Introduction
With 2025 behind us, it’s a good time to look back at all the phones we’ve tested this year and include the phones with the best speakers. We have also shortlisted tablets with the best sounding speakers.
We extracted data from 113 reviews produced in 2025 and listened to the speaker recordings of each device. We picked the ones with the best sound in several different categories because sound quality is greatly influenced by size, form factor, and even price segment, so it’s important to compare apples to apples.
Table of Contents:
- foldables
- midrangers
- compact flagship
- flagship
- pills
Keep in mind that you won’t find all the phones we tested on the following pages. We’ve listed the best ones, so you don’t have to scour them all like we did. You can always use the widget’s interactive properties to add or remove the phone models you’re interested in, so you can hear how they compare.
We strongly recommend using a good pair of headphones and turning up the volume when listening to test recordings.
Let’s start with foldables.
Top speakers in foldables
We traditionally think of all foldables together as one category, but between the two established form factors, each has its own winner.
Of all the book-style foldables we reviewed in 2025, our top pick for speaker quality is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7. Honorable mention goes to the Honor Magic V5. Despite the different sound profiles, we had a hard time choosing between the two. The Galaxy Z Fold7 wins this award for its slightly more balanced output and hint of low-end thump, which the Honor lacked.
As far as flip-style foldables go, our top pick for speaker quality among all the phones we reviewed in 2025 is the US-only Motorola Razr+ 2025. Some other clamshell razors we reviewed came close to this but not at the same level. Honorable mention goes to the globally available Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7. And, to be fair, the Galaxy Z Flip7 FE was not far behind.
The extensive list of devices considered for this category includes Huawei Mate XT Ultimate, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, vivo