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☂️ Good day, and welcome to the Daily Authority! We had a spectacular thunderstorm final night time, breaking right into a contemporary, cool morning. These are uncommon climate situations for this half of the world, however I’ll take it after days of oppressive warmth! We’re anticipating some extra rain at this time, and I couldn’t be extra excited!

Speaking of rain, the torrent of 2022 retrospectives has began. You’ve most likely been requested by your tech buddies what you assume is the best telephone of the 12 months. For us, that call is simple. Apparently, you all assume so too!

After placing in a whole bunch if not 1000’s of mixed hours into our critiques, we created a shortlist of the gadgets that racked up the highest evaluate scores of the 12 months. We be sure that each main model is included throughout the sprawling worth segments. Only then did our management crew and skilled reviewers select their prime 5 telephones, rating them first to fifth. The factors are then tallied, and the telephone with the most factors wins.

So, which gadget took the crown in 2022?

Hey Google, congratulations

• The Google Pixel 7 Pro is Android Authority‘s best phone of 2022, and that isn’t an excessive amount of of a shock.
• Last 12 months, we beloved the Google Pixel 6 for its wonderful worth and have set. This 12 months, Google pushed on with its Pro mannequin.
• It packs a refined however advanced design, together with that now trademark digital camera bar at the rear.
• We notably beloved the Pixel 7 Pro’s digital camera options explored in depth throughout our evaluate, from Photo Unblur to its expanded zoom capabilities.
• Beneath its pores and skin, the Pixel 7 Pro advantages from its Tensor G2 chipset, from computational smarts to dependable efficiency.
• “All of this, plus the return of Face Unlock, a plethora of Pixel-only features, long-term software support, the best haptics in the game, much-needed fixes to the fingerprint reader and network reception, and solid battery life all come together to create what is arguably Google’s greatest smartphone to date.”
• Even then, Google one way or the other undercut its nearest competitors by some $100.

The runners up

There have been loads of nice gadgets launched in 2022. Although the Pixel 7 Pro comes out tops, it needed to beat loads of wonderful competitors. Here are the runners up.

• Google took dwelling a one-two, as the Pixel 7 completed in second place.
• We notably appreciated its approachable worth, giving customers the best core Pixel expertise so far.
• The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra got here in third.
• It’s an incredible digital camera telephone impressed by the Galaxy Note collection, however we simply can’t look previous its lofty worth.
• The Galaxy S22 Plus is available in fourth because of its well-rounded function set and far improved worth.
• Finally, the Oppo Find X5 Pro positioned fifth, capping off one other nice 12 months for the Chinese model.

Readers’ Choice is our alternative

We’re not the solely ones voting for our telephone of the 12 months. Each journey round the solar, we ask readers to inform us what their smartphone of the 12 months was. After a shortlist of 20 smartphones, one stood out as the winner.

• The Google Pixel 7 Pro gained over the hearts of our readers, narrowly beating the Galaxy S22 Ultra.
• It was an interesting battle between the two telephones, with the Samsung main our opening and semi-final rounds.
• However, it was the Pixel that took dwelling the crown, giving it Google’s first Reader’s Choice Award.

Be positive to dig into the Reader’s Choice Award article right here, explaining simply how shut the race between Samsung and Google was. It’s riveting stuff!

Monday Meme

If you’ve seen any highlights from the World Cup, you would possibly’ve questioned why gamers don’t discover extra creative methods to attain targets. Leaping header? So boring. A smash from outdoors the field? Done earlier than. And don’t get me began on penalties, sheesh.

Well, this meme posits one potential technique that’s, sadly, outlawed however no much less humorous.

Apparently it’s additionally unlawful to stability the ball in your head and stroll into the web, too. If that isn’t an indication of ability and poise, I don’t know what’s.