Phone Reviews (page 31)
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy M22
Samsung Galaxy M22 - an evolution that we did not expect
The M-series of the Korean company Samsung has always contained smartphones that are quite attractive in terms of price and quality, but often the models in the line lacked functionality or performance to achieve bestseller status. The hero of today's review must change this state of affairs, for this he has all the possibilities.
Smartphone review: Realme C25s
Realme C25s - a smartphone that could be better
It seems that the Chinese company Realmi began to pursue not quality, but quantity. Truly interesting phones like the X2 Pro or C3 have not come out from under its conveyor for a long time, and the gadgets released today are striking both in monotony and lagging behind opponents in a number of parameters. For example, the hero of today's review is aimed at the border of the lower and middle price segments, but cannot boast of the corresponding functionality.
Smartphone review: Vivo X70
Vivo X70 - affordable perfection
Smartphones of the Chinese company Vivo are becoming more technologically advanced and more beautiful every year, while maintaining a pricing policy by the manufacturer. More recently, the corporation's products seemed at times unreasonably expensive, but the general increase in prices for sub-flagship and flagship phones has led to the fact that the gadgets produced by the developer are now much more attractive to the user. The hero of today's review is close to the title of the ideal in its value category.
Smartphone review: Realme C20A
Realme C20A is a useless novelty
Smartphone manufacturers have different approaches to updating successful models. So, some companies are trying to improve most of the phone's parameters while maintaining a similar pricing policy, while others are releasing an updated device in a higher cost category with a different set of positive qualities. The Chinese firm Realmi decided, on the contrary, to slightly worsen its bestseller with a slight drop in the price tag. Isn't such an action meaningless?
Smartphone review: Vivo X60t Pro
Vivo X60t Pro - a flagship with nuances
The Chinese company Vivo is extremely popular in its homeland, where the corporation has already earned the trust of the audience thanks to its stylish, high-quality and functional smartphones. Outside of China, not every Android enthusiast is willing to pay a lot of money for a little-known brand. Moreover, sometimes new items manage to be inferior to analogs from the A-brand at a similar price. So, the hero of today's review is distinguished by technical characteristics that are also found in much more affordable alternatives. But will this become an obstacle to success?
Smartphone review: Blackview A90
Blackview A90 - claim for success
Smartphones of the Chinese company Blackview with the index "A" quite often combined a low price and good functionality, but recently the number of really competitive and interesting phones in the line has decreased. Fortunately, the corporation is aware of the state of affairs and is doing its best to fix it. So, we got an extremely curious hero of today's review, who has every chance of a decent sale.
Smartphone review: Vivo IQOO Neo5 Lite
Vivo IQOO Neo5 Lite - clever simplifications
Making a flagship smartphone cheaper while making it even more attractive to an audience is a daunting task even for the most experienced manufacturers. Sometimes developers save on things that are too important for users, which is why the released model is not in great demand. However, the hero of today's review avoided such problems and will be an amazing choice to buy.
Smartphone review: Honor Play 5
Honor Play 5 - attack of the middle price segment
The popularity of Honor is gradually declining both in its native China and in Europe and the CIS. This is due to the litigation of the former owner of the corporation in the person of Huawei, as well as the long absence of Google services in the company's products. Now the situation has changed, and the manufacturer is trying to keep the audience in his hands. That is why we see many decent and competitive models like the hero of today's review.
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy M42 5G
Samsung Galaxy M42 5G - it could be a hit
It's amazing how the impression of a perfectly balanced smartphone can be overshadowed by a few major flaws. The Korean company Samsung tried to combine in the hero of today's review almost everything that a potential bestseller should have, but something clearly went wrong.
Smartphone review: Vivo V21e
Vivo V21e - all for selfies
Almost every modern Android user today has accounts on the social networks Instagram, VK, Facebook and so on. Of course, most of the profiles are replete with various information, including photographs. You cannot scare people with low-quality pictures, and a high-quality front camera is often found only in flagships. Fortunately, the hero of today's review is a rare exception to this rule.
