Purchasing a new smartphone can be quite a fun thing to do. But, it can also be quite expensive or confusing, too. Not only that, but it can also be a bit of a headache as consider which phone, which carrier, and which rate plan is right. We’re here to help you with at least one of those segments: the phone. And, more specifically, we’re going to help nail down at least one place to check for your handset needs. This time up we are looking at Best Buy.
Why unlocked?
The benefit of an unlocked smartphone, for those who aren’t aware, is that it can be used on a variety of wireless service providers. Going this route ensures you don’t have to worry about contracts or long-term obligations. Want to hop from T-Mobile to AT&T or vice-versa? That’s no problem when you’re using an unlocked GSM phone.
Why Best Buy?
As one of the first names in electronics, Best Buy and its Best Buy Mobile stores are a great place for customers to purchase smartphones. Sometimes you’ll find discounts and savings that you won’t get from carriers. Other times, you might see an occasional exclusive color variation or model. Additionally, there’s plenty of unlocked models, to choose from, too.
We’ve gathered up the 10 best-selling unlocked Android devices from Best Buy so you can get a sense for what’s available. Indeed, you’ll see a nice mix of big-name vendors and devices from other, scrappy players. Note that we’ve omitted color variations; you might find other colors available.
So, the next time you need to replace your existing phone, consider scooping up one of these. It’s often a heck of a lot cheaper than going through your carrier in the long run.
If there’s one piece of advice we can offer, it’s jump on the instant discounts. These prices are gone as quickly as they show up. In other words, act fast if you see a savings of $30 or more.
Truly difficult games can be hard to come by in the Play Store. Not just jerky, fickle tapping/rhythm games like all the “Flappy Bird” clones out there; I mean a game that can make you really think, and quickly stump you as you move even through the early levels.
Drain Pipe Contract, from the newer Indian studio Titli, is just such a title. While I’m emphasizing the game’s difficulty, I don’t mean to deter you from giving it a try….it really can be quite fun!
Setup
Setup is easy; download from the Play Store. Then fire it up an you’re on your way. Once opened, there really isn’t any menus to deal with, just a ‘Next’ button to press to get things started.
The storyline is pretty simple here: You are to keep things flowing by re-organizing the piping systems of several large metropolitan areas, moving your way through each one via (rapidly) increasingly difficult levels.
Gameplay
Game play is equally simple. In each level, there are to end points: the valve in which to turn the water on, and the drain for the water to flow into and away from the city’s surface. In between there is a jumble of pipe pieces scattered about. The pieces cannot be moved around the screen, but each one can be rotated 90 degrees with a tap upon it.
Your goal is to rotate pieces in such a way that a string of them connect together from valve to drain. Once you have your route complete, you tap on the valve to drain the water through your new completed piping to the drain, saving the city.
Each level has a countdown timer, so the faster you complete the level and use the least amount of piece rotations, the more keys to the city you earn (max three keys per level). Though often times you will find yourself running out of time, finishing the level with just seconds left, or running out and having to start the level over.
Each level does come with a ‘hint’ button (light bulb icon), but it does you cost one thing: a mandatory viewing of a 30-second ad, usually for another Android game, with a banner ad you have to manually close out to return to the game.
Coming out of the ad a short flashing sequence highlights the puzzle’s solution with a blue line through the intended path, which you are then free to try to match from memory. I believe using the ad also penalizes you one key, as after trying to solve the puzzle several times using the hint, I could not for the life of me attain all three keys for a level.
The graphics of the game are solid, but slow. No super-flashy animations here; the only movement is that of the rotating pieces and the slower-than-necessary advance of the water once you succeed in turning on the valve. The music matches this pace, as it is mostly a slow hypnotic mix of electric guitar & piano.
Summary
Drain Pipe Contract is a game that, while simple in its mechanics, really makes you focus on the task at hand. And it does this without being too intimidating or stressful. “Stressful” is a subjective term, as due to it’s challenge, you can and likely will be seeing this screen more often than you’d like:
If you were disappointed by past HTC smartphones, the upcoming HTC flagship might just be the one that you’ve been waiting for. As usual, we have seen a variety of leaks of the possible One M9 successor from various sources before the official announcement of the device along with some possible specs. The phone, simply dubbed the ‘HTC 10’, may come with a new design and with more features packed into it, according to the leaks. If what we know so far is anything to go by, this may really just be the One you’ve been waiting for.
