Samsung
Galaxy S7 and S7 edge
Rumors about these smartphones were so many that buyers, it seems, are tired of the Korean flagships even before their announcement. But last year’s sixth generation smartphone in its characteristics even now looks cool, so to know what will be “firsts” Samsung 2016 model year curious a priori.
New Galaxy S7 edge, same as the old edge+, but more powerful and waterproof
Spy shot of Samsung Galaxy S7
Now it is known the following:
- With the previous generation design will change slightly — last year, the Koreans tested the appearance of the leaders who arranged most buyers, and now I’m afraid to change it radically.
- “Just” S7 will stay with a 5.1-inch smartphone, and the display will continue to display 2560×1440 pixels. Rumor has it that the matrix will be brighter and slightly more economical. But the S7 edge will be 5.5-inch and, like, cooked “lobation” S7 Plus with 6-inch display.
- The most notable innovation of new products — hardware. S7 will get two of the best processor of 2016 — brand the Exynos manufactured by Samsung cosmedent 8890 and “four cores on steroids” Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. RAM (LPDDR4, by the way, not slow LPDDR3, as in the ZenFone 2) build up to 4 gigabytes — the times are such.
- Water resistance. In Galaxy S5, in S6 was not, in the seventh generation. To Sony not relaxed, roomy.
- Support wireless charging. A generation ago it “screwed” only to tableto S6 edge+, but the Koreans seem to learn from their mistakes.
- Slot for memory cards! He’s back!
- Redesigned rear camera in the spirit of the new Nexus. That is, megapixels became less, but they are, so to speak, become more qualitative.
In General, this time no revolution: changes had accumulated enough S6 owners are not offended, and all the other buyers when the comparison was made choice in favor of a new model.
LG
G5
But the LG flagships are transformed from generation to generation is very noticeable — after the race for the performance in G2 was born incredibly fancy flagship “in the third knee,” and then the Koreans thought again, that appearance is more important than fashion and rolled out G4, no mind-blowing innovations in technical terms. But the G5 promises to surprise the buyers and appearance, and power overnight.
Render of the LG G5
- While Samsung is focusing on “shovel”, LG reduces the diagonal of the flagship is now 5.3″ instead of 5.5, as it was in G4. Still resolution — 2560×1440 pixels.
- Finally, the CPU ceases to be the weak link among the other features of a smartphone. Replace the “trimmed” six-core Snapdragon 808 comes 820-I model — in theory, one of the best processors.
- Keys are moved from the rear of the hull on the side. Who left everyone who was used to such ergonomics with 2013?
- Dual rear camera and at least double flash to it. Looks weird, but if only it photographed well.
- Moscow, as we already know, never slips, as well as the screen in LG G5 — Koreans promise that important information (notifications, clock etc.) will be permanently displayed and to use minimum battery power.
- Additional screen as in the LG V10, although some spies claim that the model will do without him.
The prototype is (probably) LG G5 in live photos
On the first live pictures of the late prototype of the LG G5 is not impressed, as befits the flagship, but it is likely that this is a “mule” (when new hardware is inserted into far from stock appearance of the body) or “self made” from the basement of some Chinese brand. The guys from China was released as the HTC One M9 before it actually appeared in nature.
HTC
One M10
The new flagship of HTC, which has been on leaks code-named “perfume”, at MWC, most likely, will not show. It seems that the Taiwanese engineers did not have time to bring to mind its flagship, and prepare for its announcement in April-may. In principle, rightly so, because last year was too quick — don’t want to anymore.
The proposed design of the HTC One M10
While in the characteristics of the new model is not clear, but the design will be similar to HTC One iPhone A9, only more brutal and, hopefully, with a twist.
Rumor has it that the smartphone will be woven for all flagship rules: 2560 by 1440 pixels on a 5.1 (or maybe 5.2) inches, omnipresent Snapdragon 820, 4 GB of RAM and camera as the latest Nexus.
