Articles tagged "Featured"

It's hard to believe that we're halfway through 2018 already! So let's press 'pause' for a second and look back at the direction phone development took this year. We go to extraordinary lengths here at GSMArena to ensure that the data within our...

If you don't have the time to read our full review of the Galaxy A6, Will is here to give you a short video recap of what our extensive testing has revealed about the phone. It's a fairly decent phone with sturdy metal build and an AMOLED...

Here are the other four matches of the Round of 16. The winners of each match will move forward to the quarter finals next week and the losers - well, thanks for playing. Samsung Galaxy S9+ vs. Asus ROG phone Samsung has an upgrade-refine...

It's been just under three weeks since Apple showed off the next iteration of its flagship operating system for iPhone and iPad - iOS 12. Earlier this week Apple released its second beta of iOS 12 to developers. Having patiently skipped the first...

The rabble is going home as the sixteen Smartphone World Cup hopefuls move forward - welcome to the Round of 16. Today we'll run the first four matches and unveil the results from Groups E and F, the next four matches will be tomorrow (along with...

Here come the next two groups of our Smartphone World Cup (groups A and B are here. Group C The Apple iPhone X wasn’t the first phone with a notch, but it’s the phone that made all other notched handsets possible – once factories geared up for...

The word “selfie” was the Oxford Dictionary word of the year in 2013, but the practice is much older than that. Much older – many consider the first selfie to be this photo of Robert Cornelius from 1839. Years later, cameras came to phones and...

Weekend APPetizers (see what we did there?) is our latest feature where we tell you about some of our favorite apps that reside on our smartphones. Paul's favorite apps Hi, I'm Paul, and my daily driver is an iPhone, so invariably...

It's World Cup season and we though you'd like to join the fun with a smartphone-themed competition – welcome to our Smartphone World Cup. The group stage kicks off tomorrow, but before that we'd like to introduce the participants and detail how...

HMD’s had a plan in place when it resurrected the Nokia brand – start from the middle and expand up and down. The Nokia 8 was its first flagship, but its 5.3” screen felt a little small and the dual camera wasn’t great. But HMD had a do-over. The...

We've a new video for you and it's dedicated to the Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018). The first look brings up some of the key selling points of the Samsung's latest mid-ranger. We discuss the phone's rather sturdy aluminum build wrapping around the...

At one point they were on the verge of extinction but with the Galaxy lineup getting increasingly overcrowded the sixes are back in the game. The Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018) just landed in our office for a review, but we are yet to find out who...

Great design often requires sacrifices. What do you look for in a modern-day smartphone: a sexy, slim profile or some more juice, regardless of a little extra heft and potentially lesser looks? Ro and Victor discuss. Victor: "With great power...

We're sure Apple wouldn’t mind if you bought a Mac, but did you know that using Apple's iCloud will make life easier when using an iPhone and a Windows PC? Apple created an official utility - iCloud for Windows, which synchronizes information,...

During the 70s and 80s there was an explosion of processor architectures, many of which found their way to smartphone chipsets. ARM, which traces its roots back to the 1981 BBC Micro, clearly won the game but it faced competition in the past. Intel...

Huawei Y7 Prime (2018) - a device for the young or at least those unable or unwilling to spend too much cash, but want a big screen and cool portrait photos. The this year's Y7 Prime boasts a 5.99-inch IPS display with a trendy 18:9 aspect...

Remember when LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 arrived with an unusually tall screen? Fast forward one year later and now its the norm. Yordan & Ivan discuss if a classic 16:9 ratio display or a tall solution is better? Yordan: If it ain’t broken,...

Mobile OSes went through a Cambrian explosion and then there was an inevitable mass extinction. The two survivors – Android and iOS – date back to 2007 and they completely dominate the field. Android is on 9 in 10 phones while iOS lives in...

In Past Tense is our series of articles in which the GSMArena team takes you on a nostalgia-infused ride through the phones that impressed them the most through the years. Last time we had the first part of Ricky's story and now it's time for the...

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts on Monday, June 4 and runs through June 8 in San Jose, CA. When Tim Cook and co take to the stage on June 4 10:00 am Pacific Time to start proceedings, some announcements will be a sure thing....