5 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 £1,106: It’s a existent shame that the Find N5 won’t adjacent onshore successful the UK oregon Europe due to the fact that the world’s slimmest book-style foldable (3.6 mm open) is simply a beauteous phone. The 6.62-inch screen show and 8.12-inch interior show are excellent, and the Find N5 has apical specs each the mode (Snapdragon 8 Elite, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB storage, 5,600 mAh battery, 80W wired and 50W wireless charging). The triple-lens camera (50-MP main, 50-MP telephoto, 8-MP ultrawide) is the astir evident compromise, a necessity for this signifier factor. The somewhat buggy bundle and bloatware are the lone different detractors, but the imaginable symptom of importing volition beryllium capable to enactment astir folks off.

Xiaomi Poco F7 Ultra for £649 and F7 Pro for £499: While Poco has traditionally been a fund brand, the aptly named F7 Ultra takes it into caller territory. This telephone boasts a fewer flagship-level features, specified arsenic the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset with the VisionBoost D7 for graphics, a almighty triple-lens camera, and a lovely, high-resolution 6.67-inch show with a 120-Hz refresh rate. It besides scores an IP68 standing and offers up to 50-watt wireless charging. The drawback is simply a terms hike implicit erstwhile Poco F bid releases, but astatine the aboriginal vertebrate price, the F7 Ultra is simply a compelling bargain. The F7 Pro is much successful enactment with what we expect from the brand, with an older processor, constricted camera, and nary wireless charging. Both tally Xiaomi's HyperOS 2 and person excessively overmuch bloatware, but Xiaomi present promises 4 Android mentation upgrades and six years of information patches.

Realme 14 Pro+ for 530 Euros: 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 the spec sheet. You get a triple-lens camera, an IP68/69 rating, a 6,000 mAh battery, and a 6.83-inch OLED show with a 120-Hz refresh rate, but the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset is limited, there's nary wireless charging support, and nary charger successful the box. It is inactive rather a bargain and should beryllium landing successful the UK soon.

Xiaomi 15 for £899: Folks seeking a much compact telephone than the Xiaomi 15 Ultra could bash a batch worse than its smaller sibling. The Xiaomi 15 feels lovely, with 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 the aforesaid bundle and bloatware issues arsenic the Ultra.

Honor Magic 7 RSR for £1,550: Designed with Porsche, this souped-up mentation of the 7 Pro supra has a fancier plan with 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 beauteous but doesn’t bash capable to warrant the further outlay.

Oppo Find X8 Pro for £1,099: The past 2 Oppo flagships didn’t officially marque it to the UK and Europe, truthful the X8 Pro marks a invited return. This is simply a polished telephone with a quad-lens camera (all 50 MP), but it feels similar a downgrade from the Find X7 Ultra I utilized past twelvemonth due to the fact that of the smaller sensor. It is fast, with fantabulous artillery life, speedy wired and wireless charging, IP68/69 protection, and nary evident omissions. But it’s pricey, flagships should not person bloatware, and I’d similar to hold for the X8 Ultra.

Honor 200 Pro for £499: I don’t emotion the plan of the Honor 200 Pro (7/10, WIRED Review), but it has a versatile triple-lens camera with a susceptible representation mode. There are besides immoderate utile AI features, and the artillery beingness is good, with accelerated wired and wireless charging. It outgo £200 much astatine launch, but astatine this caller little price, it is simply a acold much charismatic option.

Xiaomi Mix Flip for £749: Xiaomi’s archetypal flip telephone is amazingly good, with 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 assistance that the 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 similar past year’s Z60 Ultra (6/10, WIRED Review), the Z70 Ultra is simply a value-packed ceramic with an fantabulous 6.8-inch display, Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, versatile triple-lens camera, and 6,150 mAh battery. Unfortunately, the camera is inconsistent and mediocre astatine signaling video, and the bundle is shoddy (with lone 3 Android mentation updates promised).

Oppo Reno 12 Pro for £395: There are a mates of reasons to see the Reno 12 Pro: the camera and the artillery life. A main camera and a telephoto lens, some rated astatine 50 megapixels, are uncommon astatine this terms (there’s besides an 8MP ultrawide and a 50MP selfie camera). But I don’t similar the integrative design, there’s bloatware galore, and the show is conscionable OK.

Xiaomi 14T Pro for £470: As the mid-year follow-up to Xiaomi’s flagship 14, the 14T Pro (7/10, WIRED Review) is simply a spot of a bargain and has dropped successful terms since I reviewed it. The basics are nailed, with a large screen, bully performance, plentifulness of stamina, and a coagulated camera. But determination is bloatware, Xiaomi’s software, and the deficiency of wireless charging to contend with.

OnePlus Nord 4 for £369: With a metallic unibody, the 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 diagnostic that lets you usage the telephone with bedewed hands. But there's nary wireless charging, the ultrawide camera is disappointing, and there’s immoderate bloatware.

Avoid These Phones

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

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

Realme GT7 Pro for £774: 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 the 50-megapixel main and telephoto lenses are fto down by the 8-megapixel ultrawide. It besides lacks wireless charging, and you’ll person to import it to the UK arsenic it lone seems to beryllium connected merchantability successful Germany.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro+ for £369: An attractive, durable plan (IP68), a 200-megapixel Samsung camera sensor, and decent artillery beingness with ace accelerated charging (120W) indispensable beryllium balanced against middling performance, mediocre ultrawide (8 MP) and macro (2 MP) lenses, and a ton of bloatware. Ultimately, there’s small betterment implicit past year’s Redmi Note 13 Pro+ (6/10, WIRED Review), and it’s not conscionable that determination are amended phones for the aforesaid money; determination are amended Xiaomi phones.

Xiaomi Poco F6 for £268 oregon F6 Pro for £339: A existent bargain erstwhile archetypal released, the Poco F6 bid (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is inactive tempting with a large screen, decent performance, and a beauteous susceptible camera, but there’s bloatware, shoddy software, and constricted semipermanent support. The F6 is simply a amended worth than the Pro.

Motorola Edge 50 Pro for £399: It whitethorn beryllium falling successful price, but the Motorola Edge 50 Pro (7/10, WIRED Review) lone has a mates of Android upgrades to go. While the plan is compact and there’s a beauteous display, I recovered it lacked processing power, with sometimes sluggish camera performance, and determination are amended options above.

Nubia Flip 5G for £419: We had immoderate amusive with the Nubia Flip 5G (6/10, WIRED Review), and it was the cheapest flip foldable disposable for a while. The circular screen surface is cute, but it can’t bash much. The show was mean a twelvemonth ago, and the annoying bundle and update argumentation are large strikes against it.