The flagship is dead, long live the new flagship

OnePlus may have been right after all, as Obi Wan would say, “…from a certain point of view.” When OnePlus started playing this game we call “making smartphones” it billed its first device a “flagship killer”. Now, I’m not saying that the OnePlus One killed the flagship – far from it. But the OnePlus One was one of several devices that started riding the rising “good midranger” wave. OEMs like OnePlus, Alcatel, Motorola, Blu, and any number of other OEMs have all started putting out devices that are pretty good and won’t hurt the wallet. Heck, ZTE just put out the ...

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The flagship is dead, long live the new flagship

OnePlus may have been right after all, as Obi Wan would say, “…from a certain point of view.” When OnePlus started playing this game we call “making smartphones” it billed its first device a “flagship killer”. Now, I’m not saying that the OnePlus One killed the flagship – far from it. But the OnePlus One was one of several devices that started riding the rising “good midranger” wave. OEMs like OnePlus, Alcatel, Motorola, Blu, and any number of other OEMs have all started putting out devices that are pretty good and won’t hurt the wallet. Heck, ZTE just put out the ...

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What makes a flagship phone worth more than $500?

Yesterday, we talked about specifications and how, at least in the current three flagships that are on the market, specifications really don’t matter any more. Today, we’re going to talk about price, and what comes along with that price tag you pay for the top tier phones of today. We decided to look back over the last 366 days and see what phones had been released and what their prices were. Then we looked at what each had to offer for that price you paid.Our recent

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