 Apr 2017)

The Phone arena is a joke.

posted on 27 Dec 2017, 23:16 1

150. verty (Posts: 128; Member since: 07 May 2012)

How is iphone x better than the Note 8. PhoneArena and bias!!! Though you guys were cured of this Apple bias

posted on 29 Dec 2017, 18:03

153. iurisimo (Posts: 10; Member since: 10 Apr 2017)

iphone x phone of the year ? like really ? editor is a sheep...

posted on 01 Jan 2018, 16:24

154. bauhaus (Posts: 1; Member since: 25 Dec 2017)

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 phone of the year at this site: Iphone.

It has won every single time on this page!!!! Thats simply not even serious. The X is cool but to say apple has had the best phone 4 years in a row is a joke.

Highly biased site. I would vote note8 but the real joke is the iphone winning 4 years in a row.

posted on 10 Jan 2018, 15:44

156. sphonel (Posts: 16; Member since: 24 Sep 2014)

iPhone X phone of the year because they finally tried their best to be like Android, but fell short of course.

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