About
bestsmartphone.com reads phone reviews from 22 established publications and shows, for every phone, what each of them concluded: their score, their verdict, and where they agree or disagree. It does not review phones itself. The scores are put on one scale by a public method, and every review is linked so you can read the original.
The site is independent and has had the same owner since 2011, when it began as a small phone blog. It was relaunched as a review aggregator in 2026. No phone maker, network or retailer has any say in the rankings, and nobody can pay for a place in them.
At the moment the site carries no advertising and no affiliate links, and earns nothing. If that changes — for example, links to shops that pay a commission — this page will say so first, and the scores will still come only from the reviews.
Corrections, questions and suggestions are welcome: hello@bestsmartphone.com. If a score, a spec or a phone's availability looks wrong, say which page and it will be checked.
Reviews are found through public feeds and sitemaps by a program that identifies itself as BestSmartphoneBot. It obeys robots.txt, including crawl delays, fetches one page at a time, and backs off when asked to. For each review the site keeps your score and any award, and a short summary in its own words; the review's text is not stored or republished. Each summary links to your review.
Where a phone's page shows a photo from your review, it is loaded from your own server, credited to you and linked to the review. If you would rather your photos were not shown, or your reviews not included at all, write to hello@bestsmartphone.com and it will be done. Blocking BestSmartphoneBot in robots.txt also works.
The site sets no cookies and has no accounts. It counts page views anonymously to build the “most popular” lists and to see which pages are used, with Vercel Analytics and its own counter; neither identifies you or follows you to other sites. Your country, as indicated by your connection, is used once to show phones sold where you are. If you choose a different region, that choice is saved in your own browser and nowhere else.