Galaxy S7 Edge rules best-selling Android smartphone list, surprisingly followed by J2

A number of research firms have come out with their Q2 or overall H1 2016 smartphone sales reports, unanimously concluding Android as a whole continued to surge, while iOS lost a bit of steam, and Windows plunged closer than ever to absolute market irrelevance.As far as OEMs go, Samsung enjoyed a couple of

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Vivo X7 and X7 Plus enter the scene with slim profiles, big batteries, 16MP front cams

Without global expansion ambitions, BBK sub-brand Vivo seems perfectly comfortable taking a few all the design cues from the Western smartphone industry’s leaders in its attempt to pose a stronger and stronger domestic challenge to the likes of Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO.The just-unveiled X7 and X7 Plus are proud upper mid-range metal-and-glass affairs, with familiar antenna lines and rose gold color options, priced on Chinese shores starting ...

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A few more vivo X7 specs out thanks to TENAA listing

Chinese regulatory agency TENAA has listings up for two variants of the vivo X7, giving us more of an idea of what it has to offer in hardware.Most of the X7’s internals were pretty much spoiled from the getgo by vivo while the X7 Plus — or, more correctly, a facsimile of it — got teased in visuals. But beyond the basics, what more can we pull out of TENAA?Well, for one thing, the 5.2-inch full HD ...

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Okay, we’ve seen this vivo X7 Plus before…

But we’re obliged to talk about it, if only for the market dynamics. And boy, is Chinese manufacturer vivo expecting the market to move.The X7 and X7 Plus are expected to be in the “mid-rangers-plus” category. The phablet of the two — can you guess — will have a 5.7-inch full HD screen and it’s tied to a Snapdragon 652 with 4GB of RAM and a 16-megapixel main camera. There ...

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Vivo X7 launch day is June 30 with Plus variant and specs told

Chinese manufacturer Vivo is readying itself for another smartphone release. Unlike the Xplay 5 Elite, though, these two devices won’t be busting any blocks — even the company admits it through an initial release of their specs.But what we’re looking is far from basic. The Vivo X7 will ...

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