The evolution of smartphones. Part 2: 2011 - 2015
In order to at least partially cover the evolution of smartphones from 1994 to 2010, we needed two articles - part 1 and part 1.1 . And about the devices made from 2011 to 2015, you can write books.
In the comments, please share your memories and provide links to your own reviews.
If the article lacks a specific model - please write about it in the comments with the image. So we will make the "Evolution" more complete.
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In late 2010, LG introduced the LG Optimus 2X, and in early 2011, began selling this smartphone, a follower of LG Optimus One. The model became the first smartphone with a dual-core processor - Tegra 2 with a frequency of 1 GHz. At the time of launch, it was the most powerful smartphone on the Russian market.
The device received 512 megabytes of RAM and 8 gigabytes of internal memory, as well as support for microSD up to 32 gigabytes. The device's screen is 4-inch with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. Camera - 8 megapixels with LED flash.
February 13, 2011 at the Mobile World Congress announced the Samsung Galaxy S II. The size of the display compared with its predecessor has increased - from 4 to 4.3 inches with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. The smartphone has a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1200 MHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, as well as microSD support. The camera is 8 megapixels.
And it was not without jokes in the direction of Apple.
February 15, 2011 at Mobile World Congress, HTC announced WIldfire S. This is a smartphone with 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of flash memory, with support for memory cards up to 32 GB, a 3.2-inch TFT LCD display 320x480 pixels, 5 megapixel camera with led flash. The device is equipped with a Qualcomm 7227-1 600 MHz and Adreno 200 video processor.
At the IFA exhibition in Berlin in September 2011, Samsung introduced the phablet (or ceiling, if you wish) Galaxy Note. The diagonal of its SuperAMOLED screen is 5.3 inches, the resolution is 1280x800 pixels. Processor dual core 1.4 GHz. The 8 megapixel camera can record Full HD video, recognizes the face and smile, has an LED flash. RAM - 1 GB, built-in - 16 or 32 GB. And now the iron seems quite decent.
And the device received a stylus S Pen, which is very important.
“I may show KO, but as long as the smartphone gets into the front pockets and does not interfere with the owner, as long as it is convenient to hold it with one hand, I see no reason to limit the screen size. The more it is, the more convenient is the work on the smartphone, ” wrote user Geektimes in a review .
And this is how Samsung joked Apple with its lines. Apple fans watched this video and probably laughed at the S Pen, because the stylus is a stone age.
On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S . The changes did not affect the design, but the device received a dual-core mobile processor A5. The gadget supports HSDPA + mobile transmission at speeds up to 14.4 megabits per second.
In April 2012, HTC began selling the One V with a small 3.7-inch screen. This Android 4.0 smartphone had only 4 GB of internal memory and 512 RAM.
But this is not about that: pay attention to the back wall of the device, to the insert in the lower part of the body and to the oval around the camera at the top. The curved body and inserts the device inherited from its predecessor - HTC Legend.
February 27, 2012 HTC in Barcelona told One X - I think this is the best smartphone from this company. It was her first smartphone based on a quad-core processor, with Android 4.2.2 on board, the HTC Sense 5.0 interface. The phone had an 8-megapixel camera and software with a huge number of filters, allowing you to take great photos. RAM - 1 GB, and 32 GB - built-in, without the support of microSD. In the reviews of those years, the 4.7-inch display of the smartphone was called "big" and "huge."
LG first released a smartphone with a dual-core processor Tegra 2, then the first to launch a smartphone with a quad-core processor and the first Android-smartphone with a 3D display and a 3D camera. And in May 2012 - also the first smartphone with 2 gigabytes of RAM - the next few years, most of the expensive smartphones had exactly that amount of RAM.
May 30, 2012 Lenovo introduced its first smartphone with a processor from Intel. Lenovo LePhone K800 has got an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, a 4.5-inch screen, 1 GB of operational and 16 GB of internal memory, 8 megapixel main and 1.3 megapixel front cameras.
In September 2012, Apple showed the world the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display. For the first time, Apple has increased the screen - before that, the owners of apple smartphones were proud of “perfect proportions with a 3.5-inch display,” which allows them to reach with their thumb to any edge. And now the iPhone has begun to support LTE. The review is on Geektimes .
HTC announced the HTC First in April 2013. It was the first Android smartphone with an interface from Facebook instead of the usual for the manufacturer of the shell HTC Sense. The Facebook idea failed - AT & T operator sold about fifteen thousand gadgets and refused to renew the contract. The smartphone was sold in several colors. The ends of the device are rounded.
September 10, 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Externally, the 5S is slightly different from its predecessor, but the 5C received a completely different body of colored polycarbonate - white, blue, pink, yellow and green.
