The miniaturization of electronics and advances in battery technology have ushered an age in which it's possible to carry around what would once have been considered a supercomputer in our pockets. In just a couple of decades, smartphones, along with their bigger tablet brothers, have become indispensable and made it easy to stay connected to work, friends and family, wherever we may be.
Read on for news, reviews and comparisons of the latest smartphones and tablets.
Android Wear is no more, but the software continues under a new name: Wear OS by Google. The tech giant has decided to rebrand its wearable efforts, effective immediately – in part perhaps to try and appeal to more iPhone owners and to reinvigorate a platform that had grown a little stale.
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Google has officially announced the next version of its mobile operating system, Android P, which you can expect to see on some handsets from later this year. Only a handful of new features have been unveiled so far, but they include support for displays with notches, inspired by the iPhone X.
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The SonarPen is a cheap, pressure-sensitive stylus that works on almost all iPads and iPhones, turning older tablets into sketch pads for a fraction of the cost of other smart pens on the market.
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Samsung has unveiled its 2018 flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+. How much of an improvement are they over last year's models? If you’re lugging around a 2017 Galaxy and wondering if it’s worth the upgrade, New Atlas compares the specs and features of the Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, S9 and S9+.
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Vivo introduced a novel concept smartphone earlier this week. Not only does the Apex almost get rid of bezels from the front, but sounds belt out from the screen itself, half the display is a fingerprint scanner and the front camera pops up from inside the body when needed, and disappears when not.
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We've seen another announcement-packed Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this week, with new phones launched by Samsung, Sony, LG, Nokia, Asus, and others. So what can this glut of new devices tell us about where smartphones are heading in 2018, and what we'll see for the rest of the year?
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The phone launches continue to come thick and fast at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and Asus is the latest company to show off its wares. It's unveiled three new ZenFone models for 2018, one of which bears more than a slight resemblance to a flagship smartphone recently launched by Apple.
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As expected, LG has injected more smarts into its flagship smartphone. Users of the new V30S ThinQ and the V30S+ ThinQ phones will get an AI assist when using some of the commonly-used features of the camera, as well as be able to do more using voice commands.
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We've already seen phones from Samsung and Nokia launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and now Sony is joining the party. Its revamped, redesigned Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact are the company's latest attempts to keep up with the major players in the smartphones world.
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Samsung has revealed its new flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, with the most radical upgrades thrown towards the camera. So just how well do the Galaxy S9 and S9+ stack up against the iPhone X, 8 and 8 Plus? New Atlas compares the specs and features of the five leading phones of 2018.
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