Sentences with phrase «mid-range phones of this year»

Let's take a look at the absolute best mid-range phones of this year.

Not exact matches

We asked recently if 2016 will be the year of the mid-range phone.

Though there are plenty of people who will argue that they have been happily using mid-range phones for years, or point to the raft of low - end and mid-range phones smartphone manufacturers have been pumping out since about 2008, it's only in the last couple of years that mid-range stopped meaning «old» and started meaning «less powerful.»

Though, the iPhone 7 arrives at a time when consumers are holding onto their phones for longer stretches of time, and this premium phone faces intense competition from mid-range and flagship phones from last year.

Sure, the company was able to carve out a small niche, but with mid-range, affordable phones becoming increasingly popular over the years, combined with the little room it already had, it was only a matter of time until Vertu would collapse.

Only at the beginning of this year did Samsung's bezel-less screens make it to the company's premium mid-range phones — the Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8 + (2018), albeit not the curved kind seen on the Galaxy S8.

To make things worse, Samsung has also dropped the ball in the last year or so is with its mid-range phones — the 2017 editions of the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 have poor cameras that just don't belong on phones that cost as much as these handsets do.

As usually happens, the design technology will trickle down to mid-range and even budget phones before next year is out, so you won't have to spend hundreds of dollars or pounds just to get your hands on these big, beautiful displays.

The arrival of the Huawei P10 Plus and its smaller sibling, the P10, mark the first time a Huawei flagship has made it to Canada, joining the ranks of the Nova Plus and assorted other mid-range and budget Huawei phones that have trickled into Canadian carriers over the past few years.

Xiaomi Mi A1 is the first Xiaomi phone with stock Android and is one of the most popular mid-range device of the year.

Sony's latest mid-ranger, announced at Mobile World Congress, is a 64 - bit waterproof phone running Lollipop out of the box [custom: mwc15] Sony didn't surprise us with a new high - end flagship phone at Mobile World Congress this year, however it did introduce a solid new mid-range handset — the Xperia M4 Aqua.

The person also let us know that both the Verizon and unlocked versions of the Moto Z Play, our favorite mid-range phone of last year, would get Android 7.0 in March,» notes the publication.

Will you be picking up any of this year's mid-range Android phones?

Last year the Honor 8 emerged as a decent bet for anyone wanting a lot of phone for not a lot of money — but in many ways it was still a mid-range phone.

The MediaTek Helio P40 processor is expected to be launched at the end of this year and be applied to Chinese mid-range phones next year.

Over the last year or 18 months, Lumia phones have proved to be reliably mid-range or even low - end affairs, but, thanks to their Nokia heritage, they're also reliably solid in terms of construction.

As already mentioned, it was not mentioned what phone exactly will sport Synaptics» new fingerprint scanner, but it could be the company's next - in - line OPPO R - series smartphone, though it's also possible that OPPO may release a top - of - the - line device next year, with high - end specifications, and include such a fingerprint scanner in that package instead, as the company's R series of devices is quite compelling, but those are all mid-range phones.

It is a decidedly mid-range phone for the frontline brand that has echoes of the Enjoy 7S that was released in China near the end of last year and, thus, many of specs are said to carry over to the P smart: 13 - megapixel and 2 - megapixel cameras at the back, a Kirin 659 chipset and a 5.65 - inch double - wide full HD display.

In the short - term, Samsung is planning to increase shipments of its mid-range smartphones in Q1 2017 but is expecting to see slightly weaker phone profits as its flagship devices with largest profit margins likely won't launch until the second quarter of the year.

After launching its third flagship, the OnePlus 3, the company recorded unprecedented demand for the phone thanks to the facts that it carried the best hardware specs of the year alongside a mid-range price.

In the somewhat troubled downhill path it entered a couple of years ago, HTC decided to change things up towards the end of last year, introducing a somewhat controversial new mid-range phone, the A9.

You won't have the performance of mid-range phones produced this or last year, but you will be able to open apps and browse the web, no problem.

But it's competitive for its mid-range price by beating almost all of last year's top phones.

Over the past year or so, we have seen a lot of phones in the mid-range segment with «battery» being pitched as the USP.

Android users the world over were treated to quite the change of pace last year when the folks from the newly formed Cyanogen Inc. and a spinoff from Oppo launched a new high - end phone with a mid-range price tag.

Samsung has a varied treatment for its different lineup of mobile devices: flagship phones get three years of software support, while budget and mid-range offerings get two.

It'll be a busy season for the company as it already has a dozen phones to update, four of those being mid-range Moto G phones that are only slated for a one - year OS update window.

Finally, there's Huawei's Honor 8, which was our one of our top mid-range phones last year and remains our top pick under $ 400.