Best Smartphones of 2016
Throughout the year, every month, we were for you a selection of the hottest new products from the world of smartphones. Now it's time to take stock and choose the best device in 2016-th. In our editorial will include top models that do not just pleasantly surprised us personally, but also able to set a new bar for the industry as a whole. All gadgets are not similar to each other, each is strong in its category. A crowning our ranking is the most popular smartphone on the readers. Guess which model for users 4PDA often voted the ruble?
The most powerful Android: LeEco Le Pro 3
According to a November rated the AnTuTu, the most productive of Android-smartphone became LeEco Le Pro 3. With its 160,856 points gadget occupies the third place ranking, while reigning in the benchmark iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 7. So high Le Pro 3 has risen due to the combination of a top Snapdragon 821 processor (2.35 GHz frequency) and 6 GB of RAM. However, and other characteristics are not pumped. Volume of the built-in storage UFS 2.0 standard, depending on the configuration can be 32, 64 and 128 GB. Resolution 5.5-inch IPS-screen Le Pro 3 - 1920x1080 pixels. Le Pro 3 is deprived of a 3.5 mm audio jacks, so headphones are connected via a USB Type-C or via Bluetooth. For shooting photos and video module meets the 16 megapixel with autofocus and phase two-tone flash. For selfie and video calls intended vosmimegapikselnaya camera. Despite the small thickness (7.5 mm), located in the smartphone rather capacious battery to 4070 mAh that supports fast charging technology.
Xiaomi Redmi 3s
The category, which won the Xiaomi Redmi 3s, in a different way can be called "the perfect state employees." This smartphone combines acceptable performance and low price. Redmi 3s housing is made of metal. Because of this, by the way, the gadget looks much more expensive than it actually is. Under the body hides an eight chipset Snapdragon 430 1.4 GHz, 2/3 GB RAM and 16/32 GB of internal memory. Resolution five-inch IPS-screen is 1280x720 pixels, the resolution of the main and front cameras - 13 and 5 megapixel respectively. Redmi 3s main advantage was the capacious battery to 4100 mAh. Also, the smartphone has a slot for memory cards up to 128GB and a fingerprint scanner.
Appearance, features, and most importantly - a very low cost Redmi 3s are able to meet all the needs of the modern (and not so fastidious) user. During this Xiaomi Redmi 3s and gets rightful place in our list.
Huawei nova
In this category wins a mainstream machine with a decent filling and a reasonable price. We chose Huawei nova. The smartphone is made in a stylish metal body thickness of only 7.1 mm, five-inch IPS-screen gadget with the FHD-resolution covered with protective glass-2.5D. «Brain» Huawei nova became an eight chipset Snapdragon 625 with a frequency of 2 GHz. Amount of RAM - 3 GB of built-in - 32 GB. There is support for memory cards. Resolution main camera is 12 megapixels, front - 8 megapixels. Also, the device has a fingerprint scanner on the back panel connector USB Type-C and 3020 mAh battery on.
Huawei nova - is a "very strong middling." Such a purchase and can afford no strikes, and it can boast, so victory in this category goes to precisely this smartphone.
Google Pixel / Pixel XL
This year turned out a lot of great champions, but first of all one, and we decided to give it to Google Pixel. Gadget, Google developed and released by the company, took over the baton from the Nexus line and deservedly became the king of Android-smartphone. More specifically, Google has released two devices: Pixel and enlarged copy Pixel XL. In terms of technical characteristics and appearance of the differences between them are not so much. Housing both devices is made of metal and glass Gorilla Glass 4. The Pixel installed five-inch display with a resolution of Full HD, while the screen resolution 5.5-inch Pixel the XL is 2560x1440 pixels. Both screens are AMOLED technology. Another difference - Battery Capacity: 2770 mAh in the usual Pixel vs. 3450 mAh Pixel XL. Smartphones equipped with a connector USB Type-C and supports fast charging technology. According to Google, only 15 minutes of charging is enough for seven hours of gadgets. The Hardware includes a quad-core Snapdragon 821 processor, 4 GB and 32/128 GB of internal memory. Main camera Pixel Pixel and the XL is also the same - 12.3-megapixel Sony IMX378 sensor with a pixel size of 1.55 microns. A popular resource DxOMark put the chamber 89 points, which is the highest result to date.
