That's something that's becoming increasingly important as low -
end smartphones become more powerful and therefore more attractive to those in the developed world.
But as technology gets better and cheaper, we're starting to see low -
end smartphones becoming extremely capable devices, like the Moto G I reviewed last year.
Not exact matches
But that ride is
ending now too as
smartphones become commoditized.
Meanwhile, Samsung took less than two years to
become the bestselling
smartphone seller (for each of the past three quarters), grabbing high -
end market share from the almighty iPhone.
Also, with cloud - based ticketing systems, clients can access and manage the ticketing back -
end in a much simpler and easier fashion than the older terminal based systems - now anyone with a mobile
smartphone can
become a ticketing POS.»
By the
end of 2017, Xiaomi topped Samsung to lead sales charts in India, which had surpassed America to
become the world's second - largest
smartphone market after China.
There was also talk of the Ascend D2 (pictured above) and its impressive specs list included a 13MP camera which, as we've noted earlier, in terms of an attribute is fast -
becoming an industry standard towards the higher
end of the
smartphone spectrum.
If you have
become frustrated with Android and are no Apple fan, then the webOS platform may
end up
becoming a major competitor in the
smartphone and tablet market.
Are you one of those people who try to get the best of both worlds, with both a small tablet and a large
smartphone tucked into one device, and then
end up buying a 6 - inch phablet or 7 - inch tablet phone and thus
become an easy target for ridicule and primitive jokes?
Compromises were few and far between and you really had to dig to find them: no support for CDMA networks such as Verizon or Sprint, and no water resistance, which has
become a headline feature of high -
end smartphones recently.
If you happen to be using it in tablet mode and stress the processor, you may feel the right side of the back
become uncomfortably warm, but no more so than a high -
end smartphone.
This has
become a growing trend of late for top -
end devices, ever since since last year when LG and Samsung introduced their 2017 flagship
smartphones, the LG G6 and Galaxy S8, respectively.
And while most OEMs only update high -
end and popular mid-range
smartphones to major new versions of Android, HMD Global has bucked the trend, promising to update all current Nokia
smartphones not only to Android Oreo, but to Android P, too, when it
becomes available.
With 8.2 million shipments in Q4 2017, Xiaomi has overtaken Samsung to
become the largest
smartphone brand in India,
ending the South Korean manufacturer's six - year run.
Towards the
end of the year, it also
became the top
smartphone vendor in India, the...
The camera app that came pre-installed with the Essential Phone is as basic as
smartphone camera apps come in 2017, with features that have
become frequent inclusions on other high -
end devices absent.
Looking at the current crop of high -
end and mid-range
smartphones, it is immediately noticeable that design has
become a very important aspect of the
smartphone experience.
Expect 6 GB RAM and the Snapdragon 821 to
become the high -
end norm with the next crop of
smartphones (Xiaomi just announced the Mi 5s Plus with those internals).
Sometimes you'd
end up fumbling to find them in the dark, and although it
becomes an impulsive thing after few days of usage, this is a poor design element in a
smartphone at this price.
Xiaomi has joined hands with Samsung to
become the number one
smartphone company in India for the quarter (Q3)
ending September.
Motorola announced the original Moto G in November last year and it
ended up
becoming one of the greatest phones of 2013 thanks to its performance, lovely design and, perhaps most importantly, a budget # 135 price tag.It was a game - changer in the
smartphone arena,... Read more
Remember, all this extra real estate has not made OnePlus 5T a larger phone, which is what most 6 - inch
smartphones end up
becoming.
Finally, just like last year's S7, the S8 is IP68 water and dust - resistant, though this has
become an expected feature in most high -
end Android
smartphones, with Google's Pixel being the most notable exception.
OnePlus 6, which is the company's upcoming flagship
smartphone is expected to
become official towards the
end of June.
OnePlus is a small Chinese
smartphone brand that has made a big impact by offering high -
end specs for low prices, but it has
become the first
smartphone manufacturer to say it could raise the price of its flagship device as a result of the U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union.
Both the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus are expected to
become huge commercial hits and will likely
end up being some of the best - selling
smartphones this year.
«Dual - camera to
become a must - have feature for high -
end smartphone.
The technology certainly isn't a gimmick when it comes to virtual reality applications, but whether or not 90Hz, 120Hz, or even higher rates
end up
becoming a standard for
smartphones might well depend on the future market penetration and success of VR — an issue that's still very much an unanswered question.
As you might imagine, emulating newer consoles
becomes tricky without high -
end hardware, but even Android
smartphones can emulate some older consoles.
Aside from the highest specs found in any Lumia
smartphone, these rumored duo has something that is
becoming rare in high -
end smartphone these days: removable batteries.
It was announced ahead of HTC and Nokia's offerings, but Samsung somehow missed the originally planned release date and the
smartphone become available just before the
end of 2012.
While the specs of high -
end smartphones are
becoming increasingly less important when it comes to differentiating manufacturer's devices, rest assured, Samsung's latest
smartphone is poised to pack a significant amount of power.
While Huawei hasn't needed American customers to
become a powerhouse, it believes that it needs to succeed in the US if it's going to challenge Apple in the high -
end smartphone world beyond technological oneupmanship.
However, Huawei is
becoming increasingly sceptical about the viability of low - margin
smartphone manufacturing, particularly in the low -
end market.
If the Note 9 does
end up
becoming a foldable
smartphone, Samsung would be making a huge leap with a radical new design.
While it remains to be seen whether Android as a whole manages to increase its market lead by the
end of the year, the
smartphone industry in general is expected to
become even more competitive in the coming months.
As the criteria (price, most importantly) for defining a «high -
end»
smartphone becomes more and more blurred, new devices are filling in the gaps of the evolving
smartphone market.
Not every high
end smartphone uses this sort of glass design, but it's
becoming more common and I love it.
Any of these features could be make or break additions depending on what you are looking for from your
smartphone experience, but it has to be said that ingress protection is something that is
becoming a standard feature with high -
end releases.
The company has also recently
become the second - largest
smartphone vendor in the country after Samsung, and expects to overtake the South Korean giant by the
end of this decade.
With wireless speakers and smart home setups
becoming more common, and the headphone jack already disappearing from a number of high -
end smartphones, let's weigh up the merits and drawbacks of Bluetooth audio.
Chinese phone maker Vivo then
ended up
becoming the first OEM to release a
smartphone with a fingerprint scanner beneath the screen.
Optical image stabilization is
becoming a common feature for the rear cameras on high -
end smartphones, and the HTC is no exception.
Fingerprint sensors are
becoming all the rage these days, with nearly all well - known
smartphone manufacturers implementing the feature into their high -
end handsets, but iris scanning technology has been something of a whisper.
Samsung also lost its crown in China to upstart Xiaomi — maker of the Mi2, Mi3 and low -
end Red Rice phone — which
became the country's biggest
smartphone seller.
As Canalys analyst Chris Jones said in a statement for PC Magazine, «In the space of a few years,
smartphones have grown from being a niche product segment at the high -
end of the mobile phone market to
becoming a truly mass - market proposition.»