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 here now is different. Rather than competing with the major review publications, the site aggregates them — reading reviews from Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Engadget, Digital Trends, Tech Advisor, Android Police, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Trusted Reviews and Notebookcheck, putting 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 designed to surface that distinction.
No AI-generated filler. No keyword-stuffed listicles. Real data, and a public scoring method anyone can inspect.
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
The data engine is running and the catalog is filling up. Public launch follows once there's enough coverage to be useful.