Smartphone review: Vivo V21
Vivo V21 - economical camera phone
Finding an inexpensive smartphone with high-quality cameras is an extremely difficult task. If manufacturers try not to economize on screens, batteries and CPUs in phones of the middle price segment, then the situation is different with photo modules. However, if you take a closer look, you can always find pleasant exceptions to the rules like the hero of today's review.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Poco F3 GT
Xiaomi Poco F3 GT is a sudden bestseller
The Chinese company Xiaomi is an amazing firm. Sometimes its most anticipated smartphones can disappoint the audience a little, and sometimes the corporation, without a special advertising campaign, presents a phone that has practically no competitors in the price segment. The hero of today's review belongs precisely to the latter category and is quite capable of competing for the title of a hit.
Smartphone review: Nokia X50
Nokia X50 - the need for change
The Nokia company has not really surprised its fans for the past couple of years. The developer's smartphones did not differ in an excellent balance of price and quality and were noticeably inferior to counterparts from Xiaomi, Realme, Huawei and other well-known brands. But it seems that the once most popular corporation has decided to pull itself together and fix the current situation.
Smartphone review: Honor Play 20
Honor Play 20 - parameter heterogeneity
One of the main criteria for the success of a smartphone in the market is the balance of its technical characteristics in its price segment. For example, buying a camera phone with an outdated processor or a small battery in millions of copies is unlikely to be. The hero of today's review is deprived of the feature described above, which will definitely affect his sales.
Smartphone review: Oppo A53s 5G
Oppo A53s 5G - no frills standard
Even the most innovative and interesting ideas become commonplace over time. So, six months ago, the appearance of 5G networks in inexpensive smartphones seemed like a real miracle, and today dozens of manufacturers can boast of such models. Unfortunately, the hero of today's review is lost against the background of so many opponents and is not ready to offer anything in response.
Smartphone review: Motorola Moto G20
Motorola Moto G20 - non-standard solutions
It is difficult to surprise a sophisticated audience with a low-mid-price smartphone, but manufacturers do not even think to give up. Not all attempts are equally successful, but experienced developers like Motorola are quite capable of creating functional and technological devices, albeit not without compromises. How did the corporation manage to answer all the requests of demanding Android users?
Smartphone review: Realme 8 5G
Realme 8 5G - he could be a hit
The Chinese company Realmi is not uniformly related to its own smartphones. Some models receive huge advertising campaigns, while other phones remain virtually unknown to potential buyers. It is doubly surprising that sometimes extremely competitive devices are deprived of advertising. The hero of today's review has also become such.
Smartphone review: Realme Q3i
Realme Q3i is an inaccessible ideal
Since its inception, the Q-series of smartphones of the Realmi company has been distinguished by an amazing balance of price and quality, however, the belonging of the line to the domestic market significantly limited the possibility of purchasing a gadget by residents of other countries. Hopes for a global release of the third generation of the developer's phones remained, but the hero of today's review did not leave a trace of them. It becomes doubly sad that the gadget turned out to be extremely interesting.
Smartphone review: UMiDIGI A11
UMiDIGI A11 - a novelty without a twist
It is difficult to achieve success of a product if it does not meet the needs of the audience and is not ready to surprise a sophisticated audience. Surprisingly, in the smartphone market, this statement applies even to the lower price segment. So, the hero of today's review is devoid of memorable features and in many respects repeats the phones of Xiaomi a year ago. Is such a gadget relevant today?
Smartphone review: Cubot X50
Cubot X50 - is this a flagship?
Android smartphone users are already accustomed to the fact that flagship devices are characterized not only by the corresponding price, but also by top-end performance, outstanding photographic capabilities and advanced functionality. However, not the largest manufacturers like the Chinese company Kubot are unable to afford the release of such a device. Although the hero of today's review is being promoted as the leader of the updated line, he is rather a good representative of the middle price segment.