Work device is running Android 7.1 Nougat, but instead of the old launcher "Google Home" on them Pixel Launcher installed with the new user interface. Also Pixel Pixel and the XL is the first smartphone with Google Assistant digital assistant, which replaced the Google Now.
Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge does not need an introduction. Both smartphones as each device is the flagship of the range S to them, we have become bestsellers this year. S7 and S7 the Edge is quite different in design and filling, so the details about them are not going to tell, and the camera will focus on these gadgets. It is really impressive! Experts from the above DxOMark evaluated it in 88 points that until Google Pixel allowed her to keep the first place in the ranking. The smartphone is set a 12-megapixel sensor Sony IMX260, which was created specifically for Samsung, and is not sold to other manufacturers. Compared with Galaxy S6 camera resolution in the S7 and S7 the Edge has become smaller, but the size of each pixel is increased up to 1.4 microns, allowing devices become excellent shooting in the dark. There are also optical image stabilization in the camera. But the most important thing is that the lens speed has increased to a value of f / 1.7 (in the past generation was f / 1.9) - an impressive result for a mobile camera. Another advantage of the sensor - an improved phase detection autofocus and Dual Pixel Technology, which is used in some modern DSLR-cameras. All this provides the speed and accuracy of focusing without compromising image quality.
Highscreen Boost 3 SE Pro
Smart Phone with a good sound on the market is not so much. Taking advantage of the fact that this niche is empty, the Russian company has released a music smartphone Highscreen Highscreen the Boost 3 SE Pro. And everything is done was not in the usual way when the manufacturer assembles the product in China and only then glue on it a label, and with great attention to specialized software, which is developed independently Highscreen. This Highscreen Boost 3 SE Pro received audio path, as close to the Hi-Fi players average. The gadget is set to DAC ESS9018K2M Sabre powerful amplifier A-Class ADA4897-2, issuing up to 100 mW per channel at a load of 32 ohms. One of the main pieces of software Boost SE Pro 3 is the lack of restrictions sampling frequency of the digital signal to the DAC, which existed in the fifth Android. Solving this problem has led to the fact that any player mounted on the gadget may send a Hi-Res composition DAC revealing the maximum potential of the entire music smartphone. Thought manufacturers and the autonomy of the device. The kit Highscreen Boost SE Pro 3 includes two replaceable battery - 3100 mAh and 6900.
Oukitel K10000
When you take Oukitel K10000 hands, then immediately you realize what bet manufacturer. This is a true smartphone pauerbank that showed in our lab impressive results in terms of autonomy. With Oukitel K10000 you can in one sitting to master a couple of seasons of "Game of Thrones", or three times to fully charge the iPhone 6 Plus. As the name implies, the smartphone is equipped with a battery of 10,000 mAh. Complete with a powerful gadget comes Charger 9V / 2A able to charge the device for less than four hours.
ASUS Zenfone 3
Very often manufacturers provide smartphones, using the same components. However, they work in every device in its own way. That's because every company is different relates to software development and optimization. The newly released ASUS Zenfone 3 shows how to do the software for the smartphone. And this applies not only to work up to the last detail interface ZenUI 3.0, but also a variety of software features like the Game Genie application that optimizes performance during games and allows you to organize the broadcast of gameplay on YouTube and Twitch. Innovation also touched the screen and sound. Thus, the matrix Super IPS + gives a much better image than IPS, and SonicMaster technology allows you to listen on your phone Hi-Res audio format 24-bit / 192 kHz. Especially good engineers and programmers at ASUS have worked on camera: 16-megapixel module with Sony IMX298 sensor supports optical and electronic image stabilization, as well as a unique TriTech focus technology that combines laser, phase and focus tracking and allows smartphone exactly leads to the subject of the 0 , 03 seconds. The camera is capable of displaying 3 Zenfone in HDR mode, real-time images photographed with an exposure of up to 32 seconds to shoot 4K video, and take photos in super resolution, on which five 16-megapixel images are combined into a single 64 megapixel.
List all the software pieces Zenfone 3 is simply impossible: it has a multi-function and a fingerprint scanner, and a lot of convenient branded apps, and much more.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro
In preparing this material, we decided to see what gadgets are 4PDA readers. Based on changes in the profiles of the users in 2016 purchased 364,533 smartphone. Interestingly, the purchase covers 4611 different models, from mainstream to exotic iPhone like Sharp SH7218U. Statistics reveal a very interesting picture: the first place with an almost two-fold margin of nearest rival won Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro.
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