What you’ll find below is a list of rumors, leaks, speculation, images, and other stuff that pertains to the HTC 10 (A.K.A HTC One M10). We’ve done our best to gather up the juiciest stuff floating around, even if it conflicts with other reports. Unless otherwise noted, this is all to be considered unofficial and unconfirmed.
Note: this post will be updated continually until such time that the device is announced by HTC.
UPDATE 29 MARCH:
We have seen whole spectrum of even more teasers and leaks running up to the launch, including from HTC itself:
As suspected, the flagship sports a fingerprint scanner button like the A9. The capacitive app drawer and back button flanks it
What’s of more interest to us is this screenshot originating from the HTC 10. The GFXBench app blows the top on pretty much the entire phone spec sheet.
HTC further claims that the 10 will Be ‘The Smoothest And Fastest Android Phone’ in the same above Tweet.
It’s starting to feel like an official device announcement is no longer necessary with all these tidbits coming out.
Summary
No BoomSound speakers: Confirmed by the image teaser
Top notch specs: Confirmed
”The Smoothest And Fastest Android Phone’
Official announcement on April 12
Design and Internal Specs
Summary:
Snapdragon 820
4GB RAM
11MP Rear Camera
Fingerprint scanner
HTC A9 inspired design
5.1″ screen, 144X2560
The above image is a render based on leaks from @OnLeaks‘s Twitter account. We’d typically take the images with a grain of salt and not base our assumptions on them, but there’s a problem with doing that now: all the leaks this far reveal the exact same phone. Taking this into consideration, there’s a good chance that what we are seeing is really the final product, the HTC 10 (although we can’t be absolutely certain).
The first thing that catches my attention is the lack of the BoomSound speakers we have seen on previous iterations. While it was certainly nice to have the speakers on the bottom and top bezels of the front side, we weren’t quite sure if it was worth it if it meant having huge bezels. This tradeoff resulted in a relatively large phone for a five-inch screen. Perhaps it’d be to the benefit of HTC if did they removed these speakers.
Second thing that catches my attention is the home button. The HTC A9 came with a similar design and along with a fingerprint scanner. It’d be safe to expect the same on the 10, hopefully the scanner will work reasonably well.
The rest of the body itself has minor revisions and changes as compared to past flagships, and we quite like how it looks this time around.
Specs wise, we have’t heard much. It is, however, almost certain that we can look forward to some pretty decent hardware packed inside. For the CPU, we expect to see none other then the Snapdragon 820 powering the device. 4GB of RAM is also likely to be present with at least 32GB of storage, with or without a MicroSD slot. The 5.15″ screen is expected to have a 1440X2560 display.
The 12MP rear camera should be a decent upgrade over HTC’s previous gimmicky UltraPixel shooters that we didn’t particularly like. There are rumoured to be several neat features to come with the phone as well, like the earpiece which is used a forward facing speaker and IP67 waterproofing.
Certainly seems like a worthy contender, but until the actual announcement takes place, we can only make educated assumptions.
Launch & Release Date
Official HTC teaser
Summary:
Available for purchase on the 19th April 2016
Typical launch period for HTC flagships
Not quite sure where this date come from, but speculation is that the release date is going to be on the 19th April 2016, at least in some countries. We expect the actual announcement to be a few weeks before (which could be very soon).
This launch period would also continue the tradition of HTC launching its flagship at the end of the first quarter like it has every year so far.
We will update this page as the announcement date nears.
Setup for this game is fairly straightforward: download the game from the App Store; launch the application; click cancel to opt-out of any annoying questionnaires; acknowledge the presence of in-app purchases and you are ready to play. Sadly, there is no Google Play integration.
Home Screen
Impression –
If you have ever played either of the previous “Finger vs ***” games you already know what to expect with this latest rendition of the finger-swiping, mean-spirited title that is Finger vs Farmers.
The game is simple at heart, keep your finger on the screen and swipe back and for to both avoid the farmer’s attacks (via pitchforks, chicken eggs, and flying feces aka poop!) and attack him when possible with your giant, god-like finger. After completing each level you gain a number of coins dependent on how much life you have left and how many hits you manage to land on the farmer. You can use the coins to buy power-ups from the store that can do things like heal your wounds and cause more damage to the farmer. You can also purchase additional coins for real money through in-app purchases.
