Almost everyone has a smartphone! seniors, adults and mostly teens use it when they wake up in the morning, until they sleep at night. It is the one thing that never leaves your side because it almost can do all the things you need on everyday life. It's more than a cellphone, it's a handset that can take High resolution pictures and videos, and offers a bright a crisp display screen and a sensitive touch screen with a dual core to quad core CPU's. But there's a lot out there! That's why this blog exists. Here are the top 5 smartphones in the market right now.
WAIT! but first you must pick what Operating System you'd prefer, Apple's iphone is the most common and widely used. If you want a ton of apps and user friendly OS, pick the iPhone! What if you want a bigger screen? more flexibility and control with more features, pick Google's Android! And if you want to have easy access to your social networks and messages, pick blackberry!
Top 5
BlackBerry Z10
The design of the blackberry Z10 is not the best in the market right now but it's decent and I do like the overall look of it and its very lightweight and only comes in at 4.78 ounces and it's only 0.835 inches thick. As far as the feel on your hand, it feels really nice because of the back, it has a nice rubber grip on it so it won't be slipping on your hand.
Lets make our way around the device and see all the ports and buttons:
On the left hand side you'll find a micro USB and micro HDMI port so you can connect it into and external monitor or external HD TV if you wanted to.
And then on the right hand side, you'll find the volume controls and between those volume controles you'll find a dedicated voice control button.
At the top you'll find a 3.5 mm headphone jack and your power/sleep button.
At the bottom of the device you'll see the speaker grill, and also the flap to open the Z 10 to access the battery, micro SD card and SIM card.
Here are the internal specifications of the blackberry Z10
The display on this device isn't the best among it's competitors like the iPhone 5 or other 1080p phones but with a 1280 x 768 resolution that has 356 ppi (pixels per inch) has a 4.2" and is a overall nice display, the text, pictures or videos are really crisp and sharp.
The camera on the blackberry z10 is an 8 megapixel rear facing camera that is capable or capturing great images and recording in 1080p HD video and the front facing camera is a 2 megapixel that can record 720 HD video.
The z10 was "okay" in terms of photography and video but i wasn't able to beat the iphone 5 in some tests, but in most of the time the z10 did ok in pictures. And it did great in low light areas, Here is the comparison between the Z10 and the iPhone 5
Top 4
Sony Experia Z
Camera
Has a 13.1 megapixel sensor and has an extremely fast performance, it takes pictures and verse shots very very quickly and it can take 1080 p HDR videos so the capabilities are really high and the very intelligent and fast autofocus is really pleasing but it's pretty versitle that the images it produces, specially in landscapes tent to be really soft with a below average LED flash performace and overall not the best image quality, something comparable with the samsung galaxy nexus
Software-
So in the software side of things, the sony experia z is running android 4.1 jellybean, it's not bad and there no update for the 4.2 yet but it's something very recent and the postive side this is the less abtrusive skin on android 4.1 jellybean out there, so thats a good start there is also not a whole lot of sony bloatware, not a whole lot of bad pre installed apps like we see on version phones and the value added features are definitely welcome.
Performance-
In terms of performance, this thing flies, frame rates are constantly high, powers to the most intensive apps and games without a problem and thats all thanks to it's QuaComm snapdragon 800 s4 pro chip and 2GB of ram. Overall perforamce is stellar and comparable with the samsung galaxy note 2 and it's just about as good if you don't count the big battery on the note 2.
Display-
The sony experia Z has a 1080 p display 440 ppi (pixels per inch) it's extremely sharp and beautiful when you view it head on and if you're gonna be spending a lot of time on a high end smartphone like this you do what it to have a sharp and beautiful display because you are doing all the looking on the display unfortunilty the good ends there. it's kinda like having a DSLR camera that doesn't take good pictures. When you look at this display even a few degrees off axis the viewing angles, the color reproduction the contrast just go straight down hill. It's definitely not that good. The viewing angles is the most dissapointing.
Speaker-
The speaker in the experia Z is not that great at all, it's really quiet compared to other smart phones out there. it might be due to it being water resistant
where to buy: http://amzn.to/YkcrFK
top 3
HTC One
The HTC one comes 4th in our countdown. This is the latest flagship from HTC they've put a lot of money in making this phone a reality so lets go and put it in it's phase and see it deserves a spot in your pocket.
The international model of this phones does not have 4G LTE but it was tested on at&t's hspa+ network.
Specs-
Lets go ahead and run through whats this phone's packin' and it's got a lot.
