Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Reader’s Choice Award! We NEED your vote!”.
We are now in the final round of voting for The Reader Choice Award 2023, in which you pick the best smartphone of the year. On Monday, we started the elimination round. This began with 32 smartphones running everywhere from the budget sector to the mid-range to flagships, to ultr premium foldable phones on Tuesday. The poll for the final four went live after thousands of votes at androidauthority.com at threads and right here at YouTube. We’Ve now seen that there are two phones in the lead: unsurprisingly, they are the Galaxy s23 Ultra and the pixel 8 Pro. Unfortunately, that means that the Apple iPhone 15 Pro didn’t make the cut and will definitely not be our reader Choice Award winner for this year. It also means that the vanilla Google pixel 8 didn’t make the cut, which is unsurprising, considering that the pixel 8 Pro is better in pretty much every way. Now we need to figure out which of these two phones is going to be the best of the year. The Galaxy s23 Ultra is definitely a front runner, it’s probably the most powerful smartphone of the year, and the Ultra Series has always been a favorite of our readers. The question is: is it good enough to make it to be the best over the pixel 8 Pro? The pixel 8 Pro has a lot going for it as well, it’s not quite as powerful as the Galaxy s23 Ultra, but a lot of the software features that Google has introduced to the pixel 8 Pro give it a bit of a boost over the Galaxy s23 Ultra in multiple ways, for example, the new video boost feature is something that the Galaxy s23 Ultra can’t offer.
There’S also the question of price. The Google pixel 8 Pro is significantly cheaper than the Galaxy s23 Ultra it’s unclear if people will actually factor that into their decision or not, but if you’re thinking about buying one of these two phones, that could be a major factor and don’t forget when you’re making Your choice to think about the longevity of these phones – the Galaxy S 23 Ultra – is going to get a lot of software updates for the next 4 years, even but the pixel 8 Pro is going to get even more than that for the next 7 years. That could also be a major factor not only in your buying decision, but in your choice between which of these phones is the best of 2023, in order to figure out which one of these phones is the absolute best.
We need you to vote. We’Ve got plenty of places for you to vote for this year’s reader Choice Award winner. You can vote right here at YouTube.
You can vote at androidauthority.com social media platforms, including X and threads, and you can also vote in an Instagram story and a Facebook story. Voting is open for the next 48 hours, except for those two stories. Those stories are only open for 24 hours, so make sure you vote there first and remember you can votee in all six places. So if you really love one of these phones make sure you vote in all six polls to make your voice heard once we’ve gotten all the votes, we’ll tally them all up and figure out which one of these phones is your favorite of the year and then We’Ll have a video going over over what we think about that choice. Also stay tuned for our choice for the best phone of the year.
The editor’s choice award will also go live at some point soon in the meantime, jump into the comments, and let us know which phone you think is the best, even if it’s not one of these two major choices that we’ve got in the final round here, we’re Interested to see what phone you think deserves the reader Choice Award for 2023 .