The look of the game is very cute. The colorful landscapes and detailed shadow of the finger against the solid black body of the farmer sets the tone of who you are supposed to attack. The light background music and often hilarious sound effects do allow you to enjoy the game. These joys set aside, the game-play itself I find to be very frustrating. Any time you remove your finger from the screen the game pauses, and dodging attacks while your hand is covering the screen is nearly impossible. The game tends to devolve into madly swiping your finger across the screen and hoping you cause more damage than you take.
Likes:
Graphically well-designed
Good sound effects
Dislikes:
Lack of variety
No Google Play integration
Conclusion –
Finger vs. Farmers is a classic example of a developer going with what has been successful. It is a simple remake of titles they have completed in the past. While the graphics and sound effects are cute the gameplay is mediocre and there is very low replayability. If you enjoyed the previous two renditions of this game you will enjoy this one; however, it will not make it into my game rotation.
Ability to generate “reports” of who called you, who you called, etc.
Setup –
Very, very minimal. Shockingly so, actually. You download the app, you’re presented with a (rather disconcerting) legalese pop-up (shown below), and voila; it works. You may, however, want to set up an Ignore list or set Security for the app (both found within the settings) before letting the app do its thing.
Not the most encouraging thing to see when you open an app.
Impressions –
If you’re an optimist, there are a number of legitimate, ethical reasons to use this app; reviewing business calls to recall details without frantically scribbling notes, saving sentimental voicemails without taking up space in your voicemail box, or, as a friend pointed out, catching a shady landlord when you deliver deposit, first and last months’ rent only to have them disappear on you.
Like I said; legitimate reasons.
However, if you’re a pessimist, the app might come across as a little…shady. Flashes of recording significant others and bosses to catch them in lies comes to mind, for example. That, combined with the legalese at first launch, gave me, personally, a funny feeling when using it. I think it bears stating in this review, just like in the warning, that it is largely illegal in many places to record people without their knowledge – you ever wonder why customer service companies include that little tidbit about recording you for training purposes? Yep, that’s why. Please, if you’re going to use this app, use it ethically.
Manual voice recorder.
Anyway!
The app works very well. Every call I tested it with – including calls I rejected that went to voicemail – saved quickly with a notification that it was saved. Playback came through a little hollow, but otherwise was clear and without any interference. The free version of the app lets you save up to 50 recordings, while the Pro version ($1.54 in-app purchase) gives you unlimited recordings. There are a couple other features in the app worth noting, like the ability to generate reports based on caller, a manual voice recorder, and the ability to share recordings through Android’s built-in share menu.
What I like
Does what it sets out to.
Incredibly easy setup.
Love that it records voicemails.
What I don’t
Just a twinge of shade in this app.
Playback sounds a little hollow.
Conclusion –
Advanced Call Recorder is a solid app with a sole purpose – and does it well. If you have a legitimate reason for recording calls, you can’t do much better than this app.
There’s a very high chance that you know someone who plays Candy Crush. The game stormed the App Store and Google Play when it came out, and even after several years, it has a loyal userbase around the world. King, however, has not rested on its laurels and has launched several other games to maintain its momentum. Candy Crush Jelly Saga is a spinoff of the game that made them so successful. While the gameplay remains untouched, several elements have been added to differentiate it from its other games and competitors.
Same core gameplay as previous Candy Crush entries.
Jelly is introduced to shake things up a bit.
Duels against the CPU.
Run out of lives and you have to ask for them on Facebook to continue playing, buy them, or wait.
Setup
There’s no setup needed at all. For those wondering, Candy Crush Jelly Saga doesn’t offer a way of linking your Google Play Games account, since (as you may have realized by now) King highly encourages you to connect the game to Facebook. The main screen shows only two buttons: Play and Connect (with a Facebook logo on it). Connecting the game to Facebook is not mandatory at all, but there are a couple of features locked behind it (which will be detailed later).
Features
The game doesn’t show you a full-scale tutorial, but it guides you through the basics pretty well.
For those of you who haven’t played previous Candy Crush games, it’s a puzzle game very similar to Bejeweled. The main goal is extremely simple: match three or more candies of the same type to make them disappear from the board, and continue doing so until you complete a certain task. Each game starts by telling you the mission to achieve, so you can plan your strategy accordingly. Just as previous Candy Crush games, you have to progress through sequential levels, which the game calls Story Mode. However, this game introduces you to a new element in the Candy Crush franchise, called “Jelly” (that’s the Jelly in Candy Crush Jelly Saga). This new component is easily identifiable because of its purple hue, in contrast to the normal blue board.
