While smartphones have become more powerful and feature rich than ever before, they now suffer from a sea of sameness, bordering on boredom. Technological innovations that enable devices to bend and fold are a new line of design thinking for the industry that are not just visually appealing, but make sense, as they give one …
2018 was an interesting year for smartphones in the India market, with a series of steady and even impressive, smartphones from all major brands, Chinese as well as Global. Across price bands, there were many smartphones vying for attention with their incredible design, craftsmanship and performance. More than ever before, smartphone innovation picked pace in …
On December 15, 2018, OPPO, a leading smartphone brand, announced their first ever R&D centre in Hyderabad, India. For OPPO, the R&D centre is the fourth globally, and their largest facility outside of mainland China. Here are some key questions that this article seeks to answer: Why is OPPO India focusing on R&D now? What …
During the second day of the Snapdragon Technology Summit 2018, Qualcomm introduced the newest generation in the 8 Mobile Platform Series, the Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform: the world’s first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, industry-leading AI and immersive extended reality (XR) in the 2019 generation of premium Android flagships. The Snapdragon 855 will change …
The Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL were launched yesterday at a global event. Google’s third tryst with smartphones reveals that the new Google Pixel is all about the true AI under the hood, and one that is integral to winning the smart home of the future. 1. The Pixel 3 is integral to Google’s …
2017 will be remembered as the year when the smartphone innovation hit a plateau. This is the year when the lines got increasingly blurred when it came to comparing smartphone brands on specs and hardware, across price bands. Smartphone vendors also realized the futility in driving their USPs around hardware. Whether it be cameras or …