Articles tagged "Featured"

Sometimes a company launches the right product at the wrong time. The Nokia N-Gage is remembered simply as a failure today, but seeing how in 2019 companies are tripping over themselves to launch gaming phones, it’s hard not to wonder if maybe Nokia...

Excluding the odd iPhone XR or Pixel, every phone is doing the multi camera thing (and even those two are getting a second snapper soon). And that brings a lot of discussion as to which cameras we care about the most. Phones like the rumored...

This is the Samsung Galaxy Note10+ - Samsung's fall flagship, its biggest screen phone so far and right now, its most important phone. The Galaxy Note10+ is an amalgamation of Samsung's best assets - it comes with three incredible cameras, a...

Intro Another year, another Mi Band from Xiaomi. Called Mi Band 4 in China and Mi Smart Band 4 on the international scene, the gadget sports an OLED screen with 16 million colors for the first time in the lineup. I had been using the...

Samsung published a timeline of its Galaxy Note phones counting up to number 10, but we wanted to focus more on the original – the Samsung Galaxy Note. It made its debut at IFA in late 2011 and is the original “phablet”. There have been many large...

Last week Realme showcased its 64MP quad camera technology at a Camera Innovation Event in New Delhi, India. This multi-camera system uses a 64MP Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 unit as the primary sensor which is joined by an ultrawide angle, super...

Smartphone gaming's golden age is upon us and it has brought a number of handsets that claim to be specifically crafted for and targeted at gamers. However, unlike the gaming PCs these gaming phones have the exact same internals as their mainstream...

Xiaomi's A-series just got a new member, the stock Android lineup welcoming the Mi A3. The phone is somewhat odd, offering a number of upgrades over last year's Mi A2, but also a few downgrades. The Mi A3 is powered by the Snapdragon 665...

The IBM PC was unveiled in 1981 and thanks to a strange decision by IBM, it became the granddaddy of most desktop and laptop computers today. Instead of making everything in-house (as with previous IBM projects), the design team decided to outsource...

The ZTE nubia Red Magic 3 has been with us for a few days now and its review is well on its way. But while we wait for all the tests to complete , we decided to try out something a bit different and take the time to answer some of your questions...

The Honor 20 series aims to provide a viable alternative to Huawei’s P30 handsets for those that can't quite stretch their budgets that far. Sure you won’t get the periscope around the back, the display is IPS instead of OLED and there isn’t any...

Few phones are so impressive that we still remember them fondly a decade after their release. And the HTC HD2 really is one of these all-time greats. This was HTC at its peak, it designed a powerhouse that became the focal point of a vibrant...

Another day, another gaming smartphone on our doorstep. The ZTE subsidiary nubia introduced the Red Magic 3 with promising specs, and we finally got a chance to see if it delivers on those promises. This time we will do our quick welcoming post...

The Oppo Reno 10x zoom is mentioned no less than three times in our latest smartphone buyer’s guide. First, it got the nod for its impressive camera (one of only two with 5x optical zoom), then for its class-leading battery life (107h Endurance) and...

We published our full Xiaomi Mi 9 SE review earlier this month, but if you would like to have it all condensed to few minutes and shown on video now's your best chance. The smaller version of the Xiaomi Mi 9 flagship has plenty going for it and is...

With the first half of 2019 in the books it's time to take a look back at what phones it brought us and which of them really got your attention. There's an interesting stat if we look at the 20 phones in the list below. Nokia is represented...

In our new Flashback series we'll be taking a look back at some of the devices and events that shaped the mobile phone industry and brought us where we are today. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was a good phone for its time and with 8 million units...

The OnePlus 7 was easily overshadowed by the 7 Pro, but we feel the vanilla OP7 better reflects the company's ethos. It has most of the 7 Pro's key features at a significantly lower price. And no-nonsense phones with attractive pricing are what...

We traced the “Gigahertz wars” in a previous Counterclockwise article. It veered off into counting CPU cores because mobile chipsets hit a wall, just like desktop CPUs did a decade earlier. It’s a simple, but unforgiving equation – increasing the...

Gaming smartphones are on the rise and what we have here is one of the most popular among them - Xiaomi's Black Shark 2 - one of the cheapest gaming phones currently on the market. In fact, even if gaming isn't your thing ,this is one of the most...