6 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Other Good International Phones

These phones are worthy considering if you person yet to spot thing you like.

Oppo Find N5 for £1,255: It’s a existent shame that nan Find N5 won’t moreover onshore successful nan UK aliases Europe, because nan world’s slimmest book-style foldable (3.6 millimeters open) is simply a beautiful phone. The 6.62-inch screen show and 8.12-inch soul show are excellent, and nan Find N5 has apical specs each nan measurement (Snapdragon 8 Elite, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB storage, 5,600-mAh battery, 80-watt wired and 50-watt wireless charging). The triple-lens camera (50-MP main, 50-MP telephoto, 8-MP ultrawide) is nan astir evident compromise, a necessity for this shape factor. The somewhat buggy package and bloatware are nan only different detractors, but nan imaginable symptom of importing will beryllium capable to put astir folks off.

Xiaomi Poco F7 Ultra for £549 and F7 Pro for £449: While Poco has traditionally been a fund brand, nan aptly named F7 Ultra takes it into caller territory. This telephone boasts a fewer flagship-level features, specified arsenic nan Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset pinch nan VisionBoost D7 for graphics, a powerful triple-lens camera, and a lovely, high-resolution 6.67-inch show pinch a 120-Hz refresh rate. It besides scores an IP68 standing and offers up to 50-watt wireless charging. The drawback is simply a value hike complete erstwhile Poco F bid releases, but astatine nan early-bird price, nan F7 Ultra is simply a compelling bargain. The F7 Pro is much successful statement pinch what we expect from nan brand, pinch an older processor, constricted camera, and nary wireless charging. Both tally Xiaomi's HyperOS 2 and person excessively overmuch bloatware, but Xiaomi now promises 4 Android type upgrades and six years of information patches.

Realme 14 Pro+ for €530: The color-changing decorativeness whitethorn beryllium gimmicky, but it's fun, and this telephone looks and feels acold much costly than it is. There are much highs than lows connected nan spec sheet. You get a triple-lens camera, an IP68/69 rating, a 6,000-mAh battery, and a 6.83-inch OLED show pinch a 120-Hz refresh rate, but nan Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset is limited, there's nary wireless charging support, and nary charger successful nan box. It is still rather a bargain and should beryllium landing successful nan UK soon.

Xiaomi 15 for £785: Folks seeking a much compact telephone than nan Xiaomi 15 Ultra could do a batch worse than its smaller sibling. The Xiaomi 15 feels lovely, pinch a 6.36-inch screen, a decent triple-lens camera, and top-notch internals. But it’s a blimpish design, benignant of pricey, and it has nan aforesaid package and bloatware issues arsenic nan Ultra.

Honor Magic 7 RSR for £1,550: Designed pinch Porsche, this souped-up type of nan 7 Pro supra has a fancier creation pinch a hexagonal camera module, a somewhat improved telephoto lens, 24 GB of RAM (likely mostly pointless), 1 TB of storage, and a bigger artillery (5,850 mAh). It’s beautiful but doesn’t do capable to warrant nan further outlay.

Oppo Find X8 Pro for £850: The past 2 Oppo flagships didn’t officially make it to nan UK and Europe, truthful nan X8 Pro marks a invited return. This is simply a polished telephone pinch a quad-lens camera (all 50 MP), but it feels for illustration a downgrade from nan Find X7 Ultra I utilized past year because of nan smaller sensor. It is fast, pinch fantabulous artillery life, speedy wired and wireless charging, IP68/69 protection, and nary evident omissions. But it’s pricey, and flagships should not person bloatware. I’d for illustration to hold for nan X8 Ultra.

Honor 200 Pro for £452: I don’t emotion nan creation of nan Honor 200 Pro (7/10, WIRED Review), but it has a versatile triple-lens camera pinch a tin image mode. There are besides immoderate useful AI features, and nan artillery life is good, pinch accelerated wired and wireless charging. It costs £200 much astatine launch, but astatine this caller little price, it is simply a acold much charismatic option.

Xiaomi Mix Flip for £639: Xiaomi’s first flip telephone is amazingly good, pinch 2 comparatively agleam and roomy screens, coagulated stamina, accelerated charging, and snappy performance. It’s a shame Xiaomi didn’t trade much flip screen-specific features. It doesn't thief that nan Mix Flip was excessively costly astatine motorboat (£1,099), but astatine this reduced price, it’s a decent outcry for folks craving a folding flip phone.

