The main novelties of April 2016: smartphones

LG

G5 SE

Advantages:

  • the first modular large-scale flagship
  • special modules for photos and audiocast, lots of accessories
  • two high-quality rear camera (wide and normal)
  • always an active display with a clock and notifications

The beginning of sales:

April

Competitors:

Samsung Galaxy S7, Sony Xperia Z5

Price:

50 thousand rubles

Details:

LG G5 SE brought to Russia

MWC 2016. Quick review of LG G5: a glamorous diva in engineers

LG G5
LG G5

I think the era of degraded variants of the flagships (%model% Mini, %model% Lite etc.) gone? As it is not so! But even this is not confusing, and the fact that the Lite model is now asking for a full 50 thousand “wooden”! Given that the characteristics of novelty is on a par with last year’s Samsung Galaxy S6 (35 thousand), and slightly less efficient LG G4 is estimated at only 32 thousand, the future of the new low-cost flagship is not encouraging.

If it is not, of course, will blow competitors modular innovation. But the price of accessories for G4 SE also will “bite”:

  • Camera module for LG Cam Plus will cost 4,5 thousand roubles
  • Virtual reality glasses LG 360 VR — ~13 thousand roubles
  • Camera for panoramic pictures LG 360 CAM — ~13 thousand roubles
  • Audio module LG G5 Hi-Fi Plus — 4.5 thousand rubles
  • A spare battery is ~2.5 thousand rubles

We will be very happy to be wrong in their pessimistic forecasts (or to note a sharp decline in the price of new items after a month or two), but now prophesy G5 SE bestseller status we do not undertake.

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X view

Advantages:

  • always active the secondary display
  • thoroughbred design
  • cheaper than 20 thousand rubles

The beginning of sales:

April

Competitors:

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016), The Huawei P8 Lite

Price:

18 thousand rubles

Details:

Dohtirlani LG smartphone view X available for pre-order in Russia

LG X view
LG X view

Even with the obvious savings on components (filling level budget Fly, only 2.5 times more expensive) model is not devoid of charm. First, we got a relatively inexpensive smartphone in the LG V10 motifs with a very convenient additional display, which is 90% replace notifications. Secondly, most buyers don’t care how powerful citaiton concocted in his basement uncle Liao so compared to obvious competitors view X looks quite competitive.

Though, because neither Samsung, nor Sony, nor HTC does not offer model number 2016 something significantly steeper in the range of 20 thousand rubles. If the shell is LG UX paired with an Android 6.0 will be not too greedy — opposers “Chinese” are unlikely to be disappointed with the new product.

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X cam

Advantages:

  • metal body (silver/Golden/pink to choose)
  • Full HD display, 8 cores in the processor
  • two rear camera, normal and wide angle
  • advanced shooting modes

The beginning of sales:

may

Competitors:

Lenovo VIBE Shot, the ASUS ZenFone Selfie

Price:

to be announced

Details:

LG started international sales of the X cam and the X screen

LG X cam
LG X cam

Trendy-stylish-youth LG, the announcement of which is constantly moving on to the next. With two cameras and a metal frame, like a flagship, and mass consumption OCTA core processor — a rumor has it that MediaTek MT6753. Geeks are older and the buyers are wondering why this is necessary, young people and lovers of photography to your smartphone — I am excited to buy a non-flagship with improved camera modes. I want to believe that the price will remain within reasonable limits, because the practice “inflated the price tag — low demand — the price tag is adequate in the case of LG has become an old good tradition.

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Samsung

Galaxy J5 and J7 (2016 model year)

Advantages:

  • good battery life (economical processors, AMOLED + battery capacity of 3000 mAh)
  • case with metal frame
  • Full HD display and OCTA core processor (J7)
  • price within 20 thousand rubles

The beginning of sales:

may

Competitors:

LG K10 LTE, the Huawei P8 Lite, ASUS ZenFone 2 ZE551ML

Price:

J5 2016 — 17 thousand rubles

J7 2016 — 20 thousand rubles

Details:

Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016), Galaxy J5 (2016) officially presented

Galaxy J 2016
Series Samsung Galaxy J 2016

Level models some Samsung of cheap” has got successors. In the second generation J-series still doesn’t compete with the budget Chinese devices in terms, but shameful nuances in the characteristics of Koreans, however, eliminated. Now J5 in the presence of 2 GB of RAM (rather than six as before) and J7 flaunts a Full HD AMOLED display. Whatever anybody said — smartphones competitive, reliable and hardy. A buyer will find.

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Meizu

M3 Note

Advantages:

  • metal case
  • capacious battery — 4100 mAh
  • modern and fast processor Helio P10

The beginning of sales:

may

Competitors:

5X Honor, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

Price:

2 GB/16 GB — 17 thousand rubles

3 GB/32 GB — 19 thousand rubles

Details:

Opened pre-orders for the Meizu M3 Note in Russia

Meizu M3 Note
Meizu M3 Note

An example of a good “Lopatina” the middle class. Full HD, 8 cores, good endurance and metal housing — all amenities on site. Competitors in the official Russian retail in the model very little, and from “thoroughbred” models for cheap to compete with the new Meizu somehow can only Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016). It is good to check the model in the case, but in theory it looks very promising.