The flagship of the Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro company introduced in early September at the IFA 2014 exhibition in Berlin. The device received a 4000 mAh battery, 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal memory. The display is 6 inches with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels, while it occupies 85% of the entire frontal surface of the smartphone. For LG G3, this indicator, for example, is only 79%. The Vibe Z2 Pro weighs 179 grams - the same as the 5.7-inch Samsung Galazy Note 4.
In 2014, BlackBerry began selling Passport smartphone - a huge square gadget, which in addition to the 4.5-inch display has a QWERTY-keyboard. The screen is 1440x1440 pixels, the camera is 13 and 2 megapixels, the RAM is 3 GB, the built-in is 32 GB plus microSD support up to 64 GB.
Case Lenovo Vibe X2 is made of three layers of plastic that allows you to mix colors. Case thickness - 7.27 millimeters. The processor is an eight-core MediaTek MTK6595MBig with a frequency of 2 GHz and support for LTE. And the screen is small - only 5 inches with a resolution of 1920x1080 inches.
At IFA 2014, the gadget received the title of “Best Flagship on Android”.
Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on September 9, 2014. The diagonal of the displays is 4.7 and 5.5 inches respectively, which made fans of the brand, who previously called smartphones of this size on Android “shovels,” reduce the number of jokes on this topic. Now Apple has its own phablet, which can "dig out of a snowdrift."
Once it was not very expensive. Here you can put a mean male tear.
In 2014, Samsung released 56 models of smartphones, but received 49% less revenue than in 2013. And decided to cut the line by a third . The Korean company competed simultaneously in several price segments - it fought for the premium with the Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and for the budget with the Chinese Xiaomi and Huawei.
March 1, 2015 at Mobile World Congress 2015 , HTC showed a 5-inch HTC One M9 smartphone with a Fulll HD screen, sales began on April 10 of the same year. Among the flowers - golden.
There is 32 GB of internal memory, 3 GB of RAM, a slot for microSD up to 128 GB, a 20 megapixel main and 4 megapixel front camera. The smartphone is based on the eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, Adreno 430 is responsible for the video.
Pay attention to the strip on the case.
In August 2015, IDC published this data on the division of the smartphone market by manufacturers. Data on the share of Moto added in the Lenovo column.
On September 2, 2015, in Lenovo, Lenovo introduced more than 80 products, including two Lenovo Phab and Lenovo Phab Plus phablets. The company's vice president, Jeff Meredith, began the presentation of Phab Plus by asking how often do we use a telephone for calls? Personally, I keep the gadget horizontally, because basically I watch TV shows in transport. Or the smartphone is on the desktop - again horizontally - and shows any videos.
The result of the work of the mobile division of Lenovo became Lenovo Phab Plus with a FullHD-display with a diagonal of 6.8 inches. And it can be called huge - just as several years ago a huge 4.3-inch screen was called. Friends laugh at me, but as a recent survey has shown, I am not the only fan of huge screens among users of Geektimes. And yes, the Phab Plus fits perfectly in a jeans pocket, and it’s convenient for me to hold it with one hand.
What about the characteristics: Phab Plus got a Qualcomm MSM8939 1.5 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of constant memory, two SIM slots - you can put a microSD of up to 64 GB in one of them, 13 and 5 megapixel cameras and sound Dolby Atmos technology. Battery - 3500 mAh. The phone belongs to the budget - the price at the time of sales was 299 euros.
On October 20, 2015, HTC officially unveiled the HTC One A9 smartphone on an eight-core ARM 64-bit 1.5 GHz processor. The user can choose from options with 2 and 3 gigabytes of RAM, 16 and 32 GB of internal.
The smartphone was immediately dubbed a clone of the iPhone 6, although a closer look at previous HTC models can be called an evolutionary design.
At IFA 2015 in Berlin, Huawei unveiled the Mate S, a 5.5-inch smartphone with a fingerprint scanner and touch-sensitive touchscreen technology - a Chinese company ahead of Apple. At the presentation, Huawei weighed oranges on a smartphone.
On September 10, 2015, Apple introduced the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models. Gadgets got 4.7 and 5.5-inch screens, respectively, and the 3D Touch system - the screen began to recognize the pressing force.
In the 4th quarter of 2015, Samsung held the largest market share - 21.4%. Apple is in second place with 18.7%. Lenovo, after buying the mobile division of Motorola from Google, took the 3rd position with 5.1% of the market, overtaking Huawei with its 8.1%. Young Xiaomi moved to 5th place - for a while this manufacturer occupied the third place .
Note: We are talking about the number of shipped smartphones.
In the comments, please share your memories and provide links to your own reviews.
If the article lacks a specific model - please write about it in the comments with the image. So we will make the "Evolution" more complete.
