This year witnessed a great competition between smart phone manufacturers to attract consumers' attention to their new devices, with the aim of increasing their shares in a market whose device sales exceeded regular phone sales for the first time during the first half of 2013 .
The strategies of a major smartphone manufacturing company changed this year, most notably “Sony”, “Nokia” and “BlackBerry”. Nokia launched its first tablet phones this year and strengthened its presence in the high-resolution camera phone market.
On the other hand, “BlackBerry” tried to face its stumbling in the smart phone market by developing a completely new system, “BlackBerry 10”, and introducing devices such as “BlackBerry Z10” and “BlackBerry Q10”, to return consumers’ attention to its devices after it lost momentum. on their phones in favor of those operating on the “Android” and iOS systems.
Each smart phone manufacturing company sought to provide a competitive advantage in its smartphone to support it in front of consumers in a market that includes a wide range of smart phones, and is characterized by high purchasing traffic, as a previous study by IDC predicted that more than one billion smartphones would be shipped in the market during 2013.
A group of phones from several companies such as Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Sony, HTC, LG, Huawei and Motorola have emerged in the smart phone market this year. But a special group of phones compete for the title of the best in 2013.
Apple "iPhone 5S"
The iPhone 5S is one of the most prominent phones that were unveiled during 2013, as Apple supported its new phone with the first developed 64-bit processor in addition to a sensor to read Fingerprint.
The iPhone 5S phone has the same design as the iPhone 5 version, as it was made of aluminum, and was offered in basic black in addition to the new golden color and gray color. The phone includes a 4-inch “Retina” screen with a resolution of 640 x 1136 inches, with an estimated pixel density of 326 pixels per inch.
The A7 processor that beats inside the phone includes more than a billion “transistors” with a 64-bit architecture. It also works alongside the M7 processor, which is dedicated to measuring motion sensors such as the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope, and an 8-megapixel camera.
Samsung "Galaxy S4"
Samsung owns the lion's share of sales of smart devices running the Android system, and the "Galaxy S4" is one of the most prominent phones launched by the South Korean company this year.
Sony started this year by launching a phone that confirmed its seriousness in competing strongly in the smart phone market, which is the “Xperia Z” phone, and the company did not stop its activity in the market at this point, so it launched two phones They are classified as one of the best phones this year, namely “Xperia Z1” and “Xperia Z Ultra”.
The Xperia Z1 phone was equipped with a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1980 pixels, supported by Sony’s X-Reality and TRILUMINOS display technologies, in addition to the quad-core Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 processor from Qualcomm, which operates at a speed of 2.2 GHz. In addition to an Adreno 330 graphics processor, and 2 GB of RAM.
The Xperia Z1 is one of the competing smartphones in the “camera phones” market, as the phone has a 20.7-megapixel rear camera, and it is water resistant according to the IP55/IP58 standard. The device includes a 3000 mAh battery, and it is a phone that weighs no more than 170 grams and is thick It is 8.5 mm.
The advantage that the “Xperia Z1” phone has over “Xperia Z Ultra” in the smart phone market is the small screen size (5 inches) compared to the 6.4-inch screen provided by the “Z Ultra” phone, which makes it closer to a tablet computer that has advantages phones.
Nokia "Lumia 1020"
Another phone that competes strongly in the category of camera phones is the “Lumia 1020”, which is one of the most prominent devices that the Finnish company revealed in 2013.
The phone “Lumia 1020” is the first phone to have a 41-megapixel camera among phones operating on the “Windows Phone” system. The user can share it on social networks.
The Lumia 1020 has a 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 768 x 1280 pixels, and a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor supported by 2 GB of RAM.
BlackBerry "Z10"
The smartphone "BlackBerry Z10" is the first phone to include the new "BlackBerry" operating system known as BB10, a phone that included a new user interface and a full touch screen unlike the majority of phones The Canadian company that has always been distinguished by its full keyboard.
The “BlackBerry Z10” phone includes a 4.2-inch screen with a density of 356 pixels per inch, with a resolution of 768 x 1280 pixels, and is supported by a “Snapdragon MSM8960” dual-core processor that operates at a speed of 1.5 GHz, an 8-megapixel camera, and a random storage capacity. 2 GB.
Google "Nexus 5"
Since Google entered the competition in the smart device market, it has been trying to achieve the equation of offering devices with good specifications and a competitive price for the rest of the high-spec devices, and the “Nexus 5” phone is one of the phones that achieves That equation.
The device includes a 4.95-inch screen with Full HD resolution, a pixel density of 445 pixels per frame, powered by a “Snapdragon 800” quad-core processor that operates at a speed of 2.3 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, in addition to an 8-megapixel camera and a 2300 mAh battery /hour.
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