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Pro 6

Advantages:

  • sound quality
  • display Super AMOLED with the Chinese version of the 3D Touch
  • metal case
  • 10-core processor

The beginning of sales:

may (in Chinese market)

Competitors:

Xiaomi Mi5, Galaxy S6 Samsung

Price:

from ~28 thousand (the Chinese market)

Details:

Decategory smartphone Meizu Pro 6 officially presented

Meizu Pro 6
Meizu Pro 6

The new flagship Meizu skepticism even in the absence of meeting in person. Because the ideology of “we’re a little bit of everything improved” is broken faced with the realization that the novelty used the most stupid processor 2016. MediaTek Helio X25 — overclocked variant X20-go, power-hungry, hot and not very fast chip, which turned all the advanced manufacturers of gadgets.

And even Meizu have used it for lack of a better option — last year’s Pro sported a cool modern Exynos 7420 (as in Galaxy S6) and beat speed records. A new model with a heap of kernels and the old process technology ahead of its predecessor only “jump” and, overall, disappointing.

Therefore, I trust that in 2016, the flagship Meizu will push competitors not performance, and price — another way to find “a place under the sun” the new model just yet.

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Huawei

P9 and P9 Plus

Advantages:

  • cool camera, developed in cooperation with Leica
  • extracted programmatically simulated aperture f/0.95 (“thoroughbred” background blur in your pictures)
  • the display detects the amount of pressure (P9 Plus)
  • CPU Kirin 955 — most-most, but also good
  • the dimension “phone” (P9) and “phablet” (P9 Plus)

The beginning of sales:

may

Competitors:

Samsung Galaxy S7, ASUS ZenFone Zoom, the Apple iPhone 6S

Price:

from ~44 thousand rubles

Details:

Huawei introduced smartphones P9 and P9 Plus with dual camera Leica

Why the smartphone Huawei P9 dual camera, how it works, and how the Chinese helped Leica

Huawei P9 и P9 Plus Huawei P9 и P9 Plus

Huawei P9 and P9 Plus

Chinese manufacturers are able to turn the price tags are much more inventive with their colleagues from South Korea, so the versions of its flagship P9 itself features a leg break — depending on the amount of memory, there are options for Standard, and Premium.

In comparison with last year’s P8 “wijtschate, tattoo” the novelty is not so profitable acquisition. But the quality of shooting photos and videos, the smartphone is very good, design also did not disappoint (get used to “two-eyed” cell phones) and quite fast even with a slightly outdated processor on Board.

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Honor 5C

Advantages:

  • metal case
  • fingerprint scanner
  • Full HD display
  • quick shestiyadernik Kirin 650
  • 8 MP front camera

The beginning of sales:

may (in Chinese market)

Competitors:

Redmi Xiaomi 3, Meizu M2 Note

Price:

~10 thousand rubles (price in China)

Details:

Huawei introduced the Honor smartphone 5C

Honor 5C
Honor 5C

At the stage of announcement of the Honor 4C Pro, it was clear that the public sector-survivor launched by the Chinese, “by the way”. And now we have the confirmation of this hypothesis — a novelty, which should excite the Chinese and Russian market of gadgets. Even now the price speculators (12,5-13 thousand roubles) looks very tempting, but do not forget that Huawei prefers to hold in Russia is comparable to China tags. Hope, believe and expect the Russian announcement.

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HTC

10 and 10 Lifestyle

Advantages:

  • the best (for a couple with Galaxy S7 edge, the smartphone camera according to experts DxOMark
  • optical stabilization in the rear and front cameras
  • separate speakers for bass and treble
  • fastest Snapdragon 820 (and medium size 652)
  • high-quality IPS-display with a resolution of 2560×1440

The beginning of sales:

May 25 (HTC 10 Lifestyle)

Competitors:

Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5

Price:

from about 55 thousand rubles (HTC 10)

price HTC 10 Lifestyle has yet to be announced

Details:

Under the flagship of lucky number. First look at HTC 10

HTC 10

HTC 10 HTC 10 в сравнении с Apple iPhone 6S

HTC 10 compared to the Apple iPhone 6S

As they say “I’ll drink to that, contrary to what they always no matter what”. In the era of aggressive “Chinese devices in terms of” HTC still alive and has released a great flagship, with whatever side you look. By the way, initially, the Taiwanese were going to sell in Russia only Lifestyle, but later changed his mind, so to all who are weary of the dominance of the iPhone-Galaxy, we recommend you to wait for “ten” — this year’s flagship HTC good as ever. Lifestyle, however, “neither fish nor fowl”, but here it all depends on the adequacy of the manufacturer and price tag on the younger version.

