Articles tagged "Featured"

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....

Now that we've had our first hands-on with Google's Android P beta let's take a look back at how Google's Android has evolved over the years. You may not believe it, looking at the size of your scroll indicator, but we did our best to make this...

Flagships are cool, but smartphones these days age very fast. So would it actually make more sense to do some mid-range bargain shopping and upgrade more often? Yordan and Ro discuss. Yordan: "Two new phones are better than a fast-aging...

Other than Sony (which owns a movie studio), smartphones and movies don’t have much of an overlap. That was the case until a major push from studios tried to make 3D movies popular. Which led phone makers to attempt to bring 3D to your pocket. In...

The new Nokia 8 Sirocco is the flagship of HMD Global's current lineup, borrows some of the aesthetics along with the name from the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. The other part of Nokia 8 Sirocco's name gives away its intention to succeed the Nokia...

Huawei's affordable flagship, the Honor 10, aims to deliver the P20 experience to those unwilling to actually fork the cash for the real thing. It does cut some corners, but for the most part the Honor 10 does a pretty great Huawei P20 impersonation...