It has a gorgeous 4.7" full HD screen so it has 1920 x 1080 giving it a crazy 469 ppi (pixels per inch)
It's running android 4.1.2 and updates will come soon to it's platform and it is powered by a 1.7 Ghz Snapdragon 600 CPU and also has 2GB of RAM and storage are available in 32 Gb or 64 Gb models. Unfortunitely, it does not support any Micro SD card slot. The Camera on the back has a 4 ultra pixel camera. The camera on the from has a 2 megapixel camera. Supports bluetooth, wifi and any other aspect smartphones have these days and all comes to a weight of 5.04 ounces.
Call quality worked pretty well, I didn't have drop calls on it during my usual round of tests but i did have several drop calls when my signal was pretty weak, but nothing more or less than any other phone or any other network, call quality is pretty salad.
Lets go ahead and jump into the build quality, This phone feels absolutely incredible in the hand! it's one of the best feeling phones i have ever used. Every inch, every nook, every line of this phone you can tell it was given a crazy attention to the detail. The phone feels incredible, when you pick it up in the morning it has that cold feel due to the whole aluminum unibody. HTC's design is the best with this one, this phone is a culmination of what they learned from their past devices. HTC definitely scored on this one.
Screen
The screen on the HTC is the best! 496 ppi really looks great and is top notch compared to other devices. If for you prioritize the screen of you're phone, you want stunning pictures, videos and texts this is simply the phone to look at.
Camera
HTC really proved that it's not about the megapixels and if you compare it to other camera's it did a better job on places where other phones pxellate because of the lack of light the ultrapixels means it has a bigger sensor, meaning to say it can pull in more light compared to other smartphones. HD video looks great. One of the downside tough digital zooming or zoomed images would show the lack of megapixels.
If you're a big speakerphone user, you would definitely appreciate the speakers on the HTC one because of it's loud and crisp sound! And it is one of the best speakers that i have heard on a phone.
Performace
it's pretty much what you would expect, theres no lag when scrolling, everything runs smoothly and fast. A lot of applications take advantage of this great performance and here is a bench mark test.
Don't worry about the performance you would get a very incredible performance out of this phone
This phone is overall great but it is far from perfect. there are many things i like about this but there is also many things i dislike about it. One example would be the button layout.
The HTC logo there is not a button, it is just a logo. there are only a back and a home button which took a while to get used to. The double tap on the home button to access multitasking (app switcher) is great, but it's more on the annoying side.
This phone is incredible! there are many things i like about it and few things i dislike about it. Overall, it may be the best android phone i've ever used. IF you wanna get something thats gonna work out, you want build quality, you want a gorgeous screen, you want a fast processor and cutting edge specs, the HTC one would be an incredible choice.
where to buy: http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one/
top 2 : iPhone 5
The hardware, like most apple devices has been given the most amount of detail built into a phone. The anodized alluminun on the back, the diamond cut edges and the tough and soft to the touch gorilla glass. Some people have reports that on the black unit, there are white smudges on the alluminum part of the phone, due to it's annodizing.
The phone feels incredibly light, weighing in at only 3.96 ounces you really hardly notice thats theres even a battery in there.
The first thing I noticed on this new model is how snappy everything is. Tasks are executed fast. Launching apps, pages loading, switching through menus, it does it in a breeze. iOS runs smoothly because it's coded in C, while Android is coded in Java, which has a lot of inefficiencies.The new A6 processor that comes inside of the iphone 5 (what powers it, it's CPU) the phone definitely feels faster, specially in boot up time. Applications load faster and web browsers (Safari) loads webpages with ease.
The screen of the iphone 5, compared to it's past life, the iphone 4s is half an inch bigger. it's a 4" retina display that with a resolution of 640 x 1136 and 326 ppi. It adds an extra row of icons, videos and pictures look more stunning.
Big major improvements on:
Apps: While both Android and iOS have far more apps than any human could sample in a lifetime, what matters most is quality, not quantity. iPhone has all of the best apps at its disposal, many of which do not exist on Android. Games like Infinity Blade II, SF Volt, Chinatown Wars, Fairway Solitaire, music apps like Animoog, DM1, iKaossilator, and Rebirth, and essential apps like iTunes U, Pages, and iMovie. When I switched to Android, I found that there were a lot of great apps I missed that were not on Google Play store. Since i've switched back to iPhone 5, I did not notice any key apps that are on Android but not on iOS.Screen is smaller than the competing phones, no SD card slot for expanding storage, camera not equal to some of the other top phones, speakers pointing down is not a good design, apple Maps still has issues, battery life could be better (like all smartphones)and design could benefit from a refresh.
It's not perfect but it's certainly a big improvement on apple's last iphone, the iphone 4s.
Top 1: Samsung Galaxy s4
