Never mind the reasons behind it — having an unlocked phone is never a bad idea. The Supreme BLU Burner Phone stands to be the ultimate "bat line". Available in red or black, it's a fairly standard 3G GSM affair, with a camera on the back, a color screen, a 16GB memory card pre-installed, and dual SIM capability so you can swap numbers at will.
Since its inception, Samsung's Galaxy Note has been known for its boundary-pushing screen and pen-based interaction. The new Note10 offers both, in a somewhat smaller size. 6.3-inches is the size of the Dynamic AMOLED display in the standard model, while the newly-named 10+ has a 6.8-inch screen more in line with past models. Both offer edge-to-edge coverage, a re-designed, uni-body S Pen, expanded DeX capabilities, and improved cameras, including a 3D-scanning DepthVision camera in the 10+. A vapor chamber cooling system helps boost gaming performance, and 5G-capable versions provide access to the fastest possible cellular data speeds.
While many have moved away from them, there's still a place in your home for a landline. Especially when it looks and sounds as good as this one, with a rock-solid connection that bests cellular drops and glitches every time. The DP01's compact design feels good in your hand and includes a visual answering machine that lets you scroll through your messages with ease. And it sits face up in the cradle, so incoming calls can be viewed at a glance and outgoing calls can be made hands-free. Position the phone in a horizontal position on a flat surface, or mount it vertically on the wall and say goodbye to the distracted, glitchy world of cell conversations and hello to simple, reliable communication.
Height: 6.1" / Width: 1.9" / Thickness: 0.79" / Weight with batteries: 5.1 oz / Base Weight: 2.6 oz.
The MP-01 phone made offline the new luxury. Now, the minimalist communication tool is back — still without apps, GPS, and everything that distracts — while adding a few important upgrades. One of the most significant changes is the 4G LTE modem, a bump up from the 2G offering from the first generation, which is being phased out across the globe. The MP-02 also adds tethering support, so you can use it as a hotspot for your laptop or tablet when you need it, and has BlackBerry's security suite to keep everything secure when it's in hotspot mode. The security alsokeeps the Android 8.1 operating system protected. The design is essentially the same as the MP-01: sleek and straightforward with a 2-inch LCD display reinforced with Gorilla Glass and finished with a tough, abrasion-resistant coating. It only needs to be charged every couple of weeks and is an ideal choice for vacations, date nights, or any occasion where freedom from the constant onslaught of notifications is needed.
Requires a 4G LTE plan / Not Compatible with Verizon
Height: 4.58" / Width: 2" / Thickness: 0.6" / Weight: 3.1oz
We all know the story by now: our smartphones are amazing and are also destroying society. Boringphone is the latest answer to the question of how we get a phone that's useful but not an attention drain. To do so, they've built a custom OS on top of Android, and given the phone only the most essential of features, including calling, messaging, photos, maps, audio playback, and tethering. Noticeably missing: email, a web browser, and apps. Not only does it not have them, but it has no way to install them, making it a happy medium between a true dumbphone and the latest piece of Silicon Valley magic glass.
Flagship specs, midrange pricing: that's the promise of the OnePlus 7 Pro Smartphone. Its 6.67-inch, QHD+ bezel-free Fluid AMOLED screen — made possible by a pop-up selfie cam — runs at 90 Hz for buttery smooth animations. On the back, a 48-megapixel main camera is joined by ultra wide-angle and 3x telephoto lenses. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 delivers plenty of power, helped along by up to 12GB of RAM, and Warp Charge tech lets the 4,000 mAh battery hit a useable charge in just 20 minutes. Available in Mirror Gray or Nebula Blue.
Its body isn't any smaller than the Pixel 3 — but its price sure is. The Pixel 3a is a more affordable alternative to Google's flagship that manages to pack in more than enough tech for many. Most importantly, its 12-megapixel rear camera gets its big brother's Night Shot mode that can capture images in the dark, a powerful portrait mode, and an automatic selective color mode, as well as unlimited photo storage via Google Photos. Spec-wise, you get a 5.6- or 6-inch OLED display, 4GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 670 processor, USB-C quick charging, and active edge sensors, or nearly everything that makes the much more expensive Pixel 3 so great in the first place.
