Week In Review is back to recap all the major announcements of the week, which you might have missed. The past Week 44 saw a lot of new smartphone announcements. Motorola, Samsung and Oppo revealed new devices and all of them are quite interesting. Oppo made a splash with two new smartpones - the Oppo N3 with a 16MP motorized camera and the Oppo R5, which is now officially the thinnest smartphone in the world. Motorola and Verizon held a join event at which the two companies revealed the Droid Turbo. It's a 5.2" QHD powerhouse with a Snapdragon 805 chipset and uses cool materials such as ballistic nylon and kevlar. Lastly, Samsung revealed its long-rumored Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3. Both of them boast a metal frame and add a dash of class to its mid-range line-up. .news-item .n-left { float: left; width: 16%; text-align: center; margin-left: -13px; } .news-item .n-right { float: left; width: 84%; } .news-item a { padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0; } .news-item .n-right h2, .reviews-item .n-right h2 { clear: both; padding: 0 0 3px 0px; font: 400 19px Oswald, Arial; margin-top: -4px; } .n-right p { line-height: 155%; } .news-item { padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-top: 1px solid #ccc; } .news-item p { margin-left: 0; } .n-right h2 a { text-decoration: none; color: #000; } Oppo N3 is official with a 16MP motorized camera At a special event in Singapore, Oppo announced the N3 cameraphone. The successor to the N1 sports a 16MP motorized camera allowing it to track objects as they move. The sensor is 1/2.3" in size and the pixel size is 1.34micrometer. The camera uses Schneider Kreuznach-certified lens to round up an... Oppo R5 officially becomes the world's thinnest smartphone After the Oppo N3 cameraphone, the company unveiled its first 64-bit smartphone, which is coincidentally also its thinnest yet. The Oppo R5 measures just 4.85mm thick, the "slimmest phone in the world," Oppo claims. The company has shaved quite a bit of thickness compared to the 6.3mm Oppo... Motorola Droid Turbo is official with 5.2-inch QHD display At a joint event on Tuesday, Verizon and Motorola announced the Droid Turbo. The phone runs on the Verizon XLTE network and features a 5.2" Super AMOLED QHD display with a pixel density of 565ppi. The Motorola Droid Turbo is powered by a Snapdragon 805 chipset with a 2.7GHz quad-core Krait 450 CPU... Samsung announces Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 duo of smartphones Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 duo of smartphones. The Android duet is targeting young buyers with entry-level and mid-range specs, variety of colors, and decidedly premium all-metal unibody. Samsung Galaxy A5 packs 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM.There's 16GB of... Sharp will have a 4K smartphone display ready in 2016 If you think QHD screen resolution (that's 2,560x1,440) on smartphones is rather ridiculous, you'll surely be even more flabbergasted in 2016. That's because at some point during that year, Sharp is set to have finalized its first 4K smartphone display. It's still unclear which exact resolution... Google Nexus 6 already sold out in the United States It appears that sales of Google Nexus 6 are off to a robust start. The Motorola-made Android 5.0 Lollipop phablet sold out in the United States several hours after it became available for pre-order. All memory and color configurations of the device are listed as out of inventory. There is... A global version of Motorola Droid Turbo to be unveiled in Brazil The new Motorola Droid Turbo garnered great interest but as a Verizon-exclusive it felt out of reach. Now Motorola is sending out invites for a November 5 event to announce a global rollout. The invite doesn't call out the device by name but the corner of the back shows Droid Turbo's characteristic... Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, leaves Google Andy Rubin has left Google. Rubin was heading Google's robotic division but has now left the company to start his own...
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