Phone Reviews (page 9)
ZTE Nubia Z50 phone review
ZTE Nubia Z50 - all for the best price
The Chinese company ZTE, due to litigation with the US government, managed to let a significant number of opponents go ahead. Now, in order to return to its former positions, the manufacturer needs to produce an abundance of truly competitive smartphones. And although in some cases the developer has to make compromises, devices like the hero of today's review are able to return the audience to the corporation.
Xiaomi 13 Pro phone review
Xiaomi 13 Pro - designed to surprise
Flagship Xiaomi smartphone have rarely disappointed loyal fans of the company. They have always tried to combine exquisite style, advanced technical features and reasonable price tags. The hero of today's review does not violate established traditions, but is trying to collect even more competitive advantages.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi 13
Xiaomi 13 - compact, versatile and almost perfect
The Chinese company Xiaomi in just a few years has been able to improve the functionality, design and other parameters of its flagship products to such a level that sometimes it is not so easy to find competitors in the price category. The hero of today's review is no exception and is ready to win the hearts and wallets of millions of potential buyers.
Samsung Galaxy M04 phone review
Samsung Galaxy M04 - mediocre in everything?
The Korean company Samsung is still inferior to competitors from China in the low price segment of the smartphone market. Produced by a world-famous manufacturer, the models almost do not change in terms of design, technical characteristics and photographic capabilities. This situation is also relevant for the hero of today's review.
Vivo X90 Pro+ phone review
Vivo X90 Pro+ - premium pleasure
The flagship line of smartphones from the Chinese company Vivo has always combined advanced technology, high-quality assembly materials and components, as well as thoughtful design. And even if experienced manufacturers sometimes make mistakes, the mentioned developer is simply not able to disappoint the audience.
Vivo X90 Pro phone review
Vivo X90 Pro - classic flagship
Smartphones of the highest price category from the Chinese company Vivo are consistently successful both in the Middle Kingdom and in the CIS countries, Europe and the USA. The assortment presented by the corporation includes both innovative models with an unusual form factor and monoblocks more familiar to the audience, focusing on performance and photo opportunities. The hero of today's review belongs to the last group.
Tecno Phantom X2 phone review
Tecno Phantom X2 is an unexpected flagship with one caveat
The Chinese company Tecno is a young but extremely ambitious player in the smartphone market. In just a couple of years, the manufacturer was able not only to find its buyer, but even impose a fight on the leaders. So, the hero of today's review impresses with phenomenal performance for the price segment and excellent photographic capabilities. However, there are a number of important factors to consider when buying one.
Honor 80 SE phone review
Honor 80 SE - too boring to succeed
Even eminent manufacturers sometimes make mistakes, but what is the reason for their occurrence? Some failures are due to the incompetence of managers or other staff, others are due to mediocre marketing or gaps in logistics. The hero of today's review is unlikely to become a hit due to the minimum of real competitive advantages and similarities with competitors.
Honor Magic Vs phone review
Honor Magic Vs - bringing the form factor to perfection
The Chinese company Honor, although it has undergone several difficult years due to sanctions from the US government, has managed to retain both the majority of the audience and the necessary budget. So, the developer not only pleases fans with smartphones of the low and medium price segment, but also surprises buyers with high-tech flagships with innovative technologies. So, the hero of today's review is one of the most productive and functional folding phones.
Oukitel C31 Pro phone review
Oukitel C31 Pro - outdated update
Smartphones of the low price segment from the Chinese company Oukitel in recent years have become less likely to surprise fans of the brand. Often we get almost the same phones as before, the difference lies solely in the design and a couple of other little things. The hero of today's review does not deviate from this formula and differs little from its predecessors.
Doogee S99 phone review
Doogee S99 - durable smartphones evolve!
Manufacturers of durable mobile assistants from China this year decided to significantly increase the level of performance and functionality of their products. Dodge did not stay away from the trend. So, the hero of today's review is the actual flagship of the developer and is able to please not only fans of an active lifestyle, but even gamers with photographers.
Doogee V30 phone review
Doogee V30 - technologies for every taste and color
It is difficult to blame the Chinese company Doogee for the seriousness of their approach to their products. The corporation carefully analyzes the market and tries to produce up-to-date smartphones that are not without many competitive advantages. So, their new flagship relies not only on strength and performance, but also autonomy, extremely curious functionality and a well-designed design.