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy F52 5G
Samsung Galaxy F52 5G - balanced solution
Finding the right balance between price and quality is not an easy task for any buyer. The sheer variety of products in the smartphone market only complicates the buying process. However, sometimes devices appear in one price segment or another that are ready to pleasantly surprise you with performance, functionality, autonomy and at the same time a reasonable price tag. And it seems that the hero of today's review belongs to the specified category of devices.
Smartphone review: Oppo K9 5G
Oppo K9 5G - outstanding middle class
Inexpensive smartphones are becoming more and more similar to flagships in both design and functionality. Even the performance level of budget devices is enough for the smooth operation of the operating system and for modern games. So, the hero of today's review will not completely empty the wallet and, at the same time, is distinguished by impressive balance and manufacturability.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Version
Xiaomi Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Version - even cheaper and better!
The K40 line of smartphones from the Chinese company Xiaomi has become incredibly successful due to the combination of top-end performance, excellent screen, thoughtful design and advanced stereo sound at an extremely low price. Of course, there were some minor flaws, but they could be easily forgiven for the attractive pricing policy. The hero of today's review has retained all the listed advantages with an even more democratic price tag.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra
Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra - refining innovations
The Chinese company Xiaomi recently presented to the world several innovative phones with interesting ideas. So, Mix Fold surprised fans of the brand with a folding screen and an innovative approach to photographic capabilities, the first representative of the Ultra-line was noted for a functional additional AMOLED display. The hero of today's review takes most of the advantages of these models and replenishes them with his own.
Smartphone review: Meizu 18 Mini
Meizu 18 Mini - the flagship for fans of the compact
The increase in the size of modern smartphones with bezelless screens leads to much greater comfort of web surfing, watching videos and other processes, but there are always people who need a compact mobile assistant. The hero of today's review is intended precisely for such users.
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy Jump
Samsung Galaxy Jump - a huge jump up?
The emergence of support for 5G networks in smartphones is one of the important achievements that can significantly speed up not only the speed of the Internet connection, but also increase the functionality of phones. 4K video streaming, cloud gaming and data storage have become really convenient and relevant, but for many months 5G frequencies have been the prerogative of only flagship devices. Several Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Realme have been able to remedy this situation in some mid-range models. Now it's time for Samsung to show its strengths in creating affordable and balanced 5G smartphones.
Smartphone review: ZTE Blade A31 Pro
ZTE Blade A31 Pro - remembering the middle price segment
The Chinese company ZTE today is not the market leader that we used to see a manufacturer several years ago. However, years of downtime and huge penalties for the US government are in the past, the developer is gradually recovering its position. Over the past year, we saw interesting budget smartphones, we were surprised at the balance and manufacturability of the updated flagship Axon line. However, a gap has emerged between these two cost categories. The corporation decided to compensate for it by the hero of today's review.
Smartphone review: ZTE Axon 30 Pro
ZTE Axon 30 Pro - performance, safety and comfort
Although the Chinese company ZTE has ceased to belong to the leaders of the smartphone market, the corporation does not lose hope of returning its audience. This can be seen both in the increased budget of the marketing campaign, and in a number of interesting new products with competitive advantages and even innovations. The hero of today's review belongs to just such devices.
Smartphone review: Oppo A54 4G
Oppo A54 4G - a smartphone that is difficult to remember
Every self-respecting manufacturer of Android smartphones is trying to fill the range provided with exclusively relevant and competitive devices. However, it is impossible to achieve one hundred percent success in this case due to the limited budget and the time frame for creating phones. Because of this, sooner or later, even the best developers have openly passable products that are in many ways inferior to their closest opponents. Unfortunately, the hero of today's review is close to this category.
