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HT Tech Power List Awards 2026: The phones that truly stood out!

HT Tech Power List Awards 2026 honours the year's best smartphones for performance, cameras, battery life, innovation, value, and real-world experience.

Every smartphone launch today comes with familiar promises. Better cameras. Smarter AI. Faster performance. Bigger batteries. Yet separating genuine innovation from marketing hype has become harder than ever.

That's precisely why we created the HT Tech Smartphone Awards.

Over the past several months, the HT Tech team tested dozens of smartphones across price segments and categories. Some devices accompanied us through long workdays, crowded commutes, outdoor shoots, and weekend travel. Others spent hours running graphics-intensive games, recording videos under the harsh afternoon sun, editing content, navigating unfamiliar cities, and handling countless everyday tasks that don't show up on a specification sheet.

We didn't simply run benchmarks and compare megapixels.

We wanted to know which phones remained smooth after weeks of use. Which batteries comfortably survived a full day? Which...

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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

bring out your dead We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. This artist's illustration, by Kevin Wilson, shows how the ancient plague victims might have been laid to rest. Credit: Kevin WIlson Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years

HT Tech Power List Awards 2026 honours the year's best smartphones for performance, cameras, battery life, innovation, value, and real-world experience.

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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago