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.
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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 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).
Google recently added a new tool called Which Phone to help us find the Android phone for us amidst the flood of phones. The tool asks us to choose three activities for which we most often use our phone and determine how often we use it for that. Then Google "thinks" a bit and offers a choice of three mobile phones and links to online stores.
A smartphone is an indispensable accessory for a representative of generation Y. Even so much so that he can no longer imagine life without it. At BuzzFeed, they therefore decided to invite six representatives of the millennial generation to an experiment and challenge them. One week without a phone. It wasn't exactly life and death, but for some it wasn't far from it. But they also came to important insights. Check.
In a world of smartphones, watches, glasses and homes, the Light Phone tries to stand out by being too smart. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The information age can be very tiring. Ever since the advent of smartphones, we have been inundated with alerts, messages, emails and spam calls. The Light Phone is a discreet phone the size of a credit card, designed to be used as little as possible. It connects to a smartphone and only lets calls through. You can reserve it on Kickstarter.
While the Fonkraft modular phone for the masses will apparently remain just a pious wish of users, since it was pulled from Indiegogo for some unknown reason in the middle of the campaign, they will still get their money's worth. A somewhat different but still affordable modular solution appeared on the market. The first-of-its-kind modular case from startup Nexpaq will be a welcome addition to any smartphone.
They say the zombie apocalypse is just around the corner, but if you look around a bit, it's been here for a while. Looking at the crowded streets of major cities, it sometimes seems that the walking dead are walking on the sidewalks instead of people. Such people have already become known as zombie pedestrians, as they walk without a sense of direction, and their attention is focused on the smartphone screen instead of what is happening around them. This is just one of the proofs that we have become addicted to smartphones.
But why does dependence on technology damage our brains when we have almost everything at our fingertips thanks to smartphones and tablets? The human brain is busier than ever before. In the age of email, Facebook and Twitter, time requires us to multitask. Which takes its toll. Dependence on technology makes us less, not more efficient.
With some of the busiest months in the smartphone / mobile world behind us and the new year just around the corner, it's only fitting that we take a look at the smartphone lineup and find out the best smartphones of 2015. Because even though phones, not every choice is smart. In our editorial office, we have therefore diligently followed the developments in the field of mobile telephony over the years, and here is a selection of the best, consisting of old acquaintances (read brands) and newcomers.
If we use a smartphone, then there's a good chance we fall into one of the categories of annoying habits or user stereotypes in the Smart Phones Dumb Users animated chart compiled by Mobiles.co.uk.
Smartphones have become our life companions, but we change them like shirts. It's a good thing that subscription relationships are not as ultimate as marriage. Or is it? Anyway. Every new iPhone offers something new, better, and the flexible iPhone 6 is no different. He easily became the king of the sales charts and Santa Claus has a long list of new owners. There is also a long list of all the tricks it offers that you should know.