Phones with displays that fold out into larger screens appears to be the next big
thing in smartphone design, after Samsung, Apple and LG spent much of 2017 eliminating the bezels on their phones to squeeze in more screen real estate.
Not exact matches
In fact, its the Honeycomb factor, the first Android version to be
designed exclusively for tablet like devices that is making
things so much more interesting after witnessing a deluge of tablet launches based on earlier iterations of the Android that were all
smartphone specific.
While I'm sure BlackBerry would love for everyone to sign up for BES12 and all its additional offerings, they also want everyone to know that even without all those
things, BlackBerry 10 has many built -
in features that are
designed to help protect your information, manage your online privacy, encrypt personal data and files on your device, and remotely locate or lock your
smartphone in the event you misplace it.
Today
things have shifted
in favour again of the dedicated handheld console —
smartphones are pretty much a commodity, and the Nintendo Switch has proven that, with an inventive
design, there's still love out there for a focussed handheld gaming device.
One
thing that is confirmed officially is the notch
design which is not new for Sharp
smartphones as the company used the same
in last year's Aquos S2.
While we have been highly disappointed with the lack of change
in the
design of the iPhone 8, there is one
thing we are glad Apple has not changed
in the
smartphone — the iPhone 8 is still reasonably compact.
When you say «gaming phone,» the first
things that come to mind are devices like the deeply flawed Nokia N - Gage or the much less clunky, but still wrong Sony Xperia Play, which combined traditional
smartphone design with a built -
in controller.
In the early 2010s, lawsuits over the tiniest
things — such as a
smartphone's basic rectangle - with - rounded - corners
design — were being fought left and right to set legal precedence.
«It's got a cool
design and all the
things people are looking for these days
in a
smartphone,» he told TechNewsWorld.
Sometimes you'd end up fumbling to find them
in the dark, and although it becomes an impulsive
thing after few days of usage, this is a poor
design element
in a
smartphone at this price.
In terms of
design, it looks very similar to a lot of other Galaxy
smartphones, which can either be a good or a bad
thing depending on who you ask.
After several years where the biggest trend
smartphone design was bigger displays, manufacturers finally started to rein
things in last year.
With Samsung reporting ongoing profit losses because Apple is beating them at the high end of the
smartphone market and China's Xiaomi is beating them
in the low - to - mid range of the market, they need to shake
things up with new original
smartphone designs that will offer consumers something refreshing.
The backside of this
smartphone design noted above reveals that the side edges will accommodate popular app and function icons representing
things like a camera, settings, email and more when the phone is
in use.
Two
things stick out
in my mind - they confiscated my
smartphone at the door and there were bags of clay stacked everywhere
in the halls for use
in designing cars.
First of all a new
design concept not as old as other Redmi devices, but is very similar as iPhone X's
design, then it's dual camera which is 12 +12 megapixel so very good picture quality, then it's Snapdragon 636 chipset which is a beast
in multitasking and battery optimization department and lastly it is a budget centric
smartphone it's base model which is 4GB / 64 GB is priced at INR 13,000 and it's 6GB / 64 GB is priced at INR 16,000 so with this specs and price it gives zenith to zenith performance to its competitors
in its price range, but the cons are that it doesn't supports fast charging which is sad
thing and wasn't expected from Xiaomi but with this specs it can't be demanded and lastly runs of Android 7.1 MIUI 9, now it has been months that Android oreo has been out but still Xiaomi are on MIUI 9 and so RN 5 pro runs on MIUI 9.
Each
smartphone on this list is unique
in terms of
design, but they all have a couple of
things in common.
OnePlus is yet to start creating buzz for its next
smartphone, but it seems @evleaks is already kicking
things off with a new image of the OnePlus 3, revealing its complete
design and throwing
in a few specs as well.
The
smartphone manufacturers are taking the bezel-less
design to the next level by experimenting with
things like notches, bone conduction earpiece,
in - display fingerprint scanner etc..
Three years ago HTC released one of my favorite
smartphone designs in the HTC One X and the first
thing that came to my mind when I held the ZTE Axon Pro was that I had another One X
in my hand.