The world's most successful mobile device vendor was also the most copied smartphone brand of 2017, winning the "battle" against Apple by a landslide.
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Full Android, top-end Qualcomm silicon, a flip phone. Samsung likes to play around with its wares in its Chinese sandbox.
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It’s nighttime in America and it’s Friday to boot. We should be out on the streets painting the town red. But instead, we’re sitting down, cracking a few cans open and talking with our best mates about a new Mate.
As Huawei takes over the scene for the week with a couple of luminescent phones, Evan Blass and Alcatel remind us that Windows can be a fun platform if it tried. Will it try? We may come up with an answer or we may just pass onto the unrelenting carrier wars, flip phones for modernity, Kickstarters, Indiegogos and a kick in the pants for us to go go GO!
It’s the weekend and this is episode 225 of the Pocketnow Weekly.
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November 4, 2016
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Following on from the Huawei P9, the Mate 9 makes its debut in Munich, Germany. Our Juan Carlos Bagnell was there to handle the Leica-endorsed, dual-camera goods — particularly with that fancy schmancy €1,400 Porsche Design version — while Jaime Rivera and Adam Z. Lein put some light onto the Huawei Fit tracker.
26:26 | This Windows phone is more than just a concept
32:09 | The Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10: where it’s at and where it won’t be
35:37 | Where’s Microsoft at with Windows 10 Mobile?
42:44 | Lenovo Phab 2 Pro finally makes it to the dance floor
51:52 | ZTE flips a phone here, Samsung flips a phone there
57:59 | Apple dongles dangle for a discount as a jungle protests
1:05:37 | Blood on the water between T-Mo and Verizon
1:14:39 | We completely speculate that Foxconn and Sharp are moving to the US
1:19:07 | Maybe Xiaomi is coming here, too?
1:23:08 | Crowdfunding Corner: 360° video-recording glasses and an eye-tracking VR headset
1:33:35 | Mobile beats desktop internet usage for first time ever
Yep. That’s a Southwest Airlines attendant. Dressed as a Galaxy Note 7.
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While the US gets to see its first Android-powered flip phone in forever, Samsung has just made official another high-end clapper in China with a very uninspiring name. But it’s not about what it’s called — this is about what it can do.
Meet the Samsung W2017. Yes, that phone from months ago in the rumor pile. Yes, there was a W2016.
It has a BIG.little quad-core processor (maximum clock of 2.15GHz or 1.6GHz) to power Android Marshmallow on a 4.2-inch full HD Super AMOLED display. If you’re keeping track, that’s 525 pixels per inch. Did we mention that there are two such displays on the same lip of the phone? The front one can be left Always On.
The other lip’s inset side houses a typical T9 setup with all the proper buttons for a regular phone. The selfie-camera is a 5-megapixel unit with f/1.9 aperture and flash. The rear camera can record 4K footage with its 12-megapixel sensor with pixel size of 1.4µm (lay man’s speak: fairly large), Dual Pixel focusing and f/1.7 aperture.
There’s a fingerprint sensor, NFC and MST technology, — why the hell not have Samsung Pay on this thing, why? — wireless charging, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage with a dual-SIM hybrid configuration that supports a microSD up to 256GB in capacity. Again, why the hell not? For rude word’s sake, there’s even Wi-Fi ac here!
One sacrifice you’ll have to make, though, is the lack of a headphone jack. Worse yet, the Micro-B standard will take its place — so no USB-C headphones, here. There is Bluetooth 4.1, if that’s any solace.
All of this to say that with a boar of a phone in a nostalgic form factor of dark blue or champagne gold, we’re talking maxed out dimensions: 127.8 x 61.4 x 15.8mm and 208 grams. A lot of that is supposed to accommodate the 2,300mAh battery inside.
No word on pricing or availability just yet, but we tend to follow along with SamMobile‘s expectations that this device will be in limited quantities and around $3,000. Suits us right.
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