News & Reviews:   smartphone

While the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 shows what curved displays can be like to own, we are still plagued with the limitation of smartphones – both phones still have bezels around the display, albeit a very tiny one. Sharp, one of the premier manufacturers of displays, has reveal a display that is without bezels, and spans from corner to corner.

A name more associated to film and photography, Kodak is in the midst of launching a new smartphone at the end of this month. Even though their earlier launch the IM5 wasn’t received as good as they hoped, it doesn’t stop them to go ahead with a second model.

Antutu is one of the big names for benchmark usage out there. Currently the highest scoring smartphone on the list is the Apple iPhone 7 Plus, with 172,644. Now however a mystery prototype smartphone had scored almost 20% more when compared to Apple’s newest phablet.

While the company may be facing some tough times, Samsung is still a large multinational company, and they have many facets of business to rely on. Case in point – chip fabrication. They are fabricating their own processor – the Exynos - and we will be seeing another customer using Samsung’s fabrication facilities. Qualcomm is said to engage with Samsung for their Snapdragon 830 fabrication.

After going through many different models throughout the years, Blackberry, the phone company from Waterloo, Canada has decided that they will not be designing anymore smartphones in the future.

We are expected to see something special this coming 4th October, as Google readies to launch several new items. One of them is apparently a new software initiative, which Google is calling “Andromeda”, an Android/Chrome hybrid OS.

The Moto Z family from Motorola is one of the hottest models on the market right now – even though it has yet to see light in Malaysia. Nevertheless, Lenovo is now resting on their laurels, and it seems that we may see a new model under the Moto brand soon – the Moto M.

Nintendo has long been a stranger in the mobile gaming space, even though their games are generally suited to be played on small screens such as on smartphones. Not anymore – during the launch of the iPhone 7 event, Nintendo announced that Super Mario Run will be heading to iOS.

The upcoming Xiaomi Mi Note 2 is expected to announced and launched within the month of September, so we are looking forward to see how it is like in our hands soon. One of the reason is because a new report that came out recently suggests that the new device from Xiaomi may have 3D Touch technology built in.

We are in the midst of the big recall by Samsung, thanks to their Galaxy Note 7 – but that doesn’t mean the company is sitting still not doing anything. A new patent recently discovered may have revealed their next target – to run both Android and Windows 10 Phone in one single device.