Top 10 Best Smartphones of 2017

The high-end smartphone is renewed every quarter with different manufacturers launching new phones. When it is not Samsung, it is LG, and when not Xiaomi or Google itself, embarked on its Pixel line. But that means that there is more and more between what to choose to buy, and to make you the easiest choice we bring you this article Top 10 best high-end smartphones.

10.Sony Xperia XZ

Sony has changed strategy in the field of smartphones in 2016 with respect to previous years, and the Xperia XZ is a good example of it. The 5.2-inch IPS display with Full HD resolution has a brightness of 650 nits, which will allow it to look perfectly in broad daylight, and has a contrast of 1300: 1, although it has a tendency towards blue with a Color temperature of 8100 ° K.

The processor is a Kryo quad-core 820 Snapdragon, and is powerful in graphics to move a screen of only 1080p. Other high-end phones have more trouble moving a QHD resolution with this processor, so that's a plus point. It has 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, with micro-SD expansion.

9.Huawei P9

The P9 from Huawei is a powerful phone with a Kirin 955 processor - four Cortex-A72 2.5 GHz cores and four Cortex-A53 at 1.8 GHz -, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It uses a Mali-T880 MP4 GPU at 900 MHz to move its 5.2-inch screen with 1080p resolution, with a brightness of 450 nits and a contrast of 1200: 1. The color has a slight tendency to blue, quite common in almost all the screens of the company.

The rear camera is Leica certified, being 12 megapixels, and includes two cameras: one to capture the color of one image and the other monochrome. This allows you to capture more light information and take better pictures. The fingerprint reader is also located at the back.

8.Samsung Galaxy S7

The Galaxy S7 OLED display has a QHD resolution and a brightness of 500 nits. It looks good in broad daylight, with bright colors, and is among the best screens on the market. In addition the temperature is around the 6800 ºK, reason why the whites will look like white. The processor is an Exynos 8890, with great performance, the best that can be found in 2016 on a phone, and a GPU of the Mali T880 graphics, with 4 GB of RAM LPDDR4.

The UFS 2.0 storage of the phone is ultrafast, with speeds close to 220 MB / s of sequential read and 60 MB / s of sequential write. Samsung has also upgraded the Android personalization layer, which benefits from the front-end fingerprint reader - the ideal location.

The 12 Mpx camera has an excellent quality, and is a section in which high-end Galaxy stand out for themselves. Samsung has good post-processing algorithms, which is reflected in the images that capture the cameras and that will not disappoint anyone. In the video section, you can record in slow motion up to 240 FPS, and video at 4K and 30 FPS.

7.Google Pixel

Google introduced in October 2016 the Pixel to start a new stage as designer and manufacturer of smartphones. It is a model whose assembly is made by HTC, with an aluminum design with a glass back top, where the fingerprint reader is also located.

It has a 12 Mpx camera with f / 2.0 aperture, which Google claims is the best in the market, capturing good photos in low light and is capable of recording videos at 4K. The included processor is a Snapdragon 821, and comes with 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of ultra fast UFS 2.0 storage, but does not include micro-SD card reader.

6.HTC 10

With the HTC 10 the Taiwanese company has returned to its origins and what must be a good phone. It has a great design in aluminum with rounded edges, comfortable to grasp. The screen of 5.2 inches with resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels has a great quality of color and reaches the 450 nits.

The Snapdragon 820 processor is one of the most powerful, with four custom Kryo kernels from Qualcomm, and allows you to seamlessly run any application with its 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. It has two front speakers, one for high frequencies and another for subwoofer, with a 24-bit DAC audio for great sound when using the phone with headphones.

The section of the battery also has it well covered, although other phones stand out more than this in its autonomy. The main camera is 12 Mpx with optical image stabilization (OIS), and uses the same sensor as the Nexus 6P, and is capable of recording slow motion and video at 4K.

5.Xiaomi Mi 6

The Mi 6 is a phone made with aluminum frame and glass back, which is more the current trend of the high end sector. It has a 5.15-inch screen with FHD resolution, and includes a powerful 835 Kryo 8-core Snapdragon 835 processor. It comes with 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of UFS 2.0 storage, with a choice of 128 GB.

