Former Apple CEO John Sculley, among others to blame for Jobs' temporary dismissal, launched a new smartphone brand called Obi Worldphone. In doing so, he teamed up with Robert Brunner, a former protégé of the company from Cupertino. The idea for the new brand was to create phones that do not make compromises and are made in Silicon Valley with the best components, but their price does not exceed 200 US dollars. And so the flagship Android Obi Worldphone SF1 and the more affordable Obi Worldphone SJ1.5 were born.
Smart phones
The mobile phone market is as busy as ever. New models are coming like on a conveyor belt and even the biggest connoisseurs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of change. While the trends are still dictated by the big guys, their products from the Far East are increasingly making their way to the fore. Nevertheless, the phones that left the competition behind come from well-known "logs". To make it easier for you to decide among the multitude of offers, we have selected for you the ten best that reign in the second half of 2015.
Coolpad Porto and Coolpad Modena – flagships of the Coolpad smartphone brand, are coming to Slovenia
The seventh largest global and fourth largest Chinese smartphone brand, Coolpad, is coming to Slovenia. Coolpad Porto and Coolpad Modena are named after European cities, and their relationship between design, performance and price is exceptional.
Just when we thought that flip phones had finally gone to the eternal hunting grounds, both LG and Samsung announced its return. If the move doesn't seem logical, it seems all the more so as the flip phone of industrial designer Allan Ospina, who redefines this type of technological toys in a new way, i.e. according to Sony. Namely, they created the Lunark Phone smartphone with two screens and a special hinge that connects them into one.
While the BlackBerry brand is slowly but steadily sinking like Venice, it is trying to save itself with the BlackBerry Venice smartphone, which is the first BlackBerry that does not have its own operating system but Google's Android OS, and the special feature is a sinking case that hides the physical keyboard. Is classic looks and Android the combination that will save this sinking Canadian company?
Samsung unveiled the 'Jao Ming' version of the already 'Shaquille O'Neal' Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone in New York, suggesting that it's not deviating from big phones, a category it has dominated for years. 2011 with Galaxy Note also created by myself. The S6 Edge+ has a larger screen than the pioneer among mobile phones with a curved screen. In terms of software and hardware, it was inspired by its older brother, but it outgrew it in the screen (5.7 inches vs. 5.1 inches). The South Koreans also thought about autonomy, and if until now we were used to smartphones being the first concern, this is now only an afterthought.
The Sony Xperia M5 is the first smartphone to boast hybrid focus. The 142-gram mid-range phone is the spiritual successor of the Xperia M4 Aqua model and has a digital camera with a resolution of 21.5 pixels (2160p video recording), which also makes it stand out from the competition.
Although the European market still has some reservations when it comes to "Chinese goods" in the field of mobile technology, this does not apply to the smartphones of the not even two-year-old Chinese start-up company OnePlus, which initially impressed with the OnePlus model, and now his successor is coming, hoping for similar success to his predecessor, who was considered one of the best in the eyes of experts. OnePlus 2 will satisfy even the most demanding users, but the main competitive advantage of the most anticipated Android of 2015 is the price, because for similar specifications you have to look much deeper into your wallet.
Marshall, which has supplied guitar amplifiers to the biggest guitarists in the music industry for decades, is venturing into the world of mobile telephony. Namely, he introduced the Marshall London smartphone, which in appearance strongly resembles his legendary guitar amplifiers. Maybe technically it doesn't burn like amplifiers, but definitely the first rock'n'roll smartphone is something special and certainly the loudest phone in the world.
The Commodore is back! It was reincarnated into a smartphone and given the name PET, a name that was already used by a computer from 1977. At the mention of the name Commodore, the eyes of many nostalgic people light up, as Commodore is still considered one of the best computer systems of its time. In the eighties, it was even a leading company in the field of PCs, but in 1994 it had to go bankrupt. Since then, its name and rights have been literally given to each other by the owners. The Italians, the current owners of Commodore Business Machines Limited, will try to cash in on its potential through the PET phone.
Although there is generally a lull in the field of mobile technology at the moment, Samsung used the time of pickles to present a new phone from the Galaxy A family. Its new member is the Samsung Galaxy A8, which is considered Samsung's thinnest smartphone to date. Osmica continues the tradition of the A line, which is famous for thin smartphones with a metal body (the predecessor A7 measured 6.3 millimeters in thickness).
ZenFone 2 is the flagship of the Taiwanese company Asus, which was the first among smartphones with 4 GB of working memory. But that is far from all that this premium phone, which is also available in Slovenia, has to offer the user. The ZenFone family is a newcomer to the Slovenian market, headed by the ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) model, which we had the opportunity to get to know.