Vol. II, No. 1 — Relaunch in progress
After more than a decade dormant, bestsmartphone.com is being rebuilt as a review aggregator — a single place to read what every major reviewer thinks about every current smartphone.
Bestsmartphone.com began in 2011 as a small blog covering Android and iPhone hardware. It ran for two years, accumulated a modest audience, and was quietly retired at the end of 2013. The domain stayed registered. The Facebook group stayed open. Nothing else happened for twelve years.
What's coming next is different. Rather than competing with the major review publications, the new site will aggregate them — pulling reviews from RTINGS, Wirecutter, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Engadget, and CNET, normalizing their scores onto a common scale, and computing a consensus per device.
The interesting questions are usually where the reviewers disagree. One outlier opinion is noise; four reviewers flagging the same battery issue is signal. The site is being designed to surface that distinction, alongside live pricing per country and a filterable database of every relevant device released in the last twelve months.
No AI-generated filler. No keyword-stuffed listicles. Real data, transparent methodology, and a public scoring algorithm anyone can inspect.
A meta-score per device, weighted by recency and computed from the major English-language review publications.
Where reviewers split, the site says so. Variance and per-criterion breakdowns are first-class citizens.
Current prices and price history per country. Historical data accumulates from launch onward.
Every relevant phone released in the last twelve months, queryable by price, features, form factor, and audience.
US first. UK and Germany to follow. Pricing, retailers, and reviewer relevance localize per market.
The scoring algorithm and data sources will be documented in full. No black box.
Owned and operated by the same person since 2011. The original Facebook group is still around — it's been a quieter decade for it too, but the lights stayed on.
Reach out: hello@bestsmartphone.com
Currently building the data layer — schema, scrapers, scoring engine. Public launch targeted for later in 2026. No mailing list yet; check back, or write in.