Through the first levels, after doing nothing for several seconds, the game will feel your desperation and automatically suggest a move. This is a great way of guiding newcomers through their first experience and make things easier for them. Also, through loading screens, the game explains what combos you can make in order to get special candies. Candy Crush Jelly Saga never shows you a proper tutorial, but makes a good job of explaining what you have to do through other means.
The game starts off easy by asking you to “spread the jelly.” This means that the whole board has to be covered in this weird purple substance. How do you do it? Mix candies that are covered by jelly with candies that aren’t, and the jelly will spread through all blocks involved.
The catch is that the game gives you a certain amount of turns to do it. It would be way too easy otherwise, wouldn’t it? Spend up your turns and you’ll lose a life. Lose all five lives available and you won’t be able to play, unless someone sends you lives through Facebook. If you prefer to not annoy your friends with requests (the internet community thanks you, by the way), you can buy lives using gold bars (read: money). Also, the game replenishes your lives automatically, but this can take several hours. It’s a smart system to bring new users, which has proven very beneficial for King, but it’s very annoying for everyone else involved.
When matching candies in a different way, you’ll sometimes get newer elements on the board. For example, match four candies of the same type and a striped candy will appear. Using it in another combo will clear a whole row or column. Matching five candies will yield a Color Bomb, which you can mix with another candy and it will destroy all candies of the same color. There are several kinds of special candies, which add depth to the gameplay and could be the difference between clearing and failing a level.
Candy Crush Jelly Saga retains all the elements that made its original counterpart so successful.Story Mode guides you through more than 100 levels.
Further levels add another level of difficulty by introducing the Jelly Queen, which is your in-game enemy. In duels with her, you have to remove her jelly from the board to win. Not only do you have to worry about your attempts of filling the board with jelly, but also you have to keep an eye on the queen’s movements, or you could end up with way too much of her jelly on the board to clear. Making combos will stun her and give you another turn. It’s a fantastic way of spicing things up and adding another layer of strategy to the gameplay.
However, this same mechanic can definitely become problematic, since the computer-controlled queen has a lot of luck and can chain combos very easily. This could hamper your hopes of progressing quickly through the levels and has the potential of becoming frustrating.
There are other missions too, such as one that involves exposing creatures that are locked behind barriers. To break them, you follow the same principle as when spreading jelly: connecting candies with barriers behind them will cause these barriers to break. These creatures are constantly moving behind these barriers, so you have to either expose them quickly or block their paths by breaking contiguous layers.
King has decided to not include third-party ads in the game. Instead, it advertises their other games. Doing so won’t give you more lives or anything, in case you wanted to download the whole King’s portfolio to pass that pesky level you’ve been stuck on for five days. There are also in-app purchases, which yield gold bars. They are used to buy more moves (trust me, you’ll definitely need this), more lives, and lollipops to smash specific blocks. They range from $1.10 for 10 bars to a whopping $44.59 for 510 bars, which obviously is advertised as having the “Best Value.”
Candy Crush Jelly Saga features colorful and flashy graphics.In-app purchases are essential to any freemium game, and this one is no exception.
Graphics, as usual in the Candy Crush franchise, focus on being colorful and flashy. Special effects when matching three or more candies are all glittery, jelly looks as sticky and viscous as it should be, and candy is bright and vibrant. All interface elements, such as the HUD, alerts, and buttons, have subtle elements to closely follow the “Jelly” theme, which makes for a cohesive experience. Scrolling through the Story Mode levels is beautiful, with changing scenarios and elements floating in and out.
Candy Crush Jelly Saga is one of those games you can play without sound, but crank up the volume and you’ll be rewarded. The sound effects when making combos and using different elements, such as Jelly Fishes, exploding candy, or spreading jelly through the board, are very cool and really add to the experience. One aspect that could be improved is the music. It’s not that it’s bad, but it’s nothing to write home about. At least some tunes are catchy, and, even after listening to them for several hours, they don’t annoy you.
