China’s smartphone market is big, but it isn’t getting bigger
China’s such a big country that there’ll always be an insatiable demand for smartphones, right? Not according to research firm IDC, which believes that the nation’s phone market has contracted by four percent in the last year. The outfit’s merry band of spreadsheet-wranglers believes that the majority of Chinese people now own a mobile device, and as such, will only buy a phone when they want to upgrade.
The company has also drilled down into the winners and losers for the first quarter of the year, with no surprises as to who has come out on top. Apple is sitting comfortably on the number one spot, having shipped nearly 15 million devices in the first three months of the year. Sitting just behind it, however, are local brands Xiaomi and Huawei, which shipped 13.5 and 11.2 million phones in the same period. It’s a sadder tale for Samsung and Lenovo, both of which saw its shipments fall by a painful 53 and 22 percent, respectively.
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Filed under: Cellphones, Apple, Samsung, Lenovo
Via: TechCrunch, WSJ
Source: IDC
Huawei releases Honor 4c and Honor Bee in India
Huawei has launched two new phones, the Honor 4C and the Honor Bee, for the Indian market. These two devices fall far below the standards of the Honor 6 Plus and 4X, taking the bottom two spots of their Honor line of devices.
The Honor 4C has a 5 inch 1280×720 resolution display while the Honor Bee comes with a 4.5 inch, 854×480 resolution display. Both will come with Android 4.4 KitKat, running Huawei’s custom skin.
The 4C stands apart from the Bee with its 64 bit Kirin 620 octa-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz and its 13 MP rear facing camera. It also comes with 2 GB RAM and the Mali-T450 GPU. Altogether, it’s not a bad phone by any definition, and pushes the bill for a lower-end phone priced at just Rs 8,999 ($141).
In comparison, the Honor Bee comes with a quad-core SC7731 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and an 8 MP rear camera with dual LED flash. For the lower specs the Honor Bee can be purchased for Rs 4,999 ($78).
These phones just manage to stay competitive in their price brackets against the offerings put out by Xiaomi and Motorola in India. The Honor 4C can be purchased right now, while the Honor Bee is available for pre-order. What do you think of these latest two handsets? Let us know in the comments.
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Blind camera shootout – the votes are in…
A few days in Malta a couple of weeks ago for the IFA 2015 GPC presented the opportunity for an impromptu smartphone camera shootout between four heavyweights of the smartphone industry: the Huawei P8, the Honor 6 Plus, the Galaxy S6 Edge and the HTC One M9.
AA camera shootouts:
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Unlike past shootouts, we didn’t tell you which handset took each picture and instead, over the past week, thousands of you have cast your vote for which handset you think took the best picture. Now, the results are in but before we reveal the winner, let’s take a closer look at each of the scenes and I’ll let you know which handset I think took the best picture (in my unprofessional opinion).
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In the scene capturing the Bank of Valletta building in the capital of Malta, Phone C was most accurate in capturing the scene but Phone B was a little less oversaturated.
Winner: Phone C
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Phone D captured the flag with most accuracy but Phone C compensated best for the varying colours of the building.
Winner: Draw (Phone C / Phone D)
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The winner here is actually Phone A as it captured enough detail in the sky and compensates for the white balance most accurately. Phone C was a close run second, Phone C did well to capture the building but failed to capture the sky and Phone D was somewhat accurate in portraying the building and sky.
Winner: Phone A
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It’s tough to pick a winner here as none of the images are completely accurate. Phone A doesn’t capture a lot of colours, Phone B has a weird hue, Phone C doesn’t compensate for the light in the scene and Phone D also fails to capture a lot of the colours. Having to pick a winner, I’d say that Phone C comes closest.
Winner: Phone C
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This scene was quite interesting as it was a gift to Queen Elizabeth and Phone B captured the colours most accurately. Phone A is a very close second while Phone D comes third and Phone C rounds off the list.
Winner: Phone B
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This was an interesting test of focusing on a large scene and the results are quite close between Phone B and Phone C. While Phone B is very good, Phone C depicts the sky and handles the changing scene the best and wins this round.
Winner: Phone C
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An interesting test as it was pointing each camera upwards and trying to focus on the chandelier in the iconic Manoel Theatre. Interestingly, Phone B wins this but Phone D is the best at capturing the individual parts of the chandelier and not being affected by the light rays from the chandelier.
