Well, Nokia is all geared up to prove it still has the gall to stir
the Android flagship game with its all new and upcoming Nokia 9.
Not exact matches
Its
flagship title Fantasy Westward Journey continues to rank among the best grossing
games in China on iOS and is performing well within the
Android ecosystem.
The overall difference is usually slight, but we do seem to see an efficiency advantage for many
games on the Moto Z over competing
Android flagships.
The world of
Android is a completely different
game where you can use a different phone every six months and even
flagship models like the Google Nexus or Pixel devices would stop receiving newer updates after two years or so.
On benchmarks, it performed similarly to other
Android flagships, and in real life, both
games and web browsing were smooth and snappy.
Samsung has been in the smartwatch
game for a while now, long before the introduction of
Android Wear even, though these earlier devices were compatible only with the company's
flagship smartphones of the time.
While we've used our Best of
Android 2015 comparison to help decide which
flagship smartphone is the best of the year, we also want to recognise the other smartphones, tablets, apps,
games and wearables that have helped expand the mobile industry.
The Moto X reveal didn't deliver the super phone many
Android fans were hoping for, but Motorola's latest
flagship handset isn't playing the spec
game like Samsung and HTC.
If anything, that's a testament to Apple's success, which pushed other smartphone makers to step up their
games (with
flagship devices, at least — there's a steep dropoff in camera quality when you look at low - cost
Android phones).
While a lot of manufacturers are giving a limited number of their customers restricted access to beta builds of
Android Oreo for their
flagship devices, we're glad to see that HTC is ahead of the
game, pushing the real update out to as many HTC U11 phones as fast as they can.
Kuo went a bit further, saying that with Apple leading the way on facial recognition tech, he expects
Android smartphone makers to step up their
game to compete with Apple's
flagship iPhone X, which opens for pre-order on October 27, and will be released on November 3.
Three UK will start retailing Sony's latest
Android flagships tomorrow following a pre-order period full of relatively aggressive promotions which included goodies valued at hundreds of pounds such as the PlayStation VR Starter Pack and a bundle consisting of the PlayStation 4 console and the Gran Turismo Sport
game.
We're still several months out from the new Google Pixel 2 devices, but at this early stage of the
game we've gone digging into what we can expect from the new
Android flagships.
If you want a
flagship - class
Android phone in a smaller form factor, Sony's Compact series of phones is basically the only
game in town.
Load times appear to be an issue with the vanilla build of the
game, with many reviewers on the Google Play Store complaining about them and
Android Headlines» own testing showing some fights can take well over 15 seconds to be initiated even on Samsung's 2016 and 2017
flagships, though the developer is likely to continue optimizing the mobile
game going forward.
In other words, Tekken will only be playable on 2016
Android flagships and comparably capable or better devices, which is unsurprising given how the developer appears to be trying to push the graphical threshold of mobile fighting
games.
Game Recorder + will be pulled from the Google Play Store several days after the South Korean tech giant is expected to introduce its new
Android flagships in the form of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus, both of which have already been confirmed for an MWC 2018 debut.