Counterclockwise: the rise of OLED smartphones and why it happened

We're at a pivotal point in the history of mobile screens - OLEDs have finally matched LCDs. Looking at the user interest, OLED-packing phones have climbed up to equal LCD models and are set to surpass them very soon. Back in 2017, we looked at LCD vs. OLED for the first time, but then we simply counted the number of new models each year. This time around we took actual interest into account (by looking at interest in each phone on our site) because more popular and typically the ones that get better sales numbers. We still plotted the number of new models year (in yellow), but as you can...

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Weekly poll: Are tablets still relevant?

Did you hear? Apple updated its non-pro iPads. Perhaps the more important question is "do you care?". Looking at Apple's report for Q4 2018, it shows that the iPhone brings in 8x the revenue of iPads. The tablets also lag behind the Mac sales as well as the wearable and services division. In short, the iPad is one of the least profitable Apple products. The tablet market in general has been stagnating, Apple is better off than most companies. What's the last flagship Android tablet? The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 10.5 pops to mind, but while the high-res Super AMOLED screen is lovely, the...

Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/weekly_poll_why_did_tablets_fail-news-36149.php

Recap: The new phones and tablets of week 12

The past week saw the debut of a lot of phones and tablets. To make sure you haven't missed any of those we've gathered them all here so you can quickly catch up. The newly spun-off Redmi brand got its newest budget offering in the Redmi 7. The phone offers an efficient Snapdragon 632 chipset and generous battery life with its 4,000 mAh cell for just CNY 699 ($105/€92) in its base configuration. On the gaming front, Xiaomi went all out with the Black Shark 2. The phone introduced a display built for gamers with low latency, pressure sensitivity, and DC dimming. Of course, there's...

Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/week_12__new_device_recap-news-36147.php

Weekly poll results: periscope cameras will be a hit

People are excited about periscope cameras - last week's poll shows that the high zoom levels they enable will be a key consideration the time comes to buy a new phone. There are plenty of phones with a tele camera on the market right now, but they are almost exclusively 2x. From the comments it's pretty clear that the excitement about periscope cameras will be much higher if they offered smooth zoom. There have been such cameras in the past (e.g. the Zenfone Zoom), but the upcoming crop of phones (e.g. Huawei P30 Pro and Oppo Reno) will have a locked focal length. People are concerned...

Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/weekly_poll_results_periscope_cameras_will_be_a_hit-news-36171.php

Samsung Galaxy M10 and M20 in for review

Samsung announced the Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20 at a launch event in India as the first two members of the phone maker's new mid-range lineup. And now that we finally got a chance to welcome them to our office it's time we see if they are good enough. Samsung Galaxy M20 and Galaxy M10 Both phones have Infinity-V displays (which means they have a waterdrop notch) dual cameras on the back, and they are both powered by Android Oreo 8.1 with Samsung's Experience UI 9.5. Let's start by taking a closer look at the more interesting of the two: the Galaxy M20. Samsung Galaxy M20 The...

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New Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12.5 is likely coming on March 26

Xiaomi's 12.5-inch Mi Notebook Air appears to be due for an update in a few days, as evidenced by a post from the official account of the company's notebook division. Teaser poster The post is about as vague as they come but there's a date - March 26 is when something is happening. There's a scale in the teaser image showing 1.07kg, the weight of the current model of the laptop. Our Chinese being rusty, and Google Translate being notoriously unreliable with Chinese to English translations, we can only speculate that the tagline reads something like 'What's the perfect...

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