MediaTek isn't alone either, Huawei's A.I. - based HiSilicon Kirin 970 is already inside of some of its devices like the Mate 10 Pro, and Qualcomm has the Snapdragon 845 on the way that will be powering many of this year's
top flagship smartphones, such as those from Samsung, LG, OnePlus, Sony, and more.
Not exact matches
But it's hundreds of dollars cheaper than other
top - of - the - line devices — many of the latest
flagship smartphones, including Apple's iPhone X and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8, cost more than $ 900.
China's Huawei unveiled its
flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the
top tier of mobile technology.
With rapidly maturing
smartphone market in India, only a few people are vehemently curious about opting for
top - notch
flagship devices from premium brands.
LG announces a smaller, splash - proof version of the
flagship V20
smartphone — the Q8, a 5.2 - inch handset with all features from its bigger sibling, including the always - on second screen on
top of the main display.
Google's Nexus phone program aims to combine
top - end hardware and the latest Android software to create a
flagship Android
smartphone (and arguably, a developer phone).
The
flagship smartphone features a dual - core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 4.6 - inch 720p HD display, an 8 - megapixel rear camera, a 1.3 - megapixel front - facing camera, 16 GB of internal storage, 1 GB of RAM and Sense 4 on
top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Face ID would then officially replace Touch ID as Apple's biometric security method of choice across all devices, not just Apple's
top - of - the - line
flagship smartphone.
The larger version of the new Samsung
flagship brings a second lens on
top of many other camera enhancements, but how does it stack up to one of the most applauded
smartphone shooters made by none other than Google?
Shenzhen, China (December 28, 2016)-- Ahead of the keynote address by Richard Yu, CEO of HUAWEI Consumer Business Group (CBG) at CES 2017, CBG today announced that the company has shipped more than 10 million HUAWEI P9 / HUAWEI P9 Plus
smartphones globally, making it the company's first
flagship series to
top the 10 million mark.
This has become a growing trend of late for
top - end devices, ever since since last year when LG and Samsung introduced their 2017
flagship smartphones, the LG G6 and Galaxy S8, respectively.
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.
Today ASUS officially unveiled three new
smartphones at Mobile World Congress to carry on the ZenFone lineup, including the ZenFone 5, the ZenFone 5Q, and finally the ZenFone 5Z, which is essentially the
flagship product with the most powerful specs, coming with the
top - tier GPU, high - quality camera sensors, a big screen, and plenty of memory for storage and RAM.
Sony's
flagship smartphones always feature
top - notch specifications on - par with
flagship devices from other manufacturers.
ZTE Axon 7 is less expensive than the best
flagship smartphones, yet it looks and performs like a
top - tier Android Nougat handset, with front - facing speakers, 64 GB of storage and only a few sacrifices.
So where does Samsung, a
smartphone manufacturer that's been at the
top of its game for years, take its
flagship line in 2018?
Hot on the heals of the news that Asus has announced its very own
smartphone with a display notch ala the iPhone X with the arrival of the ZenFone 5, we also have news that another popular Android
smartphone maker appears to be set to follow Apple's lead in making a
flagship phone that has a notch at the
top of the display, allowing for an almost bezel - free phone while still having somewhere for all those important sensors and camera lenses to live.
Huawei's
top - of - the - line
flagship isn't the first
smartphone in the market to cross the $ 1000 price barrier though.
Despite many hoping it was not the case, Apple's new
flagship smartphone had a notch at the
top of the screen featuring the all important TrueDepth sensor for Face ID, and rather than hiding it away behind a black status bar, Apple embraced it and demanded that app developers do the same.
We expect at least one
top - tier
smartphone maker to roll it out in a 2018
flagship.
The Galaxy S7 edge is widely considered one of the best Android
smartphones currently available on the market and with the Galaxy Note 7 out of the picture, it's among the
top choices for
smartphone shoppers looking for a new Samsung
flagship.
