Month: April 2018

  • Weekly poll: Xiaomi Mi A2, hot or not?

    The pure Android movement is picking up speed and when combined with mid-range hardware, it has the potential for great mainstream phones. Like the Xiaomi Mi A2), the second Android One phone by the company. It expands the screen vertically – from 5.5″ 16:9 to 6″ 18:9 – in virtually the same body. And it…

  • Meizu 15 in for review

    We went to China’s beautiful Wuzhen town to witness the Meizu 15 debut and we were left feeling very positive about its prospects. Now we get to welcome the handset in our office as it joins our review queue, so we are wondering if the positive impressions will stand. What we have here is a…

  • Weekly poll results: Moto G6 Plus is a star, the other budget models fail to impress

    The Moto G6 Plus is the mid-range Motorola worth having, our poll reveals. With over half the votes, this €300 model completely dominated its siblings. The difference between it and the non-Plus G6 include a drop to a 4-series Snapdragon chipset, which many deemed untenable. The reduction in screen diagonal – from 5.9″ to 5.7″…

  • Top 10 trending phones of week 17

    We skipped a week with our top 10, but the leaders have remained unchanged – the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro is just ahead of the Huawei P20 Pro. There’s plenty of action below though with the Oppo F7 gaining 7 spots to complete the rostrtum. The Asus Zenfone Max Plus is gone from the…

  • Counterclockwise: RAM capacity through the years

    We’ve looked at the growth of storage and the growth of CPU core count, now let us look at RAM – the intermediary between the processor and the permanent storage. Sometimes we feel that makers are trying to pull the wool over our eyes. With storage especially few mention if it’s eMMC or UFC and…