The flagship rat race and where the S9 fits now Flagship phones have spent the last few years racing in exactly the wrong direction for most people: prices up, chargers out of the box, ports disappearing, repairability tanking. The Galaxy S9 launched right as that high-end cartel mentality was solidifying – everything is “premium”, and […]
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Pixel 2 XL: The Best Android Experience on a Flawed Screen
The Google Pixel 2 XL is the best Android phone I still hesitate to recommend. Google’s 2017 flagship nails software, camera, and audio so hard it made Samsung and Apple scramble. But it also shipped with a display that would’ve been questionable on a mid-ranger, let alone an $850 “Android purist” halo device. This isn’t […]
Google Pixel 2: The ‘Medium’ Pixel That Aged Better Than Google
I’ve tested a lot of so‑called “compact flagships,” but the Pixel 2 is one of the few that actually stayed in my pocket after the review period. Not because it’s excellent—far from it—but because it exposes exactly where Google nails the experience and where it still treats hardware like a side quest. When I grabbed […]
Huawei Mate 10 Series: ‘Intelligent Machines’ That Don’t Quite Add Up
Huawei Mate 10 Series: ‘Intelligent Machines’ That Don’t Quite Add Up AI Hype, Familiar Hardware Everyone’s calling the Mate 10 lineup Huawei’s big AI breakthrough. The reality is more muted. On paper, the Mate 10 family looks like a textbook 2017 flagship push: new Kirin 970 chipset with a dedicated NPU for on‑device AI, Leica‑branded […]