Then you have the best High End Smartphones 2018 and high-end phablets according to our criteria and tastes. The list is not computer by any particular criteria, because each one will look for a different thing in them. Some that have a great camera, and others that have a better price even if it is from other years. We have selected best High End Smartphones 2018 for you .
1. SAMSUNG GALAXY S9
Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+
Samsung has taken the trick to create high-end smartphones , maintaining an attractive design and something different from the competition thanks to its screen that takes full advantage of the front. The Galaxy S9 screen is 5.8 inches at a size of 147.3 × 68.5 × 8.3 mm, while the Galaxy S9 + has a 6.2-inch screen at 158.1 × 73.8 × 8.5 mm, both of 2960 × 1440 pixels, SuperAMOLED type, and the best on the market at the beginning of 2018, plus it reproduces HDR with the HDR10 standard.
The processor is a Snapdragon 845 or an Exynos 9810 depending on the country, accompanied by 4 or 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of ultra-fast storage. The camera improves with regard to the Galaxy S8, and the Galaxy S9 + is the best on the market in the photographic field, with 104 points in photos according to DxOMark , greatly exceeding the competition. However, in video recording it lacks something else, but it is still one of the best. The Galaxy S9 + includes a secondary telephoto camera with optical zoom × 2.
The phone retains the micro-SD card reader, the 3.5 mm audio connector, is made to be water and dustproof, 2 × 2 802.11 ac wifi MU-MIMO, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, and USB port type C. Arrives with Android 8.0 Oreo, rounding the best phone on the market in the first half of 2018.
• Samsung Galaxy S9 + Exynos 9810 by Samsung 6 GB / 64 GB 6.2 ”, 2960 × 1440 pixels (531 PPP) 3500 mAh 158.1 × 73.8 × 8.5 mm, 189 g 12 Mpx / 8 Mpx HDR screen, LTE, micro-SD, NFC, fingerprint reader, safe facial scanner, USB type C, waterproof, iris scanner, fast charge, wireless charging, Android 8.0.
2. GOOGLE PIXEL 2 XL
The Pixel 2 XL is a perfect evolution of the Pixel XL, and not so much in its external appearance, made of aluminum with a waterproof and dustproof glass zone, but in its hardware . The phone includes a powerful Snapdragon 835 eight-core Kryo 280 processor with an Adreno 540 GPU, plus 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. As usual in Google phones, it does not have a micro-SD reader.
Google pixel 2Xl -Black
The screen is poled type 6 inches, with resolution of 2880 × 1440 px, drawing much front to reduce screen frames, and has color quality 100% of DCI-P3 range, so they are superbly Looking at the front there are also two stereo speakers. The battery of 3520 mAh gives a good autonomy to the device, without shining, but it has fast charge through USB type C that in 15 minutes will give you up to 7 hours of autonomy.
The rear camera is the best on the market in 2017. Its 12 Mpx high-caliber optics combined with optical and digital image stabilization, make it stand out on its own whether taking pictures or recording video. It is above the cameras of the iPhone 8 Plus, Galaxy Note 8 or the U11. It does a great job in low light situations, and captures a maximum amount of detail in good light.
The phone has a tray for nano-SIM, but also includes an eSIM chip for provisioning by operators that are compatible with it, which avoids the need to use a SIM to use the phone. It comes with Android 8.0 Oreopre-installed, and Google promises three years of software updates and security patches for this phone.
• Google Pixel 2 XL Snapdragon 835 by Qualcomm 4 GB / 64 GB 6.0 ”, 2880 × 1440 pixels (537 PPP) 3520 mAh 157.9 × 76.7 × 7.9 mm, 175 g 12.2 Mpx / 8 Mpx LTE, NFC, fingerprint reader, USB type C, waterproof, fast charge, Android 8.0.
3. Apple iPhone X
Apple iPhone X News Announcement
Apple joined in 2017 to fashion phones with almost no screen frames with the iPhone X , which is also the iPhone’s largest screen size to date, since it is 5.8 inches. Being of OLED type and great color quality DCI-P3, blacks are real blacks, compatible with HDR, both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and a resolution of 2436 × 1125 pixels, and 625 nits of maximum brightness. Maintains the 3D Touch force sensors.
The processor is more powerful than the Snapdragon 835, with the A11 Bionic being 30% more powerful in all its six cores. With 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, the fluidity of the operating system and applications is assured. Its battery is 2716 mAh that, along with the optimizations of iOS, gives you an autonomy of about ten hours of screen use watching videos or browsing.
