Razer a few days ago started teasing a product announcement for November 1st, and it quickly became clear the gaming company actually build its own Android smartphone. That’s hardly surprising considering that Razer acquired Nextbit, a smartphone startup that released a great Android phone a few years ago. Then, a benchmark listing revealed the Razer …
Razer just bought a startup that made one of the most exciting Android handsets we’ve seen in recent years and killed said smartphone almost immediately. Truth be told the phone launched on Kickstarter all the way back in September 2015, so the phone was definitely getting old.
$299 is an amazing price for any run-of-the-mill unlocked Android phone with last year’s specs. It’s about how much you can expect to pay if you really don’t care about smartphones and you just need something cheap that will keep you connected. But that same $299 can also get you what is easily one of …
The brand new LG G5 might have a nifty modular design that we’ve never seen before on a smartphone, but how useful is it really? And to make things worse, there aren’t really any good modules available yet, so it’s basically just an overly complex removable battery. If you want to see real innovation, check …
What on Earth is going on here? Earlier this month as the annual Mobile World Congress trade show kicked off, we saw more smartphone innovation in a single week than we had seen all year last year. Perhaps in the past few years, even. Making things even more interesting is the fact that we’re seeing innovation not …
Outside of the Asia-Pacific region and emerging markets, the global smartphone business is dominated by just two just companies. Apple and Samsung. Galaxy phones and iPhones as far as the eye can see. At this point it seems like no company will ever be able to make a meaningful dent in this duopoly. That’s obviously not …
The smartphone space is quite cluttered right now. It might not seem like it in major markets, since Apple and Samsung dominate the smartphone industry, but there are dozens of companies around the world fighting for space in consumers’ pockets. Different companies use different strategies to try to separate their products from the pack, but by …
