Amazon Great Indian Festival sale 2021: Best phones to buy right now | Digit

It’s that time of the year when most of us are looking to buy new phones ahead of the upcoming Diwali season. But because of the nature of the market right now, deciding on one phone is not an easy task. This is because there are a number of really good Android phones in India right now, that offer top-of-the-line features and hardware that is expected of flagship phones. With the Android ecosystem being more robust than ever before, there are a lot of the latest Android phones that offer premium and high-end features. These Android phones are best-in-class and offer supreme performance, camera and display quality, connectivity features, long-lasting battery life and more. Here is a list of the best Android phones available right now. 

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3

The Galaxy Z Fold 3 features a 6.2-inch AMOLED display on the outside that supports a resolution in 2262×832 pixels. Inside, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 comes with a 7.6-inch foldable AMOLED panel which supports a resolution of 2208×1768 pixels. The display also hides a 4MP in-display camera. Compared to the Z Fold 2, the phone gets faster refresh rates on both screens as they support 120Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 888 SoC. This is paired to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. The foldable smartphone packs a 4,400mAh battery that supports 25W charging. 

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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max 

Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max is one of the best mobile phones in India right now. It promises fast performance and a massive display. There’s also a fast processor and a very good camera set-up to complete the package. It features a big 6.7-inch OLED display. Under the hood, it is powered by the company’s new A14 Bionic chipset which promises improved overall performance and faster machine learning with its next-generation Neural Engine. The A14 Bionic adds impressive gains to the iPhone 12 Pro Max when compared to the performance of iPhone 11 series. The chipset helps ensure that the new iPhone offers better performance per core for single as well as multi-threaded applications. The iPhone 12 Pro Max gets a better triple camera set-up with 12-megapixel F1.6 primary camera, a 12-megapixel telephoto camera, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera along with a LiDAR sensor. The iPhone 12 Pro Max also gets some extra features to improve photography performance on the device.

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Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G

Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 FE 5G in India earlier this year. The phone comes to the country after the launch of the 4G variant of the phone in India earlier last year. The Galaxy S20 FE 5G offers an interesting spec sheet and a premium design that includes a punch-hole display, triple cameras arranged at the back. There are also other interesting elements about the Samsung device, including the presence of an in-display fingerprint sensor, and the presence of a Super AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. As opposed to the 4G variant of the device, the Galaxy S20 FE 5G also gets a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC that helps it work on 5G basebands. As for the cameras, the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G comes with a triple camera set-up that houses a primary 12MP wide-angle camera, a 12MP ultra-wide lens, and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and up to 30x Super-Resolution Zoom. For selfies, the Galaxy S20 FE comes with a 32MP lens. 

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OnePlus 9 Pro

The OnePlus 9 Pro has an aluminium-glass build that measures 8.7 millimetres in thickness and weighs 197 grams. It is also IP68 rated making it resistant to dust and water ingress. It also features a 6.7-inch QHD+ (3216×1440 pixels) resolution AMOLED curved display with LTPO backplane technology and supports a 120Hz refresh rate. The LTPO technology allows the OnePlus 9 Pro to consume lesser power and gives dynamic refresh rate control ranging from as low as 1Hz to 120Hz. Furthermore, the display offers upto 367Hz touch sampling rate which comes in handy when gaming on the 9 Pro. The OnePlus 9 Pro is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor and is paired with upto 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and upto 256GB UFS 3.1 storage options to choose from. The OnePlus 9 Pro has quad cameras on the back headlined by a primary 48MP camera with a Sony IMX789 sensor that has an f/1.8 aperture and supports EIS. OnePlus 9 Pro is equipped with a 4,500mAh battery that supports 65W fast wired charging and 50W fast wireless charging.

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iQOO 7

The iQOO 7 was launched in India alongside the iQOO 7 Legend. The iQOO 7 is the successor to the iQOO 3 which was launched in 2020 as one of the first 5G phones in the country. The iQOO 7 features a 6.62-inch AMOLED display that offers a Full HD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution and has a punch-hole cutout in the centre for the selfie camera up front. The flat display offers up to a 120Hz refresh rate and is also certified for HDR10+ playback. The display has minimal bezels and offers upto 1300 nits peak brightness. The iQOO 7 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor with an octa-core CPU. The CPU has a prime core running at upto 3.2GHz followed by three performance cores at upto 2.42GHz and four power-efficient cores clocked at 1.80GHz. This is backed by Adreno 650 GPU for graphics rendering and is paired with upto 12GB LPDDR4x RAM and upto 256GB UFS 3.1 storage options to choose from.

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