The camera is the second best of 2017 , tied with that of Mate 10 and behind the camera of Pixel 2, although it is the only one capable of recording video at 4K and 60 FPS. The rear camera is a double camera of 12 Mpx, one for telephoto and one for optical zoom, with openings f / 1.8 and f / 2.4, and double optical image stabilizer. The front is 7 Mpx, and allows various additional effects such as blurring.
Also the front camera is used, in combination with other additional sensors, for face unlocking via Face ID, which is more secure than Touch ID, the finger unlocking. The phone has a rear glass to allow wireless charging compatible with Qi systems, it is water approved, it also has a fast charge.
• Apple iPhone X Apple Bionic A11 3 GB / 64 GB 5.8 ”, 2436 × 1125 pixels (463 PPP) 2716 mAh 143.6 × 70.9 × 7.7 mm, 174 g 12 Mpx / 7 Mpx HDR screen, NFC, safe facial scanner, waterproof, fast charging, wireless charging.
4. SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 8
The Galaxy Note8 is Samsung’s flagship phablet of 2017, and has become the best phone on the market – at a high price . It is a mobile for the professional environment, and its RRP of 1010 euros proves it. Includes the almost borderless screen of the Galaxy S8, which in this model has a size of 6.3 inches with a resolution of 2960 × 1440 pixels. It is of great color quality, and also compatible with the HDR10 format .
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 8 – PHOTO SAMSUNG
It again includes the S-Pen, a digital pen to handle the phone in new ways, which leads Samsung to be more productive. The processors chosen, according to the market, are the Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895, accompanied by 6 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64 to 256 GB of ultrafast UFS storage.
There are notable improvements in the rear camera, which now has a secondary objective, also 12 Mpx for telephoto work, allowing an x2 optical zoom, and x10 digital, with optical image stabilizer and aperture f / 1.7. The front camera is 8 Mpx with aperture f / 1.7. The camera software also improves to give greater control of the image quality to the user.
The battery is slightly lower capacity than the Galaxy S8 +, which happens to be 3300 mAh, compatible with fast charging and also wireless, since the rear is glass, and its structure is aluminum. It has unlock by iris scanner and fingerprint scanner. It comes standard with Android 7.1.1, but with an update to Android 8.0 Oreo secured.
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Exynos 8895 by Samsung 6 GB / 64 GB 6.3 ”, 2960 × 1440 pixels (523 PPP) 3300 mAh 162.5 × 74.8 × 8.6 mm, 195 g 12 Mpx / 8 Mpx HDR screen, LTE, micro-SD, NFC, fingerprint reader, USB type C, waterproof, iris scanner, fast charge, wireless charging, Android 7.1.1.
5. LG V30
LG improved the G6 of 2017 with the V30. It is a phone with a much more careful design, with rounded edges, made of aluminum and whose screen is even more impressive than that of the G6. It is a phabletwith 6-inch screen of OLED type and with a resolution of 1440 × 2880 pixels, compatible with HDR content.
It has a Snapdragon 835 processor with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, so it’s plenty of storage for a normal user. Its size is small for the screen it includes, taking into account that it hardly has any screen frames, with only 151.7 × 75.4 × 7.3 mm. This smaller thickness makes the battery is only 3300 mAh, but it is enough to last between a day and a half and two days of moderate use.
It has a type C USB connector with fast charging, the rear glass allows wireless charging, and the sound falls on a quad DAC Bang & Olufsen with 24-bit sound. The dual rear camera has an IMX351 sensor of 16 Mpx from Sony and another 13 Mpx, and has optical image stabilization, 4K video recording, and in general very good quality photographs. In addition to Bluetooth 5.0, it also has LTE Cat. 16 that allows downloading at 1 Gb / s (125 MB / s).
LG V30 SMARTPHONE 2018 – ONE OF THE BEST SMARTPHONE
• LG V30 Snapdragon 835 by Qualcomm 4 GB / 64 GB 6.0 ”, 2880 × 1440 pixels (537 PPP) 3300 mAh 151.7 × 75.4 × 7.3 mm, 158 g 16 Mpx / 5 Mpx HDR screen, LTE, micro-SD, NFC, fingerprint reader, USB type C, waterproof, fast charging, wireless charging, Android 7.1.2.
The YouTube algorithm is the difference between a video languishing at under 500 views and a video constantly circulating, getting comments and views years after it was initially posted, rocketing up in the view counts. It’s the difference between earning 5 cents on a video and earning tens or hundreds of dollars.
