Dual camera was
seen on flagship phones last year but this year we are seeing decent dual camera phones in the budget segment of under 10k.
The U11 packs a 3000mAh battery, which initially had us worried as that's one of the smallest battery capacities we've
seen on a flagship phone.
Certainly, the best screen I have
seen on any flagship phone.
The first option is the legacy one too, and we still
see it on flagship phones today.
The On5 and On7 come with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box, with the newest iteration of Samsung's TouchWiz UX on top, the same one
we see on flagship phones and other recent budget phones from the company.
Not exact matches
ZTE unveiled their
flagship mobile
phone and the HTC Flyer was
seen in a hands
on walk through
on film.
Mobile
phone manufacture Sony Ericsson has unveiled their latest
flagship mobile
phone, the Xperia Arc — with the slimmest case
seen on a smartphone.
You
see, back in December, the Chinese company teased that its next
flagship phone will be using JDI's (not LG's) 5.5 - inch 2,560 x 1,440 (538 ppi) panel, which is even sharper than the 6 - inch counterpart
on the Vivo Xplay 3S.
Best I've
seen on any
phone (I've used dozen of android
flagships including pixel2) Last week I was in...
I agree that no one holds their
phones with the USB ports sticking to their noses, but it is annoying to
see such a huge color shift
on a premium
flagship display.
As you'd expect, most of the deals are
on smartphones (with a heavy emphasis
on Android
flagships like the Galaxy Note 8, Pixel 2, and Essential
Phone), but we're
seeing carriers branch out more and more into accessories this year.
Since arriving
on the scene though, we've
seen a flurry of new
flagship phones sporting similarly impressive premium bodies including the Huawei P9, HTC 10 and Samsung Galaxy S7 - all of which are also easier to grasp with a hand.
It's the best screen ever
seen in a OnePlus handset and features the same 18:9 aspect ratio
seen on the other Android
flagship phones.
While the larger Google Pixel 2 XL has an impressive screen - to - body ratio like we've
seen on other
flagships such as the Galaxy Note 8 (~ 83.2 %), Galaxy S8 (~ 83.6 %), LG V30 (~ 81.2 %), Apple iPhone X (~ 82.9 %), Essential
Phone (~ 84.9 %) etc, the regular Google Pixel 2 has comparatively thick bezels, achieving a screen - to - body ratio estimated at ~ 67.9 %.
HTC U11 as we
saw in our review, is a top - end
flagship with premium features and performance and a design unlike any other
phone on the market.
Aside from gimmicky new features, the U11 is a solid
flagship phone with top - tier specs — Snapdragon 835, 4 or 6 GB of RAM, 64 or 128 GB of storage — and one of the best cameras we've
seen on any
phone.
This is the fifth generation of LG's
flagship smartphone, and this time around, the
phone has been completely reimagined: The G5 has an aluminum case, includes a crazy expansion slot that we've never
seen on a
phone before, and supports a handful of accessories that make the
phone feel more like a toy than a smartphone.
There's no dual camera setup
on the 2017 A series models, so this mode is just a take
on the Selective focus mode
seen on Samsung's
flagship phones.
For my typical heavy usage with medium - high brightness, that's about 6 - 8 hours of screen -
on time, which is some of the best battery life I've
seen from a
flagship Android
phone in the last couple of years.
Coming to the leak about OnePlus 5T, at the OnePlus booth at the Paris Game Week (PGW), the Fnatic Players tried their hands
on the
flagships from OnePlus and we can
see in the image above that one of the players is playing game
on a
phone with 18:9 display that is surely not the OnePlus 5.
In Samsung's case, the company is still using Quick Charge 2.0, and although we're yet to
see phones with Quick Charge 4.0
on the market, a majority of
flagships today — like the HTC U11 and LG G6 — offer Quick Charge 3.0.
With last year's OnePlus 2, users did without a number of features that we might expect to
see on a more full - featured
flagship, especially in the power department: not only did the
phone lack a wireless charging option (forgivable), but there was no quick - charge mode to be found (a much harder pill to swallow).
The internals
on this
phone would be familiar to anyone who has
seen this year's
flagship phones.
The high resolution image of the OnePlus 6 shows the back of the
phone, and it looks like this could have a textured surface
on the back, rather than the plain metal design we have
seen in the previous variants of the company's
flagship phones.
I'm not saying every new
flagship phone needs to be loaded with gimmicks (
see: heart rate sensors), but there's literally no useful new technology
on the One M9.
Naturally, not all of the features
seen on the
flagship Galaxy S8 or the upcoming Note 8 (which comes with Samsung Experience 8.5 instead of version 8.1, which is
seen on the S8 and other 2017
phones) are available
on the 2016 Galaxy J models, but they do match those offered
on the 2017 models.
