Tag: Smartphone

April 18, 2023

According to tech analysis firm Canalys, Samsung regained the top spot in the worldwide smartphone market during the first quarter of this year as it bunny-hopped over Apple. Thanks to the Q1 release of the flagship Galaxy S23 series, which […]

April 7, 2023

Back in February, we saw the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro in some rough CAD-based renders, and then again in its rumored ‘hero color’, a deep red. Today the same source of the previous renders is back with many more, and […]

April 6, 2023

Realme teased the Narzo N55 earlier this week, and today the brand announced it will unveil the Narzo N55 on April 12 in India, marking the debut of the N series. Realme is touting the Narzo N55 as the “Next-Gen […]

March 30, 2023

Meizu is back on the smartphone scene with twentieth-anniversary releases – the Meizu 20, Meizu 20 Pro and Meizu 20 Infinity. The maker owned by Geely alongside car brands such as Volvo, Smart and Lynk & Co also showcased its […]

March 24, 2023

The Redmi Note 12 series made their European debut earlier this week and now they are marching into our office one by one. Having welcomed the Redmi 12 Pro it’s now time to say ‘Hi’ to the 5G member of […]

March 17, 2023

You’ve probably noticed how phone-to-satellite linking is becoming more popular. Applelaunched its own version of such a service and there is even talk that Samsung is prepping similar plans too. You know how these things typically go — if the […]

February 15, 2023

In the early noughties, everyone and their grandmother had a flip phone. In the smartphone era, it’s more of a big deal since it now means bending the display. No wonder then that Oppo went with that name in particular […]

February 9, 2023

Commercial performance in the United States can often break or make a smartphone. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that most of the big players in the tech world place a disproportionate emphasis on their commercial performance on American turf. This […]

January 17, 2023

The final quarter of 2022 was not such a great one for the smartphone industry. Research firm Canalys released a report today revealing that smartphone deliveries declined by 17% to less than 1.2 million units for the three months from […]

January 17, 2023

Smartphone vendors are licking their wounds after an all-around lousy year in sales. Analysts at Canalys estimate worldwide shipments for Q4 2022 dipped 17 percent compared to 2021. Full-year sales were down to less than 1.2 billion, a decline of […]

December 5, 2022

Nothing Phone (1), the first smartphone from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s tech startup Nothing, was a breath of fresh air in the somewhat stale Android phone scene when it launched this summer. With a cool, transparent design, decent specs, several […]

November 4, 2022

Counterpoint Research posted its quarterly analysis of the smartphone market in India. The numbers for Q3 2021 revealed an 11% overall decline in sales on a yearly basis – down to 45 million units. This is the first yearly decline […]

October 31, 2022

The Huawei Mate 50 series debuted in September with four Mates hitting the shelves in China – Mate 50, Mate 50 Pro, Mate 50E and Mate 50 RS Porsche Design. Only one of these high-end smartphones eventually left its homeland […]

October 27, 2022

The global smartphone industry had a rather poor third quarter according to the latest report from analytical firm Canalys. The firm says that weak demand for handsets resulted in a 9% year-over-year decline in Q3 smartphone shipments. Led by the […]

October 11, 2022

Techtober got me thinking – with everything that’s happened so far in 2022, one thing is for sure: Google is on the up and up! Starting with the Pixel 6, the search engine giant finally found its own unique “voice” […]

October 6, 2022

This has been a refrain over the past couple of months, so you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro look and feel a lot like the devices that came before them: […]

September 27, 2022

Xiaomi introduced Civi 2 for its Chinese audience today – a new selfie-centric midrange smartphone. The most intriguing bit is the dual selfie camera – it is packed inside a pill-shaped punch hole which is now in the center, imitating […]

September 21, 2022

OnePlus has announced the rollout of OxygenOS 13’s stable build for the OnePlus 10 Pro, making it the first OnePlus smartphone to get the Chinese brand’s Android 13-based custom Android skin. The update is currently seeding to the OnePlus 10 […]

September 7, 2022

Honor X40 series is getting announced on September 15, and today the company revealed a major detail about one of the phones from the lineup. Next Thursday we are going to see an Honor X40 with a 10-bit OLED panel […]

August 25, 2022

I come to you today with good and bad news. The bad news is that small phones are dead. Apple is all but certainly killing off the iPhone Mini this year, and the smallest Android phone I’ve used all year […]