Winner: Phone B
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This test actually showed how each phone handled a complex scene with subjects both near and far. Overall Phone B and Phone C are really close but Phone B wins it thanks to a little more detail in the sky.
Winner: Phone B
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A clear winner for me here is Phone B which captures detail in all parts of the image.
Winner: Phone B
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Phone C has the least saturation and most life-like colours so it wins this scene. Phone A comes quite close, Phone B captures a lot of detail but oversaturates almost all parts of the image and Phone D comes a distant fourth.
Winner: Phone C
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Phone A wins this scene for me as it appears to be the most life-like, while Phone B is slightly oversaturated and Phone C just appears to be a little dull.
Winner: Phone A
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This was an interesting test as there were rays of sunshine from the left and each device had to capture detail in both near and far. The winner for me is Phone B as it was the one which captured both parts of the scene but also depicted individual rays of sunshine.
Winner: Phone B
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Nothing quite like an image that might gross you out. It’s difficult to pick a winner for this one as Phone C has the most detail but doesn’t fully compensate for the lack of light while Phone B picks up the light but loses a little detail in the cockroach leg. I’ll probably give this to Phone C with Phone B a very close second.
Winner: Phone C
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This is an interesting test and all four devices do well but the winner is Phone B as it keeps the colour of the building while also saturating the sky to make an overall nice image. Phone A and C come second as the former captures the building while the latter captures the scene well but is slightly oversaturated. Phone D is the most saturated for both the sky and the building.
Winner: Phone B
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Another interesting test of the zoom capabilities of each handset and the winner is Phone C as it picks up the detail of the structure, the dome and the red IFA boxes attached to the dome. Phones B and D come a close second while Phone A finishes the collection.
Winner: Phone C
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The second last scene and the first test of the night capabilities. The test proved interesting but the winner is Phone C as it was the only one to capture detail in the brickwork without noise. Phone B comes a close second, Phone D is third and Phone A – which has a fair amount of noise and a lack of detail – comes in fourth.
Winner: Phone C
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Now to the final scene and one of my favourite as the test is see whether each smartphone can capture the IFA 2015 sign – before it takes centre stage in a fireworks display – just in front of the red steps. It’s almost a dead heat between Phone A and Phone C but the former wins it because Phone C overcompensates the white balance and produces a lighter scene that’s doesn’t accurately capture the colour of the steps.
Winner: Phone A
The winner is…
So according to my results, the overall winner is Phone C, which is closely followed by Phone B. Phone A comes in third and Phone D brings up the rear. That’s my opinion but how did YOU vote?
Over the past week, over 3000 votes have been cast in the shootout and here’s how they stacked up at the time of writing:
So the Galaxy S6 Edge takes it from the Honor 6 Plus, which is closely followed by the Huawei P8 and rounding off the contest in last place is the HTC One M9. The Galaxy S6 Edge winning the contest is no surprise as the camera is very capable but the Honor 6 Plus in second deserves a special mention: at a price of £299 ($450), it’s almost half the price of the other contenders but beats them all to second place.
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The Huawei P8 has a fabulous camera and it’s interesting that both of Huawei’s devices have registered almost the same number of votes. For many years, Huawei’s cameras have been progressively getting better and the latest modules are capable of producing fantastic photos that can rival most smartphones.
As for HTC – well it’s a tough one. I’ve been rather critical of the Taiwenese manufacturer but I do think that the new 20MP module in the HTC One M9 was always going to be challenge to optimise properly. Hopefully the woes of the M9 camera – many of which were pointed out in the comments on the original post – can be fixed with software updates but this remains to be seen.
Thanks for voting in the blind comparison and we’ve got another one planned for you! We’ve listened to some of the feedback and our next comparison – which will be up next week – will see the iPhone 6 Plus pitted against the LG G4 and the Galaxy S6 Edge with a DSLR as a control photo. As always, it promises to be epic so stay tuned!
Now check out the full reviews:
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Huawei Nexus device rumoured to have Snapdragon 810 and Quad HD display
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We’ve heard rumours that have said Chinese manufacturer, Huawei, will be the next Nexus smartphone manufacturer, and today we get another rumour to strengthen the case for that. Specifically, the rumour comes from Weibo page of Chinese analyst firm, Pan Jiutang, and alleges that this Huawei Nexus smartphone will have a 5.7-inch Quad HD display and be powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor.
