Articles tagged "Hands-on"

We have a soft spot for phones rocking a large battery and an efficient chipset. With its 5,100mAh power reserve and a 14nm Snapdragon 625, the Lenovo P2 arrives with a simple promise: it will last more than a solid day of usage. One of the...

Honor pulled the wraps off the Honor 6X back in October for the Chinese market. Fast forward a few months, the company has announced the Honor 6X for the US and European markets. The phone will replace the widely successful Honor 5X, which was also...

A crate arrived at our doorstep the other day chock-full of Meizus. Naturally, we all flocked around the Pro 6 Plus flagship and we already shared our initial thoughts about it, but it is this M5 here that will be outselling the top model who knows...

The Meizu Pro 6 was less from the flagship phone I expected. It was an ill-focused combination of high-end features with second-rate hardware, and despite the force touch gimmickry, the Pro 6 couldn't achieve its Pro 5 predecessor...

LeEco was one of the first devices to feature a Snapdragon 821 CPU, an incremental update over Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chipset. It was on its way to being the first, but Asus’ Zenphone 3 Deluxe beat the Ecophone to the punch. Anyway, the Le Pro 3...

The Lenovo Moto M was announced a month ago, and its popularity is growing steadily ever since. The mid-ranger leaked quite a few times before, teasing various features before its premiere. Even though on paper the Moto M does not offer...

In a sad year for Galaxy Notes, a Mi Note could shine brighter than it otherwise would have been allowed to - the Xiaomi Mi Note 2, that is. It's easy to see the Xiaomi dual-curved flagship as a Galaxy Note7 clone, but for all the similarities, the...

OnePlus is one of the increasingly-rare few manufacturers out there that still manage to get most of us over at the office genuinely hyped. Don’t get us wrong; there are many devices which have the power to charm and impress, but few can do so while...

The Oppo R9s is a phone with a striking appearance and an impressive camera. There’s more to it than that, but for our first encounter, we decided to focus on its best qualities. The R-series has produced some alluring mid-rangers, but the R9s has...

First look The Xiaomi Mi Mix has probably surpassed any other smartphone in terms of popularity this season due to its amazing edgeless design that seems like a device from the future. While others competed in camera and chipsets, Xiaomi went for...

The Samsung Galaxy Note7 has 64GB of storage built-in, up from 32GB in last year's model. We're always happy to see base storage increase in capacity, but we got some questions about speed to we put our benchmarking caps on. The Galaxy Note7 has...

I was thrilled five months ago to try out the MicFlip reversible microUSB cable. And it was everything it promised to be - a very well made cable which goes in your phone's port either way. Now there is a new version of the cable to fix the one...

Phones with an optical zoom lens are a novelty, but people want flexibility, so add-on lenses were born. There are plenty, but since the Galaxy S7 Samsung has been making its own first-party product - the Lens cover. Naturally, there's a version...

We're gearing up for the full review of the Samsung Galaxy Note7, but we're still pumped up from the event yesterday, so we put together a short video. It begins, of course, with the iris scanner. This unit wasn't set up for us, but you can see...

Introduction Believe it or not, Alcatel is the #4 phone manufacturer in North America. Today, TCL (parent company of Alcatel) and Alcatel are announcing the Alcatel IDOL 4S to be marketed and sold in North America as a dual-SIM, unlocked...

What do FC Barcelona players Lionel Messi, Neymar, Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic and Andres Iniesta have in common? Well an educated guess would be the Oppo F1 Plus Barcelona edition is going to be their next smartphone. This is the second...

So, the excitement got to you and you just couldn't wait a second longer to order the OnePlus 3. If you are reading this, chances are you've either already ordered one or you are seriously considering the $399 flagship. In either case, picking a...

After a long round of rumors, the eagerly anticipated Lenovo Moto G4 and G4 Plus were just announced at a dedicated event. We were able to spend some time with the Moto G4 Plus and we'll share a few quick first impressions. Lenovo Moto G4 Plus at...

LeEco held a massive event in Beijing, China, to make few new product announcements. They touched upon a lot of different topics, including television sets and a particularly ambitious project involving making an electric car in cooperation with...

Sony Xperia Ear was announced back at the MWC as part of the new Xperia accessory lineup. It went official with three more devices - the Xperia Eye clip camera, the tiny Xperia Projector, and the Xperia Agent hub for home automation. The Xperia...