But the long and short of it is this: if a current - gen high -
end handset gets you an easy two years of use, a more affordable one may only survive half of that.
Not exact matches
But over time, I really would love for them to design more and more phones for me, from the
handset point of view, and I just
get our designers to design some really high -
end, cool stuff.
The Sony Xperia ZL is an Android OS powered
handset, which has
got all the high -
end specifications, and solid hardware under the hood.
You can't avoid this aspect (because of the up - mentioned details) so you will have to
get through this without messing things up — you can
end up in bricking your
handsets.
LG launched a budget
handset towards the
end of the week, and T - Mobile announced they will be
getting Android «Froyo» 2.2 for Samsung Galaxy S mobile phones.
The Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD is an Android OS powered
handset for Verizon with same features of the Droid RAZR HD, and it has
got more powerful battery, all the high -
end specifications, as well as solid hardware under the hood.
Still, you
get 4 GB of RAM on both
handsets, but given the two storage options, the low -
end Honor 8, which has 32 GB of storage, has a pre-order valuation of $ 399.99.
As for the design, you
get a full - metal clad
handset that brings out a premium feel usually associated with high -
end phones.
Nokia also promised that their
handsets would
get both updates before the
end of September.
If all goes according to plan, the P10
handsets in Europe could
get the stable version of Android Oreo by the
end of February.
The lack of dual cameras on the Mix 2 felt like a glaring omission on a high -
end phone for 2017, so it's nice to see this handsome device
get better snappers to help it compete with newer
handsets from rivals like Google and Samsung.
Android
gets a bit faster with every new version, so if you've
got a high -
end handset that either shipped with Android Oreo preinstalled or received the Oreo update, you likely won't have to do much to ensure a speedy, smooth experience.
HTC decided to
End the One M7 support, The
handset will not be
get any more major Android updates from this point forward.
At the low
end of the market, you've
got a slew of Chinese smartphone companies churning out shockingly capable
handsets at rock bottom prices.
This means that there's currently a 15 - month support window for higher -
end handsets, while newer devices like the Moto E4 and E4 Plus won't
get upgraded at all.
The price cut from the top -
end Windows Phone
handsets gets you full blown Windows Phone 7.5 in a large screened device with no ZTE - added extra apps or tweaks, so in a very real sense this is a taste of the Windows Phone operating system without bells and whistles.
Compared to the budget Android phones of 2010 such as the ZTE Racer and the Galaxy Europa, the Huawei Blaze is quite a bit better in terms of style, but you're still not
getting anything like the same slick Android experience as found on the high -
end handsets.
Meanwhile, Xiaomi is also
getting ready to endorse a gaming - centric high -
end handset of sorts, manufactured by a little company called Black Shark, which the «Apple of China» just so happens to own.
Samsung will be keeping a close eye on what the likes of HTC, LG and Sony
get up to as well, and then there are the Chinese manufacturers like OnePlus and Huawei who are busy innovating in Asia with high -
end, low - price
handsets.
That leaves companies like LG, HTC and others to bundle the older Snapdragon option if they want to
get a new high -
end smartphone to store shelves at around the same time or before the new Samsung
handset.
While there is no direct comparison of how better the new Gorilla Glass has
gotten over the older and proven Glass 4 from Corning, there is a belief that this is the technology that will appear on
handsets that will come towards the
end of the year.
Even though the OnePlus One, one of the most exciting high -
end Android
handsets set to release so far this year, will soon be available to customers in many markets at a very affordable price compared to competitors, not all interested buyers will be able to
get one as easily as expected.
Specific details have not been revealed, but considering that Android 5.0 Lollipop is arriving as soon as November 3rd, at least for the new Nexus devices launching in early November, LG might be
getting ready for a speedy Lollipop update for its high -
end handset — after all, some of the older Nexus devices aren't even expected to
get Android 5.0 in early November, with cellular versions of the Nexus 7, the Nexus 5 and the Nexus 4 said to be upgraded by the
end of next month.
This
handset is running Android 4.4.2 with InLife UI — to
get an idea about the new UI check the video review at the
end.
Two models leaked out, the X600 mid-ranger and the X900 bezel - free high -
end flagships
handset which managed to
get a lot of press.
The P8 is probably going to be one of the first Huawei
handsets to be
getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow (some whispers say it will happen until the
end of the year).
This meant that the low -
end buyers could never
get their hands on the Nexus 6, but 2015 saw the search engine giant make up for the mistake by coming in with two
handsets — Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X.
Handset can play high
end games, it's a powerful hardware and since apps are
getting installed on external storage — storage space will never be an issue.
We're not quite sure if we still expect Motorola to crank out the rumored 10 Android phones by the
end of the year, but we are
getting even more indication that
handsets are on the way.In Moto's quarterly financials, co-CEO Sanjay Jha says «We plan to have differentiated Android - based devices in stores in time for the fourth - quarter holiday season.»
This usually means they
end up
getting a cheap, low -
end handset with terrible performance.
Samsung is
getting ready to fight the iPhone 6 with a new kind of flagship
handset — or at least mid - to high -
end device — that's going to ditch some plastic in favor >>
What you
get with this phone is pretty good, especially for a budget
handset, but this can't compete with high -
end phone cameras.
We've seen the competition at the lower
end of the market heat up dramatically over the last couple of years and it's now eminently possible to
get a
handset for less than the price of a tank of petrol.
The UI was one of the things that were pretty bad on the Elife E7 and in the
end that
handset didn't even
got the Android Kitkat update as there was some issue according to the company that they weren't able to solve or something.
It's no secret that Microsoft is
getting out of the phone hardware business; in fact, during its last earnings call, the company said that it should be completely done selling its
handsets by the
end of June, after reporting just $ 5 million in phone revenue last quarter.