Both of these things would seem very logical for a 2015 flagship device, however a few things stick out like a sore thumb. Huawei so far has not favoured Quad HD displays, waving them off and using 1080p displays instead. Furthermore, Huawei likes to use its own Kirin processors, and these two facts suggest that either Google has demanded that these parts be used in the manufacture of said Nexus device, or the rumour could be untrue. Or maybe it’s somewhere inbetween these two options. Whatever is the truth, Google I/O isn’t too far away now, so perhaps we’ll find out something there in a month’s time.
What do you think about a Huawei Nexus device with a Snapdragon 810 processor and Quad HD display? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Weibo via Phone Arena
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Huawei’s Nexus phone to feature 5.7-in screen and Snapdragon 810 – Chinese analyst
Confirming older rumors about an upcoming Nexus device manufactured by Huawei, a respected Chinese analyst reveal some key features of the device.
The analyst is Jiutang Pan, Research Head at the Shenzhen Huaqiang Electronics Research Institute specializing in the value chain of the electronics industry of China. Pan has authored several papers on the electronics industry and has accurately leaked details about upcoming devices from Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Meizu, and Huawei. Most recently, Pan revealed the specifications of MediaTek’s next generation Helio X20 system on a chip.
Posting on Weibo, Jiutang Pan claims the Huawei-made Nexus will feature a 5.7-inch display of 2K (Quad HD) resolution and that it will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor. The device is said to be slated for the second half of the year, though that’s not a hard prediction to make given we’re close to June already.
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If this is accurate, the Huawei Nexus shapes up to be a high-end affair, and one of a more manageable size, following the 5.96-inch monster that is the Nexus 6.
There’s a lot of sense in Google teaming up with a Chinese manufacturer for a Nexus device. Huawei, and its local peers like ZTE, Xiaomi, and even Lenovo, are the most dynamic Android OEMs right now. More importantly, they are the players that are winning market share in developing countries, where most new smartphone users are coming from. Plus, Google has a strong incentive to team with a Chinese player, as it hopes to return to the bustling Chinese market, potentially this year. Sundar Pichai himself said at MWC 2015 that Google plans to work with a local company to make this happen, and Huawei fits the bill perfectly.
How do you feel about a 5.7-inch Snapdragon 810 Nexus smartphone?
Deal: Snapdragon 400-powered Huawei SnapTo for just $139.99, but act fast!
Need a new smartphone, or a secondary handset, but don’t have a lot of extra cash to spare? Right now you can get Huawei’s SnapTo on Amazon for just $139.99 as part of a Lightning Deal, that’s $40 off. Of course you only have about 2 1/2 hours (at time of writing) before the deal ends.
As for what the SnapTo brings to the table? We are talking about a budget friendly device with specs to match. There’s a 5-inch 720p display, a 2GHz Snapdragon 400, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, 5MP rear cam, 2MP front cam, 2200 mAh battery, 4G LTE, and Emotion UI 2.3 (based on KitKat). Other than the fact it is running outdated software, you’re basically talking about a device that’s similarly spec’d to the Moto G (2014), but with the addition of LTE for less money than Motorola is charging.
The SnapTo certainly isn’t an impressive device, but the asking price of $179.99 was already pretty decent. This current Lightning Deal price is even more exciting. Anyone planning on picking it up?
The Fourth is with Samsung too: Samsung is fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in China
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When a report comes out detailing the performance of the top 3 manufacturers in China and Samsung isn’t one of them, you really take notice. In Strategy Analytics’ latest report about China’s smartphone market in Q1 2015, Xiaomi topped the board with 14 million smartphones shipped, Apple came in second with 13.5 million and Huawei came in third with 11.2 million units moved. Samsung isn’t even mentioned in the report but we’re willing to bet Samsung is just slightly behind in fourth place.
While it doesn’t seem like much, this is a big change for the Korean manufacturer who once had a huge stake in the Chinese market. No doubt these numbers and rankings do not yet take into account the start of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge sales last month, however Samsung has a lot of ground to make up if it intends to move up in the world’s biggest market for smartphones.
What do you think of Samsung’s plight in the Chinese smartphone market? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Strategy Analytics via SamMobile
The post The Fourth is with Samsung too: Samsung is fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in China appeared first on AndroidSPIN.