Smartphone review: Ulefone Armor 8 Pro
Ulefone Armor 8 Pro - subtle improvements
The Chinese company Ulefon is trying to earn every last penny from each of its developments. The representative of the eighth generation of the Armor-line of rugged smartphones from the manufacturer turned out to be extremely popular due to a good combination of functionality, durability and autonomy. Unfortunately, everything ever gets old. The hero of today's review is intended to make the mentioned model more relevant, but this process turns out to be mediocre in the novelty.
Smartphone review: Realme Q3
Realme Q3 is the perfect playable?
Modern Android games have taken a significant step forward in the last couple of years. Now even sophisticated gamers can spend hours on end playing great racing, shooters, role-playing games and other genres. However, the most technologically advanced projects require corresponding capacities, which only flagship models are usually ready to boast of. But there are also pleasant exceptions.
Smartphone review: Oukitel K15 Plus
Oukitel K15 Plus - for outlet haters
Every Android user has a different way of using the mobile assistant. Someone only browses social networks for a couple of hours a day, while for someone the smartphone becomes a real working tool that plays the role of both a GPS navigator and a photo editor, and a means for sending millions of emails. Perhaps, it was for the last category of buyers that the hero of today's review was developed.
Smartphone review: Oukitel WP9
Oukitel WP9 - autonomy, strength and bulkiness
The Chinese company Aukitel still pleases fans of protected smartphones with fairly balanced phone models, but the developer has not made significant progress over the past few years. The manufactured IP68 devices, as they differed in mediocre ergonomics, not the most attractive design and performance lagging behind their counterparts without increased protection, remain so. The hero of today's review does little to change the situation.
Smartphone review: Vivo IQOO T
Vivo IQOO T - adjusting to trends
The average price point for Android smartphones has undergone major changes over the past couple of years. The introduction of high-quality multi-pixel photosensors, huge increases in chipset performance, design improvements and support for 5G networks have become a small part of the metamorphosis. The hero of today's review diligently collects the listed advantages, which will definitely deserve the love of the people of China. But what about other countries?
Smartphone review: Realme Q3 Pro
Realme Q3 Pro - welcome guest
A significant number of smartphones from the Chinese company Realmi do not reach the countries of Europe and the CIS. To the great regret of the inhabitants of these states, a number of these models amaze with the ratio of price and quality. So, the hero of today's review could well become a world bestseller. One has only to hope that he will still be released outside his homeland under a different name.
Smartphone review: Realme 8 Pro 5G
Realme 8 Pro 5G - a replacement for flagships?
Many countries in Europe and the CIS have not yet had time to test all the advantages of 5G networks, but this type of communication is the future. Smartphone manufacturers are well aware of this fact and are trying to please their fans with 5G novelties, even in the middle price segment. However, a finicky audience, even from such models, will demand performance, autonomy, and attractive design. Will the hero of today's review be able to answer all the listed requests?
Smartphone review: Doogee X96 Pro
Doogee X96 Pro - controversial in all respects
It seems that the Chinese company Dodge has begun to lose its grip on the production of low-end smartphones. For example, once the X5-series of phones of the manufacturer did not leave any chance to competitors, and now the budget novelties of the developer often cause confusion. So, the hero of today's review will please only with autonomy, and in other aspects it is inferior to many alternatives.
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra - extremely expensive pleasure
It is difficult to surprise the sophisticated audience of the smartphone market even with flagship phones. Even the largest manufacturers often have trouble getting users to take a closer look at a new gadget. The hero of today's review manages to attract attention both by design and technical characteristics, but this was given at a great price. In all senses.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Poco 5G
Xiaomi Poco 5G - the bestseller is not for us
The Chinese company Xiaomi is not shy about releasing adaptations of successful models under different names. So, the hero of today's review is almost identical to the previously released version of Redmi Note 10 with support for 5G frequencies, however, it is mainly aimed at residents of India. How relevant is the device for the European audience?
