But to be fair, Vivo deserves its reputation, as it was among
the first phone makers to actually launch a smartphone with a QHD display on the market.
Nokia was one of
the first phone makers to embrace notifications and information on a phone display when it's off, and while others have followed HMD is now bringing back the always - on display.
Google says that
first phone makers to add these changes are Sony Mobile, LG, and Xiaomi.
The Chinese original equipment manufacturer started distributing the first Android 8.0 beta build to select Axon 7 owners enrolled in the experimental program and has reportedly bundled the OS with Google's January security patch, thus becoming one of
the first phone makers to roll out the said update to one of its products.
(Though sure, it's not
the first phone maker to do so.)
It's worth noting that HMD isn't
the first phone maker to do this: Both Samsung and LG have used similar double - camera modes on flagship phones from years ago.
If Pan's analysis is true, the Vivo would be
the first phone maker to commercialize the new technology that everyone initially thought that Samsung or Apple would accomplish first.
Huawei isn't
the first phone maker to introduce a Windows tablet, there's also the excellent Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, which also happens to be its closest competitor.
Huawei isn't
the first phone maker to put the camera front and center on its latest devices.
Not exact matches
«If we were at the thickness that was introduced with the
first smartphone, your
phone wouldn't break in a normal drop event,» said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Gorilla Glass at Corning, the 167 - year - old glass
maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm thick.
The newest flagship from the Taiwanese
phone maker doesn't come off like a groundbreaking upgrade from past HTC
phones at
first blush, but it does pack a host of little things worth noting.
The
first pocket - sized quantum encryption device has been created in collaboration with the Finnish
phone -
maker Nokia, and could let you send completely secure messages — although you will need to plug it into a quantum
phone booth to do so.
Interestingly, it's not the
first time that the Finnish
phone maker has been associated with a tablet running Windows RT, though... [Read more...]
Interestingly, it's not the
first time that the Finnish
phone maker has been associated with a tablet running Windows RT, though Nokia loyalists surely hope this is the last time they see Nokia being linked with a Windows RT tablet.
for the
first time outside of Windows Finnish mobile
phone maker Nokia has unveiled the next update to the Symbian ^ 3
phone operating system, known as the codename «Belle», will feature free Microsoft Office applications.
Canada's Research in Motion,
maker of the Blackberry, knocked Motorola off the list of the world's top five mobile
phone manufacturers in the
first quarter of 2010, industry tracker IDC said Friday.
This isn't the
first time Selfridges and RIM has teamed up to sell trendy models, just last year the high - end store commissioned the handset
maker to customise BlackBerry Bold 9000
phone's in Selfridges» pantone 109 yellow colours for their 100th anniversary.
Announced together at CES 2013 in January, Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZL were to of the most popular smartphones that showed up at the Las Vegas - based event, being the
first smartphones of the Japanese
phone maker powered by a quad - core processor.
Following a year - long collaboration with Synaptics, Chinese
phone maker Vivo has unveiled the
first device to use such a solution.
Nokia's Communicator series has always been a good seller for the Finnish
phone makers, ever since they
first began to arrive back in 1996 where the Nokia 9000 Communicator was even featured in the 1997 Val Kilmer «Saint» film.
Similarly, Microsoft has said that Windows
Phone 7 handset
makers sold 1.5 million
phones to wireless carriers in the
first six weeks — actual useful information that can be used for at least ballpark comparisons with other stats such as Google's claim of 300,000 Android activations per day.
The HTC Merge will launch this spring as the
phone maker's
first Android CDMA world
phone on Verizon Wireless and other networks.
BlackBerry
maker Research In Motion Ltd. will kick off a critical, long - overdue makeover when chief executive Thorsten Heins shows off the
first phone with the new BlackBerry 10 system in New York on Wednesday.
It would be Amazon's
first shot at a smartphone, and with how much success it's seen in the tablet market, it's an entrant that existing
phone makers will want to take seriously.
Today, the Canadian smartphone
maker has showed off
first official images of the
phone.
