Every year, we orchestrate the voting for the Reader’s Choice Award for the best smartphone of the year. Historically, it’s been easy to foresee the winner by simply looking at Samsung’s top-of-the-line flagship that year, as this almost always ends up being our readers’ pick. In 2022, though, Google broke through and nabbed the Reader’s Choice award for 2022 with the Pixel 7 Pro — a first for any Pixel. However, this year, Samsung fans came out with a vengeance to return to tradition and assign the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra as the best phone of 2023.
Congratulations to Samsung for this win! The Galaxy S23 Ultra is a beast of a device and rightly deserves all the praise it continues to receive. To learn why this phone is so great, be sure to read our Galaxy S23 Ultra review.