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Most companies are using folding screen tech to make book-like gadgets. Motorola has other plans: to use it as the key component in a resurrection of one of most beloved phones ever. The Moto Razr 2019 has yet to be formally introduced, but these renderings — based on patents filed with the WIPO — give a good idea what to expect. It retains the flip-phone form factor that made the original such a success while dedicating the entire interior surface to a folding display that should provide roughly as much screen space as most modern smartphones. In the renderings, it also gets a large camera mounted below the exterior screen, but details such as specs and storage will have to wait to be confirmed.
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Field agents don't just need a secure phone — they need it to take a beating, too. Even if your idea of clandestine operations is more party planning than espionage, the DarkMatter Katim R01 has you covered. It runs a customized version of Android that ties into a hardware-based cryptosystem, with secure apps for voice, video, and email. A dedicated side button cuts off the mics and cameras for top-secret meetings, and the device keys will automatically delete should it detect forced physical tampering. None of this does any good if it breaks, of course, so its five-layer mil-spec case is resistant to drops, water immersion, and crushing while protecting a battery that ensures you don't run out of juice in the middle of a mission.
Sony supplies the cameras for many of the world's best smartphones, so it's worth paying attention to what they put in their own flagship. For the Xperia 1, it's a trifecta of 12-megapixel shooters, with 16, 26, and 52mm equivalent lenses for various conditions. Borrowing from the company's Alpha cameras, it's also the world's first smartphone with Eye-tracking Auto Focus. Nearly as impressive is the 6.5-inch 4K HDR OLED display that adopts a 21:9 aspect ratio to better fit ultra-wide movies in your palm and let you run two apps side-by-side.
Blurring the line between phone and battery pack, the Energizer P18K Pop is a gargantuan gadget only the company's drum-beating mascot could love. Nearly three iPhones thick, this hefty mobile has an 18,000 mAh battery inside — good for two straight days of video consumption and nearly two months of standby time. Its 6.2-inch 2160x1080 display is almost bezel-less thanks to a pop-up dual-camera selfie setup that complements the triple camera array on the back. It also offers 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, but let's be honest: battery life is the only reason to consider cramming a device this large into your pocket.
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Based around a flexible OLED screen, the Nubia Alpha Wearable Smartphone blurs the line between phones and watches. The device's 4-inch, 960 x 192 screen sits inside a metal band that closes around your wrist, with a 5MP camera housed in the middle, along with its Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor, 8GB of onboard storage, 500mAh battery, and heart rate monitor. It runs a custom version of Android that supports everything from photos and phone calls to texts and movie watching and will launch later this year in both Bluetooth and standalone eSIM versions, the latter in both black and gold.
It's a shame to hide your flagship feature away — so instead of placing its folding OLED screen on the inside, the Huawei Mate X keeps it on the exterior. The result is a logical design that lets both 6.6-inch "sides" of the screen function when folded, yet serve as an 8-inch tablet when unfurled. It also promises high-speed 5G wireless connectivity, excellent image chops thanks to the Leica-engineered camera, and plenty of battery life thanks to a purpose-designed 4500 mAh cell.
Borrowing technology from Light and its L16 Camera, the Nokia 9 PureView Smartphone takes mobile photography seriously. It uses an array of five 12-megapixel, f/1.8 Zeiss-developed cameras — two color, three monochrome — to shoot different exposures at once, merging the results for added detail, more accurate color, and post-processing depth control. Nokia has also partnered with Adobe, so those edits will be made in Lightroom and not some no-name photo app. The phone is otherwise a solid yet unremarkable affair, with a 5.99-inch 2K OLED screen, a Snapdragon 845 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and Gorilla Glass on both the front and back.
The tenth iteration of one of the world's best-selling phones, what Samsung's Galaxy S10 lacks in wow factor it makes up for in sheer competence. It has a triple camera system that lets you switch between wide, ultra-wide, and telephoto lenses with ease, and a scene optimizer that can suggest ways to improve your shots. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner secures the phone through the 6.1-inch Dynamic AMOLED screen, and its specs are class-leading, as usual, with a Snapdragon 855 processor, up to 12GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and larger batteries with the ability to charge a second device — like the Galaxy Buds wireless headphones — through the back of the device. Also available in a 6.4-inch Plus model.