It also maintains the current trend of dobel rear camera, both 12 Mpx with optical image stabilizer, capable of recording at 4K and 30 FPS. It has all kinds of connectivity, NFC, wifi 802.11 ac MU-MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0, and supports multi-band LTE both FDD and TD. The fingerprint reader is included in the front physical start button, which is the ideal position.

4.Huawei P10

Huawei P10 is an incremental upgrade of the P9, and shares many aspects of it. The design on this occasion is more iPhone if it fits, and without any kind of banter by the company, although it comes in a good variety of colors: pistachio green, blue, pink gold, gold, white, shiny gold, black and silver .

The processor improves to a Kirin 960 with a much more powerful GPU, a Mali-G71MP8 of architecture Bifrost compatible with Vulkan. With 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage with micro-SD reader will go perfectly fluid. The 5.15-inch screen makes the size of the phone 145 mm tall, which is customary in early 2017 on the market. It has a great quality of reproduction of colors, brightness and contrast.

This is one of the first phones to include an array of 4x4 LTE antennas, allowing you to download at speeds of 1 Gbps -128 MB / s-. It has a 3200 mAh battery that gives good autonomy results, and uses a USB connector type C to charge. The camera stays similar to the P9, with a main rear camera of 12 Mpx and secondary of 20 Mpx monochrome for illumination and effects of depth, also certified by Leica.

3.Apple Iphone 7 Plus

The iPhone 7 Plus is waterproof (IP67), is made of aluminum 7000 series and has eliminated the minijack connector for headphones, so it has a single port lightning. It features a 5.5-inch HD Retina display with 1.920x1.080p resolution on a panel that works with IPS LCD technology. It achieves a pixel density of 401 dpi and boasts 3D Touch technology. It works with a Fusion A10 quad-core chip, two high-performance and two high-efficiency chips.

The iPhone 7 Plus has a dual camera on the back: a 12 megapixel sensor with wide angle (f / 1.8 aperture) and a 12 megapixel (f / 2.8 aperture) telephoto lens for unique shots with its depth effect Field, you can record video in 4K with the main sensor and you have options to record in slow motion in 1080p / 720p and time lapse mode.

2.LG G6

LG has completely changed the design of the G6 with respect to earlier models when created in aluminum and glass. It is a sturdy phone, with a screen of 5.7 inches with a resolution of 2880 x 1440 pixels, making a high use of the front of the phone, so that despite being a phone 148 mm high, you get in return at least a half inch more Screen than similar phones.

The screen allows to see two applications at a time in 1440 x 1440 pixel format, which according to LG improves productivity. The applications have been adapted to this screen format to, for example, be able to display a photo capture zone in the camera application, and another with recent captures.

The processor used by LG is a Snapdragon 821, accompanied by 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage type UFS, with micro-SD card reader. It has a fingerprint reader on the back, and has wireless charging and IP68 certified dustproof and waterproof.

It features a 13 Mpx dual rear camera system with Sony's IMX258 sensor, with auto-focus laser detection and contrast autofocus. The front camera is 5 megapixel wide-angle, and the screen acts as a flash. The battery is 3300 mAh, and has fast charge.

1.Samsung Galaxy S8

Samsung has in the Galaxy S8 the best smartphone, and it is an improvement over the Galaxy S7 in all respects. Make the most of the front margins to include a 5.8-inch screen with an atypical resolution of 2960 x 1440 pixels, 148.9 x 68.1 x 8.0 mm in size, which makes it a rather large phone. The OLED display has a maximum brightness of 1000 nits, covering more than 100% of the DCI-P3, sRGB and Rec. 709 range.

The processor used is a Snapdragon 835 in the USA. And an Exynos 8895 out of these countries, with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of ultrafast UFS 2.0 storage. The start button is included on the screen itself, and the fingerprint reader has moved to the back. It is the first phone to include Bluetooth 5.0, and also has NFC and wifi 802.11 ac MU-MIMO.

The camera stays more or less similar to the Galaxy S7, with a Sony Exmor RS IMX260 sensor, with a 12 megapixel sensor, f / 1.7 aperture and Dual Pixel camera for the fastest autofocus on the market. The great novelty of the phone is the Bixby personal assistant and its peripherals and accessories, such as the DeX base for use as a PC.