Top 20 most popular phones of the year 2025
As 2025 wraps up, GSMArena looked at the phones people actually searched for the most over the past 12 months, including late-2024 launches that had enough time to gain traction. The list ranks the 20 most-visited models on the site, reflecting real user interest rather than sales or marketing claims.
Some entries are predictable flagships, others are less expected models that managed to draw steady attention. The ranking also underlines a few clear shifts in the market, including how 4G and 5G phones now sit next to each other in practice, and how foldable devices are carving out a visible, if still smaller, niche among mainstream slabs. At the top of the pile is Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra, which became the most searched phone of the year.
More from Technology
Broadband projects keep running late and over budget, largely because construction work is labor‑intensive, fragmented, and short on skilled workers.
Ericsson has completed a pre-standard 6G trial in the United States and entered into a collaboration with Qualcomm to push early development of the ne
Security firm Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is shifting its eSIM provisioning workloads onto Amazon Web Services, turning what used to be a dedicated teleco
At MWC Barcelona 2026, Qualcomm is using live demonstrations to show how it wants 6G networks to handle more intelligence and higher efficiency from t
Kigen and Trasna are expanding their partnership to offer a joint managed eSIM service aimed at enterprises running large-scale IoT deployments. The s
Vodafone and Tiami Networks have tested a radar-style sensing system that lets existing 5G networks detect nearby hazards, pitching it as groundwork f