2019 is coming to an end, and it’s time again to look back at what the industry has brought us. This year, we saw a lot of hardware improvements from all the various vendors, with a big focus on bringing out new distinctive designs. We’ve seen some exotic devices in the form of foldable phones for the first time ever, and even some more traditional designs dared to implement design cues such as mechanical pop-out cameras. While designs were sometimes the main differentiating factors, most of the time the key selling points of 2019 devices were big upgrades in their camera capabilities. Here we’ve seen huge leaps from almost all the vendors, and the year definitely will be remembered mainly for the innovations in photography.
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22 by Brandon Chester on 3/30/2015
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123 by Brandon Chester on 3/16/2015
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78 by Brandon Chester on 3/11/2015
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169 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 2/4/2015
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19 by Brandon Chester on 1/30/2015
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0 by Brandon Chester on 1/21/2015
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14 by Brandon Chester on 1/20/2015
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79 by Stephen Barrett on 1/15/2015
Understanding Brightness in AMOLED and LCD Displays
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85 by Joshua Ho & Brandon Chester on 12/22/2014
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126 by Brandon Chester on 12/1/2014
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87 by Brandon Chester on 11/28/2014
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148 by Joshua Ho on 11/19/2014
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136 by Brandon Chester on 11/12/2014
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8 by Joshua Ho on 11/9/2014
Google Nexus 9: Preliminary Findings
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146 by Joshua Ho on 11/3/2014
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23 by Brandon Chester on 10/22/2014
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148 by Brandon Chester on 10/15/2014
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195 by Joshua Ho on 10/15/2014
The New Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) Review
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179 by Joshua Ho on 9/17/2014
NVIDIA Opens Pre-Orders For The SHIELD Tablet With LTE and 32GB Of Storage
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16 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2014
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