The LG G4 was the company's
first flagship smartphone of the year, which was unveiled in April and widely released globally in June this year.
DJ Koh, president of Samsung's mobile business, said
its first flagship smartphone of the year will be unveiled at the trade show in February with the sales date also announced at the event, at a press conference for Korean media at CES.
Now, the new leaks reveal some key details about the company's
first flagship smartphone of 2018.
On LG's part, the company announced
its first flagship smartphone of this year — the LG G5 — during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in February and the mobile phone hit the shelves in April this year.
Details have started to emerge about the ZenFone 5, which will be the company's
first flagship smartphone of 2018.
Not exact matches
China's Huawei unveiled its
flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its
first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier
of mobile technology.
Toyota's next - generation Avalon
flagship sedan features more aggressive bodywork, an updated platform to improve driving dynamics and the company's
first implementation
of Apple CarPlay after years
of remaining one
of the few holdouts on
smartphone integration.
With the BlackBerry Bold 9900 hitting the market
first and being positioned as the new
flagship device
of the BlackBerry 7
Smartphone lineup, a lot
of people — myself included — intially questioned the need for yet another Bold.
We exclusively reported details
of Google's
first Ice Cream Sandwich
smartphone — either a Nexus device, or a «pure Google»
flagship handset from one
of Google's key partners — and we now have >>
The Vertu Signature Touch is the manufacturer's
first Android
smartphone with
flagship specs that wouldn't be out
of place on a Samsung or HTC phone, but features materials that no
smartphone manufacturer would ever touch without significant cost increases.
A former LG
flagship device, age has done little to take away from the excellence
of the LG G6 + which lays claim to being one
of the
first smartphones to offer a 5.7 - inch QHD plus display.
From the looks
of it, Samsung's (005930)
flagship Galaxy S III
smartphone may be among the
first non-Nexus Android devices to be updated to Jelly Bean.
Samsung Galaxy S is the
first member
of Sammy's successful family
of flagship smartphones.
As previously reported, the HTC One Mini is the
first variant
of the HTC One
flagship Android
smartphone for the struggling manufacturer, the phone is slightly different to the original One
flagship with 16 GB
of storage built in and a 1.4 GHz dual - core Snapdragon 400 series processor with 1 GB
of RAM.
It may be out
of the question entirely for the Galaxy S8 since the next
flagship is expected to be the
first smartphone to feature optical fingerprint recognition technology which will be baked inside the display itself.
One
of the
first things you will notice when looking at the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is that it takes after Sammy's premium design language seen with their
flagship Android
smartphones.
Shenzhen, China (December 28, 2016)-- Ahead
of the keynote address by Richard Yu, CEO
of HUAWEI Consumer Business Group (CBG) at CES 2017, CBG today announced that the company has shipped more than 10 million HUAWEI P9 / HUAWEI P9 Plus
smartphones globally, making it the company's
first flagship series to top the 10 million mark.
It also has 120Hz screen which is the
first of its kind in a
smartphone and quite unique when compared to many similar devices offered by Samsung, LG or Huawei on the
flagship front.
Another
smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, has noted that its next
flagship will feature the Snapdragon 845 — it didn't mention when that
flagship would be unveiled, and there was no mention
of it being the
first device to feature the new chip.
Huawei's top -
of - the - line
flagship isn't the
first smartphone in the market to cross the $ 1000 price barrier though.
The HTC U11 was announced in May as HTC's
flagship smartphone for the
first half
of 2017.
Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, Newegg and,
of course, ZTE's own US e-store are finally accepting pre-orders for the self - described «
first Android
smartphone to break away from other
flagships with specs that outperform rivals at an unbeatable price.»
A few days back, the
first clear renders
of Huawei's upcoming
flagship Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro
smartphones had been leaked on the web.
The
first batch
of ASUS ZenFone 2 devices landed back in January 2015, and the highest - end device released during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January was the ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML), ASUS»
flagship and the
first 4 GB RAM
smartphone in the world.
