Rank	Change	Price	Smartphone	Laptop Mag	The Verge	TechRadar	T3	Pocket-lint	Tom's Guide	IGN	Creative Bloq	Digital Trends	ZD Net
1	-	Check price	Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra	-	3	4	2	2	2	1	1	-	1
2	+1	Check price	Google Pixel 9 Pro	-	-	1	-	-	3	2	5	4	-
3	-1	Check price	iPhone 16 Pro Max	-	-	2	-	-	1	-	-	2	2
4	-	Check price	iPhone 16	-	1	-	-	-	5	-	-	1	-
5	-	Check price	iPhone 16 Pro	-	5	3	-	-	-	3	3	-	-
6	-	Check price	iPhone 15 Pro Max The iPhone 15 Pro Max impresses with its camera capabilities, battery life, and USB-C integration, but faces criticism for its high price, slow charging speeds, and some underutilized features like the Action Button.	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
7	+2	Check price	OnePlus 12R	-	-	6	-	4	8	-	-	7	-
8	+2	Check price	Google Pixel 9 Pro XL	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	10	3
9	+2	Check price	Google Pixel 7a The Google Pixel 7a has received positive reviews for its design, camera capabilities, display, performance, battery life, and speakers, making it a suitable choice for users who prioritize these features.	1	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-
10	+2	Check price	OnePlus 12	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	3	7
11	-3	Check price	Google Pixel 8a	-	4	7	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
12	+2	Check price	Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6	-	-	9	-	-	-	7	6	-	-
13	+2	Check price	Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is a flagship smartphone that offers a unique design, advanced camera capabilities, impressive performance, reliable battery life, and excellent speaker quality, making it a top choice for those seeking a high-performance smartphone.	3	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	-1	Check price	Google Pixel 9	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-
15	+1	Check price	OnePlus 11 The OnePlus 11 receives positive reviews for its sleek design, premium materials, unique camera placement, exceptional performance, solid battery life, and good speaker quality, making it a recommended choice for users who value aesthetics, camera capabilities, smooth performance, and a high-quality display.	4	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-
16	-9	Check price	Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
17	-	Check price	Nothing Phone 2 The Nothing Phone (2) is a sleek and powerful device with a great display and battery life, but falls short in low light photography and audio quality.	-	8	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
18	-	Check price	iPhone 16 Plus	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	8	-
19	+1	Check price	iPhone SE The iPhone SE (2020) is a compact and well-designed smartphone that offers excellent performance and functionality, making it a suitable choice for users who prefer a smaller device.	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-
20	New *	Check price	Nothing Phone (1)	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
21	-2	Check price	OnePlus Open The OnePlus Open is a versatile and reliable foldable smartphone with a sleek design, powerful camera system, vibrant display, seamless performance, impressive battery life, and immersive audio quality, making it a great choice for users who prioritize portability, durability, and multimedia capabilities.	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	6
22	-1	Check price	Oppo Find X5 Pro The Oppo Find X5 Pro is a flagship smartphone praised for its sleek design, impressive camera performance, smooth display, powerful performance, and long-lasting battery life, but its audio quality may not meet the standards of some users.	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	8	-	-
23	-	Check price	Pixel 9 Pro Fold	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	-

What is the purpose of MetaRankings?

Experts do a better job researching products that customers. But we noticed that even the most prominent product experts often disagree on what the best product is. A printer might be praised by CNET but panned by PCMag. Aggregating opinions of top experts is the best way to get an expert consensus.

Why are MetaRankings awesome?

So glad you asked! The biggest problem with reviews is that they can be biased, fake or low quality. MetaRankings solve all of these problems.

• MetaRankings are genuine. Since we're aggregating reviews by top experts, we don't have a problem of 'someone on Reddit recommended it'. These are opinions of real people whose job is to review products. You can look up their LinkedIn profiles.
• MetaRankings are transparent. We show you the list of experts that we used to create the ranking. You can click on each expert to see their ranking. Our aggregation methodology is public and all the sources are always available. We turn opinions into facts.
• MetaRankings are unbiased. If multiple experts independently recommend a product, it must speak to its quality.
• MetaRankings are result of hard work. Every MetaRanking is backed by hundreds of hours of independent experts doing research and testing. You can always click on individual links to browse those reviews, or ask our ChatBot to summarize a ranking.

How do we choose experts?

We Google them, how else?

Are MetaRankings done by AI or humans?

Both. Some parts are done by robots, some by humans.

What is a 'fuzzy metaranking'?

Our best rankings are presented in a form of a nice table above (mapping expert endorsements to specific products.) But because of a few technical limitations, we can't always determine which product is being endorsed. This is because often experts choose to endorse a category of products (such as a brand or a product line), not a specific product. Aggregating becomes a more difficult task in this case. So we create 'fuzzy metarankings' that rely on generalized experts preferences instead of explicit endorsements. Fuzzy metarankings are a bit less accurate, and because of this they are weighted a little less in the Awesomeness Score. Fuzzy MetaRankings are not as great as concrete ones, but are much better than nothing.

How are the rankings created?

It's actually quite a process.

Step 1: identify experts. Robots determine most respectable sources on the Internet, then the team manually chooses the best ones.

Step 2: import experts' rankings. Robots try to import the rankings that experts independently publish. Since robots inevitably mess up, team manually checks the data.

Step 3: exclude unrelated products.
In their creative wisdom, experts often tend to include accessories or alternatives in their ranking. Our team has to manually exclude products that don't match product category.

Step 4: determine if experts are endorsing the same product. For variations of the same products our team needs to determine whether the products are the same or not (is iPhone 13 64GB and iPhone 13 128GB the same model or not?)

Step 5: assign weights to expert endorsements and aggregate opinion. Currently we use ranking methodology 0.7.2: being included in the expert ranking scores points. Being ranked #1 carries a lot more points. Being included in top 3 also carries bonus points. Then the point value of every endorsement is adjusted by a geometric progression with common ratio slightly below 1. In other words, product ranked #1 carries a lot more weight than product ranked #6; product ranked #6 carries slightly more weight than product ranked #8.

Step 6: add it all up. Computers are quite good at this bit.

Step 7: do it all again in a month.