Smartphones

Night mode on mid-range phones has caught up. Here is what still gives it away

27 October 2026 (sample)

Smartphones

26 October 2026 (sample)

With the screen always on it lasted five. With it off, eight and a half. What you give up to get there.

Smartphones

26 October 2026 (sample)

The wide clip-on is worth it; the macro one is fun for a week; the zoom one blurs everything at the edges.

Desk editor: Dev Patel (sample). Dev carries every phone for two weeks as his only phone.

Phones tested this year

24 (sample)

Night test scenes

3 streets (sample)

Watches on the wrist

6 (sample)