Nubia Z70 Ultra for £749: Much for illustration past year’s Z60 Ultra (6/10, WIRED Review), nan Z70 Ultra is simply a value-packed ceramic pinch an fantabulous 6.8-inch display, Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, versatile triple-lens camera, and 6,150-mAh battery. Unfortunately, nan camera is inconsistent and mediocre astatine signaling video, and nan package is shoddy (with only 3 Android type updates promised).

Xiaomi 14T Pro for £440: As nan mid-year follow-up to Xiaomi’s flagship 14, nan 14T Pro (7/10, WIRED Review) is simply a spot of a bargain and has dropped successful value since I reviewed it. The basics are nailed, pinch a large screen, bully performance, plentifulness of stamina, and a coagulated camera. But location is bloatware, Xiaomi’s software, and nan deficiency of wireless charging to contend with.

OnePlus Nord 4 for £329: With a metallic unibody, nan Nord 4 stands retired and besides boasts an fantabulous screen, capable processing powerfulness for astir folks, awesome artillery life, and accelerated charging. The main camera is fine, and there’s a nifty AquaTouch characteristic that lets you usage nan telephone pinch bedewed hands. But there's nary wireless charging, nan ultrawide camera is disappointing, and there’s immoderate bloatware.

Avoid These Phones

These aren’t bad phones necessarily, but we deliberation you’d beryllium amended served by thing above.

Oppo Reno 13 Pro 5G for £599: This slim, lightweight midranger boasts a 6.8-inch surface (brightness is limited), a triple-lens camera (solid 50-MP main and telephoto lenses pinch a disappointing 8-MP ultrawide), and an awesome IP69 rating. Battery life is good, and wired charging is fast, but there’s nary wireless charging. It’s packed pinch bloatware but besides AI features and devices covering transcription, summarization, image editing, and much that whitethorn adhd worth for immoderate folks. Performance-wise, it can’t support up pinch nan likewise priced Poco F7 Ultra above. After immoderate clip pinch nan 13 Pro, I’m not convinced it justifies specified a awesome value bump complete past year’s 12 Pro (it costs an other £150), and you tin do amended for this money.

Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 for £1,085: Only officially released successful China, nan Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 is simply a stylish folding telephone pinch a 6.56-inch outer surface that folds unfastened to uncover a 7.98-inch soul screen. It besides offers coagulated capacity and artillery life, but contempt having a ample quad-lens camera module, nan camera is underwhelming. The crease is besides pronounced, and utilizing a Chinese exemplary is simply a spot of a symptom arsenic various things are not translated, and there’s activity successful getting nan apps you want.

Realme GT7 Pro for £458: This imaginable flagship slayer has a 6.78-inch OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, and an tremendous 6,500-mAh battery. You besides get a triple-lens camera, but nan 50-megapixel main and telephoto lenses are fto down by nan 8-megapixel ultrawide. It besides lacks wireless charging, and you’ll person to import it to nan UK, arsenic it only seems to beryllium connected waste successful Germany.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro+ for £348: An attractive, durable creation (IP68), a 200-megapixel Samsung camera sensor, and decent artillery life pinch superfast charging (120-watts) must beryllium balanced against middling performance, mediocre ultrawide (8 MP) and macro (2 MP) lenses, and a ton of bloatware. Ultimately, there’s small betterment complete past year’s Redmi Note 13 Pro+ (6/10, WIRED Review), and it’s not conscionable that location are amended phones for nan aforesaid money; location are amended Xiaomi phones.

Xiaomi Poco F6 for £259: A existent bargain erstwhile first released, nan Poco F6 bid (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is still tempting pinch a large screen, decent performance, and a beautiful tin camera, but there’s bloatware, shoddy software, and constricted semipermanent support. The F6 is simply a amended worth than nan Pro.

Motorola Edge 50 Pro for £353: It whitethorn beryllium falling successful price, but nan Motorola Edge 50 Pro (7/10, WIRED Review) only has a mates of Android upgrades to go. While nan creation is compact and there’s a beautiful display, I recovered it lacked processing power, pinch sometimes sluggish camera performance, and location are amended options above.

Nubia Flip 5G for £419: We had immoderate nosy pinch nan Nubia Flip 5G (6/10, WIRED Review), and it was nan cheapest flip foldable disposable for a while. The information screen surface is cute, but it can’t do much. The capacity was mean a twelvemonth ago, and nan annoying package and update argumentation are awesome strikes against it.

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