The hottest and nottest smartphones of 2021 at launch, as voted on by you

There were loads of solid smartphones to choose from in 2021, with the likes of Asus, Motorola, Samsung, Xiaomi and more all delivering the goods in various price segments. In fact, we’d argue that it was tough to buy a truly bad phone this year.

But what did you think of these phones at the time of their release? We posted polls throughout the year, asking whether a brand-new phone was “hot” or “not.” Now that we’re winding down the year, we thought it would be a good idea to grab these poll results to see which devices were hottest and which ones were, well… not.