As previously mentioned, fueling these PCs will be Qualcomm's
top - notch Snapdragon 835 mobile processor, which also powers the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +
flagship smartphones.
Every
top smartphone vendor in the world is hard at work shrinking the bezels on their
flagship phones so that the screen takes up as much of the phone's face as possible.
The phone has similar
top - end specifications as other high - end
flagship smartphones.
The
flagship smartphone gets a 5.3 - inch 2K LCD IPS display with Gorilla Glass 5 on
top.
The Sony Xperia XZ2 is the Japanese firm's most recent
flagship handset, but it refuses to follow in the footsteps of many of this year's
top - tier
smartphones.
This is the
flagship smartphone by the search giant that will receives all the latest Android updates and comes with a
top - notch hardware.
Since then, OnePlus yearly launched
flagships come with
top - level specification in Android
smartphones.
To
top it off, I am glad that LG has decided to price the G6 aggressively, at least as far as
flagship smartphone...
As you'd expect from a new
flagship smartphone, the Z2 comes with the latest processor, putting it head to head with its
top - tier rivals.
Fast charging has become one of the
top features for recent
smartphone flagships.
According to a new report, Samsung could charge close to $ 1,000 for the
top configuration of it's new
flagship, which would easily make it one of the most expensive mainstream
smartphones ever.
A restart every now and then can restore order to your
smartphone and keep it functioning at peak performance, no matter if you have a budget handset or a
top - tier
flagship.
The new range of Zenfone
smartphones comes in five different variants, and the
top - end Zenfone 3 Deluxe is aimed to take on
flagships like the Xiaomi Mi 5 and OnePlus 3.
But at the same time it no longer sits at the
top of the
flagship smartphone pecking order.
These two
smartphones will definitely be at the very
top of the food chain in 2017, along with a number of other
flagship offerings that have already been released, or will be released in the coming months.
The company's
flagship smartphone of 2017 may not pack the
top - tier hardware specifications we're seeing in the latest
flagships from Samsung, OnePlus, or Google but it has one particular hardware feature to make up for it — a second screen.
Here's the Mr. Phone list of the
top five
flagship Android
smartphones available during the Amazon Great Indian sale (in no particular order).
At the moment, the Nokia 9 is still a rumored
flagship device out of the two planned
top end
smartphones.
With the discontinuation of the Note 7 made official, Samsung will lose a full half - year of
flagship smartphone sales on
top of the disposal and compensation costs associated with the recall.
The
flagship smartphone will have a notch on
top of display, similar to that on Apple iPhone X.
Dual cameras are becoming a staple of the
top flagship phones today so it is interesting to see Motorola bring this capability to a low cost
smartphone.
But it's hundreds of dollars cheaper than other
top - of - the - line devices — many of the latest
flagship smartphones, including Apple's iPhone X and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8, cost more than $ 900.
The
smartphone will reportedly have one speaker at the
top and one at the bottom, which would be a great improvement over the current generation of Samsung
flagships.
With the thinner
top and bottom bezels, the screen - to - body is expected to be on par with the latest Samsung and LG
flagship smartphones.
With most
top - end
smartphones, such as the Galaxy S2, now recording 1080p HD video, Nokia's newest
flagship device appears to bring a knife to a gunfight, capable of only 720p HD at 30 fps (a less - desirable secondary mode is also available for 640x480 video).
As you'd expect with any China - made
smartphone, the Le Max2 is a very affordable device that packs 2016
flagship specs, much more like what you will find in the likes of Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5 and other
top models released this year.
Unlike most
flagship Smartphones of the year 2017, the Note 5A will come with a 3.5 mm audio jack at the
top of the phone, so people who have the earphones can heave a sigh of relief.
It may seem odd that, mere months after the debut of Huawei's
top - of - the - line P9 handset, the Chinese
smartphone maker has essentially repurposed its
flagship phone's hardware for a handset that costs half the price.
With Samsung out of the running for a
flagship smartphone launch, LG is looking to take the
top spot among device releases at the Barcelona tech convention.