Tue 17 Dec 2019 02.00 EST Last modified on Tue 17 Dec 2019 02.02 EST Need a new smartphone but don't know which one is the very best? Here's a guide comparing the current top-end smartphones from Apple, Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus and others to help you pick the best handset for you. There has never been a better time to buy a new flagship smartphone with many quality handsets available at a wider range of prices than ever before. Whether your priority is two-day battery life, fantastic camera performance or a spectacular screen, there's plenty to choose from. This Guardian buyer's guide to top-end smartphones was last updated on 17 December 2019, and represents the best available models at the time. As new models are released and tested, this guide will be updated to help you choose the right flagship phone for you. Welcome to one of the Guardian's new buyer's guides.

Honor Magic 2 comes with Yoyo, its own digital assistant, that can be commanded to fly a drone. Honor Magic 2 has been launched in China, and features an in-display fingerprint scanner as well as a sliding design that houses the front camera. The phone offers AI-based features, like its own digital assistant, Yoyo, and connectivity across a range of devices. Honor Magic 2 has been priced from 3799 yuan and is available in three colour variants: Gradient Red, Gradient Blue and Gradient Black. Featuring a 6.39-inch AMOLED display, the Honor phone offers a resolution of 2140 1080 pixels, and a screen-to-body ratio of 91.5 per cent.

Honor Magic 2 comes with Yoyo, its own digital assistant, that can be commanded to fly a drone. Honor Magic 2 has been launched in China, and features an in-display fingerprint scanner as well as a sliding design that houses the front camera. The phone offers AI-based features, like its own digital assistant, Yoyo, and connectivity across a range of devices. Honor Magic 2 has been priced from 3799 yuan and is available in three colour variants: Gradient Red, Gradient Blue and Gradient Black. Featuring a 6.39-inch AMOLED display, the Honor phone offers a resolution of 2140 1080 pixels, and a screen-to-body ratio of 91.5 per cent.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 is heavily rumored to arrive with an in-display fingerprint scanner. Now a new report from Korea claims that this could be true and that the Galaxy S10 won't have an iris scanner, but could come with an iPhone X-inspired feature. Samsung has not requested any of its suppliers to make iris scanners for the Galaxy S10, according to The Bell. The Korean news outlet claims that the upcoming Samsung flagship phone will have an in-display fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition technology, which will function a lot like Apple's Face ID on the iPhone X. Samsung is still lagging behind Apple when it comes to 3D facial recognition. The South Korean phone maker did introduce an Animoji competitor called AR Emoji on the Galaxy S9, as pointed out by The Verge. However, Apple already has an answer to AR Emoji called Memoji, which will arrive with the iOS 12 update later this fall.

At the end of the month, Barcelona will traditionally host the annual Mobile World Congress and Doogee plans to introduce three new ("futuristic" as they say) smartphones during the show. The first one is the Dogee V, which has a full-screen front design with an in-display fingerprint sensor and an AMOLED display with a U-shaped notch. The second is Doogee Mix 3, which will have a side-mounted fingerprint sensor and... Doogee V is known for featuring an in-display fingerprint sensor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of RAM and almost an all-screen front. The new unnamed smartphone resembles the V in many ways - it has the same U-shaped notch, 3D curved back, but instead of having an in-display fingerprint sensor, it has a thin chin... While Doogee BL12000's hot pre-sale is currently going on, the DoogeeSlide Full-screen Concept Phone appears on a third-party video.