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KEY FEATURES 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen 6GB dual-channel DDR4 RAM 64GB storage Android 6.0.1 OxygenUI Snadragon 820 CPU Manufacturer: OnePlus Review Price: £329.00 ONEPLUS 3 – DESIGN Each OnePlus phone to date has offered a marked improvement on what has gone before. The original OnePlus One was an all-plastic affair, with a somewhat strange "sandstone" finish. The  OnePlus 2  enhanced the body with metal sides, but retained the plastic rear. The OnePlus 3 offers an upgrade once again, this time by way of a metal and glass design. It's available in "Graphite" – a muted grey – and its 7.4mm-thick aluminium frame makes this handset a delight to both look at and hold. A 5.5-inch phone may still not be for everyone, but the OnePlus 3 is among the more manageable phones with such a screen size. The finish is excellent too: the aluminium rear is anodised sports the same type of non-shiny look you’ll find on an iPhone. I’ve al...

KEY FEATURES 5.5-inch 1080p screen Snapdragon 810 processor with 3/4GB RAM 16 or 64GB storage Dual SIM 13-megapixel rear camera 5-megapixel front camera Fingerprint sensor 3,300mAh battery Manufacturer: OnePlus Review Price: £239.00 ONEPLUS 2: DESIGN At first glance, the OnePlus 2 doesn’t appear anything special. Coming from a manufacturer no-one has heard of you might expect it to bear some obvious USP that’ll scream at you from the shelf. But that’s not the point. The OnePlus 2 isn’t meant to be sold on shelves, ever. Aside from the odd importer, you can only buy the phone from OnePlus direct. You need an invite to even be able to order the thing and, at the time of writing, they aren’t too easy to get hold of. The cynics among you may think: what better way to breed hype and anticipation than by limiting stock? Such thoughts aren’t groundless, but if there was a middle-man retailer or network in-between, you can bet the OnePlus 2 would not cost £239. Th...

KEY FEATURES 5.3-inch IPS QHD screen Snapdragon 820 processor & 4GB RAM 32GB onboard storage and microSD slot 2,800mAh battery USB Type-C v3.0 port Fingerprint sensor 16-megapixel rear camera & 8-megapixel front camera Additional 8-megapixel wide-angle rear camera LG UX 5.0 on Android Marshmallow Manufacturer: LG Review Price: £529.00 WHAT IS THE LG G5? There was lot of hype surrounding LG’s quirky modular G5, but it didn’t last all that long. The visions of this Project Ara like device with a wide selection of add-ons that you switch at will hasn’t really happened, leaving us with a good phone that fails to stand out. LG also probably didn’t count on other brand’s upping their game. The  Samsung Galaxy S7  is fantastic, as is the  HTC 10 , and there’s even budget offerings like the OnePlus 3. The lack of interesting modules has really hurt the LG G5, and it’s no longer the only modular phone on the market. Moto ha...

KEY FEATURES Dual lens camera setup Kirin CPU 3GB RAM 5.2-inch FHD display 3000mAh battery Android Marshmallow with EMUI Manufacturer: Huawei Review Price: £449.00 WHAT IS THE HUAWEI P9? As we await the Huawei P10, which could come as soon as MWC 2017, it's still worth thinking about the excellent P9 which should see a Android 7 Nougat update soon. Nougat makes a huge difference to the P9, just look at the Huawei Mate 9. The notification panel has been updated, icons have been spruced up and things just work. Since the arrival of the Nokia 808 PureView manufacturers have been battling ever harder to create the very finest phone camera. We've seen everything from mainstream adoption of optical image stabilisation to custom technologies like LG’s laser autofocus and HTC’s Ultrapixels – which reappeared on the new HTC 10. The P9 is Huawei’s stab at the title and sees the firm team up with photography legend Leica to crea...