While the phone sports many
of the same innovative features and specs that earned its sibling, the Lumia 920,
Smartphone of the Year honors, you can tell Nokia designers wanted to give Verizon's
first flagship a unique spin.
The
smartphone is the
first of Huawei's global
flagships to have availability in the U.S.
The OnePlus 3 may not stand out from the crowd at
first glance, but as I hold it and use it I see elements
of other
flagships smartphones that are $ 200 to nearly $ 500 more expensive.
The Verizon variants
of the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are the
first 2017
flagship Samsung
smartphones to get Oreo in the US.
In spite
of the bad stint with the Note 7, the entire world is waiting to see Samsung release their
first flagship smartphone in over a year.
Huawei launches a P - series
smartphone in the
first quarter
of every year followed by the P - line
flagship, and at the end, it launches their V - series
flagships.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are the
first flagship smartphones from Samsung to come without the default music player pre-installed and this is probably the beginning
of a new trend.
With the release
of the Galaxy A8 (2018) and A8 + (2018), we're bringing our customers» favorite features from our
flagship smartphones, such as the Infinity Display and our
first Dual Front Camera with Live Focus, to our Galaxy A series, which is already known for its premium design.
While the G2 wasn't the
first flagship - level
smartphone from LG, it was the start
of the manufacturer tapping resources from its various component companies — LG Display, LG Innotek and LG Chem — to create a differentiated high - end
smartphone.
LG has hinted that the company's next - generation
flagship smartphone will arrive in the
first half
of 2018.
As a reminder, the Mi 6 was Xiaomi's
flagship smartphone for the
first half
of 2017.
But here we are, mere days after the long overdue US pre-order start
of the «highly anticipated» Nokia 6, drooling at the prospect
of «sophisticated
smartphone imaging» baked into the Finnish company's impending
first flagship product.
The Xiaomi Mi 6 was Xiaomi's
flagship smartphone for the
first half
of 2017.
LG was one
of the
first to announce a
flagship smartphone in 2017 with the G6.
Samsung is on the cusp
of officially announcing its
first flagship smartphone since the Galaxy Note 7, which was recalled and now going to be sold in some markets as a refurbished device.
Samsung is gearing up for its
first flagship launched
of 2018: the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 +
smartphones, both
of which will be unveiled a day ahead
of the official Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
At Mobile World Congress last month we met some
of the
first smartphones running Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, including new
flagships from Sony and Samsung.
Beyond the removal
of the standard Touch ID home button and the arrival
of the often derided display «notch» (more on this later), the most significant buzz surrounding the iPhone X stems from the fact that this is the
first time Apple has redesigned its
flagship smartphone in roughly four years, dating all the way back to the release
of the iPhone 6.
Based on this information, there will be no
flagship smartphone from HTC & Nokia in the
first half
of 2018.
It's clear that Samsung wants to follow the growing trend
of slapping dual cameras at the back
of smartphones and once the
first one is out, it's only going to be a matter
of time before all Samsung
flagships and premium mid-range handsets at the very least begin sporting these advanced cameras.
Sony will be launching its new
flagship smartphone and couple
of other mid-range
smartphones in the
first quarter
of 2018.
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.
The iPhone 5s was the company's
flagship smartphone and featured a premium design constructed out
of aluminum and packed in the world's
first 64 - bit
smartphone processor.
As exclusively leaked by SamMobile earlier, the Galaxy Alpha's core, main device frame and sides, are made out
of aluminium instead
of plastic, while Samsung is using the the same perforated back panel as seen on the company's
flagship smartphone, Galaxy S5, and tablet, Galaxy Tab S. Alpha is the
first device to use Samsung's latest «new materials» strategy.
Google is also about to unleash its next
flagship Nexus
smartphones in the form
of the LG Nexus 5 (2015) and Huawei Nexus phablet, which will be the
first devices to ship with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
The company also gave fans the
first look at the design
of its upcoming
flagship smartphone.