I'd love to
see Samsung offer a dual camera
on its smaller Galaxy S9
flagship next year, because that size — the iPhone X, Galaxy S8, Essential
Phone — hits the sweet spot for media consumption and one - handed use.
As you can
see in the image below, the Razer
Phone has very large bezels
on the top and bottom, unlike most other
flagships released this year.
So when I got the chance to get my hands
on Google's latest
flagship phone, the Google Pixel, I was pretty excited to
see what it could do.
We're yet to hear confirmation that a
flagship Windows
Phone is
on the table for Verizon (or another US carrier), but if what Elop says becomes reality then we could
see US subscribers
on networks battling AT&T able to get their paws
on an exclusive product.
We've all
seen the HTC HD2 and the HTC Evo, both with the same - sized 4.3 - inch screens, and they were both successes, so it makes sense to continue that theme
on the latest Android
flagship phone, right?
In short, the OP5t remains one of the best deals among smartphones, especially for people looking for a big screen and
flagship specs without the $ 800 price tags you
see on a lot of other competing Android
phones.
Samsung really pushed this feature into the mainstream with the Galaxy S7 (and the Galaxy S8 followed suit), but I've yet to
see other
flagship - level Android
phones join in
on the fun.
Due to an aggressive schedule that
saw the G6 hit the market ahead of other
flagships, the
phone missed out
on Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 SoC, instead relying
on the older Snapdragon 821.
I'm not specifically singling out Sony for some questionable app inclusions
on their
flagship handset — all manufacturers do it to an extent — but it's disappointing to
see a lack of quality, exclusive apps bundled
on this
phone aside from the basics.
It was and then Jacqui Cheng, we talked to her about what
phone to buy when you're
on a budget, because last year we
saw the announcement of $ 1,000
flagship smartphones, and that doesn't work for everybody.
While it almost goes without saying that launching a new
flagship phone without the latest version of Android would be a big mistake, we were glad to
see Nougat running smoothly
on the Galaxy S8 back in the spring.
Even the
flagship phones are stuck
on Android Lollipop and Marshmallow update is awaited, so
seeing the newer
phones too getting the most up - to - date Nougat update is correct an over-expectation, to be frank.
When it comes to power, both
phones are running the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset that performs particularly well
on a series of
flagship phones we've already
seen launch this year.
This week, the first curved
phone landed, two new Chromebooks launched, we feasted
on Kit Kat leaks, we finally
saw a Mini
flagship phone, we learned about Android TV, and we heard some...
«I wanted to
see how far Samsung went in «borrowing» design elements from Apple in their latest
flagship phone,» Hajek wrote
on his site.
Prior to these images, it had emerged that OnePlus is working
on a 5T smartphone that would match the designs we already
see on a number of
flagship phones from LG, Samsung, Google and Apple for that matter.
All the same, it makes perfect sense that the 2015 Moto X would have a built - in fingerprint scanner since Google announced last month at Google I / O that Android M will add native support for fingerprint scanners, which means we should start to
see fingerprint scanners
on all
flagship Android
phones going forward.
As you can
see, this
phone is listed
on Geekbench with a model number SM - G965U1, and the listing reveals that this
phone is fueled by the Snapdragon 845, the newest SoC from Qualcomm, which suggests that we're looking at a US model of the
phone here, as the European variant will almost certainly ship with Samsung's new Exynos - branded
flagship SoC.
If you want to
see more of the upcoming
flagship phone, we actually got our hands
on some exclusive photos.
Having such a large chin below the display is generally reserved for
phones with something there to serve a purpose; a fingerprint reader, home button or a speaker as we
saw on the previous two generations of
flagship Nexus devices.
We're thrilled to
see a Sony Xperia
flagship phone on Verizon Wireless, and the Xperia Z3v is worth a look if you want something that doesn't look like every other Android
phone on the market.
Seeing as how the S9 is shaping up to be a glorified spec bump of the S8, the A8 might not be a bad way to go if you'd like to save a few bucks
on your next
phone purchase while still keeping a lot of Samsung's
flagship features.
It's also possible to
see the location of the charging port, which sits dead center in the bottom part of the
phone frame just as
on all of HTC's devices from last year, and while you can't
see what type of charging port it is it's quite likely that it will be USB Type - C, as the U12 will be a
flagship phone for HTC and it hasn't used anything but USB Type - C
on its major devices for the past couple of years now.
We should
see the first
phones to feature them arrive in late - 2018, which could have an impact
on the
flagship phone releases next year.