FreeYond F9 phone review
FreeYond F9 - a phone that deserves attention
Smartphones of the low price segment are becoming more and more popular, because every year the functionality they provide increases, and the design, autonomy and performance become closer to those of expensive counterparts. The variety of inexpensive models is increasing daily, dozens of the largest manufacturers want to get their part of the audience. Surprisingly, in such a competitive market, new players are also appearing who are trying to win the hearts of millions of users. The young company FreeYond has also become such, whose new smartphone, called the F9, is the hero of the review.
Xiaomi Redmi 11A phone review
Xiaomi Redmi 11A - visible but not enough changes
The most affordable smartphones of the Redmi line from the well-known Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi have often become international hits. The 5A and 8A models stood out especially strongly in the list of such devices, which at the time of release provided excellent displays, decent autonomy and good processors from Qualcomm. Unfortunately, subsequent products did not always live up to audience expectations. The hero of today's review also does not reach the standards set by his eminent predecessors.
Ulefone Armor 12S phone review
Ulefone Armor 12S - gaining chances for success
The Chinese company Ulefone knows how to create not only high-quality, but at the same time interesting smartphones for the audience, however, many models lack just a few strokes before reaching the title of bestseller. The hero of today's review seems to have decided to correct this situation.
OnePlus Nord CE 3 phone review
OnePlus Nord CE 3 - not in vain expectations
Fans of the Chinese company Oneplus were looking forward to the new generation of the budget line of smartphones. In 2021-2022, the world-famous developer managed to release almost a dozen bestsellers with excellent value for money. And the hero of today's review did not disappoint.
Oppo Find N2 phone review
Oppo Find N2 - the pursuit of leadership
The Chinese company Oppo is not afraid to experiment and fight the most famous smartphone manufacturers. Thus, the developer releases a continuation of the line of expensive flip phones, which has an even higher price tag, but at the same time improved performance, photo capabilities and functionality. Can such a novelty become commercially successful and win the love of millions of people? The question is difficult.
Vivo IQOO 11 phone review
Vivo IQOO 11 is the best in many aspects
It is difficult to surprise the modern audience of the smartphone market even with flagship products, but manufacturers around the world are still trying to increase the performance and functionality of devices, to bring something new to compact electronics. So, the Chinese company Vivo tried to transform the exterior of the novelty and make it incredibly balanced.
Oppo Reno 9 Pro 5G phone review
Oppo Reno 9 Pro 5G - beautiful both inside and out
A well-designed smartphone is a really important factor for the success of a device, but the modern user is becoming more and more picky. Now a sophisticated audience cannot be attracted by an exceptionally beautiful picture, it needs performance, functionality and autonomy. Fortunately, the hero of today's review is able to boast of all of the above.
Oppo Reno 9 phone review
Oppo Reno 9 - when it's hard to resist buying?
Why are some smartphones incredibly popular, while others are forgotten by a demanding audience in a matter of months? One of the reasons for success is not only competent marketing, but also the balance of the device, which simply must combine beauty, performance and autonomy. The hero of today's review is trying to add a reasonable price to the list.
Honor 80 Pro phone review
Honor 80 Pro - photo flagship and nothing more
An increasing number of people refuse to use full-fledged cameras for shooting. The reason lies in the improving photo capabilities of modern smartphones. Especially in this area, flagship devices have advanced, ready to amaze sophisticated photographers even with evening shots. The hero of today's review also belongs to such phones, which also carries an abundance of other competitive advantages.
Honor 80 phone review
Honor 80 - sub-flagship without compromise
The Chinese company Honor temporarily lost its ability to create truly balanced smartphones in terms of price, functionality and beauty of the exterior. So, the 60s and 70s lines of flagship phones received a lot of controversial reviews and simply fell short of their legendary predecessors. Fortunately, the hero of today's review is much more interesting and relevant.
Doogee S41 Pro phone review
Doogee S41 Pro - expanding functionality, but not performance
The Chinese company Doogee continues to expand the range of secure smartphones. It was the turn of representatives of the lower price category. The appearance of new chipsets and photomodules could significantly increase the attractiveness of the products, but the developer decided to go a different way. Will buyers like the updated device? Let's figure it out.
Vivo X90 phone review
Vivo X90 - the basic version of a flawless smartphone
The Chinese company Vivo unspeakably pleases its fans with the flagship phones of the X-line. Even its most affordable representatives incredibly combine top-end performance, innovative design, and dozens of other competitive advantages that analogues twice as expensive will envy. The hero of today's review has not changed the traditions of the series. The only pity is that we can not wait for the global configuration of the device.
Oppo Reno 9 Pro+ phone review
Oppo Reno 9 Pro + - perfection for budget buyers
Flagship smartphones are a desirable thing for millions of fans of portable electronics, but not everyone can afford such a mobile assistant. The reasons for abandoning phones of the highest price category may be different, but if the top performance and wide functionality are realized in a gadget cheaper, then it will be simply impossible to resist purchasing it. It was with this thought that the hero of today's review was created.