Conclusion
As you can see, Candy Crush Jelly Saga offers a lot of depth, variants, and scenarios to keep users engaged. However, the same old tactics of making users poke other people for lives continue to plague the game, and, judging by the number of games King has put out, the trick is here to stay. This can be exacerbated by the levels involving the Jelly Queen, which can chain combos and destroy your hopes with ease, leaving you a game you can’t play until the counter has reached zero. However, if you are patient or if you have friends that like to be annoyed, then Candy Crush Jelly Saga is a fun, addictive game that stays true to the formula that has made the franchise so successful.
One of Samsung’s less talked about accessories is the Keyboard Cover designed for the S7 and S7 edge. It’s obscure because many get by with the keyboard on the full touch screen, and the physical keyboard went by the wayside with the demise of Blackberry.
Blackberry recently joined the Android ranks with the premium Blackberry Priv which has a slide out keyboard built into the phone. Other than the Priv, phones with physical keyboards are slim pickings. Leave it to Samsung to save the day for those who just need their trusty old physical buttons with the detachable QWERTY keyboard cover.
Design
Samsung’s QWERTY physical Keyboard Cover is exactly what you would imagine it to be – a lightweight keyboard that fits over the front of your phone. Included with your purchase of the keyboard is a slim fit plastic case that fits like a glove over the back of the S7 edge.
It’s as simple as sliding on the back cover, and then clicking on the keyboard onto the front of your S7 edge. You will need to use the included case in order to get the keyboard to stay onto the front of the phone.
Features
Mechanical keyboard – no pairing needed through Bluetooth or WiFi needed. Just click on and start typing.
No battery required – no need to ever recharge the device
Ergonomic QWERTY layout with Samsung hotkeys and shortcut keys
Automatically switches your device to keyboard mode (70% screen) when installed and back to full screen when removed
Comes in black and gold colors only
Usage
Without question the Samsung Keyboard Cover is specifically designed for people who need a physical keyboard. The vast majority of users will not like going to such small keys in place of an on screen keyboard. If your last phone was a Blackberry, or you want an alternative to the Priv, this is one of your few best options.
For those of you who are used to a full touch screen, I wouldn’t recommend ever going with a physical keyboard. It took me a good four days straight just to be able to type 75% as fast as I normally do on a touch screen keyboard. On the first day with the physical keyboard I was typing at maybe 20% of my normal speed. Let me reiterate, this keyboard is mainly aimed at those who need physical feedback or for those who came from a Blackberry before the S7 edge.
If you were that person whose last phone was a Blackberry, this keyboard is absolutely perfect for you. It doesn’t require batteries, nor does it need a Bluetooth connection. All you need to do is slide on the back cover, which is about as perfect as a cover gets, and then simply clip on the keyboard to the front of your screen. Samsung designed the software to recognize the keyboard, and shrinks the screen to 70% of its normal size automatically. Its as if you were using a Samsung Blackberry phone. You could instantly start typing like it was 2008 on your new s7 edge. The buttons are firm, tactile and intuitive. The keyboard is so light weight that you could easily carry it in your side pocket without knowing it is there.
The back cover that is included with the Keyboard Cover is one of my favorite cases I have ever used from Samsung. It is ultra light weight, and fits the S7 edge like a glove. It’s not too tight, and it’s not too lose. The plastic has a nice soft touch to it, giving the S7 edge added grip without adding bulk. I’m not the type who drops their phone, and can tell you this case is not nearly as tough as those from Urban Armor Gear or OtterBox. It did turn out to be my favorite aspect of this Keyboard Cover combo and I will gladly keep it simply for the case.
Summary
If I was a Blackberry user prior to the S7 edge, I would most definitely pick up this case. It is not the cheapest accessory at $59.99, but you get what you pay for. Samsung’s accessories are as good as any, and the software optimization for this Keyboard Cover make it perform as smooth as butter. The included back cover is one of the slimmest, and most perfect fitting cases you can get for your S7 edge which is an added bonus if you want extra protection.
I highly recommend this cover only to those who prefer a physical keyboard, otherwise stick with the touchscreen that came with the S7 edge.
Many of us live by a schedule. We have many things to do, and most of us are not lucky enough to have a personal assistant or a secretary to keep track of our schedules. Keeping track of those events doesn’t have to be as difficult as remembering everything anymore with the plethora of calendar apps in the Google Play Store.
Last week, we assembled five apps to help you wake up. Now that you can get up on time, you should be able to start keeping to your schedule with one of the five apps we have listed below.
