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This week in Android: Best of Android 2019, 60Hz vs 90Hz screens, and more!

June 17, 2025

This week we released ourBest of Android 2019 Awards, which are based onour objective testing. The scores this year were closer than ever (sometimes a 1% difference was a deciding factor), and the winner might surprise you. Numbers aren’t everything though, so we also have anEditor’s Choice awardfor the phone we are most comfortable recommending to people.

In less uplifting news, a report fromthe New York Timesrevealed justhow badly location tracking can be abused. It’s supposed to be anonymous, but it’s simple to identify people using publicly available information, whether they be celebrities, military generals, or normal everyday people.

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On the review side, we got a look at theSamsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus Star Wars Edition, and published our reviews of the mid-rangerealme X2and QWERTY keyboard-sportingFxtec Pro1.

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