I'm a phones expert, and these are my 5 tech resolutions for 2026 – from taking better photos to playing more Fortnite

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31 Dec 2025, 13:00 · TechRadar

Features By Jamie Richards published 31 December 2025

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How can 2026 be around the corner already? It feels like just a moment ago that we were welcoming the new year with rumors of the then-upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 and reactions to the recently released OnePlus 13.

And though mobile hardware has continued to evolve as the year has pushed on, with silicon carbon batteries getting a better foothold and the best camera phones getting closer than ever to point-and-shoot quality, sometimes our usage habits are slower to adapt.

As I write this, I realize that the way I actually use my phone hasn’t changed all that much in the past 12 months. Don’t get me wrong, I still love putting all the best phones to the test and diving into the settings for our in-depth phone reviews, but in my own time, I’ve been keeping things pretty simple.

Again, there’s nothing wrong with that, but if I’m going to walk around with a $1,000 personal computer more powerful than the machines that landed a man on the moon in my pocket, I feel a responsibility to make the most of it.

So, without further ado, here are my five mobile New Year’s resolutions for 2026.

Take better photos, and more of them

With gear like the Oppo Hasselblad Teleconverter in my tech bag, I'm hoping to take better mobile photos in 2026 (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future)

My current daily driver is the Oppo Find X9 Pro, which is a bit of an underdog choice, given that it’s unavailable in the US, but also in that it offers some incredibly high-end camera tech for its £1,099 price point.

But with that said, most of the phones I’ve tested this year have offered pretty impressive camera systems, and it’s now possible to get triple-camera systems with dedicated zoom lenses in the mid-range of the phone market (the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE and Nothing Phone 3a Pro being two examples).

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