"Modern flagships" refers to the latest and most advanced models or versions of a product, usually in the context of technology or consumer goods. These are the top-of-the-line, cutting-edge products that showcase the latest features, designs, and technologies available in the market.
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The price to performance ratio in these kinds of devices is generally fantastic — dramatically more than
most modern flagship units.
Following the success of the Honor 8, one of our favorite midrange phones of 2016, Honor is back with a new 5.15 - inch midrange phone that it hopes with will combat the rising price
of modern flagships with solid specs and a sparkling design.
The report says both Pixel devices will forgo the kind of dual - camera setup that's become common
on modern flagship phones like the iPhone 7 Plus.
This allows for optical zoom without the added thickness of its predecessor, and the artificial bokeh effects that have since become standard
in modern flagships.
Internally, the XZ1 matches
other modern flagships with a Snapdragon 835 chipset, Adreno 540 GPU, 4 GB RAM, and 64 GB of expandable storage.
The Honor 7X borrows many of the same trends
as modern flagships but manages to undercut these brands by several hundred dollars at least.
While it's interesting to learn that Google potentially did want to pursue waterproofing — like found on
modern flagships such as the iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7 — the development of any million - selling consumer product is likely to come with tight deadlines.
In other words, the Pixel 2 will be a great 2017 flagship that looks like it's from 2016, and the Pixel 2 XL will be a
great modern flagship.
The 2.3 GHz quad - core monster not only outclasses the Snapdragon S4 Pro found in last year's Nexus 4; it beats out the Snapdragon 600 chipsets found in
more modern flagships like the HTC One and Galaxy S 4 as well.
As far as LTE is concerned, you will only get Cat4, which is slightly slower than
what modern flagships come with.
Although it only has to power a 720p display, the battery here can't afford the same kind of obvious comfort you get on most
other modern flagships.
Photos of the new (and somewhat awkwardly named) LeEco Le2S were published by GizChina, which reports that the device will feature a whopping 8 GB of RAM - twice that of
many modern flagships.
Generally speaking, the displays of most budget phones, while not quite as high resolution
as modern flagships (1080p vs. 1440p), are pretty decent — Motorola puts nice - looking panels in its Moto G line, Blu devices typically have very nice displays despite their generally - low price points, and the Huawei Honor 5X sports a 1080p display that readily competes with the flagships of yesteryear.
No longer old - fashioned and quirky, the Jaguar XJ is now a wholly relevant and viable alternative to any of today's
modern flagships.
But this isn't all that interesting because
every modern flagship is the same in this regard, and the Passport, like the iPhone and LG G3, delivers solid, reliable performance across the board.The Passport is the first instance where BlackBerry has released a handset that could give any iPhone or Android handset a run for its money in terms of gross hardware and specs, however, and that is pretty interesting in itself.
In some ways, Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton are
the modern flagships of the adventure gaming genre, and it's good to see that they're still going strong.
The larger and more - premium XL model is going to sport a design much closer to that of
a modern flagship, with minimal bezels above and below the screen and a QHD display with an 18:9 aspect ratio.
The Razer Phone comes with two 12 MP cameras on the rear, one wide and one telephoto, similar to other
modern flagships.
The OnePlus 5 is
a modern flagship smartphone packing a powerful and power - hungry Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, so when an enterprising modder in China decided they weren't satisfied with their unit's battery life, they simply opened it up and swapped in a massive 8,000 mAh battery unit.
With so many new trends like dual cameras and edge - to - edge displays popping up in 2017, we wanted to see how well the Pixel XL holds up against some of today's
modern flagships, in what we're calling Pixel Week.
Like
any modern flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 5T can capture videos at up to 4K resolution and also includes a dual - LED flash.
Like most
modern flagships, the 19:10 display has an edge - to - edge design, but it goes all the way to the top, wrapping itself around the front - facing camera.
I prefer these sensors to be positioned on the back of the handset as it's a more natural position (and it would allow BoomSound to remain), but HTC's sensor here is very responsive and accurate as you'd expect from
a modern flagship.
Yes, it has issues that wouldn't fly on
a modern flagship, but it's all about keeping expectations in check here.
The area between 5 and 5.5 - inches is now the comfort zone for most
modern flagships, with those big screens featuring high resolutions, the most recent software, and generally overpowered internals.
Many of the Note Edge's specifications will feel very familiar to anyone who's scrolled through
a modern flagship specifications sheet.
Modern flagships are pretty sophisticated machines, but there are old phones that are still worth picking up or keeping hold of.
Modern flagships from Samsung and Apple, will not survive a more than a single fall.
Like most
modern flagships, the Pixel 2 XL will come with smaller bezels than its predecessor and sport a Snapdragon 835.
The OLED displays that are popular on
all modern flagships consume less power when the screen's mostly dark, since unlike LCD screens, the backlight is built into each individual pixel.
Granted, I only had limited time with the phone, but it did not feel like the complete package one expects from
a modern flagship.
As a consequence of this, the iPhone X is a fingerprint magnet; the same can also be said about nearly
all modern flagships at this point.
A bezel-less screen is just one of the features consumers have come to expect in
a modern flagship device that's missing from the OnePlus 5.
Fingerprint sensors are present on
all modern flagships but with so many designs and features, which is better?
Accessed via a recessed button that unclips the bottom chin, the removable battery is a particularly good feature to have on
a modern flagship.
For handsets supposedly designed exclusively for fans, the hardware ticks a lot of pretty standard boxes that one would expect of
a modern flagship, with few obvious considerations for what enthusiasts have specifically been asking for.
No, it doesn't have the fancier slim - body 18:9 ratio that you'll find in some other
modern flagships.
The new glass sandwich design is more in keeping with
modern flagships like the Galaxy S8 and LG V30, representing a clean break from the look and feel of previous Huawei handsets.
Although technically made out of aluminum, the special coating on the back allows for fantastic grip that's surprisingly difficult to find on
a modern flagship.
There's no nonsense here, just a compact phone with a sleek design, fast performance, all the features you'd want out of
a modern flagship and key bullet points like wireless charging, a headphone jack (with Quad DAC, naturally) and water resistance.
As is increasingly the case in
modern flagships, the Mi Mix 2 does away with the 3.5 mm headphone jack.
That's a little low for
a modern flagship; most smartphones these days stay above the 1080p threshold, and if you have exceptionally good eyes you may notice some fuzz.
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.