Week 9 in review: Samsung Galaxy S9 and Sony Xperia XZ2 go official, MWC 2018 wraps up

MWC 2018 wrapped up with plenty of new smartphones. Samsung introduced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ on Sunday, followed by our benchmark reports, camera comparisons, photo samples. Sony unveiled the redesigned Xperia XZ2 and the Xperia XZ2 Compact and LG went further into the AI rabbit hole with some software and hardware upgrades of the V30 flagship. Nokia's booth at MWC gathered a lot of interest with the four new phones - ultra-cheap Nokia 1, dual-cam Nokia 7 Plus, a stunningly beautiful Nokia 8 Sirocco and a feature phone, dubbed "banana phone" because of its yellow color - Nokia 8110...

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Xiaomi Mi LED Smart TV 4C appears on online store ahead of launch

The Xiaomi Mi LED Smart TV 4C has appeared on the Mi.com online store ahead of the March 7 announcement. Although the product page is not yet available, the television is visible in the store section, although actually on sale. The Mi LED Smart TV 4C is the smaller sibling of the Mi LED Smart TV 4 launched in India last month. It has a smaller 43-inch display versus the massive 55-inch panel on the bigger model. The 4C also has 1080p resolution with no support for HDR while the bigger model supports both 4K as well as HDR. The television is priced in India at INR 27,999...

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Samsung brings Galaxy S9 and Galaxy A8 Enterprise Edition variants to Germany

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy A8 Enterprise Edition models have arrived in Germany. The former will be available in the country starting April, while the latter has gone on sale already. They carry a price tag of €849 and €499, respectively. It's worth mentioning that these phones are dual-SIM. In case you aren't aware, Samsung's Enterprise Edition devices come with features such as Knox Configure and Enterprise Firmware Over-the-Air (E-FOTA). The Galaxy A8 Enterprise Edition will get three years of monthly security updates, while the S9 variant will also get quarterly updates...

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Skype now supports Android devices running 4.0.3 and up

In a blog post today, Microsoft announced a new version of Skype is being released with optimizations for devices running Android 4.0.3 to 5.1. The updated app hasn't started rolling out yet - that'll happen in the next few days, the company says. Microsoft explains the new Skype app is "is lighter on both disk and memory consumption, allowing for greater speed and better audio and video quality on lower end Android devices, as well as increased performance in challenging network conditions". The new app will be made available to users around the world. Source

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DJI Mavic Air Review - A rookies perspective

Introduction I'd been thinking about buying a drone for a long time. On a recent holiday in Thailand, as I was bouncing around on a quad-bike trying to film the rest of the family, I knew drone footage would look an order of magnitude better. A couple of the guys in the office wax lyrical about theirs so I thought it was about time I took the plunge. This rookie was about to get his first aircraft. For once, I kept my sensible head on and decided against buying the most expensive model by default - but which one? All that I was sure of was that it had to record 4K footage. The...

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Weekly poll results: the ideal weight for a phone is between 140g and 170g

For most people, the ideal weight of a phone is between 140g and 170g. We were surprised to see how many people commented on our poll that "lighter is better". There's a sort of stigma around light phones - the heavier handsets just feel more durable. Of course, that is mostly an illusion. A phone made of polycarbonate will like outlive a metal phone while being lighter. But "plastic" doesn't sell phones, metal and glass do - just look at a list of the best-selling phones. Many people did say that weight is a secondary concern. And it's true that battery and additional hardware add to...

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In Past Tense: The story of Victor's phones

Hi, my name is Victor, 27 years old and a reviewer/editor/developer at GSMArena for over three years now. As a 90s kid, I've had the pleasure to witness more than a few tech revolutions. And while the PC era was quite a bit before my time, I was around and already well into electronics as the mobile era unfolded. Let me tell you how I fit into all that. Feature phones I'll start my story all the way back in 1999-2000. This was around the time mobile phones started spreading in my home East European country, mainly as a luxury item for businesspeople at the time. I was...

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