Month: September 2018

  • Week 39 in review: Realme 2 Pro and Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro debut

    A couple of phones debuted this week, but you don’t have to look further than our top 10 trending chart to know which one was more interesting – the Realme 2 Pro debut is easily the event of week 39. Meanwhile Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi Note 6 Pro, which is hardly a great improvement over…

  • Top 10 trending phones of week 39

    These are turbulent times in our top 10 trending chart as we see our fourth leader in as many weeks – the newly announced Realme 2 immediately shooting to the top. Funnily enough the leaders of the past three weeks complete the top four. The Galaxy A7 (2018) steps down to second, ahead of the…

  • Counterclockwise: Huawei bets on Android early and grows big quickly

    Huawei is currently the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, but it is a very young company – it was only founded in 1987. And it didn’t start making phones until 2003, but it already has ambitions to be the largest smartphone maker in the world, just like in conquered the networking hardware field. The first…

  • Weekly poll: Realme 2 Pro, love it or hate it?

    Realme is going in for the kill – the 2 Pro targets Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus and even Oppo’s own phones with what could be described as great specs at an insanely low price. It starts at INR 14,000 ($192/€165) for the 4/64GB model. That buys you a capable Snapdragon 660, 6.3″ 1080p+ screen with teardrop…

  • LG TONE Platinum SE review

    Introduction Headsets and audio equipment reviews are hardly a daily occurrence here at GSMArena, but most of us have deep personal interest in the area. That’s why the TONE Platinum SE caused quite a lot of excitement here at HQ and I was nominated to share some of that with it. Heads-up this is going…