Every smartphone is a good smartphone now. Doesn’t really matter who makes it—huge companies like Apple and Samsung, upstarts like Nextbit and Blu—or which flashy features it has or doesn’t have. As long as you have around $250 to spend, you’re positively spoiled for choice. That’s great news for you, and it’s been terrible news for HTC. HTC’s last phone, the HTC 10, was a very good phone: It did all the good phone things in all the good phone ways.

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