Update: January 16, 2026 (8:30 AM ET): Android skins are always changing, so we’ve updated our ranking as well. Some of the more notable changes include ASUS dropping a few spots, while vivo, HONOR, ...

In just a few decades, mobile phones have gone from a luxury reserved for the elite to an essential tool for billions of users. From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of ...