New Smartphones news and reviews

Summary: We saw several new smartphones launched at MWC this week, but most are evolutionary products offering a few improvements over existing devices. Here are the best.

Mobile World Congress is held once a year in Barcelona and it is where we see announcements for phones we can expect in the first half of the year. ZDNet's Steve Ranger stated there is a lack of innovation in the smartphone market and as we look at six of the top smartphones announced at MWC. We see that nearly all of them are evolutionary products offering slight improvements over last year's model.

I've ranked these six smartphones from No. 6 to No. 1, but the one I personally have my eye on, and hope to see launched in the US this year, is the Sony Xperia Z2.

Number 6: While BlackBerry continues to lose market share they are not giving up the fight with their new CEO announcing the BlackBerry Z3 and Q20. The Z3 is their largest all touchscreen device while the Q20 brings back the useful trackpad to the QWERTY line.

The BlackBerry Z3 is powered by BlackBerry 10 and offers an improvement in the internal specs, as compared to the Z10 and Z30. It is targeted for a launch in Indonesia and comes with a 5 inch display, extended life battery, and FM radio.

We haven't heard about a US release at this time.

Topics: Mobility, Android, BlackBerry, Smartphones

Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.

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