These 5 compact smartphones prove bigger isn’t always better

You besides get a telephoto shooter and wireless charging, a diagnostic that is usually recovered connected premium flagship devices. And portion Motorola has announced that the telephone volition get 5 Android updates, the institution has a mediocre way grounds of updating its phones to the latest version. Another happening to support successful caput is that the telephone packs successful a 4,310mAh artillery that whitethorn not past a afloat time for mean and dense users.

While the Edge 50 Neo (review) isn’t the fastest oregon champion camera telephone successful its terms bracket, it is 1 of the fewer compact phones that tin bash it each without burning a spread successful your pocket. It starts from Rs 20,999.

The Oppo Find X8 has everything you would privation from a 2025 flagship. (Image Source: Oppo)

Oppo Find X8

The Oppo Find X8 is arguably the champion compact telephone you tin bargain successful 2025, but those with tiny hands mightiness not find it that handy. Despite being bigger than astir compact phones, the Find X8 packs successful astir everything you would privation from a flagship phone.

The Dimensity 9400 chipset is arsenic almighty arsenic the latest Snapdragon, and dissimilar immoderate compact phones, this 1 does not chopped down connected the artillery capableness and camera capabilities. Backed by a immense 5,630mAh artillery that tin complaint the telephone successful nether an hour, and has a triple camera setup which is arsenic susceptible arsenic immoderate premium flagship phone.

If you tin unrecorded with the 6.5-inch surface and somewhat less Android updates than what Google and Samsung are offering, the Oppo Find X8 is an casual proposal for the asking price. It is priced astatine Rs 69,999.

The Galaxy S25 looks the aforesaid arsenic the Galaxy S24, but you bash get a amended chipset and much AI features. (Image Source: Samsung)

Samsung Galaxy S25

Gone are the days erstwhile Samsung experimented with plan and signifier factors. In the past fewer years, the institution has industrialised its plan truthful overmuch that the precocious launched Galaxy S25 is astir physically indistinguishable from its predecessor.

The caller telephone has each the bells and whistles Samsung’s caller AI-powered phones person to offer, and astir hardware, but for the chipset, is astir the same. The Galaxy S24 is simply a large compact phone, and the Galaxy S25 improves the shortcomings of its predecessor successful immoderate ways.

Samsung’s smallest flagship present comes with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is simply a immense measurement up from the Exynos 2400. Like its predecessor, Samsung has promised 7 years of bundle updates, which means it volition beryllium updated to Android 22.

And portion the Galaxy S25 is nary longer the champion compact camera phone, it does connection a coagulated bundle that tin easy past much than fractional a decade. The basal exemplary of the telephone tin beryllium purchased for Rs 80,999.

The iPhone 16 Pro is powered by the A18 Pro chipset. (Express Photo)

iPhone 16 Pro

The iPhone 16 is undoubtedly the champion compact Apple telephone connected a budget close now, but if you are looking for a flagship phone, the iPhone 16 Pro blows the vanilla mentation retired of the h2o with its faster chipset, precocious refresh complaint surface and amended camera capabilities.

Like the iPhone 16 Pro Max, it has each the bells and whistles similar precocious Apple Intelligence features, improved microphones and a telephoto sensor, but each bundled successful a overmuch smaller body.

The iPhone 16 Pro whitethorn beryllium not for those inactive rocking the erstwhile procreation oregon the 1 earlier that, but if you person an older telephone oregon privation to acquisition the precise champion of Apple successful a pocketable signifier factor, this is an casual recommendation. The iPhone 16 Pro is much costly than astir phones connected the list, but the terms tag mightiness beryllium worthy it for those upgrading from an Apple instrumentality oregon those who don’t caput spending a batch connected a smartphone. It starts from Rs 1.09,500.

The Pixel 9 Pro has the aforesaid features arsenic its bigger brother- the Pixel 9 Pro XL. (Express Photo)

Pixel 9 Pro

Apart from Samsung, Google is 1 of the fewer companies known for making bully compact phones. Last year, Google shrunk the ‘Pro’ by reducing the surface size by 0.4 inches, making the Pixel 9 Pro pocketable with a 6.3-inch OLED screen.

The Pixel 9 Pro has each the AI features Google has to connection and packs successful a overmuch faster Tensor G4 chipset. As you would expect, the telephone besides packs successful a telephoto lens, which makes it the archetypal compact ‘Pro’ telephone from the institution to person a flagship camera setup.

Compared to different compact flagships, the Pixel 9 Pro offers overmuch little earthy performance, but it does constitution successful different areas similar camera, battery, physique and update policy. If you similar banal Android wand ant a telephone that gets Google’s newest AI diagnostic and tin past for years to come, the Pixel 9 Pro (review) tin beryllium a bully buy. The basal variant of the telephone is priced astatine Rs 1,09,999.