Launched in 2020 with an extremely affordable price point of less than €100 in Europe, our review of the Alcatel 1S (2020) has one mission: to set out to prove on whether it is possible to fork out very little money in order to enjoy features found in a modern smartphone. On paper, the Alcatel smartphone comes with an intelligent triple camera, a large 4,000 mAh battery, and a borderless 6.22-inch display with a discreet notch, which is a whole lot of promises. However, Alcatel also offers the Alcatel 3L, which comes with more RAM and a 48-megapixel camera, for just €30 more. Is buying the Alcatel 1S (2020) at all?
Nowadays, smartphones no longer come with just one camera, but a whole bunch of lenses littered on both the front and back. The question is this: how do you find a smartphone with a good or fantastic camera? Get this question answered in our ultimate guide to the ultimate smartphone cameras!
Sony maintains its smartphone recipe and the 21:9 format in the mid-range market with the Sony Xperia 10 II or “Mark Two”. After spending a couple of weeks with it, the Sony Xperia 10 II happens to mark a giant leap forward compared to its previous generation, although that is not quite good enough to make it a viable choice for a phone that retails at around $400.
After the Galaxy Fold, Samsung took a second stab at the whole foldable smartphone thing and, with the Galaxy Z Flip, has created the most practical and usable foldable phones to date. The Flip appeals more to a broader user base than the Fold, and in this full review, you will learn what life is like when you use the Galaxy Z Flip as your daily driver.
Smartphones equipped with optical zoom are very much in vogue today – as are the total fantasy values that manufacturers print on their advertising campaigns for maximum engagement. What does “100x” even mean under such circumstances? We investigate the question of focal lengths, zoom levels, and optical zoom in smartphones.
Whether its Android vs. Apple or Android vs. Android, tech fans love clashes and clan wars that rage in the comments sections of articles. In reality, we’re all sheep who think we’re shepherds. But how did we get here? And why is it dangerous?
LG smartphones have gotten a little stale of late. When you look back at the G8 ThinQ, the V50 ThinQ, and the V60 ThinQ, it’s clear that the South Korean company had slipped into a rut. With the Velvet, LG has ripped up the blueprints and built a smartphone that is genuinely sexy, genuinely lovely to hold, and – dare I say it – could even turn heads.
In this nostalgia post, the Editors at AndroidPIT will tell you which smartphones made the most impact in their technophile lives. For some of us, mobiles were having a big influence even before they became smart.
While smartphone manufacturers are eagerly ramping up the number of megapixels in their cameras, entering three-digit megapixel figures while touting fantasy level zoom on their devices, a far more important camera feature remains pretty much an unknown quantity to many: the sensor size. Why this is so crucial for image quality? Find out more below.
It’s easy to get turn-by-turn directions on your Wear OS smartwatch. Plus, with Wear OS, you can do it without being connected to your smartphone if your smartwatch has GPS built-in. Here’s how to use Google Maps on your Wear OS smartwatch, by voice command and manually.