Smartphone camera sensors and lenses have to operate in a very tight space, but they continue to close the gap on full-size digital cameras year after year. Sony's new IMX586 sensor boasts a 48-megapixel resolution, the highest yet for a mobile sensor, and should be coming to a phone near you soon.
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Gorilla Glass covers the displays of phones from Apple, Samsung, LG and many more, and two years after the last refresh, Corning has just unveiled Gorilla Glass 6. Now more durable than ever, the new covering glass is able to survive up to 15 successive drops from a meter (39 inches) high.
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If you're looking for similarities between the upcoming iOS 12 and Android P updates, an obvious one stands out: New tools for curbing our growing dependence on our smartphones. Here's how the giant mobile tech companies are going to try and get us to spend less time on our mobiles.
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We've seen some impressive flagship smartphones unveiled this year, including the OnePlus 6 and the Samsung Galaxy S9, but two of the biggest launches are still to come: new 2018 handsets from Apple and Google. With leaks and rumors now arriving at a steady pace, here's what we expect.
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If you don’t want to buy into Apple or Samsung’s ecosystems, there are alternative flagships from decent brands with similar specs. Here New Atlas rounds up the specs and features of five of the best alternative phones: Sony Xperia XZ2, LG G7 ThinQ, HTC U12+, Huawei Mate 10 Pro and OnePlus 6.
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Does the smartphone world need a BlackBerry keyboard in 2018? That's the biggest question posed by the arrival of the new BlackBerry Key2, an otherwise unremarkable handset running Android 8.1. New Atlas has been playing around with the phone for a week, and here's what we think.
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As expected, Apple has pushed out public betas for two of its four main software platforms – iOS 12 and tvOS 12. That means anyone with a compatible iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV can now test out the next version of the operating system, in return for a few bugs and the occasional crash.
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As smartphones get smarter, they get more expensive, but they don’t need to. New Atlas compares the specs and features of some of the best phones you can buy for under $300 – the iPhone SE, LG K30, Huawei Mate SE, Nokia 6.1, ZenFone 5Q (or 5 Lite), and the Moto G6.
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To make its newest device stand out from a crowd, Oppo’s 2018 flagship phone, the Find X, packs slide-out 3D cameras that hide inside the body when not in use, and backs it up with decent specs and an edge-to-edge screen.
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Four years and eight phones down the line, the OnePlus mission remains the same: to offer flagship-quality phones at the cheapest possible price. We've spent the last week testing out the latest phone to aim for that goal, the brand new OnePlus 6, and here are our thoughts.
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