Desire T7
Much more likely that phones from HTC will present the budget phablet (or skukozhennuyu tablet with support calls if you want). According to its characteristics it will be the most likely alternative to new Lenovo Phab, but generally, “on paper” praise him absolutely nothing. Here judge for yourself:
- One (in 2016!) a Gigabyte of RAM. The game will work in it, but hoisted him on top of the original shell, and all will be sad. And a dead Spreadtrum SC8830 processor (MT6582 is like this, only worse) with four Cortex-A7 cores in addition.
- Two 5-megapixel cameras — front and rear, respectively.
- 1280×720 pixels is 6.9 inches diagonally, the pixels will be visible to the naked eye, but at least the speed of this unit will be more or less. Full HD for such a processor would be a burden.
About appearance HTC Desire T7 are not yet known, but fans of imagine her like this
And it would be nice if this PC was an honest state employee for ~$90, as ZenPad C 7.0, for example. But rumors say that HTC will ask for a new model for $170 (~13 thousand roubles), and it would be better with these baseline data the tablet does not come out at all.
Vive and UA HealthBox
Virtual reality with the HTC Vive is much more exciting than smartphones-flagships
Since the announcement of the cell phones on “mobile Congress” HTC will not Shine, the wow factor will take on a new version of virtual reality helmet Vive (even though in January the Taiwanese Vive has already shown Pre). Go through the apartment, and the sensors in the room track the position of your arms and legs to make it more realistic. It is a pity that quite so helmet wireless still do not work, but in the way of games for a flat (well, curved) to be enveloping the picture already done a lot of work.
The fitness kit HTC HealthBox
Fitness tracker HTC
Digital scale HTC
And the second significant announcement should be a set of auxiliary devices for first aid, including gym, only not simple, but with online syncing and all of your achievements. Waterproof fitness tracker, digital scale and chest strap to measure heart rate. All this zoo keeps data online and then will present to the owner of beautiful reports and stats in the app on your smartphone. At least, fun approach. And if useful — generally good. Well come on, don’t worry — not a single gamers full lover of gadgets.
Huawei
P9
Yes, the Chinese not so long ago released a 8 Mate. But 6-inch laptopon — thing is not for everyone, but with the debut of last year’s flagship, the P8, it’s been almost a year. It is logical to assume that the old model will get a successor.
Huawei P9
Leaks and spy pictures of the upcoming models — the sea and the fresh information is as follows:
- Compact 5.2-inch display with a resolution of 2560×1440. In the old days and Sony and Huawei in one voice argued that the resolution beyond Full HD in a compact matrix — nonsense, and wasteful consumption of battery and CPU resources. Only now and then a Japanese held a record number pixels per inch to your flagship. Huawei, as we see, refused from former considerations, and was involved in race characteristics later.
- OCTA-core processor Kirin 950. If you believe the available data is not high performance (the latest Exynos and Snapdragon 820 8890 bit faster), but it vlegkuyu udelyvaet the chip in Galaxy S6 and all the competitors with the ten cores production MediaTek.
- 4 GB of RAM and “eyes” of two cameras on the rear panel. Then we will explain why.
- After the “reference” model, like last year, will be released P9 lite (a simplified version with similar design), P9 max (phablet with screen size of 6-7 inches) and a P9 premium, which, most likely, will become even more sophisticated modification as the performance of Sony Xperia Z5.
Previous smartphone P-series was almost unique case for the thinnest models are not greedy with the CPU, and the chamber was set up within the bounds of decency. About unprecedented harmony or any design get out in P9 make no sound, but that the smartphone will be a good leader, can be seen right now.
Matebook
That’s not a typo in the name of Apple’s laptops (coincidence? I don’t think!), and the word is derived from a series of Mate and slice the word “laptop”. Strange to see such a move at a time when experienced laptop manufacturers do is whine about falling demand and lack of prospects of the market. Do not take to heart the words of these parasites, of which 10 years in a row put in notebooks miserable display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, but a lot of money on laptops did not earn, and Huawei with their intentions look bravely.