Huawei partners with Three for Honor 6 Plus UK launch, priced at £299
As promised, Huawei’s Honor 6 Plus smartphone is on schedule to arrive in the UK this month, featuring high quality mobile technology at a reasonable price point. Not only can you already pre-order the SIM-free handset for delivery on May 18th, but the Chinese manufacturer has teamed up with national carrier Three, which should give Huawei some additional exposure in the country.
As part of the exclusive deal, it looks like Three customers will get their hands on the smartphone a little sooner. The Three website lists the estimated delivery date as May 6th. The Honor 6 Plus is available from Three starting at £24 per month with a £19 upfront payment, or for £299 on pay-as-you-go, the same price as the SIM-free option from Amazon.
In terms of hardware, the Honor 6 Plus is proper high-end handset. The phones features a 1080p 5.5-inch display, octa-core HiSolicon Kirin 925 SoC, 3GB of RAM, dual 8 megapixel rear cameras and an 8 MP front camera. You’ll also find 32GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot that supports an additional 128GB of storage or dual-SIM connectivity, a huge 3,600mAh battery and Huawei’s Android 4.4.2 KitKat based Emotion UI 3.0 software. You can check out our hands on review for a closer look at the complete package.
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Huawei has been building close ties with the mainland European and UK markets over the past few years, and regularly launches its flagship products in the European capitals. Just last month Huawei came to London to unveil its new P8 smartphone. Although there’s still a way to go, partnering up with a major UK carrier is a sure sign that Huawei intends to break into the mainstream UK mobile market. Pre-orders are live now.
Artist creates amazing photos with the Huawei P8’s Light Painting function
One of the marquee features of the Huawei P8, which launched last month in London, is the Light Painting functionality of its camera.
Put simply, Light Painting lets you capture “light graffiti,” by capturing multiple shots of a moving scene and then blending the shots into one image showing a light trail. Normally, this effect is obtained through long exposure shots, but given the limitation of a smartphone camera sensor, Huawei used this ingenious workaround.
To showcase Light Painting, Huawei enlisted Canadian photographer Benjamin Von Wong and gave him the task to capture some amazing shots with the P8, no Photoshop allowed. And boy, these shots are amazing.
There’s a rather big caveat: these shots are the work of a professional crew, using a tripod, light filters, and custom lighting. In other words, you won’t be able to just pull out your phone and do something similar the next time you go for a night out in the city, even if the video above suggests that’s possible.
Still, the results are quite impressive. Just a few years ago, taking shots like this with a smartphone would have been a pipe dream.
Read on about the Huawei P8 (and it’s ridiculously large sibling, the P8 Max) in our review and first impressions posts. Let us know your thoughts!
Galaxy S6 Edge vs Huawei P8, Honor 6 Plus & HTC One M9 blind camera comparison: vote for the best phone
There’s an age-old saying that the best camera is the one you have on you and most manufacturers seem to have gone back to focusing on their cameras. In the past, cameras were a playground with most OEMs banking on higher megapixel counts to sell their handsets to customers, but in recent years, we’ve seen the specs war move to processors and displays.
In the past year, we’ve now seen manufacturer refocus their efforts on their smartphone cameras in a bid to offer an experience that can rival the excellent images captured by the Apple iPhone. Yet with some focusing on megapixel counts, others using advanced sensors and some focusing on software optimisation, which smartphone has the best camera?
On a recent trip to Malta for the IFA 2015 GPC, we decided to put this to test and armed with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Huawei P8, Huawei Honor 6 Plus and HTC One M9, we decided to use the stunning backdrop of Malta for this camera shootout.
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Unlike previous camera shootouts, we’ve decided to let YOU decide which handset wins this shootout. We’ve got eighteen scenes for you to choose from below and all four handsets captured the scene under the same conditions. From daylight to lowlight and crops to nighttime, there’s a collection of scenes designed to put the capabilities of each camera to the test. There may be slight differences with the crop and people walking through each image as Malta was open to all, but we’ve done our best to make this as fair a fight as possible.
What you need to know before casting your vote is that we’ve removed the EXIF data from each image and cropped them to make it near impossible to determine which handset captured each image.
With this in mind, we’re asking you to scroll through each of the galleries below and then vote in the poll under each scene for the handset you think took the best image. We’ll keep this open for 7 days and in a week’s time, we’ll tally up the votes and reveal the winner.
