Poll: Best Android Phones of 2014

Best Android Phone of 2014?

  • OnePlus One

    Votes: 26 9.3%

  • Nexus 6

    Votes: 27 9.6%

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4

    Votes: 68 24.3%

  • Sony Xperia Z3

    Votes: 38 13.6%

  • HTC One M8

    Votes: 44 15.7%

  • LG G3

    Votes: 22 7.9%

  • Samsung Galaxy S5

    Votes: 12 4.3%

  • Sony Xperia Z3 Compact

    Votes: 35 12.5%

  • Other - Please Post and Explain?

    Votes: 8 2.9%
  • Total voters
    280

AndyCr15

AndyCr15

AndyCr15

Soldato
Joined
28 Apr 2011
Posts
15,530
Location
Barnet, London
Come on, surely this will spark some lively debate -


5. HTC One M8


4. Sony Xperia Z3


3. Samsung Galaxy Note 4


2. Nexus 6


1. OnePlus One

My basis for this is along the lines of, if someone had a handful of money, what would I suggest they buy. In some ways, the top 3 could be shuffled round a little based on the persons preferences and disposable income.

I know we have a bunch of phone addicts that will have tried most of the phones this year, so what do you think?

(For the record, I will probably use the Note 4 as my daily driver... but maybe the Nexus 6 until it gets Lollipop)
 
Since not any of the phones are 'perfect', it boils down to what the persons value most which would mean all those phones could be top dog.

For me it would be the Note 4 at a push - ticks the most boxes for me which are:

OLED
SD Slot
Nice design and build
Great performance
Great camera
Great batterylife
Good dev community
Fast charge

Negs are TW, Speaker and size.

I'm waiting for the GS6 - Will be an insta-buy due to the smaller size.
 
If money is no object then the list is wrong.

If its price to performance ratio then the 1st place is almost right and the nexus 6 should not be there at all.

I say almost because the Meizu M1 note should be number 1 if you can count it as a 2014 phone.
 
M8 for me

Only the camera let it down, in every other aspect it is superb, can't fault anything other than the camera hence me holding out for an M9

  1. Build quality and materials, slippery bugger but feels every inch a premium peice of tech
  2. Speakers and sound quality, this is a given, still nothing else to touch it.
  3. Screen, even coming from years of amoled ( galaxy S through to SIV ) I think the screen is gorgeous
  4. Battery life, great power saving features cooked into sense
  5. Skin / OS implementation, I'm not a lover of stock android tbh, and was getting weary of TW, I think sense has matured into the best "skin" on any android mobile bar none.
 
Last edited:
horrorwood said:
If money is no object then the list is wrong.

If its price to performance ratio then the 1st place is almost right and the nexus 6 should not be there at all.
Click to expand...

Money is meant to be a factor. I would disagree the Nexus 6 shouldn't be there with money included. At £480, it's still an amazing phone. In fact, the poll I have on G+ says it's the best if given £600 an need a new phone. (Linky)

Space Monkey said:
Want a poll of the 5 you've listed Andy with another option of 'other'?
Click to expand...

Good idea. Can this be added? I can't see how to edit it in?

In my video I have G3 and S5 as near misses too, which could be included?
 
Last edited:
For me it would be the Note 4. It hit all the right marks and as a guy who isn't Samsung's biggest fan due to touchwiz, it isn't that bad on this device and the thing is fast from the outset.

I also liked the M8 a great deal as a friend has it - the only feature I wasn't too impressed with was the camera, which swayed me towards the Note4.
 
Voted HTC M8, brilliant device.

The only downside to it would be the camera, I don't know why the other's don't go with front facing speakers.. Media consumption is a joy.
 
Z3 for me.

Decent all round phone, fast and fluid with average skinning. The only downsides being that Sony need to change the UI as it's a tad dated and reduce the device slightly in height.
 
Note 4 for me the only one that got me excited all year, enough so that i upgraded to it.
certainly hasn't let me down, i'm still buzzing about it a month and a half on.
 
I honestly don't have one. I think every phone has been pretty average this year.

I'd probably vote M8 as at least HTC innovate a bit with decent speakers, new camera technology, etc. but they failed so badly with the camera I don't feel that they deserve it.
 
^Agreed...2014 was kind of a stale year..

I'm hoping that the likes of Xiaomi and Huawei have a break out year with their flagships such as the MI5 and give the big players a run for their money.
 
5) One Plus - Pretty solid spec wise, really nice camera (same unit as N6) but slow software, best in class battery life. Biggest fault are support/invite system, and limited LTE.

4) One M8 - Personally my fav phone of 2014 but HTC ruined it in so many ways. The camera is literal the same model as the M7 with slightly better software which was the main complaint of the M7, that black bar makes it super tall. They spent a lot of time talking about it being 90% metal, no one cared. Should have instead kept the same design and spent all that time on the camera. At the same time all the other OEMs now have bigger sensors and just out class it.

3) Nexus 6 - Stock Android, solid Motorola design. Slightly disappointed in size and display but overall solid device.

2) Note 4 - Best big phone, if only samsung didn't suck at software. Nice build, awesome battery life, solid camera, best in class display.

1) Z3 - I think this is this years all round device. Solid build, camera, battery life, more mainstream size, good software. Not a huge fan of Sony's changes but it doesn't take a huge amount of smoothness which is nice.
 
Note4.

May only have been an incremental step from the Note3, but as that was the class leader last year, that kept them ahead this year.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom