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It may well be the month where you can expect more than a handful of flagship and expensive phones, but that's not the only choice, as the sub-$400 Oppo AX7 demonstrates.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro delivers a whole heap of features and learnings, and tries to topple everything else released this year. Does it succeed?

HTC's phone for 2017 was one of the best of the year, but can the HTC U12+ keep that momentum going, and is it unique enough to win you over?

Last year's U11 flagship brought with it a slick design, and this year ups those credentials even more, with focus on the look and feel, and the camera as well. Can HTC's latest take on the big boys?

Motorola has a couple of new smartphones, and it could really bring the competition to other companies vying for a piece of the budget dollar.

An iPhone for $598... could this really be real? Not really, but Oppo's mid-range R9s gets close enough that most people could be fooled, and you might be, too.

Samsung may dominate the whole "curved screen" concept in Australia -- less so with the Note now gone -- but it's not the only company dabbling in unusual designs.

It's great if you can afford the best in class, top tier smartphone, but not everyone can. Fortunately, a few manufacturers believes smartphones shouldn't be a top dollar affair, and in Oppo's F1s, the price is low while keeping the specs relatively high, at least in comparison.