How can you make your videos more likely to trend? How can you game the YouTube algorithm to get you more exposure?
How the YouTube Algorithm Works?
Just about everything on YouTube is aimed at increasing the “watch time” of a video. Contrary to what you might think, though, watch time involves more than just the number of minutes a video is watched. It includes the number of views, the duration of those views, the number of session starts, the frequency of video uploads, the session duration, and how many sessions end on the video. It’s all just a bunch of metrics that indicate how often people come to your channel, how well they stay on YouTube once they’re on your channel, and how good your channel is at bringing in new viewers.
YouTube Algorithm Illustration
That’s not to say that view duration is unimportant; it’s actually the second largest metric for the YouTube algorithm. It’s also not a sliding scale, but rather a see-saw mechanic. Views under five minutes in length tend to stall out the video, whereas videos over six minutes – and particularly around eight minutes in length – make the video perform exceptionally well.
Now, this doesn’t mean videos under 8 minutes long are initially hampered. It simply means that longer videos, when most of the video is watched, will tend to perform better. Sometimes as much as 350% better, according to studies performed by TubeFilter.
It’s also worth noting that YouTube’s algorithm is heavily aimed at promoting content channels, not just individual videos. This is why, when you finish watching a video, the related and recommended videos tend to be 50% videos from that channel, 40% videos from partner or related channels, and 10% other trending videos that may be slightly relevant.
YouTube also loves session starts. A session start is when it’s one of your videos that gets a user to land on YouTube, and they stick around to watch other content on the site. When your videos have a large number of session starts from your subscribers – and assumedly in general – YouTube will send more views to all of your videos in general.
YouTube View Duration
Interestingly, YouTube will demote videos if they are shown as impressions – in the recommended sidebar, in the post-video recommendations, and so forth – and are not watched. The user will be less likely to see that video, and eventually that channel and that type of content, in future recommendations.
Not all that long ago, a paper was published that actually goes into deep technical detail about how the YouTube algorithm works, and how the Deep Learning AI behind it functions. You can read the TubeFilter analysis of the paper here, or the actual paper in the link provided in that article.
1. Get Existing Subscribers to View the Video Quickly
Perhaps the number one most important thing you can do for a video is get a strong burst of views in the first three days after the video comes out. It doesn’t necessarily matter where those views come from, so long as they’re real and valid views, but it’s easiest to get them from your subscribers.
The best way to do this is to set up some kind of off-site means of contacting your subscribers. Getting people to sign up for a mailing list, or at least just set up notifications for when you publish new content, can be great. Also, whenever you publish a video, if you have a blog you should publish an article on the same topic and embed the video.
2. Encourage Longer Views
Longer views are empirically better than shorter views, though complete views of a Vine-length video work just fine. If you’re concerned about marketing and not just meme-producing, though, you’re going to want to produce longer videos. I know a lot of common advice recommends the ideal length of a YouTube video at somewhere around two or three minutes, but that’s an odd side effect of how YouTube is often used for music and memes as well as marketing.
I actually recommend videos closer to 10 minutes long. You just need to find a topic that’s engaging enough to get people to sit through it all. These videos need to be value-dense and should keep watching all the way through.
3. Get People from Off-Site to Browse YouTube
A newsletter, a blog, business cards with your channel name on it; it doesn’t matter how you do it.
You should use every method you can think of to refer people to YouTube via landing on your channel. When your channel is the start of a session for a lot of people, and those people stick around on YouTube for more than just the one video, you’re bringing tangible value to YouTube itself. They obviously want to promote this, so they encourage more views to the channels that bring in people. It keeps you wanting to use the site, since you’re getting value out of it yourself. 4. Engage Your Audience Outside of YouTube
Obviously, you can’t just make Facebook posts telling people to go to YouTube; you need something more to it. Actually, Facebook is a pretty bad place to promote a YouTube channel. Since Facebook has their own video engine and are trying to compete with YouTube on that front, they sneakily do a little demotion of YouTube video links.
Anyways, what you really need to be doing is engaging with your audience. This is one problem that a lot of young, new YouTube creators have. They try to start up a channel where they can publish content and expect it to carry them. In actuality, most successful channels tend to have external communities, either on a web forum, a website, or even just a Discord server.