The laptop production Huawei might look something like this
- There is nothing extraordinary in the hardware base will not. Intel Windows 10, Windows 10 — Intel. Fill cones and to work with angry customers, as it was in the times of Linux-based netbooks, today nobody wants.
- The display will not be large — say a 12.9-inch support touch input (circle, we need to understand artists, creative people and other talent, which even the stylus is not in the smartphone to insert properly)
- A hybrid design. That is, will present a laptop-tablet. Will it be a “shape-shifter”, as the Lenovo Yoga, or “transformer” as ASUS likes to do, it is not yet clear.
Even just a new name among the manufacturers laptops — hoo event, but honestly, now Matebook looks more pretentious than a useful device, and it will be aimed, say, businessmen. It is not excluded that we are waited by “reinvention” Surface Book with a new nameplate. We will be glad to be wrong.
Lenovo/Motorola
While no specifics of the Chinese-American group was not mentioned. Judging by the invitations will be presented to the Lenovo smartphones Moto (author not sealed — Motorola really undercut the name and turned the brand into one of the lines of Lenovo smartphones), and it seems, will announce the international version of the very cool “state employee” early 2016 — Lenovo Lemon 3. It will be very funny to see to what extent jumps the price of the smartphone from the current 8,500 rubles.
Rumor has it that Lenovo at MWC will present to the world your budget metal Lemon 3
And yet, apparently, Lenovo will begin with renewed vigor to promote their branded smartphones VIBE as a more affordable and simple kind flagship Moto.
Get used to the merger of Lenovo and Motorola in 2016
Xiaomi
Mi5
Famous at home Chinese brand will come to the international exhibition with a new flagship. As always, promised the minimum margin and the most features for the dollar spent.
Xiaomi Mi5
- Very high power reserves — a 5.2-inch Full HD display will serve guess which processor? That’s right — the Snapdragon 820, which was originally developed under tops-smart phones with 2560×1440 pixels on the screen. At a lower resolution, everything will just “fly”.
- USB Type-C, up to 4 GB of RAM and Wi-Fi 802.11 ad (limit the Internet speed through the air: while “damp”, but for the future good)
- 26 megapixel camera. A strange decision in an era when the race for megapixels in the flagship ended, but if the quality will not let you down — why not. After 41 Megapixel Symbian smartphone number this good in camera we cannot be surprised.
HP
Elite X3
The mobile version of Windows even in the sixth year of existence could hardly hold on the market, but the road by walking, and popularity will come with a quality smartphone. Here HP has made a wide gesture and returned to the smartphone market, but not with a simple model, and the flagship Windows 10 Mobile. Turned out to be harsh and strict corporate gadget with top-end performance. It will be interesting to compare it with the “science and technology” in the form of the Lumia 950 XL, for example.
HP Elite X3
- Nearly 6-inch display with excellent definition picture (2560×1440 pixels) will please all who are more important than the image, but not long calls
- Snapdragon 820 4GB of RAM — the most powerful windowon of all times and peoples
- The resistance, the scanner iris, Continuum (working in PC mode when connecting to a TV/monitor), slim body
Once HP spoiled us amazing luxury pocket PCs based on Windows Mobile. Now, of course, and Microsoft has changed, and HP itself is already “not that”, but before the show famous computer brand looks very promising, so we wish Hewlett-Packard good luck on the difficult front of windowsmachine.
Sony
What Japanese manufacturer to wait just not worth it — so it updates smartphones the Z6 indexes. Apparently, Sony at MWC will pay attention to less expensive phones, but the probability of update Xperia Tablet Z to the fifth generation very high — after all, since the release of the previous tablet took a year, and before that a full-sized Z-tablets each year published on MWC.
I hope that Xperia Z5/Z6 Tablet will be a lower quality model than the fourth generation
Z4 Tablet, I remember, we left a very positive impression, so anyone who is looking for a quality thin tablet with a big diagonal, I advise you to follow the news model promises to be “delicious”.