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Jumping rope is one of the best ways to burn calories, and now you can train and track at the same time with this smart rope. The rope combines form and function with comfortable 45 degree angled handles to help make this age-old workout more interesting. Other ropes on the market provide tracking, but none have a strand of bright white LEDs that are visible while you're jumping. View jump counts, calories burned, or the duration of your workout as the rope swings in front of you. All the data is then transmitted via Bluetooth to a smartphone app — meaning all you have to supply is some sweat and an epic workout soundtrack.
Sizing:
Medium 101 inches / 258 cm
Large : 107 inches / 274 cm
Battery:
Full charge in 2 hours / 36 hours of use / Lithium Polymer Battery
Connectivity:
Bluetooth 4.0 LE two-way communication with smartphone
Bluetooth audio. Wireless charging. We're moving towards a future where our phones don't have any physical buttons or openings at all — and the Meizu Zero aims to get there first. In addition to the above technologies, it takes advantage of electronic SIMs, a "wireless USB" base, in-screen sound technology that uses the entire display as a speaker, and an in-display fingerprint sensor to rid itself of any unnecessary bumps or valleys. As you'd expect, this helps towards its IP68 water and dust resistance rating, and for those worried about the absence of a power button, pressure sensors on the sides of the ceramic unibody enclosure serve as virtual buttons for both power and volume.
The iPhone XS is a dense object, packed with all the technology Apple could fit inside. Caviar thought they could do even better. Their Tesla edition (no relation to the car company) integrates a thin, solar-powered battery into the back of the phone, letting you charge the device anywhere there's ample light. The extension is made from carbon fiber, with a gold-plated plate at the top displaying the name of the phone and the charging indicator, and a solar panel underneath. Needless to say, you won't be walking into an Apple Store for service on this, so the company matches Apple's standard one-year warranty with one of their own.
With Samsung and LG rumored to be unveiling their own in the coming weeks, Royole has beaten the Korean giants to the punch with the announcement of the world's first folding smartphone. Dubbed the FlexPai, it has a 7.8-inch display and a footprint that's roughly half that. It's powered by the yet-unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 processor, has 16-megapixel wide-angle and 20-megapixel telephoto cameras in its sizable bezel, and runs Water OS on top of Android 9 Pie. Available for order now, with deliveries beginning in December.
It doesn't have a home button, and there's no telltale circle 'round back. That's because the fingerprint sensor on the OnePlus 6T is inside the 6.41-inch Optic AMOLED screen that nearly stretches corner to corner. It's powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor with up to 8GB of RAM, charges quickly over USB-C, and has a dual camera system with studio lighting and improved low-light capabilities. It runs the lag-free OxygenOS, built atop Android 9 Pie, and is certified for use on Verizon, a first for a OnePlus handset.
Business cards remain an important tool in Japan. NTT Docomo is taking advantage of this with the release of the Kyocera KY-01L Card Phone. Hailed as the thinnest and lightest phone in the world, it's designed to fit in a business card holder. It weighs just 1.66 oz, is just 5.3mm thick, and has a 2.8-inch e-paper screen and LTE connectivity.
Envisioned as a companion device for your "real" smartphone, the Palm Phone is meant to provide just enough connectivity to keep you sated while encouraging you to focus on the world around you. It's roughly the size of a credit card, so it's lighter in your pocket, uses Verizon's NumberShare so it doesn't need a separate line, and has a "Life Mode" that automatically mutes all notifications anytime you turn the screen off. It has 12MP and 8MP cameras on the rear and front and runs Android 8.1 on a 3.3-inch screen, so while it might be meant to get you off your device, you can still ruin the effect by loading it up with apps and games if you want.
Designed as an educational project/gadget, the MAKERphone is a simple mobile phone you build yourself. The basic kit comes with everything you need to build it, including the circuit board, casing, full-color screen, and all the various chips and modules that make up a phone. You'll be expected to build it yourself, so if you're missing any of the necessary tools you can purchase a tool pack at the same time. Despite its humble looks, the phone is fully functional, with the ability to make calls, send texts, and even run apps and games you write yourself.
