It is also painful to see the infamous black bar (surrounding the HTC logo) still present. And what makes it worse is that HTC shortly released the One M9+ with a 5.2″ display overseas soon after the M9 launch in the US. It is simply too small for a flagship in this day and age. It pains me to see that HTC is sticking with 5″ for the display. It’d make more sense to look at the One M9 as a One M8+, we don’t have much change. HTC has taken quite a bit of flak for what they delivered to us this year, and I won’t say it wasn’t well deserved. The Bad Sub-par battery lifeNo microSD supportTouchWiz UI still presentExpensive The Good Premium design and feelArguably best phone display, with excellent outdoor visibilityArguably best Android cameraCurved edge variantRefined fingerprint sensor Samsung’s TouchWiz UI has been toned down, and those lags and stutters are yesterday’s news. The 16 MP sensor was upgraded to a f/1.9 aperture lens, resulting in great low light performance. Under the hood we got another surprise, a home-brewed Exynos processor instead of the usual Qualcomm Snapdragon. Although it adds little to functionality, no one can deny it is certainty neat to look at, especially as content falls off the screen. Samsung also took this opportunity to take the curved edge concept from the Note Edge a step further and put it on both sides. A flat glass back is now present, with a neat color-shifting reflection effect as you tilt the device. Samsung has succumbed to sealing the back for the sake of a premium build. Gone is the plastic, removable backing we’ve always known. The metal frame around the device is a bit more refined than what we saw on the Note 4 last year, with subtle curves and a soft finish. It’s only until you look at the sides and back where you notice a serious makeover. Samsung has retained the same button, earpiece, and sensor layouts as before. And it was about time! Last year’s Galaxy S5 proved that Samsung could not keep recycling the same design and remain successful.įrom the front, you’d be hard-pressed to tell that anything has changed. I think we can all agree this iteration to Samsung’s flagship brought the biggest change to design and build. It is in this respect that we’ve compiled a rundown of the top phone options at the halfway point of 2015, in impression and comparison. I have to say, this predictable vibe that people on here seem to have, stating that they still use an old flip phone, and that they are better than these new fangled smartphones is extremely tiresome and backwards thinking.Each flagship presented to us have strengths and weaknesses, making the designation of the “best phone” only apparent when resolving what best suits you. This lack of desire to upgrade, which is where most of the renewal business comes from, is also due to the nature of the design the operating system is not locked to the hardware, with smartphones - you can put Android 4.1 on a variety of phones of varying age, just as you can put iOS on iPhones all the way back to the 4S. This slight drop in renewals will be partially due to people going back to a flip-phone as they just don't 'get' smartphones (ie, they are not 'online' people interested in world news, social networking, internet shopping, GPS, translation etc.), and it will also be due to the fact that the smartphone has reached an initial plateau of maturity and quality, meaning that people don't need to upgrade their iPhone5, or their Galaxy S3, because the newer versions are not really a huge leap in functionality and there is nothing wrong with their current version. The article does not say what percentage of mobile users have smartphones, compared to flip-phones.
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