Sentences with phrase «end smartphones becoming»

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.

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.

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.»