Scene 1
These first few scenes are from Valletta, the capital city of the small republic of Malta. This scene was shot upwards from the ground and the images then cropped to provide the same view of the Bank of Valletta building.
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Captured at ground level, this scene features a still flag and it’s an interesting test of whether a smartphone camera can capture the flag colours and position while also capturing the rest of the scene around the flag.
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This scene was mainly taken because it features the Wembley Store. Yes, a shop with the name of a town in North West London found in the capital city of Malta. Strange right?
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In this scene, we can see a building with ancient Greek style columns and the interesting thing about this scene is that it tests whether the depth of field of each smartphone. Can it capture the detail of the tree in the foreground and also capture the building details and colours in the background?
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The next scene takes us to an Bibliotheque – which houses written works dating back nearly 900 years – with a statue of Queen Elizabeth in front. The statue was a gift from ladies in Malta to the Queen of England and sits pride of place in the heart of the city.
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From Queen Elizabeth to a square which houses parliamentary building. As you can see, the theme of Greek-style buildings is apparent throughout Malta and this scene proves an interesting test of just how much detail the smartphone camera can capture in such a wide-angle shot.
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Scene 7
From outside, we move in and specifically, we move into the Manoel Theatre, which is rated as one of the top ten attractions to visit in the capital city. The ceiling has a stunning design and this image is a crop of the chandelier that takes pride of place.
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Scene 8
One of the best things about Malta is that it’s an island surrounded by water everywhere and as such, there’s lot of water-based activities and sights. Here we’re at the edge of Valletta and are greeted by some stunning stone-based architecture that looks fantastic.
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From Valletta to the complete outskirts of Malta and the scene of the IFA 2015 GPC Gala Dinner. Naturally, this provided an entirely different view of Malta so the smartphone shootout continues with this water feature.
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Scene 10
The aim of this scene is to capture detail in the palace buildings which are located some distance away. We’ve kept the full scene instead of cropping in so you can see how much noise appears in each photo as you zoom in.
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Scene 11
From wide-angle shots with lots of focal points to a single focus – this stunning building. Here we have an ancient building located high up in the mountains – which smartphone camera manages to capture the finer details?
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Scene 12
The purpose of this scene is simple – can it capture the detail of the grass fields, the sky and the forestry in the background? A stunning view that many would like to capture so which is the best camera to capture this type of scene?
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Scene 13
It wouldn’t quite be a smartphone camera shootout without some close up shots and as I was walking by this statue, I noticed this cockroach just poking out. This is a close-up shot that’s been further cropped and look out for the camera which manages to capture both the stone, the statue’s foot and the cockroach itself.
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Scene 14
From close-up grossness to another look at buildings and this stunning building which was the scene for our Gala Dinner. Look out for the detail and colouring of the stone building and this scene is quite a good test for the colour reproduction on the handset.
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Scene 15
In this scene, we’ve taken a portrait photo from afar and then zoomed in to feature this stylish outdoor area. As people were moving in front of the camera, the images may slightly differ but the concept is the same across all four. Look out for the detail on the stone, the dome above it and the red IFA boxes (you’ll definitely want to click on these pictures to see the full scene as below is just a thumbnail).
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Scene 16
If you’re with us so far, good on you and you’ll be happy to know, we’re almost at the end! The penultimate gallery is the same area as above but a few hours later when it was lit up with the IFA red. This is a good test of how each smartphone camera is able to handle a mass of colour at night and the results are certainly quite interesting.
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Scene 17
The last scene is one of my favourite – it’s the same as the scene above but around the side where we’ve got some steps lit up in red. In front of them is the IFA 2015 sign, which is not lit up at the moment but a few minutes later, was the main attraction in a stunning fireworks display. Look out for how each smartphone camera manages to capture the IFA 2015 text (you may need to zoom in a little) as there’s very little lighting.
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Wrap up
And there you have it, a rather in-depth and interesting (at least I think so) blind camera shootout between the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Huawei P8, Huawei Honor 6 Plus (with the unique dual 8MP cameras which capture 13MP images) and the HTC One M9.
Which do you think won? Be sure to cast your vote in the poll and let us know which device you think is the best in the comments below! We’ll reveal the overall winner in a weeks’ time so stay tuned!
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