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LG Optimus 2X P990
In late 2010, LG introduced the LG Optimus 2X, and in early 2011, began selling this smartphone, a follower of LG Optimus One. The model became the first smartphone with a dual-core processor - Tegra 2 with a frequency of 1 GHz. At the time of launch, it was the most powerful smartphone on the Russian market.
The device received 512 megabytes of RAM and 8 gigabytes of internal memory, as well as support for microSD up to 32 gigabytes. The device's screen is 4-inch with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. Camera - 8 megapixels with LED flash.
Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-i9100)
February 13, 2011 at the Mobile World Congress announced the Samsung Galaxy S II. The size of the display compared with its predecessor has increased - from 4 to 4.3 inches with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. The smartphone has a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1200 MHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, as well as microSD support. The camera is 8 megapixels.
And it was not without jokes in the direction of Apple.
HTC Wildfire S
February 15, 2011 at Mobile World Congress, HTC announced WIldfire S. This is a smartphone with 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of flash memory, with support for memory cards up to 32 GB, a 3.2-inch TFT LCD display 320x480 pixels, 5 megapixel camera with led flash. The device is equipped with a Qualcomm 7227-1 600 MHz and Adreno 200 video processor.
Samsung Galaxy Note
At the IFA exhibition in Berlin in September 2011, Samsung introduced the phablet (or ceiling, if you wish) Galaxy Note. The diagonal of its SuperAMOLED screen is 5.3 inches, the resolution is 1280x800 pixels. Processor dual core 1.4 GHz. The 8 megapixel camera can record Full HD video, recognizes the face and smile, has an LED flash. RAM - 1 GB, built-in - 16 or 32 GB. And now the iron seems quite decent.
And the device received a stylus S Pen, which is very important.
“I may show KO, but as long as the smartphone gets into the front pockets and does not interfere with the owner, as long as it is convenient to hold it with one hand, I see no reason to limit the screen size. The more it is, the more convenient is the work on the smartphone, ” wrote user Geektimes in a review .
And this is how Samsung joked Apple with its lines. Apple fans watched this video and probably laughed at the S Pen, because the stylus is a stone age.
iPhone 4S
On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S . The changes did not affect the design, but the device received a dual-core mobile processor A5. The gadget supports HSDPA + mobile transmission at speeds up to 14.4 megabits per second.
HTC One V
In April 2012, HTC began selling the One V with a small 3.7-inch screen. This Android 4.0 smartphone had only 4 GB of internal memory and 512 RAM.
But this is not about that: pay attention to the back wall of the device, to the insert in the lower part of the body and to the oval around the camera at the top. The curved body and inserts the device inherited from its predecessor - HTC Legend.
HTC One X
February 27, 2012 HTC in Barcelona told One X - I think this is the best smartphone from this company. It was her first smartphone based on a quad-core processor, with Android 4.2.2 on board, the HTC Sense 5.0 interface. The phone had an 8-megapixel camera and software with a huge number of filters, allowing you to take great photos. RAM - 1 GB, and 32 GB - built-in, without the support of microSD. In the reviews of those years, the 4.7-inch display of the smartphone was called "big" and "huge."
LG Optimus LTE2
LG first released a smartphone with a dual-core processor Tegra 2, then the first to launch a smartphone with a quad-core processor and the first Android-smartphone with a 3D display and a 3D camera. And in May 2012 - also the first smartphone with 2 gigabytes of RAM - the next few years, most of the expensive smartphones had exactly that amount of RAM.
Lenovo LePhone K800
May 30, 2012 Lenovo introduced its first smartphone with a processor from Intel. Lenovo LePhone K800 has got an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, a 4.5-inch screen, 1 GB of operational and 16 GB of internal memory, 8 megapixel main and 1.3 megapixel front cameras.
iPhone 5
In September 2012, Apple showed the world the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display. For the first time, Apple has increased the screen - before that, the owners of apple smartphones were proud of “perfect proportions with a 3.5-inch display,” which allows them to reach with their thumb to any edge. And now the iPhone has begun to support LTE. The review is on Geektimes .
HTC First
HTC announced the HTC First in April 2013. It was the first Android smartphone with an interface from Facebook instead of the usual for the manufacturer of the shell HTC Sense. The Facebook idea failed - AT & T operator sold about fifteen thousand gadgets and refused to renew the contract. The smartphone was sold in several colors. The ends of the device are rounded.
iPhone 5c
September 10, 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Externally, the 5S is slightly different from its predecessor, but the 5C received a completely different body of colored polycarbonate - white, blue, pink, yellow and green.
Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
The flagship of the Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro company introduced in early September at the IFA 2014 exhibition in Berlin. The device received a 4000 mAh battery, 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal memory. The display is 6 inches with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels, while it occupies 85% of the entire frontal surface of the smartphone. For LG G3, this indicator, for example, is only 79%. The Vibe Z2 Pro weighs 179 grams - the same as the 5.7-inch Samsung Galazy Note 4.
Blackberry passport
In 2014, BlackBerry began selling Passport smartphone - a huge square gadget, which in addition to the 4.5-inch display has a QWERTY-keyboard. The screen is 1440x1440 pixels, the camera is 13 and 2 megapixels, the RAM is 3 GB, the built-in is 32 GB plus microSD support up to 64 GB.
Lenovo Vibe X2
Case Lenovo Vibe X2 is made of three layers of plastic that allows you to mix colors. Case thickness - 7.27 millimeters. The processor is an eight-core MediaTek MTK6595MBig with a frequency of 2 GHz and support for LTE. And the screen is small - only 5 inches with a resolution of 1920x1080 inches.
At IFA 2014, the gadget received the title of “Best Flagship on Android”.
iPhone 6
Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on September 9, 2014. The diagonal of the displays is 4.7 and 5.5 inches respectively, which made fans of the brand, who previously called smartphones of this size on Android “shovels,” reduce the number of jokes on this topic. Now Apple has its own phablet, which can "dig out of a snowdrift."
Once it was not very expensive. Here you can put a mean male tear.
Samsung in 2014
In 2014, Samsung released 56 models of smartphones, but received 49% less revenue than in 2013. And decided to cut the line by a third . The Korean company competed simultaneously in several price segments - it fought for the premium with the Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and for the budget with the Chinese Xiaomi and Huawei.
HTC One M9
March 1, 2015 at Mobile World Congress 2015 , HTC showed a 5-inch HTC One M9 smartphone with a Fulll HD screen, sales began on April 10 of the same year. Among the flowers - golden.
There is 32 GB of internal memory, 3 GB of RAM, a slot for microSD up to 128 GB, a 20 megapixel main and 4 megapixel front camera. The smartphone is based on the eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, Adreno 430 is responsible for the video.
Pay attention to the strip on the case.
Separation of the smartphone market by vendor
In August 2015, IDC published this data on the division of the smartphone market by manufacturers. Data on the share of Moto added in the Lenovo column.
Lenovo Phab Plus
On September 2, 2015, in Lenovo, Lenovo introduced more than 80 products, including two Lenovo Phab and Lenovo Phab Plus phablets. The company's vice president, Jeff Meredith, began the presentation of Phab Plus by asking how often do we use a telephone for calls? Personally, I keep the gadget horizontally, because basically I watch TV shows in transport. Or the smartphone is on the desktop - again horizontally - and shows any videos.
The result of the work of the mobile division of Lenovo became Lenovo Phab Plus with a FullHD-display with a diagonal of 6.8 inches. And it can be called huge - just as several years ago a huge 4.3-inch screen was called. Friends laugh at me, but as a recent survey has shown, I am not the only fan of huge screens among users of Geektimes. And yes, the Phab Plus fits perfectly in a jeans pocket, and it’s convenient for me to hold it with one hand.
What about the characteristics: Phab Plus got a Qualcomm MSM8939 1.5 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of constant memory, two SIM slots - you can put a microSD of up to 64 GB in one of them, 13 and 5 megapixel cameras and sound Dolby Atmos technology. Battery - 3500 mAh. The phone belongs to the budget - the price at the time of sales was 299 euros.
HTC One A9
On October 20, 2015, HTC officially unveiled the HTC One A9 smartphone on an eight-core ARM 64-bit 1.5 GHz processor. The user can choose from options with 2 and 3 gigabytes of RAM, 16 and 32 GB of internal.
The smartphone was immediately dubbed a clone of the iPhone 6, although a closer look at previous HTC models can be called an evolutionary design.
Huawei mate s
At IFA 2015 in Berlin, Huawei unveiled the Mate S, a 5.5-inch smartphone with a fingerprint scanner and touch-sensitive touchscreen technology - a Chinese company ahead of Apple. At the presentation, Huawei weighed oranges on a smartphone.
iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
On September 10, 2015, Apple introduced the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models. Gadgets got 4.7 and 5.5-inch screens, respectively, and the 3D Touch system - the screen began to recognize the pressing force.
The separation of the smartphone market by manufacturers at the end of 2015
In the 4th quarter of 2015, Samsung held the largest market share - 21.4%. Apple is in second place with 18.7%. Lenovo, after buying the mobile division of Motorola from Google, took the 3rd position with 5.1% of the market, overtaking Huawei with its 8.1%. Young Xiaomi moved to 5th place - for a while this manufacturer occupied the third place .
Note: We are talking about the number of shipped smartphones.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/391553/
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