Candian mobile
phone maker RIM has announced two of their BlackBerry handsets have gained MasterCard PayPass abilities for NFC based contactless payments — where the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones are the
first SIM - based devices to gain this accreditation.
WP7, a cut above the rest, if not a little pasty Seattle software
makers Microsoft has deployed the
first major update to their mobile
phone Windows Phone 7 OS, which brings with it the much awaited Cut and Paste fea
phone Windows
Phone 7 OS, which brings with it the much awaited Cut and Paste fea
Phone 7 OS, which brings with it the much awaited Cut and Paste feature.
RIM's developers Blog lists the upcoming BlackBerry 9380 as having a 3.2 - inch 480 x 360 pixels touch screen, with a 189 ppi — which will be the
first touch screen Curve handset, in the Canadian mobile
phone maker's arsenal.
Nokia launched the Lumia 800 at the Finnish
phone maker's annual symposium last week, as the
first flagship handset to arrive from the company with the Microsoft mobile
phone OS.
This isn't the
first time a mobile
phone maker has teamed up with a well - known designer, as LG has had handsets designed by Prada and Giorgio Armani have produced Samsung
phones — with a notable redesign of the Samsung Galaxy S.
The HTC Rezound is the
first phone in the United States to offer Beats Audio technology after HTC paid a large sum to acquire the
maker of high - end headphones.
Finnish handset
maker Nokia has announced an update is available for their
first ever Microsoft Windows
Phone 7 based Lumia 800 mobile p
Phone 7 based Lumia 800 mobile
phonephone.
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Gaming peripheral and accessory
maker Hori on Thursday, June 1, unveiled the world's
first Nintendo Switch - compatible headset, and it's nothing short of complicated — because this headset needs a dongle, a
phone, and wires to work.
Hauwei is
first among Chinese
phone makers in market share and third in the world behind Apple and Samsung.
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first handset with a notch, but most
phone makers have since copied Apple's take, which goes for a slightly broader cu
phone makers have since copied Apple's take, which goes for a slightly broader cutout.
The Chinese
phone maker is introducing a new Moto Z line as well as the
first consumer device with Google's Project Tango augmented reality.
First AT&T, then Verizon, and most recently BestBuy have all canceled deals to carry Huawei
phones in their stores, an arrangement the Chinese
phone maker desperately needed as it seeks to gain traction in the US.
Samsung stopped the rollout of its
first stable build of Android 8.0 Oreo for the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus due to random reboots affecting some devices after installing the update, the South Korean
phone maker said Thursday in a statement provided to SamMobile.
Plus, this is the
first Samsung
phone using USB - C, making things a bit trickier for case
makers.
After Android
phone makers collectively pointed and laughed at iPhone X and its «horns,» it's taken less than six months for the
first imitators to arrive.
Open Whisper Systems, a
maker of a widely used encryption app called Signal, received a subpoena in the
first half of the year for subscriber information and other details associated with two
phone numbers that came up in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia.
Huawei's also the
first big
phone maker to ship ARM's new Mali - G71 8 - core GPU, with the Mate 9 using the next - gen graphics processor that's expected to feature in the Galaxy S8 next year.
But Apple, like other handset
makers, is facing waning excitement over
phones, something that led its iPhone sales to drop for the
first time ever in 2016.
If reports are anything to go by, Google approached Huawei
first for its Pixel
phones but the Chinese smartphone
maker declined citing lack of Huawei branding on the latest
phones.
The Chinese
phone maker sold 34.7 million smartphones in the
first half of the year, a bit short of its 2015 target.
The next handset from the # 3
phone maker on the planet will come with the company's own Kirin 970 chipset, which will feature AI processing capabilities, making it the
first - ever Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for smartphones.
The path from
maker to user for a third - party Android
phone typically entails four steps:
First, a new version of the operating system is released.
India's largest handset
maker — by a considerable margin — has deemed it reasonable to launch a
phone powered by CPU cores that debuted in the
first - gen Snapdragon 200 and 400 SoCs in 2013.
The Alcatel 1X in particular will be the
maker's
first phone to offer Android Oreo, pairing it with an 18:9 display and other «premium» features.