Jun 28, 2017
After much testing of the new OnePlus 5, this flagship is all about balance. Every manufacturer has to juggle specifications, hardware design constraints and component prices in order to bring the product home at just
May 22, 2017
May 17, 2017
After a torrid year living down the interesting but horribly flawed G5, LG has seemingly come good with this, the G6 - it does seem as though the even numbered in the ‘G’ range are always
Apr 25, 2017
A year on (from the P9) and a subtle shift in emphasis for the latest Huawei consumer flagship - the company has gone all out for the most profitable sector of the market, traditionally dominated by
Apr 9, 2017
The Moto G series single-handedly brought back Motorola's smartphone business back from the brink of extinction. While the company was eventually sold off to Lenovo after being acquired by Google, its Moto G
Feb 5, 2017
The Redmi Note 3 was among the most popular budget Android smartphones in India last year. For its price, the phone packed extremely powerful internals, a huge battery, and had decent build quality. It was
Jan 21, 2017
Huawei has been fine tuning its digital native (for which read teenagers and twenty somethings) smartphones for a couple of years now and, with the Honor 6X, has (almost) perfected the delicate balance between technology
Dec 29, 2016
Smartphones have been getting closer to this Star Trek-like form factor for years. Just as the original Samsung Galaxy Nexus appalled us all with a giant 4.7” screen in 2011, a vision of
Nov 12, 2016
To much fanfare, Xiaomi unveiled the Mi 5 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. Despite the handset being primarily available in China and India, Xiaomi decided to unveil its flagship handset for
Oct 21, 2016
Time to answer a few questions. Yes, this is Google’s headline Android phone for the year. Yes, it goes under the Pixel brand rather than Nexus. Yes, Google’s marketing department has gone into
Sep 3, 2016
Xiaomi is no longer the unicorn of the smartphone market that it was once hailed by everyone. The company has been outgunned by other local Chinese OEMs like Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo. Nonetheless, this does
Aug 16, 2016
Building on the very successful Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 7 on the 2nd of August. The company's latest Note packs in many firsts for the series and also
Jul 24, 2016
LeEco, formerly Letv, is a fairly new entrant in the smartphone market, but the company has made a name for itself in China and India thanks to their blitzkrieg marketing. In India, the company recently
Jul 21, 2016
As far as smartphone reviews go, there is rarely a time when one finds a device so perfectly designed to meet its market that its flaws, though annoying, seem too trivial a matter. The Oppo
Jul 9, 2016
I have had a love-hate relationship with OnePlus. Even before the company announced their original flagship killer, the OnePlus One, the very prospect of a company launching a phone running CyanogenMod out of the
Jun 30, 2016
Huawei's online-only sub-brand Honor has made a name for itself with some excellent budget devices that are doing extremely well in the European and Chinese market. The latest entrant from the company
Jun 18, 2016
The original Moto G played a key role in bringing Motorola back from the dead. The handset sold like hot cakes in India, United States, and Brazil and helped Motorola in once again cementing its
Jun 7, 2016
The cracks are starting to show in the smartphone world, I believe. Under incredible pressure from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei/Honor, Meizu and Xiaomi, the old guard are having to change tack and try something