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ZUK

Z2 Pro

Advantages:

  • 6 GB of RAM! (4 GB in the Junior version)
  • the flagship Snapdragon 820.
  • 128 GB of fast flash memory (64 GB in the Junior version)
  • 13 MP Samsung Isocell camera with optical stabilization

The beginning of sales:

April (for Chinese market)

Competitors:

Pro 6 Meizu, Xiaomi Mi5

Price:

from ~28 thousand (the price in China)

Details:

Smartphone ZUK Z2 Pro with 6 GB of RAM officially

ZUK Z2 Pro
ZUK Z2 Pro

Unlike Chinese devices in terms of dubious adaptation for Russia (Hello, LeTVEco), ZUK has the potential to find yourself in the “white” retail in the shortest possible time — “daughter” of Lenovo, after all. I remember the debut model ZUK on the Russian market was not too expensive, and so there is sense to expect new for the price of 30-35 thousand (in the name of a barrel of oil, futures and exchange rate of national currency) is waiting for the best smartphone in terms of price and power, with a guarantee of the Russian Federation.

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ZTE

Blade V7 Lite

Advantages:

  • metal case
  • fingerprint scanner
  • 4G and 2 GB RAM
  • 8 MP front camera with flash

The beginning of sales:

April

Competitors:

Lenovo A6010, The Meizu Mini M2

Price:

9 thousand rubles

Details:

MWC 2016. New ZTE smartphones: between the US, Europe and Russia

ZTE Blade V7 Lite ZTE Blade V7 Lite

ZTE Blade V7 Lite

Good selfi-background for ridiculous money. MediaTek MT6735P (and optimization of the firmware under it) brings discouragement, but all the other characteristics faultlessly. Especially because in the official retail nothing more than a quality within 9 thousand rubles will not find.

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Nubia Z11 Mini

Advantages:

  • camera with sensor Sony IMX298 as smartphones-flagships
  • 8 MP selfie-camera
  • luxury glass-metal housing
  • 8-core processor and 3 GB of RAM

The beginning of sales:

April (Chinese retail)

Competitors:

5X Honor, Meizu M3 Note

Price:

15 thousand rubles (price in China)

Details:

ZTE presented smartphone Nubia inexpensive Z11 Mini with fototalentos

ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini
ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini

Want a good Toyota — Lexus buy. Lacks premium ZTE — Nubia take. The Russian representative office of the company still hesitates to launch the sub-brand in the market our vast, so smartphones Nubia differ among advanced buyers — those “who know”.

Nubia Z11 good expensive materials in the case (not worse than those of your Galaxy A and S) and in General good taste in the details. What’s with the Russification firmware — is not clear, but fans of fashion phones for cheap it makes sense to watch the younger Nubia in Chinese online stores.

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Fly

Nimbus 7

Advantages:

  • black and red cover housing complete
  • Quad-core MT6580
  • Android 5.1

The beginning of sales:

April

Competitors:

Lenovo A1000, Samsung Galaxy J1 mini

Price:

5 thousand rubles

Details:

Cheap Fly Nimbus 7 goes on sale

Fly Nimbus 7
Fly Nimbus 7

“MP complains to the doctor for indigestion:

– Eat caviar – the caviar comes out. Eat sturgeon – sturgeon comes out… What should I do

came out to like all people?

– Eat what we are eating now all Russians.”

So, ladies and gentlemen-admirers Aliexpress and other cadicamo. Before you lift the smartphone for a laugh and pray yet not taxable purchases from abroad — open the official website of the retailers and see that buying a simple people.

Of course, 512 megabytes of RAM — a sight quite so dull, but even Samsung, which likes to push competitors prices in times of crisis, offers hardly more attractive model. And radical haters of models of the economy are free to save up another 2 thousand roubles and to buy Wileyfox Swift production of the “daughter” of the same Fly. Swift even six months after its debut it remains a very cool budget model.

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Acer

Liquid Plus Zest

Advantages:

  • compactly Packed 5000 mAh battery
  • Android 6.0 out of the box
  • phase contrast and laser types of autofokusem in the chamber

The beginning of sales:

may (in the US market)

Competitors:

ASUS ZenFone Max , Lenovo Vibe P1

Price:

~ 16 thousand rubles (in the US market)

Details:

Smartphone Acer Liquid Zest Plus got the battery, 5000 mAh

Acer Liquid Zest Plus
Acer Liquid Plus Zest

If laptops and tablets Acer is eager to world greatness and gives “hoo” features, the smartphone the Taiwanese are less aggressive. Liquid Zest — 5.5 inch phablet with HD display and running MT6735 Quad. God knows what technology is, however, not so long ago we were convinced that low-cost smartphones-the Acer centenarians have come out very even balanced and extremely compact. Look — draw adequate competitor ZenFone Max because cheap “Lopatino” with 5000 mAh on the Russian market yet, to put it mildly, a little.

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