Doubling down on the idea that two cameras are better than one, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Smartphone is the world's first smartphone with four cameras on the back. The main camera is a 24-megapixel, f/1.7 affair, and is joined by 120-degree, 8-megapixel ultra wide and 10-megapixel, 2x optical zoom telephoto shooters. Both of those have f/2.4 apertures, while the final sensor — a depth camera — is 5 megapixels and has a f/2.2 lens. The phone is otherwise a pretty typical midrange model, with Snapdragon 660 processor, 6GB of RAM, a 6.3-inch display, and 128GB of storage.
Now in their third generation, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are the latest examples of Google's vision for the future of Android. Most notable are the upgrades to the camera, which was already considered by many to be the best in any smartphone. Thanks to a new Pixel Visual Core chip, it can automatically take a bunch of photos at once, combine them for HDR, and identify the best one. That's called Top Shot, while an AI-driven zoom mode — necessary because of the single rear camera — merges multiple exposures to create extra resolution. A new low-light mode is also present, as is Google Lens integration, a wide-angle selfie lens, and some new AR stickers. The screen sizes have been increased to 5.5 and 6.3 inches, but thanks to smaller bezels they're about the same size as the prior models, and for the first time, they charge wirelessly, with a whole different UI displayed while sitting on the charger. Oh, and Google Assistant can now answer suspected spam phone calls for you, letting you see what they have to say before deciding whether to block them or call back. Available on Verizon or unlocked directly from Google.
Apple's iPhone X redefined smartphone design, so it's little surprise that its follow-up, the iPhone XS, looks much the same. Built around the new 7nm A12 processor, it has an improved Face ID-capable TrueDepth camera system, and a dual-camera system on the back, with dual 12-megapixel shooters and larger sensors, powered by a new image signal processor that works with the neural engine for even better photos. It'll be available in Gold, as well as Space Gray or Silver, in capacities up to 512GB, and, most notably, with a 5.8-inch OLED screen, like last year's, or as a 6.5-inch OLED model dubbed the "iPhone XS Max" — a name so awful it surely has Steve Jobs rolling in his grave.
Not everyone cares about dual camera systems or OLED screens. If you're one of them, the iPhone XR is for you. It sports a bezel-less design, just like the iPhone XS, but uses a 6.1 LCD Liquid Retina screen instead of an OLED panel, and has a single 12-megapixel wide-angle shooter around back with a large sensor, optical image stabilization, and software-based Portrait Mode. Yet it still has a TrueDepth camera with Face ID, still has the new A12 Bionic processor, and unlike the XS, is available in a rainbow of colors, including Black, White, Red, Yellow, Coral, and Blue, with up to 256 GB of storage, for a considerably lower price.
No bezel-free design or wireless charging. The Doogee S55 Smartphone isn't notable for its tech specs, but for its ability to withstand adverse conditions. It's built to IP68 specifications for water and dust resistance, letting it survive in waist-deep waters for up to 24 hours. It can also operate in extreme temperatures and is powered by an octa-core chip running Android 8.0, with dual Samsung-sourced cameras on the rear and a 5.5-inch screen.
It looks like something from the future, which makes sense since it's not hitting the market until 2020. The Turing HubblePhone is a nearly all-screen device that aims to usher mobile computing into the next decade. Its clamshell-style body has a "main deck" with an 11.81-inch screen that extends over the top and down the back side of the phone, curving outward around the 60-megapixel, 15x optical zoom camera. The "upper deck" has two screens of its own, each measuring over five inches, and also holds three 12-megapixel cameras. Both the upper and main decks have their own dedicated processors and GPUs, with connectivity provided by next-gen Wifi and a 5G cellular connection — fitting specs for phone no one will get their hands on for another two years, if ever.
Samsung's Note series has always blurred the line between phone, tablet, and computer, and the Note 9 is the most extreme example yet. Its 6.4-inch screen pairs with an improved, Bluetooth-enabled S Pen to enable advanced computing on a portable device while allowing the pen to serve as a remote for different applications. A speedy Snapdragon 845 processor pairs with up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for near laptop-class specs and an improved Dex mode lets you hook it up to a monitor. Taking advantage of all that power, the dual camera system auto-recognizes up to 20 different types of objects, automatically adjusts to get the best results and even throws up a warning if it senses something wrong with the photo so you'll know to retake it right away.
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