Huawei was the hustler of the smartphone industry in 2015. It had four poles holding up a tent that spread across the world, not just its home country. And if the company’s pomp and circumstance didn’t put the Mate S up in the product ranks of the P8, the Nexus 6P and the
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Hold onto your nostalgia. It may be all we’ll ever get in place of real flip phones in the future. This warning comes as Samsung gets a major take-up in curved display orders from Chinese manufacturers — in fact, those displays can be seen on a big talker of a device, the Vivo Xplay 5. Industry sources say several manufacturers will fill ...
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“Who would ever need a 6GB smartphone?” Questions like that will get you in trouble. Despite the fact that he says he never said it, Bill Gates still gets cited as the guy who said we’d never need more than 640KB RAM in our computers, and we’ve seen how that turned out. If the Vivo Xplay 5 is to be considered today’s benchmark, the 6GB smartphone is just around the corner. But that brings us back to the question: How much RAM is “enough” in our smartphones, and is 6GB “too much”?To ...
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It used to be that a smartphone getting a full gigabyte of RAM sounded like a luxury, a hardware extravagance that almost threatened to go wasted as mobile platforms looked for something to do with all that extra memory. But make good use of it they did, and it wasn’t long before we saw 1GB give way to 2GB, then 3GB and even 4GB. At some point, it almost seemed silly to keep talking about memory ceilings, as it became clear that smartphone OEMs would always outdo themselves with more and more handset RAM. For a while now, we’ve been looking forward to what’s next, and
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Samsung finds itself in an enviable position in the smartphone industry, large enough a company to develop a number of its own hardware components, while secure enough in its standing to not just hold its most desirable parts back for exclusive use in its own devices. In addition to Exynos chips, the curved-screen displays Samsung first used on its own Edge-series hardware have subsequently begun to appear in third-party phones, like BlackBerry Priv. Last year we heard that the Priv could just be the start of that expansion,
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