Like most flagship devices, both the Mate 7 and Mate S are equipped with a range of features that we've come to expect from the best devices on the market.
Not exact matches
The phone's metal, glass and rubber aesthetic allows the Motion to compete favourably with other mid-range
devices from Asus, Huawei, Alcatel or Motorola, but there's no way that the
device can compete in the same space as phones
like the Samsung Galaxy S7 or the iPhone 6S or the iPhone 7 —
devices that are admittedly costlier than the Motion and older than the current generation of
flagships, but that are nonetheless the
devices that
most people will settle on for brand reasons, performance reasons or both.
BlackBerry's
most recent
flagship launched to many raised eyebrows and quizzical looks from the tech press, but the consumer reaction was highly mixed, it's become the definition of a «Marmite»
device - people either love the thing
like it's going out of fashion, or can't stand the sight of it.
Most of the people who'd care to try Windows 10 on their phones will likely have a
flagship device like the HTC One M8 or the Lumia 930.
Like most flagships, both
devices also come with a blue - light filter, which is branded as «Eye Comfort» mode and works just as you'd expect by changing the display tone to a much warmer color.
In our opinion, a 6.2 - inch display doesn't seem
like something that Samsung would opt for in their premier
flagship device as
most people are not fond of gigantic phablets above the 6 - inch category.
In 2018, we all know that Snapdragon 845 is coming which will power
most of the high - end
flagship devices like the Galaxy S9.
The
device looks
like a fairly typical
flagship phone in
most respects: It's got a strong chipset, a sharp display, dual cameras, and the
like.
Of course, that's the whole point of taking apart
devices like this, but the new Google
flagship, arguably the
most interesting stuff to see are the Active Edge technology and the secret image processor called the Pixel Visual Core.
The new
device still comes with an AMOLED display, but it has an 18:9 aspect ratio, meaning the display encompasses
most of the front of the
device,
like other 2017
flagship devices have done such as the LG G6.
We're only a few days away from Samsung's official announcement of the Galaxy S9 on February 25th, but as has been the case for the past few years, it seems
like most of the information about the upcoming
flagship device has made its way online a little earlier than Samsung would have
liked.
This is a behemoth of a
device that eclipses
most of the bigger
flagships like the LG V20, Pixel XL, and iPhone 7 Plus.
Like that
device, which helped establish Honor as a serious disruptor amongst Android manufacturers, the 9 is a highly competent smartphone, with the
most up - to - date version of Android, with all the trappings of a premium
flagship.
While this in itself is not confirmation that the
likes of Sony's upcoming
flagship Xperia XZ
devices (currently rumored for an MWC 2018 announcement) will come with an active fingerprint sensor — they
most likely will.
So far we've seen what Android 5.0 Lollipop will look
like on the Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy Note 3 but not on Samsung's
most recent
flagship device, the Galaxy...
The new 6P
flagship not only makes Android Marshmallow shine - phew, finally a Huawei phone with decent software - but it also makes
most of the other Android
devices currently available seem
like part of the «everything else» crowd.
Google is rumoured to be developing a new laptop that might fall under the «Pixel» brand name - just
like the company's upcoming Pixel
flagship phones, but the
most remarkable thing about this yet - to - be-unveiled
device, which goes by the codename Bison or nickname Pixel 3, is it will run on an entirely new operating system that merges Android with Chrome OS.
On paper, the Nexus 5 looks
like a solid
device that should keep up with
most flagship Android
devices currently available.
The phrase «high - end compact» makes sense here because whenever a
flagship smartphone (which now is over 5 - inch in
most of the cases) is launched, there is a smaller variant of it also made so that the users get the same experience, interface but a smaller screen if they didn't
like the large
device.
This allows developers to get more out of the hardware in your
device, particularly if it has a multi-core CPU
like most modern
flagships.
This year has easily been one of the
most high profile for the technology, with support for the feature not just baked in to
flagship devices like the Galaxy S6, but also receiving a lot more support on the charger side,
like with what IKEA's doing with embedded chargers in furniture.