If you might remember, the On5 & On7
smartphone launched last year.
The Honor 6X was a great
smartphone launched last year with superb dual cameras and good performance.
Google is buying the HTC engineering team behind the Pixel
smartphone it launched last year in a cash deal, the companies said in a joint statement.
These handsets take cue from the Galaxy Alpha
smartphone launched last year when it comes to specifications and design.
As mentioned already, the Google Pixel XL is the larger of the two first - generation Pixel
smartphones launched last year.
Thanks to its huge 6 - inch display and premium look, Huawei Ascend Mate7 can easily compete with other flagship
smartphones launched last year, such as Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC One M8, and LG G3.
Not exact matches
One new offering that could help RIM is BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced
last year and officially
launched this month.The software service allows corporate and government IT departmentsto securely manage multiple
smartphones and tablets from a single console.
Active
smartphones were previously AT&T exclusives, but
last year's Galaxy S8 Active also
launched on T - Mobile.
They also
launch in China the same day — a contrast from
last year when the world's largest
smartphone market had to wait nearly a month for the iPhone.
After
launching the entry - level Coolpad Rogue
last year, T - Mobile and Coolpad appear to be teaming up again to release another Android
smartphone.
Last year, the South Korean brand
launched J - series of handsets, which consisted of mid - and budget segment
smartphones, which were widely received by the Indian customer.
With Moto X
launching in September
last year, it is too early for a new flagship
smartphone.
Vivo today announced the Y31A, a new entry - level Android
smartphone that replaces the Y31 that
launched in September
last year.
Chinese mobile maker Vivo
launched the Vivo V75 in December
last year, and now it appears to be set to
launch another new
smartphone in the series, Vivo Y75s.
The weather widget for
smartphones was
launched just
last year.
The new Karbonn
smartphone appears to be the successor to the Karbonn A50, which was
launched in July
last year.
The
smartphone was
launched in India in October
last year for Rs. 6,999.
As mentioned above, the
smartphone was
launched in November
last year.
It used to be that Sony was the worse company in updating its
smartphones to newer versions of Android, but ever since the
launch of the Xperia Z early
last year, this has been a different story, and it continues today.
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.
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.
BlackBerry
last year launched two security - focused Android
smartphones, the BlackBerry DTEK50 and the BlackBerry DTEK60, which are in reality rebranded Alcatel Idol 4 and Idol 4s
smartphones.
Google's Flagship
smartphone, Google Nexus 6, which was
launched in India in December
last year.
Motorola
launched the DROID X
last year as its first entry into the popular new extra-large
smartphone space.
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.
BlackBerry kicked off its comeback efforts earlier this
year when it
launched the new BlackBerry Z10
smartphone, and the charge continued
last month as the BlackBerry Q10 began rolling out.
The first BB10
smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, was
launched in India February
last year carrying a price tag of Rs. 43,490.
To recall, with the
launch of the Nokia N1 tablet, the company neatly bypassed the restrictions imposed by the Microsoft deal, after the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division by Microsoft in April
last year, the Finnish company can no longer use the Nokia brand on
smartphones till Q4 2016, and on feature phones for 10
years.
Last year, BlackBerry
launched the Classic for its fans who still preferred the QWERTY keypad and trackpad seen on its Bold series of
smartphones.
HTC gained a march on
smartphone rivals in using Google's Android software by working with the popular U.S. company for three
years on the software and compatible
smartphones before
launching the G1
last September.
Google
launched two new Nexus
smartphones last year but did not release a tablet.
HTC, already the largest maker of
smartphones that use the Windows Mobile OS, was first to the market with an Android - based
smartphone last year, when it teamed up with Google and T - Mobile to
launch the G1 in the U.S.
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.
Asus
launched the Zenfone Go 4.5
smartphone with a MediaTek MT6580 SoC back in December
last year.
This is a 5 - inch Windows Phone 8
smartphone that was
launched in April
last year.
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.
If LG would have
launched it in October
last year, then it would have been affordable LTE
smartphone in India.
BlackBerry Classic and Passport are both company's latest
smartphones, which were
launched last year.
The company had
launched the
smartphone with 32 GB inbuilt storage in October
last year.
The Mi MIX was
launched late
last year in China amid great fanfare, with the first batch selling out within 10 seconds of being put on sale in spite of being the most expensive
smartphone in Xiaomi's portfolio with a price - tag of almost $ 600.
However, ahead of the event, LG
launched a mid-range
smartphone, the LG X power 2, which is the successor to
last year's LG X power.
Lenovo - owned Motorola
launched their latest
smartphone from the Moto X-series, the Moto X4 in India
last year.
Successfully
launching a folding
smartphone would bolster a remarkable turnaround for Samsung's Galaxy Note series, which took a huge hit
last year when Note 7 phones began bursting into flames.
One of the main reasons why
last year's iPhone X
launch garnered so much attention and excitement is that the device finally represented a new take on a
smartphone design that, to be >>
Samsung's mid-range
smartphone, the Galaxy A7 (2017) was
launched for a price of Rs 33,490
last year.
The Google - owned streaming site initially
launched the YouTube Go app
last year in India, with the hope of bringing the service to those who couldn't afford powerful
smartphones or had poor connectivity.
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 Assistant.
Last year, Xiaomi surprised everyone by
launching the Mi A1 Android One
smartphone.
Google's quest to build a
smartphone as popular as the latest iPhone and Samsung Galaxy flagship mobiles took a massive step forward when the original Google Pixel
launched last year.
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.