Smartphone review: Doogee S97 Pro
Doogee S97 Pro - a jack of all trades
The Chinese company Dodge is still far from the leaders of the industry, but unlike many similar manufacturers, it is trying to fix the situation. So, the developer is trying his best to give his products more and more competitive advantages and interesting features. The hero of today's review clearly demonstrates the updated approach of the corporation.
Smartphone review: OnePlus 9T
OnePlus 9T - eliminating spaces
The flagship smartphones of the Vanplas company with the "T" index have always been some work on errors and came out about six months later than the main models of the line. Analysis of the market and customer reviews allowed the corporation to produce a competitive and relevant gadget, which was much more difficult to criticize. The hero of today's review is no exception.
Smartphone review: Lenovo Legion Duel 2
Lenovo Legion Duel 2 - exclusively for gamers?
Gaming smartphones are increasingly appearing in the assortment of well-known manufacturers. Projects like Genshin Impact, Fortinte, PUBG and others have popularized this kind of mobile assistants. However, sometimes gaming phones turn out to be too narrowly focused. To achieve flagship performance at a reasonable cost, developers often overlook design, photographic capabilities, and other aspects of a successful Android smartphone. What is the situation with the hero of today's review?
Smartphone review: ZTE Axon 30 Ultra
ZTE Axon 30 Ultra - the best camera phone of the year?
The Chinese company ZTE is in no hurry to retire after several years of relative calm. The litigation affected the financial condition of the organization and its overall popularity, however, experience, previously deferred funds and the remnants of fame allowed the corporation to gradually recover. Now we are expecting full-fledged flagship smartphones that can amaze both ordinary Android users, gamers and photographers.
Smartphone review: Oppo Reno5 Z 5G
Oppo Reno5 Z 5G - updated copy
Each next generation of smartphones has significant improvements from almost every manufacturer, but there are exceptions. So, the hero of today's review is rather a little work on mistakes, which can upset both brand fans and potential buyers. How much better is the new product than its predecessor and is it worth the overpayment?
Smartphone review: Oppo A74 5G
Oppo A74 5G - beauty without performance
The designers of the Chinese company Oppo have always tried their best, thanks to which the corporation's smartphones, even in the middle price segment, did not differ much in appearance from the flagships. The hero of today's review does not spoil the established foundations, however, the technical characteristics of the device could be more consistent with the requested price tag.
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy F12
Samsung Galaxy F12 - a useless long-liver?
Progress is a wonderful thing for any tech fan. So, over time, even smartphones of the lower and middle price segments began to offer their users both the beauty of the exterior and wide functionality, which until recently was characteristic only of flagships. However, not all smart devices match the above description. For example, the hero of today's review definitely loses to his opponents in all respects, except for autonomy.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Redmi 20X
Xiaomi Redmi 20X - did we meet somewhere?
Self-copying is one of the main distinguishing features of the Chinese company Xiaomi. In fact, a corporation can sell the same smartphone under many names in different regions. So, the hero of today's review has become almost an exact copy of the recent Note 10 5G for the Chinese domestic market. However, the gadget has lost some of its dignity.
Smartphone review: Oppo F19
Oppo F19 - wrong savings
The growing popularity of mid-range smartphones is understandable. These devices are noticeably superior to their budget counterparts in terms of functionality, while their design is struggling to resemble that of the flagships. The hero of today's review is trying to be such an exception from the specified description. But does he have the necessary competitive advantages to deal with many opponents?
Smartphone review: Doogee S59
Doogee S59 - single autonomy?
The protected smartphones of the Chinese company Dodge are known to more than one million satisfied customers, but not all models are equally balanced and relevant. So, the hero of today's review is frankly disappointing with its performance and design. But can he compensate for these shortcomings with something else?
Smartphone review: Samsung Galaxy F02s
Samsung Galaxy F02s - Time Machine
The Korean company Samsung is very strong in the production of smartphones in the middle and upper price segments, but the manufacturer is definitely having problems with budget devices. So, the hero of today's review would have been very relevant 3-4 years ago. Today, such a device is puzzling.