5. Stick to a Narrow Niche to Bring Repeats Viewers
I’ve already mentioned that getting people to view your videos right away is very important, but how do you do it? One great way is to focus your channel on a narrow niche and style of content. People who only play horror video games with a face cam, people who only post about Facebook marketing, people who only share a certain genre of music; these are the kinds of narrow channels that succeed.
The only channels that go generalist and succeed are those backed by large sites that have their own communities externally. They’re sites that don’t need the YouTube success; it’s all incidental to them. Even then, those sites tend to either be specialists in their own style of content, or huge news agencies.
6. Don’t Experiment with Content: Bad Videos Hurt Channels
Conversely, if you have something that works, don’t experiment. People come to see your content, and if you upload a new type of content that doesn’t jive with the rest of your videos, those new videos won’t get the attention of your existing audience.
You’ll end up behind the curve unless, somehow, that new video gets an immense kick off and ends up going hugely viral. Even then, you’ll need to either switch to that new kind of content wholeheartedly or risk losing the value of the subscribers that came in from that experimental video. 7. Optimize Video Impressions for Maximum Interest
By “video impressions” I mean the bit of the video that shows up in the recommendation. This is two things; your thumbnail and the first handful of characters of your title. Titles are easy enough, and you should have plenty of experience with that from blog posts.
As far as thumbnails are concerned, you want them to be interesting, vibrant, colorful, and consistent. If you take a look at an optimized channel, their thumbnails tend to be very stylized and very similar. They’re different enough you can tell if you’ve watched a video before or not, but they’re also branded in a way that showcases their identity. You can read more about making good thumbnails here.
8. Optimize Meta Data for Visibility in Search
The other place your videos will show up is in search, but only if the rest of your meta data is optimized for it. This mostly means your title, your description, and your tags. Never flood your description with tags; use the actual tags field for that. Use the description for an actual description of the video, as well as call to action links that you either include on every video or mention specifically in the video for the user to check out. There’s no really specific steps for optimizing this on YouTube; just use your SEO know-how to make use of the same concepts there.
9. Upload More Videos, Consistently
Remember how it’s really important that your existing subscribers view your new videos as soon after they’re published as possible? One good way you can make sure they do exactly that is by posting videos frequently and on a consistent schedule. I’m talking something like “a new video every Wednesday at 8pm EST”, where you end up posting at least those 52 videos a year.
The idea is to basically train your audience to watch for a new video on a specific time of the week, every week. They don’t fall out of the habit of looking, they know when a new video will show up. They can get in the habit of checking shortly after the video goes live.
10. Set Up Playlists for Autoplay
The autoplay feature on YouTube is great for keeping people on your channel and for expanding viewing sessions. Any time you have a couple of videos on the same subject, it can be worthwhile to add them to a playlist.
In fact, I actually consider it a good idea to go into planning your videos with a playlist in mind. Don’t just make a “ten tips for guest blogging success” video, make ten videos, each with a unique tip covered in depth. In doing so, you can keep people interested in that subject hanging around for several videos at a time.
11. Pay for Short Bursts of Promotion
You can, of course, pay for promotion to get more exposure to your videos. The YouTube algorithm is not strictly pay to win, but paying can get you ahead.
In particular, I figure it’s a good idea to pay to advertise your new videos to your existing audience, but only for the short three-day window in which their immediate views have a huge impact. This way you don’t run extended campaigns with extended budgets.
At the same time, you can have an ongoing small-scale campaign just to build awareness of you and your content. You can use this method to increase your subscribers so that your future videos can show up to them organically.
12. Be Incredibly Famous
Of course, you can always just be too famous to care. Do you think any of those high end Vevo accounts, accounts like PewDiePie or the VlogBros or Marvel’s trailers care about absolutely any of this? Of course not. All you need to do is get an audience in the millions, so that when you post a new video, hundreds of thousands of people check it out almost immediately. That’s a sure-fire way to make sure your videos are seen by hundreds of thousands of people, after all.
Okay, so I’m being a little facetious with this last one. Really though, it’s just an opening; what are your best tips for getting a video to trend?
SJCAM- a leading budget action camera brand, popular along vloggers, youtubers and adventure videograpy seekers . SJCAM regular update, new improvement and innovation make this brand unique among other competitors .
In 2018 SJCAM Launches 3 new series of Camera .
SJCAM SJ4000 AIR 4K Budgets Camera
SJcam SJ8 Series
Ever since the SJCAM SJ8 release information got leaked to the public in August this summer, the community has been speculating on the camera specification, pricing and features quite a lot. A few days ago, we got some more inside information about the SJCAM SJ8.
