I am not fully convinced that a curved
smartphone at last year's hardware is worth the premium price of $ 299.
It scooped best
smartphone at last year's T3 Awards, while it's been at the top of the tree in our best smartphones roundup.
Keep in mind the company launched the nostalgic Nokia 3310 and showcased the first of its Android
smartphones at last year's Mobile World Congress.
Not exact matches
A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine)
last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing
smartphone business;
at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a
year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street
at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.
«During the first eight months of 2016, Apple saw its
smartphone market share remain
at a record low compared to the
last few
years,» Counterpoint research director Jeff Fieldhack wrote.
Park - goers can now use their laptops,
smartphones and tablets to surf the web free of charge, thanks to an initiative started
last year by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
AT&T that will provide free Internet access
at 26 park locations across the city.
Last year David Crandall, now
at Indiana University in Bloomington, analysed the geotags on Flickr photographs — the latitude - longitude coordinates that most
smartphones and many cameras add automatically to photographs.
Last year, a survey by
smartphone maker HTC found 37 per cent of UK adults had met a partner via dating apps, with 35 per cent of those in Scotland adding... socially
at the best venues in Edinburgh and avoid wasting time with...
A woman poses for a
smartphone photo
at a booth for Chinese tech firm Tencent
at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing,
last year.
Sessions
at last year's Show provided expert advice on how to deal with customers walking into your showroom with loaded weapons — their
smartphones.
The company is also going ahead with its plans of doubling the Noida plant capacity
at an investment of Rs 5,000 crore, announced
last year, despite the
smartphone segment expanding
at «a rate of low double digits», he said.
According to a report published in December
last year, the
smartphone could be announced
at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.
Last week's leaked 2012 BlackBerry Roadmap slide deck brought with it a ton of goodies for the new
year, but one thing that was missing was a fresh look
at a BlackBerry 10
Smartphone Superphone.
Officially unveiled
at the end of
last year the m1 Note can be characterized as an affordable take on the phablet space with a MediaTek MT6752 chipset powering a heavily customized Flyme UI that tries to carve out its own interpretation of what a large Android
smartphone can be.
Last year in December, Oppo announced Android powered
smartphone the Oppo Find 5 but
at that time, the mobile manufacturer offered only the white variant of the device.
Even though the
smartphone was launched
at Rs 14,999 in August
last year, the Moto G5S recently received a permanent price cut of Rs 5,000, after which it costs Rs 9,999.
Consumers should want a
smartphone that can
last —
at least — the duration of a two
year contract.
After successes like the 2014 Moto X, the DROID Turbo and the Nexus 6, it seems that Motorola has brought their A-game with devices, so it can be hard to imagine why they wouldn't want to try their hand
at tablets again, but when you consider the launches and lifespan of the
last two tablets they offered, the Xyboard lineup which launched on Verizon Wireless a few
years back, those devices were a far cry from the type of success seen by Motorola's most recent
smartphones.
Last year, iBall unveiled its Andi Avonte 5
smartphone, priced
at Rs. 5,999, which featured rotating 8 - megapixel autofocus camera with dual - LED flash.
Unlike
last year, Huawei is not coming to MWC with a new P - series
smartphone, namely the rumored P20, probably due to Samsung unveiling its highly anticipated Galaxy S9
at the show.
The Samsung Galaxy On7 Pro was launched
last year in July, slightly priced above Rs 10,00 o. However, the
smartphone got a price slash, and currently retails
at Rs 8,990 offering VoLTE support.
The BlackBerry KEYOne was announced earlier this
year at MWC and is the
last smartphone to be designed in - house by BlackBerry before TCL took over.
BlackBerry introduced Priv as the company's first Android
smartphone with a slide - out Keyboard back in October 2015 running Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) and it was launched in India in January
last year at a hefty price tag.
This Alcatel
smartphone with modular functionality is also rumored to be the Idol 5
smartphone, which would essentially be the successor to Idol 4 which was launched
at the MWC
last year.
Huawei is best known for making
smartphones at a variety of different price points from entry to high - end, but over the
last few
years the company has also worked to build itself a name in the tablet space with its MediaPad range.
The
smartphone, which was unveiled
at Mobile World Congress
last year, created quite the buzz as its features two displays — an LCD primary display and an E-Ink secondary display.
Nintendo announced
last year that they would be partnering with DeNA to jointly develop games and applications for
smartphones and tablets with an aim to bring
at least 5 games to market by the end of March 31st 2017.
In a report
last November, Civilisation 2030: The near future for law firms, the consultants look
at trends like
smartphones and digital memory to predict that the next 15
years will likely result in artificial intelligence being used extensively in the legal industry.
