Articles tagged "Weekly poll"

Whether you’re a motorsport fan or not, the launch of the OnePlus 6T McLaren was pretty exciting. The special edition phone debuts Warp Charge, the company’s first charging speed upgrade since 2016’s OnePlus 3. At 30W it is definitely an upgrade...

The preliminary stage of the Best Phones of 2018 vote got quite heated, but now it's time to dial things up - let's pick the best flagship, mid-ranger and entry-level phone for 2018. We'll do the introductions and we will let you be the...

There are only a few weeks left in 2018 and even though we’re still expecting new phones to launch they will be too late to make a significant impact this year. So, we’re no longer accepting applications for Best Phones of 2018. It’s now time to...

Dual screens are a potential solution to the selfie camera craziness – no notches, holes, sliders, pop-ups and so on, just use the rear camera and the second display as a viewfinder. In last week’s poll dual screens proved more popular than...

For the last couple of weeks we've been trying to determine the best place for the selfie camera - on a slider, through a hole in the screen, or on a plain old bezel - there are plenty of options. But what if we solve the problem by removing the...

People are excited about screen holes – that option won last week’s poll with nearly half the votes. The holes proved quite a bit more popular, people consider them less obtrusive than even the most petite teardrop notch (as for wide notches, they...

The tide of smartphone design may be shifting – the screen notch flooded the market, but a slightly less obtrusive option is on the horizon. Screens with holes cut out for the selfie camera sacrifice fewer pixels than the classics notch and could be...

The Rule of Cool states that people are willing to make allowances for something that’s cool. And powered pop-ups like the one on the Oppo Find X and vivo NEX S are certainly quite cool. The final verdict from last week’s poll shows that slightly...

Our polls show that you love the motorized pop-up mechanism of the Oppo Find X, the smaller periscope of the vivo NEX S and the manual slider design of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Now it’s time to pick your favorite. All three eliminate the need for a...

The Oppo RX17 Pro entered the European market this week and attracted some positive interest in last week’s poll. The Super VOOC charger has some people hooked, the minimal teardrop notch coupled with a in-display fingerprint reader also seems like...

They’ve been around for a while, but they have a new name and a new market. The Oppo RX17 Pro just adds an “X” to the R17 Pro and changes nothing else. Sales in Europe start next week, so this is a good time to ask – are you getting one? At €600...

Good news: more than half of the voters in last week’s poll will be using a OnePlus phone. Bad news: that doesn’t mean they’re buying a OnePlus 6T. In fact, only about a third of the voters are planning on getting one (or have done so...

This was a huge week for OnePlus – the young phone maker unveiled the OnePlus 6T, but more importantly it got a solid footing in the US market with support from T-Mobile and Qualcomm. The people crowded the streets to grab one, the launch went as...

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is nearly universally adored – with an 87% positive vote in last week’s poll, the phone is shaping up to be one of the more influential flagships of the second half of 2018. With the holiday season fast approaching – 11.11 is...

Foldable phones may resurrect the flip phone, but sliders may be the next big thing in the shorter term. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 doesn’t have a keypad, instead the slider reveals the dual selfie camera – a solution to the notch problem while pursuing...

Huawei has popular flagships on its hands, last week’s poll shows, however its product strategy may not be the best. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro won the popular vote hands-down, as it should – it’s the de-facto flagship. But that means that the...

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro could well be the most advanced smartphone on the market. And it’s joined by three siblings, which offer more variety than previous iterations. The Leica triple camera on the Pro is a refinement on the P20 Pro camera. The...

Gamers are a perfectionist bunch, so while the Razer Phone 2 got a strongly positive response in last week’s poll, it caught some criticism too. It seems that those who voted against the Razer see the Asus ROG Phone as the true leader in smartphone...

Razer kicked off the current “gaming phone” resurgence, but competitors that came later could pick a newer chipset. Not all of them did, but the bar was raised, anyway. The Razer Phone 2 arrived to answer the challenge with a Snapdragon 845 chip and...

LG strategy seemed all over the place, but the scattershot approach has hit the bullseye – the LG V40 ThinQ got the approval of our readers in last week’s poll, the vote was 3:1 in favor. The company’s firm commitment to the 3.5mm headphone jack...