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OnePlus 6

OnePlus 6 review The original flagship killer aims for bargain status once again Want to get your head around just how ridiculous smartphone prices have gotten recently? Apple’s very first iPhone cost £300 when it launched over a decade ago. The very first OnePlus One? That was even less at £219. Placed in that kind of context, the OnePlus 6 doesn’t seem like much of a bargain at all, but neither does any blower you care to mention. Not least the iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S9, which both ask for several hundreds of pounds more of your hard-earned dough than this new OnePlus. As ever, the successor to last year’s  OnePlus 5T  serves up top-level specs for considerably less than you’d expect in a design that’s as polished as ever. That means an AMOLED screen, lightning-fast performance and a dual camera to boot. Still sounds like one hell of a deal, right? Well, you're bang on the money. Despite a few quibbles here and there, this is a phenomenall...

Huawei P20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro review Has Huawei just made the best phone in the world? Let’s face it. If you’re looking for a new phone right now the options aren’t all that inspiring.   Samsung’s Galaxy S9   is near-on identical to last year’s phone, the undoubtedly impressive   iPhone X   still costs a grand and… well, that’s about it for your flagship contenders. At least it was until Huawei’s P20 Pro came along. The most exciting phone of the year so far, this Chinese-made handset promises all of the stuff you’d expect from a top tier blower and a whole lot more. That means a shapely design, gorgeous screen, super-charged internals and a unique three lens camera with the pictorial prowess to outperform even  Google’s Pixel 2 . Sounds almost too good to be true doesn’t it? As I’ve found out from a week in the Huawei P20 Pro’s company it is very much the real deal. MORE:   7 of the best Huawei P20 Pro accessories CAMERA: THRICE AS NI...