Blackview A85 phone review
Blackview A85 - the perfect low-cost smartphone?
The Chinese company Blackview has brought a lot of pleasant surprises to its fans over the past year. Particularly surprising is the fact that the manufacturer has created several excellent phones at once in the low price segment. The hero of today's review belongs to this group of outstanding budget devices.
Meizu 20 phone review
Meizu 20 - a new era for a forgotten company?
Meizu Corporation has long ceased to be one of the industry leaders, losing brand fans every year even in its homeland. However, the actual purchase of the organization by the Geely automaker gives the manufacturer hope for regaining its former glory. And the hero of today's review may be the first step towards the return of the once popular developer.
Realme 10 Pro+ phone review
Realme 10 Pro+ - changes that are noticeable to the eye
The Chinese company Realme did the almost impossible at the beginning of this year, namely, it released an affordable smartphone with flagship photographic capabilities. Productive and stylish camera phone quickly won the hearts of millions of people. But was the manufacturer able to create a worthy follower of the hit? The answer was not so clear.
OUKITEL WP21 phone review
OUKITEL WP21 - brutality at its maximum
The Chinese company Oukitel continues to expand the range of smartphones offered with protection against dust and moisture according to IP68 standards. However, it is nice to see that not only quantitative but also qualitative growth of the brand's products is taking place. So, the hero of today's review is ready to provide indecently great autonomy and decent functionality for the middle price segment.
OnePlus 11 Pro phone review
OnePlus 11 Pro - insanely attractive
With each generation, OnePlus flagship smartphones are becoming more technologically advanced, beautiful and functional. At the same time, the developer practically does not change its pricing policy, thanks to which the number of brand fans is growing every day. The hero of today's review has every chance of making the manufacturer even more popular.
Huawei P60 phone review
Huawei P60 - conservative ideal
Technology does not stand still, so standard monoblock smartphones are replaced by analogues with folding displays, front cameras become literally invisible. The hero of today's review, despite its flagship status, is not ready to boast of any innovations, but every aspect of it has been brought to perfection.
Realme 10 5G phone review
Realme 10 5G - lack of necessary changes
The global economic crisis, huge inflation rates and many other factors make life difficult for smartphone manufacturers. So, it becomes difficult to maintain the old pricing policy that users have gotten used to. That is why even well-known developers produce products that are slightly different from previously released models.
Blackview A52 phone review
Blackview A52 - autonomy and design as the main advantages
Building a truly successful low-end smartphone is not easy. The need to maintain a reasonable cost leads to compromises that are not always approved by a demanding audience. The hero of today's review also did not do without serious simplifications, but he still has a couple of trump cards up his sleeve.
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G phone review
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G - good old friend
The Korean company Samsung over the past few years has greatly changed the A-series of its smartphones. So, if the first models were aimed exclusively at the low price segment, then their followers captured the middle price category as well. Phones A50, A51, A52 and A53 have always been successful due to the attractive design and the balance of technical characteristics, so it is not surprising that the hero of today's review has the same advantages and continues his victorious march.
OnePlus Ace 2 phone review
OnePlus Ace 2 - the changes that everyone has been waiting for
The Chinese company OnePlus recently pleased its fans with a new Ace-line of smartphones. It included representatives of the middle price segment, who tried to combine almost flagship performance and decent functionality. The hero of today's review not only adopted the advantages of his predecessors, but also provides much more interesting photo opportunities.
Xiaomi Redmi A11 phone review
Xiaomi Redmi A11 - a new era of low-cost smartphones?
The Chinese company Xiaomi recently resumed the production of truly affordable phones. The first representative of the lowest price segment was the A1 (Plus) model, which had basic functionality and a pleasing exterior. Her follower is trying to add improved performance and photo capabilities to the list.
Vivo IQOO Neo 7 SE phone review
Vivo IQOO Neo 7 SE - from good to better
The Chinese company Vivo is increasingly releasing its products around the world, but the best representatives of the range of smartphones often remain in the country. The hero of today's review is a sub-flagship of the corporation, aimed exclusively at the domestic market of China. However, outside the Celestial Empire, the gadget could well become a hit.
Honor Magic5 phone review
Honor Magic5 is a perfect but rare smartphone
The Chinese company Honor consistently produces dozens of excellent products around the world, but does not forget to please the inhabitants of its homeland with technological innovations. Unfortunately for fans of mobile electronics from other countries, sometimes such devices are much more interesting than their international counterparts. The hero of today's review is a clear confirmation of this.
