Huawei posts significant year-on-year growth in both shipments and revenue for H1 2016

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Instead of going the traditional route and announcing its latest quarterly financial results, Huawei just came out with a cumulative first-half-of-the-year report that consolidates both the company’s position as the world’s third largest smartphone vendor, and its solid growth potential.Granted, the early 2016 objective of shipping 140 million handhelds within 12 months, up 40 percent from the already remarkable 2015 total, ...

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Apple, OPPO and Vivo’s numbers surge in Q2 smartphone sales, Samsung sees slight drop

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Mere days ahead of official financial reports coming from most of the mobile industry’s heavyweights, research firm TrendForce has issued its own worldwide smartphone market analysis for the year’s second quarter, with overall production volume sitting at a solid 315 million units, up 8.9 percent sequentially and 3.2 percent compared to the same timeframe back in 2015.No big surprises ranking the top six global brands, as Samsung holds on to a comfortable lead, followed by Apple, Huawei, OPPO, LG, and Vivo. But even ...

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Pocketnow Challenge July: Best fireworks photo from a smartphone?

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

We’ve been teasing our new series for the last couple weeks, and now it’s time for a showdown! Welcome to the Pocketnow Challenge, where we test real world smartphone usage by pitting two Pocketnow editors against each other.Our first major challenge is a photography battle between long time editor and professional photographer Adam Lein, facing off against the newest video producer on the site Juan Carlos Bagnell. To celebrate the Fourth of July, these two photogs ...

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Huawei tries to bend the truth to overhype P9’s dual cameras, fails spectacularly

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While Huawei and Leica’s partnership on the P9 and P9 Plus has already come under fire for perhaps claiming to be more than it actually is, there’s no contesting the high quality of the dual rear camera arrangement featured by the two phones.What the mobile shooters aren’t capable of however is snapping pics quite as sharp and detailed as a professional DSLR system costing ...

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Camera showdown: OnePlus 3, HTC 10, LG G5, Galaxy S7, Huawei P9

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

This year we started producing Real Camera Reviews. Today it’s not uncommon that the only camera a person might own is the one bolted to the back of their phone. As such, we’re trying to treat smartphone camera reviews the same way we might try to examine all of the pros and cons of a standalone camera.We’ve tackled some of the best shooters released this year. We’re about to see another batch of smartphones released in the second half of 2016. Before we get to reviewing Notes and iPhones, let’s take a ...

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Samsung reportedly cuts back both Q3 and full-year smartphone sales targets

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It was undoubtedly smart of Samsung to commercially release the Galaxy S7 in early March, when the LG G5 and HTC 10 were still several weeks away, while the iPhone 6s had lost almost all its mojo. But now that the iPhone 7 looms large, even without a radical redesign or ...

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Huawei shipments expected to be pared back, OPPO still growing

Posted on by Jules Wang

Huawei’s been chomping up the food chain as the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer by annual shipments. It was originally looking forward to a 40 percent jump in shipments this year to further its ambitions to be the world’s largest OEM.Nope. Not the case it seems, as told from Taiwanese industry. Huawei may cut back from a forecast 140 million smartphones to 120 million smartphones. That’s still a 20 percent improvement from last year, but with the higher-end ...

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Huawei P9 sequel rumored to move fingerprint sensor out front

Posted on by Jules Wang

Fingerprint sensors have had their time as the innovation of the month for most manufacturers. In fact, we think that we’re closing in on the saturation point. But there’s a contingent in China that knows what they like in their smartphones and one of the things they like is a fingerprint sensor on the front side.Huawei and ...

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Does fancy camera branding matter on your phone? Zeiss, Leica, Schneider?

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

We’ve been watching some of these partnerships for years, and other collaborations are new territory for consumers.Phone manufacturers can generate a lot of buzz and generate some healthy headlines when announcing a partnership with a camera company. It’s exciting to see a fancy new label printed on the back of our phones, highlighting a photography reputation designed to impress us. A logo is slapped on the side of the box. Companies deliver press releases, but when actually using the fruits of those partnerships, do consumers actually benefit from these licensing deals? Do we ...

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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast 200th Episode Phone Giveaway!

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Is Apple Music deleting your downloaded music? What does Lenovo have up its sleeve for the next generation of Motorola devices? What are we looking forward to at this Google I/O? Plus, we’re giving away TWO phones to celebrate TWO hundred episodes!We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and phone ...

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Huawei P9 Review: More than just a pair of cameras?

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Most of the discussion on Huawei’s latest phone has focused on photography and video performance. No surprise there, as the dual camera experiment, a joint collaboration with boutique manufacturer Leica, is an interesting development. We’re a bit guilty of that too, as our first video after unboxing, was to take that camera for a spin.The P9 is more than just a pair of camera sensors however. Our review unit arrived with a 5.2″ 1080p ...

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Top 5 phone cameras (of the first half) of 2016!

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Here at Pocketnow, we pride ourselves on producing some of the most in depth lifestyle examinations of smartphone performance available online. Recently we’ve taken to reviewing phone cameras in the same way we might examine a standalone camera. Our Real Camera Reviews are deep-dive videos for folks who want to know as much about photo and video performance as we can demonstrate while shooting in real world conditions.The major phone releases for the first half of 2016 have all been reviewed. Looking at Samsungs, HTCs, LGs, ...

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Does Phone Camera Aperture Size Matter? Huawei P9 vs Galaxy S7!

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

We recently produced a full, in depth review focusing on the camera performance of the Huawei P9, where in that review we made the following statement:While we might be concerned to see the smaller f/2.2 apertures over competing phones, on sensors this small, the difference in depth of field blur between f/1.8 and f/2.2 is fairly minimal. We still achieve a nice shallow blur to backgrounds…We got a few comments on that review regarding the above statement about aperture size and how it affects depth of field. ...

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Huawei P9 real camera review: Is this “Leica” legit?

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

The most interesting things about Huawei’s P9 are the dual camera sensors on the back. This is the first device born of the collaboration between Huawei and Leica, and it’s not without a little controversy. While Huawei representatives insist that Leica was an active partner in developing the camera hardware and software for the P9, many are still concerned this might only be a branding exercise.Regardless of the logos on the box, or the lofty certifications referenced, the P9 is an interesting photography experiment. We’ve seen dual sensor phones before, but none with ...

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Huawei G9 phone and MediaPad M2 7.0 are brought to light in China

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Even though the “Lite” version of Huawei’s latest flagship phone was rumored to discard the key dual rear camera selling point, its other specifications made it pretty weird that a formal announcement was put on hold all this time.But as it turns out, the P9 Lite will not ...

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