The Best Android Smartphones Raise the Bar for the Next iPhone

Want to annoy Apple fanatics? Remind them how many magical iPhone capabilities arrived first on Android. Big screens? Fingerprint scanners? Mobile payments? Water resistance? None of it invented in Cupertino.

Ahead of Apple’s wildly hyped 10th-anniversary iPhone launch next week, three more Android phones have been pushing the boundaries of what smartphones look like and how we use them: Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, the Essential Phone...