Realme 10 Ultra phone review
Realme 10 Ultra - jump into the flagship segment
The Chinese company Realme sometimes does extremely risky things that you don’t always expect from a brand with a rather restrained organization policy. So, the hero of today's review was supposed to be just an improved representative of the manufacturer's budget line, but in reality it turned out to be a real flagship killer.
Realme 10 phone review
Realme 10 - beautiful stagnation
A significant number of fans of mobile electronics are accustomed to the fact that each subsequent generation of smartphone lines is better than the previous one in literally all respects. However, such a trend, unfortunately, is not always seen in the products of the Chinese company Realme. So, the hero of today's review of the moment is even simpler than his successful predecessors.
Xiaomi Redmi Pad phone review
Xiaomi Redmi Pad is a great device available to everyone
The tablets of the Chinese company Xiaomi consistently find millions of buyers around the world. The reason for this success is the ability of the developer to make the right and almost imperceptible compromises and, as a result, the optimal ratio of price and quality. The hero of today's review, aimed at the low-mid-value segment, is not deprived of it either.
Doogee X98 phone review
Doogee X98 is a budget smartphone with a focus on battery life
The Chinese company Doogee does not forget about people with a limited budget, steadily releasing good inexpensive devices. And even though their functionality is far from the flagship, such products are still ready to seriously make life easier for users. And the hero of today's review is no exception.
OnePlus Nord N300 5G phone review
OnePlus Nord N300 5G - too generic?
Fans of the Chinese OnePlus company are used to the fact that literally every new model of the brand turns out to be extremely competitive and relevant. However, smartphones of the low-mid price segment are obtained from the corporation not always meeting the needs of fans. Unfortunately, the hero of today's review did not escape a similar fate.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro phone review
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro - cameras as the main weapon
Android smartphone users are becoming more and more demanding of their mobile assistants, regardless of the price of the latter. So, it is difficult even for eminent manufacturers to sell a simply balanced phone in the middle price segment without obvious competitive advantages. That is why even the well-known Chinese Xiaomi company has to surprise the audience every time. And it seems that the hero of today's review is able to do this.
Smartphone review: Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro+
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro+ - unexpected surprises
The older models of the Note-line from the Chinese company Redmi (a sub-brand of Xiaomi Corporation) over the past few years have become noticeably closer to the flagship segment in terms of design, performance, and functionality. The hero of today's review advances photo opportunities, allowing significant savings for sophisticated photographers.
Doogee X98 Pro phone review
Doogee X98 Pro - a necessary minimum
Surprisingly, the modern audience is becoming more and more demanding of low-end smartphones. There are many reasons for this, but the main ones are the gradual technological progress and the increasing introduction of mobile assistants into people's everyday lives. If a few years ago an inexpensive phone was only supposed to make calls and receive messages, today it is a camera, a compact game console, and a replacement for many other gadgets. The hero of the review also tries to fulfill all the indicated roles, albeit with varying success.
XXX phone review
Cubot Pocket 3 - compact and charismatic
The Chinese company Cubot is well aware that in order to find its audience in such a competitive smartphone market, it needs to take risks and experiment. So, an experienced manufacturer decided to please that part of the population that is trying to find an inexpensive, small, but functional phone without any serious compromises. And the hero of today's review fits this description quite well.
Xiaomi 12 Lite 5G NE phone review
Xiaomi 12 Lite 5G NE - sudden and dramatic changes
The Chinese company Xiaomi knows how to surprise, even though today it does such things and not so often. So, a world-famous corporation decided to make not a simple, but a really large-scale improvement of its already popular smartphone model. What exactly will the user get for a not so big surcharge?
UMIDIGI A13 Pro Max 5G phone review
UMIDIGI A13 Pro Max 5G - beauty complemented by performance
The designers of the Chinese company Umidigi do not get their salaries in vain. Corporation smartphones are invariably stylish and attractive, regardless of the price category. However, the elaborate design, unfortunately, is not always combined in these devices with powerful CPUs and other aspects of successful modern phones. But the hero of today's review is clearly not one of these models.
Ulefone Power Armor 18T phone review
Ulefone Power Armor 18T - is it really a real flagship?
The Chinese company Ulefone is trying to pay attention not only to smartphones in the low and medium price segments, but also to more expensive models. Unfortunately, not all representatives of the highest cost category were commercially successful with the manufacturer. However, the hero of today's review is likely to become a favorite of the audience due to the increased performance and improved photo capabilities compared to its predecessors.