Sentences with phrase «android phone of the year»

The most unique Android phone of the year, the Moto Z2 Force truly stands out with its shatterproof screen and especially its wide range of Moto Mods.

The LG V30 could be one of the sexiest and most powerful Android phones of the year.

With a 5.9 - inch screen, integrated keyboard, clamshell design, and two weeks of stand - by time, it might be the best Android phone of the year.

Add in a gorgeous display and removable battery, and you've got one of the best Android phones of the year.

In September 2014, Motorola unveiled the second - generation Moto X, widely considered to be one of the best Android phones of the year (even in spite of its late entry to the market).

2014's edition of the Moto X was one of our favorite Android phones of the year and our hopes are high that the 2015 Moto X will be even better.

The Huawei Mate 9 is one of our favorite big - screened Android phones of the year — and arguably one of the best, if battery life is your main concern.

I know that this review is full of Galaxy S7 edge comparisons (I apologize, I just think it's a good benchmark since it's one of the most popular and best Android phones of the year), but this is yet another case where I would put the two phones about on par with each other.

For all its display - related woes, the smartphone arm of LG shipped two of the best, most underappreciated Android phones of the year.

But its cheap feel and feature spam problem forced us to look elsewhere when naming the best Android phone of the year.

Not exact matches

Android phones have had all of these things, and more, for years.

In the third quarter of this year, Android phones made up 84.3 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, according to IDC.

The company announced at the beginning of this year that it would not be releasing its latest version, and would instead focus on Android phones.

Over the years, hardcore fans have gravitated toward these flagship phones as the «purest» Android experience, free of tweaks by carriers or handset makers.

Samsung's yearly «S» flagship is the biggest phone of the year in the Android world.

In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or hardware manufacturers, has become increasingly popular.

They started gathering data late last year, first downloading 9,700 - plus apps, then setting up a farm of about 10 Android phones in their lab.

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Volkswagen says most model year 2016 VWs at trim level SE and above (VWs are typical S, SE, SEL) will get Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, both of them, along with Microsoft MirrorLink (for Microsoft phones).

All of this reminds me of an old Android phone that I used own from 5 years ago.

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Additional features include a standard floating touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality, the available Hyundai Smart Sense suite of safety technologies (including forward collision avoidance assist with pedestrian detection, driver attention warning, lane keeping assist, blind - spot collision warning, rear cross-traffic collision avoidance assist, and high beam assist), and optional technologies such as an 8 - inch navigation system with complimentary map updates for five years, a shift - by - wire drive control that creates additional lower storage in the centre console, Hyundai BlueLink functionality, a head - up display, rain - sensing wipers, and a wireless phone charger.

For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide selection of free «Buy Once, Read Everywhere» Kindle apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android - based devices that let customers read and sync their reading library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the device or platform of their choice.

Android 4.2 launched about half a year ago, but only some of the latest Android phones that have arrived on the market have been able to get this newest version of Android.

«Google just unveiled their new Nexus phone, the Galaxy Nexus, along with a preview of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, coming to phones next year.

Several of the flagship Android smart phones and tablets are making a leap into quad - core territory this summer and Apple will hopefully do the same for the iPhone this year and for the next iPad in 2013.

A little less than a year after introducing its second Android phone, the HTC - built myTouch 3G, T - Mobile unveils a new flavor of the handset, complete with a roomy slide - out QWERTY keypad, a trio of custom widgets, and an upgraded camera.

Don't care what phone you lot are getting next — we're DEFINITELY going to be queuing up outside the nearest Carphone Warehouse to buy an Android 2.3 powered Xperia Arc in «Misty Silver» when it launches at the end of Q1 this year.

This week was one of the most important periods for Android fans around the world, as last Sunday Samsung introduced the highly expected Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge flagship phones — and their rival LG also introduced their bets for this year as well.

The first half of the year is almost gone, and we've already seen great devices launch, such as the Sony Xperia Z and the HTC One, but there are other new Android phones coming from Samsung, Motorola, and even HTC.

As soon as we've ushered in the new year in a few days time, Korean mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung Electronics will roll out the new addition to their line of Galaxy android smartphones.

(AP)-- The head of Google's Android mobile operating software says the search company «bit off a little more than we could chew» with the sale of the Nexus One, a smart phone Google began selling online early this year...

Samsung's Android handset actually shifted five million devices in the four months until October last year, where the sale's curve dramatically increased for the last three months of the 2010 and another five million Galaxy S phones were sold.

One of the big selling points of all the new phones that Blackberry has produced in the last three years is the Android emulator.

«Similar to what you see in Andriod phones (lots of model updates and frequent price drop) compared to iPhone (few models, stable pricing), the iPhone holds about 60 % of its value one year after launch while even the best Androids only hold about 40 %.»

If I weren't so involved in technology writing, and thus constantly upgrading my phones, it's likely that I'd still have only my Droid Charge midway through a two - year contract and no hope of ever jumping from Android 2 to Android 4.

By the end of this year you could be playing with a quad - core Android phone courtesy of Fujitsu.

These rewards can include BlackBerry phones, and although no specifics were given in regards to which phone a likely candidate would be BlackBerry's KEYone, or any number of its other Android devices that were launched over the past year or two.

CPU Floating point performance that is bested by other Android phones the likes of the Acer Liquid A1 and Xperia X10 both of which have been around for a year or so already, both of which, I might add, are running Snapdragon cores, one at 768Mhz (Acer) and the other at 1Ghz (Xperia)-RRB-.

Previously, AT&T customers that were interested in purchasing the AT&T 3G version of the Android smartphone would have to pay full retail price for the phone while Sprint and T - Mobile customers benefitted from a subsidy with new 2 year agreement.

This first phone with the Android Ice Cream sandwich has got much more, as the UK network is giving this smartphone for free to its customers on a contract of two years on a monthly basis of # 41.

I could compare this to an inferior version of the first Android enabled phones (that came out 3 - 4 years AGO).

Oaxis has been selling secondary e-ink screens for Android and iOS phones for a number of years.

In other words, it sounds like the home, menu, search, and back buttons that are a staple of today's Android phones may be as outdated as the trackball by this time next year.

The Panasonic Eluga marks the company's return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it's come back to us with a moderately high - spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.

It runs a 1 GHz SnapDragon CPU on a 4.3 inch display, one of the largest phones at the time, with 512 MB RAM, this phone was the best Android phone for a long time, and even now is quite respectable, a whole year after its release.

A new internal roadmap from Dell has been leaked featuring new Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones along with Honeycomb tablets and the first sighting of a Windows 8 - based tablet slated for next year.

Honeycomb won't run on small - screen devices, Google has said, but the tablet and phone experiences may be brought together in the next version of Android, which is code named «Ice Cream» and expected later this year.

Sony Ericsson announced a trio of Android phones at Mobile World Congress this year; the Xperia «PlayStation» Play, Xperia neo and this very mobile phone — the Xperia pro.