Since most
smartphones,
at least for the
last few
years, have a pretty good camera, as well as WiFi, as well as a decent enough processor to run as a dedicated security camera, an old iPhone or Android phone can easily be used as an additional measure of office security (or home security).
Over the
last couple of
years a variety of different web services (e.g. Gowalla, Foursquare) have cropped up that enable users to «check - in»
at various real - world locations (think restaurants, coffee houses, nightclubs, etc.) from their
smartphones.
Following the huge success of
last year's budget - friendly Idol 3 handset, Alcatel (formerly Alcatel OneTouch) announced two new
smartphones at MWC 2016.
In July
last year, Chinese phone company Doogee released the Mix — an intriguing, if not flawed, stab
at a bezelless
smartphone.
Huawei is the world's third - largest
smartphone vendor after Samsung and Apple — shipping 153 million
smartphones last year — and the P20 is a statement of Huawei's ambition to be a major player, according to Dominic Sunnebo, global director
at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
At an event held at the same time last year, Google brought the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, Daydream VR headset, Google Wifi, and Google Chromecast 4K Ultra, and announced plans to launch the Actions on Google platform for third - party developers to create voice apps for Google Assistan
At an event held
at the same time last year, Google brought the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, Daydream VR headset, Google Wifi, and Google Chromecast 4K Ultra, and announced plans to launch the Actions on Google platform for third - party developers to create voice apps for Google Assistan
at the same time
last year, Google brought the Pixel and Pixel XL
smartphones, Daydream VR headset, Google Wifi, and Google Chromecast 4K Ultra, and announced plans to launch the Actions on Google platform for third - party developers to create voice apps for Google Assistant.
Reading the title of Samsung's latest press release, «Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Named Best
Smartphone at MWC 2017», you may have done a bit of a double take — didn't Samsung release this phone coinciding with
last year's MWC?
Android 6.0 Marshmallow is not just for
smartphones and tablets as it's going to be coming to Android Wear devices as well, and
at this very moment it seems that the Marshmallow update has begun to push out to all three variants of the Moto 360 which includes the original Moto 360 from 2014, as well as the Moto 360 2nd gen from
last year and the more recently launched Moto 360 Sport smartwatches.
It's the latest flagship from one of the top
smartphone makers in the world, but this
year's version has a lot in common with
last year's model,
at least on the surface.
Instead of launching a new flagship
smartphone at the MWC 2018, LG came up with an upgraded variant of the
last year's LG V30
smartphone.
The one thing that needs to be noted here, is that in a benchmark test conducted by DxOMark
last year, the Pixel (and Pixel XL) camera received a score of 89 — the highest yet for a
smartphone at the time.
At the end of
last year, SIRIN LABS closed a successful initial coin offering (ICO), reported to be fourth largest of all time, and collected nearly USD 159 million, with the goal of developing the FINNEY family of consumer electronics, including the upcoming ultra-secure
smartphone as well as an all - in - one desktop PC.
It is actually a bit surprising to find such an elegant piece of hardware with the best specifications of any
smartphone available on US carriers
at the same price as
last year's S8 Plus when we have the Apple iPhone X starting
at $ 1,000.
We saw the first step in that direction
last year with the launch of Pixel and Pixel XL, Google's first attempt
at making
smartphones under its own brand, just like Apple.
The Vibe Z is a successor to the Lenovo Vibe X
smartphone, which we saw
at IFA 2013 in September
last year.
The
smartphone is the successor of Redmi Note 3
smartphone from the company which was launched
last year at the price tag of INR 9,999.
Soon after the iPhone 6 Plus found to be Bendgate prone
smartphone last year, Samsung had poked
at Apple's piece of technology through various social media campaigns.
At the time of its launch
last year, Google's Pixel had the best
smartphone camera in the world, ranking on the top position in the reference DxO Mark scale.
The iPhone X (pronounced ten) or iPhone 8 as it was referred to in numerous leaks and rumours, has certainly managed to grab a lot of attention over the
last year or so, and now the bezel-less
smartphone has finally been revealed by Apple
at the first ever launch event
at the Steve Jobs Theater.
After keeping a relatively low profile
at last year's event, Huawei is taking advantage of the void left by Samsung to introduce the P10 family — two high - end handsets that look to cement Huawei's standing as a major player in the
smartphone game.
Industry sources informed South Korean media outlet The Investor on Tuesday that Samsung Electronics is playing it safe this
year by keeping its sales goal for its Galaxy - branded
smartphones at the same level as
last year.
While Asus
smartphones were a rare sight
at major US wireless service providers in past
years, the biggest of the nation's «big four» has decided to carry not one and not two, but three of the Taiwanese company's new Android devices over the
last few months.