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What is the best smartphone right now? It’s a deceptively simple question. Millions of people type it in a search engine every month. The results that come back usually take the form of a list, leaving the user to go through a bunch of options that may, or may not actually suit them. At Android Authority, we do the list thing (some people just want a quick recommendation), but we also try to go further.What is the best smartphone, objectively speaking? We have the answer for you in our Best of Android Awards 2019 post. I won’t spoil the result, in case you haven’t read it yet. I’ll just say we came to the answer by painstakingly measuring device performance across product features throughout 2019.We know exactly which phone has the best display, or the fastest-charging battery, or even the best-sounding audio. But is that the 2019 phone we actually recommend to most people?Introducing our Editors’ Choice awardYou can’t always measure your way out of a question. For all the “intangibles,” the stuff you can’t measure or even put your finger on, you have to rely on old-fashioned experience, industry knowledge, and a little instinct. Luckily, we have all of these traits in spades here at Android Authority.This brings us to the Best of Android 2019: Editors’ Choice Award. It’s an award that has little to do with the objective testing we’ve been doing, though we certainly looked at the data before making our picks. Instead, we looked at the whole package, including intangibles like value for money, the overall quality of the software, the ease of use, the strength of the brand ecosystem, the frequency of updates, and the long-term support the phone is likely to get.We looked at the whole package, including intangibles like value for money and the overall quality of the softwareWe’ve asked a panel of Android Authority editors, picked from the team members who actually got to experience most devices that came out in 2019, to select their choice for our Editors’ Choice award. The results are below.Best of Android Editors’ Choice winner: Google Pixel 3a XLOur 2019 Editors’ Choice award goes to the Google Pixel 3a XL.The Pixel 3a XL is nothing like the winner of our objective testing award. If you just look at the numbers, the phone seems, in fact, forgettable. It’s not the best at anything, it’s not even in the top-10 of most categories. But the Pixel 3a XL easily beat more expensive devices to become our top pick out of all phones released in 2019.We picked the Google Pixel 3a XL because it offers a great user experience that’s almost as good as both the Pixel 3 XL and the new Pixel 4 XL, at a fraction of the cost.Out of all the phones of 2019, the Pixel 3a XL is the one we feel comfortable recommending to most people.The Pixel 3a XL compares favorably not just with its stablemates, but also the dozens of flagship phones out there,
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