A data scientist used AI to analyze over 1 million online iPhone and Android smartphone reviews and find the best ones.
It’s that time of the year when you might be on the lookout for a new smartphone. Specifically, you might be considering the iPhone 16, Apple’s latest iPhone series. You might not be an early adopter, preferring to check out the new phones in stores and read plenty of reviews to determine your next smartphone purchase. That’s especially true if you’re not exactly loyal to one of the two big platforms, and if you’re looking for a device to use for several years.
What’s the best iPhone or Android handset to buy right now? It turns out that a data scientist had the same question. They used AI to analyze more than 1 million online smartphone reviews and found the best iPhone and Android options that are currently available.
Before I tell you that you won’t believe the results, I’ll note that the iPhone 16 models are too new to be included in the rankings. Ready? You’re not going to believe the results.
Redditor eneskaraboga used ChatGPT GPT-4o mini to scrape and analyze more than 1.1 million online reviews for various smartphone models. The researcher tasked the AI with looking for positives and negatives about the phone models in those reviews in five categories that might be important to smartphone buyers: Value, Performance, Design, Battery Life, and Camera.
The resulting scores provided eneskaraboga with a ranking for the best smartphones in the world. That’s how we get the best iPhone and Android devices in the following table:
The data scientist and a friend scraped the reviews from Google Reviews, which, in turn, compiles reviews from Amazon, eBay, Verizon, AT&T, and others. They used Puppeteer to do it, creating a scraper in about 10 to 15 hours.
