At the MWC 2016, Xiaomi took wraps off its anticipated flagship smartphone - the Mi 5 - that comes powered with many a firsts for the China-based manufacturer. The 5.15-inch Android Marshmallow phone has at its core the newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset that is touted to make the phone 'insanely fast'. With its top-of-the-line variant featuring 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage, the Mi 5 features a 16 megapixel rear camera coupled with a 4 megapixel front camera. As Hugo Barra reveals, it took Xiaomi about 2 years to design the Mi 5 that comes with a 3D ceramic body that feels like marble. The phone, available in Black, White, and Gold colour choices, is expected to soon make its India debut. Here's the Mi 4 successor in photos.
With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...