Keep track of events, weather, tasks, and more with these five Calendar apps:
Note: All calendars featured are compatible with Google Calendar. Click on the name of the app for the link to the Google Play Store.
A hidden feature of the Android N Developer Preview was recently discovered, and brings with it a simple, yet powerful change: native DPI scaling. In the past, Samsung’s phones didn’t have good default DPI settings, but that changes with the Galaxy S7 line.
DPI, or dots-per-inch, is a measurement of printing or video dot density. The most common way to measure it is how many individual dots, or pixels, can fit in a line of one inch. This is called pixels-per-inch. Although PPI and DPI are different, for our purposes we can comfortably interchange them. High DPI means your pictures can be printed in large sizes without losing image quality.
On smartphone screens, the UI elements that the developer uses should have a high DPI, since phones are coming out with a higher PPI count each year. The problem that UI designers have, whether you’re working on a website or smartphone app, is making sure the UI elements you use look great on a variety of screen sizes and resolutions.
Introducing .DisplayScalingActivity
It’s hard to find this menu in Samsung’s TouchWiz skin, but users of Nova will be able to find it with ease. Here are the steps:
Download Nova if you don’t already have it. You don’t need to set it as default, but launch it to access the Nova home screen.
Go to the Widget Section by long-pressing on the home screen and selecting Widgets. Select the Activities widget and put it on the home screen.
Open Activities, scroll down to Settings and choose .DisplayScalingActivity, which will create a new icon on your home screen. Opening the menu will give you a choice of Standard or Condensed. Once you’ve made your choice, you’ll be asked to reboot (don’t worry, this is normal) and the new settings will then be set.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 has a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440, at 535 PPI. As noted above, this means that a single line of 535 pixels can fit within one inch. The Standard DPI on the S7 is 640 while the Condensed version is around 540. A difference of 100 may not sound like much at first, but it’s the difference between UI elements that cram a bunch of information into a little space (condensed), or letting the elements breathe by making use of active white space and having a sense of flow in the display of information (standard).
So what does this have to do with Android N?
It appears that Google may be taking a page out of Samsung’s eBook. DPI scaling is no longer a hidden feature, whether in TouchWiz or elsewhere. It’s not just DPI either. Some of the new features of Android N, like multitasking cards and multi-window quick toggles in the notification shade, first appeared in Samsung’s phones. What do you think? For our power user readers, are you excited about this feature?
I’m currently in the review process for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and it is undoubtedly the most attractive phone I’ve ever seen in person. It’s also about $800. That kind of money used to be what you’d pay for a model with upgraded memory or some kind perks. Now, Samsung appears to be making it the new normal.
First, lets get a couple facts out of the way. The Samsung Galaxy S7 retails for $669 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge comes in at $779 at my carrier of choice, T-Mobile. That breaks down to $27.92 a month with zero up front for the vanilla Galaxy S7, and $30 a month with a $59.99 down payment for the curvaceous S7 Edge. Add in tax (~7% here in Ohio) and you’re well over $700 or $800 for your phone of choice. That’s a lot of money.
I think it’s time we stopped putting up with this.
These phones are marvels of technology for sure. But, at $800 you have to ask yourself what you’re really buying. Through bulk rate buying, Samsung can get the component cost down to about $255 for the Galaxy S7. Add in other overhead like advertising, manufacturing and human costs, et. al, and you have a recipe for one of the most expensive phones out there.
I love phones. I never seem to get burned out on them, no matter how many times I’ve switched. And I’ve switched a lot. I love experiencing what a new phone has to offer. I love seeing a company’s vision for what the mobile space should look like. I just love phones.
Browsing through Gearbest’s listings shows me that I don’t have to wait two years between new experiences. I don’t have to spend $800 to get a well built phone with great specs. Here are some of my favorites currently on Gearbest for literally half (or less) of a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 hexa-core
RAM: 3 GB
ROM: 32 GB
Camera: 16 MP/5 MP
Screen: 5.5″ 1920 x 1080 FHD
Battery: 4000 mAh
Other features: Fingerprint scanner, metal body, expandable memory
Elephone is just one company putting out top tier phones for a fraction of the price. Gearbest and other sites like Amazon and B&H Photo offer a lot of great unlocked options for really good prices. These phones prove that you don’t have to buy overhead to buy a great phone. Keep your eyes peeled to our Twitter for more of these posts and some great deals on great phones.
