Up until MWC 2018, Sony had a portfolio of extremely similar looking flagship smartphones. Despite the industry largely moving to an 18:9 aspect ratio, the company launched its smartphones with a 16:9 aspect ratio. However, all of that changed at MWC 2018 with the launch of the Sony Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact.

However, a heavily anticipated feature was missing in the two phones. Prior to the launch, it was widely expected that Sony would launch a smartphone with a 4K display and 18L9 aspect ratio. That, however, did not happen since the Xz2 and XZ2 Compact have a 2160 x 1080 px resolution. But, a new report by ITHome claims that Sony will indeed launch a 4K display smartphone [...]

BLU, a Miami-based manufacturer unveiled a new smartphone called the Vivo Air LTE in the United States. This phone is touted as being the slimmest 4G LTE smartphone in USA weighing just 97 grams and measuring a mere 5.1 mm.

The Vivo Air LTE is an upgraded version of the BLU Vivo Air that was announced in January. This upgraded version now runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 along with a 2GB of RAM.

It comes with a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display with 720p resolution. On the camera front, it comes with an 8MP primary camera and a 5MP secondary camera. [...]

Phone cameras have come a long way; from VGA, all the way to 40 megapixel shooters. But it isn’t only the still imagery that has taken a futuristic leap. The video recording functionality is something that has transformed over the ages as well. With the advent of 4K or UHD TVs in the market and also video streaming website like YouTube and Vimeo supporting 4K content, the demand for 4K recorders has increased. Hence the smartphone manufacturers are now focusing on the high resolution video recording feature and the result is the 4K video shooting capability on many smartphones today.

4K is a 3840 x 2160p resolution [...]