First of all, like most of us speculated, SJ8 will be released as a series of cameras. Similar to their SJ6 series (which had S6 Legend and SJ6 Air), the latest series will include several models. For now, these SJ8 variations have been revealed :
SJ8 Pro
SJ8 Air
SJ8 Plus
While this article will be based on rumors and speculation, I am pretty sure that we are getting more and more accurate with our information and that soon we can expect SJCAM to reveal the final specification and products features.
SJCAM 2017 Recap
Before we dive into the specification and reveal some quite exciting features, let’s quickly recap what SJCAM has been doing in 2017. The company has been expanding quite rapidly. Recently they acquired the sjcam.com domain over which there was quite a lot of controversy.
Even though I do not have an insider info on what was going on, I know that in 2014 sjcam domain was used by SJCAM distributor, who pretty much made their SJ4000 model a world-famous camera.
Somewhere in 2015 SJCAM wanted to establish themselves as a brand and began their own marketing efforts. They grew from being a factory to becoming an affordable action camera brand. They registered their own domain name under sjcamhd.com and opened their own store. Furthermore, they invested quite a lot into marketing.
These investments came at a cost. Some of their products were just not as good as their previous models. On Pevly, we covered nearly all of the SJCAM models ever made in past, and some of them were rated pretty poorly by our team. Their SJ7 series had some serious heating issues for instance. Lately, the situation has been improving. We were very satisfied with their SJ-Dash Plus and the SJ6 Legend Air.
What is more, they have been expanding their offer of affordable video cameras. The Shenzhen based company got into body-worn cameras with their SJCAM A10 and into virtual reality devices with SJ360.
A few weeks ago, I began to notice that sjcamhd.com, which was an official company website, now redirects to sjcam.com. This can only mean that the distributor who owned the domain finally decided to sell it to the manufacturer. This is one more proof of how serious this Chinese company is about the expansion.
SJCAM SJ8 Series
It is pretty obvious that with SJ8 models, the company wants to challenge some quite established mid-range action camera names in the industry like Yi Technology, Xiaomi and even the highest end ones like GoPro. When we first released the news on this series, I was personally expecting that there will be only one model called SJ8, however as I mentioned, the SJ8 is actually a product series consisting of SJ8 Air, SJ8 Plus, and SJ8 Pro.
SJCAM SJ 8 Series Technical Specification
We did our best here at Pevly to provide you with an early version of specs table so that you know what to expect from these cameras. Please understand that specs table is compiled and based on rumors and unofficial info. Even though I am pretty confident that it’s quite accurate personally, take it with a caution.
We will, of course, do our best to test these models out for you and verify the specs. Tables will be updated once more info is available to the general public. If you happen to have more additional information on the specs, please leave a comment below.
Chipset
Image sensor
Lens
Weight
Size (L x W x H)
Screen
Max native image resolution
Highest resolutions
Video compression format
Image format
Memory
Battery
WiFi
Connection
Remote controller support
Video Gyro Stabilization
External Mic Support
Voice Control
SJCAM SJ8 Air
Novatek NTK96658
Panasonic MN34110PA
7G Lens
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2.33 inch Touchscreen (back)
14 megapixels
1080P / 60fps
H.264
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1200mAh
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SJCAM SJ8 Plus
Novatek NTK96683
Sony IMX117
7G Lens
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Dual Screen
2.33 inch Touchscreen (back)
0.96 inch Front (front)
12 megapixels
4K / 30fps
1080P / 120fps
H.264/H.265
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1200mAh
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SJCAM SJ8 Pro
Ambarella H2-2S85
Sony IMX377
7G Lens
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Dual Screen
2.33 inch Touchscreen (back)
0.96 inch Front (front)
12 megapixels
4K / 60fps
1080P / 120fps
H.264/H.265
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1200mAh
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SJCAM SJ8 Air
Powered by 1200 mah battery, NTK96658 processor, and a Panasonic MN34110PA, SJ8 Air model is the most basic one from the series. Its main selling point will probably be a lower price compared to the other two cameras.
Image credits: Poshgadgets
It comes with some standard mid-range features like video stabilization, remote control compatibility, and external microphone support. Unlike the other two, this one does not have a front display, only an LCD 2.33″ retina, touch-screen at the back.
The only advantage of the SJ8 Air is 14-megapixel image resolution. The other two can capture still images at 12 megapixels. According to the information we have, the highest recording resolution which supports Gyro Stabilization will be 1080p/60 fps.
SJCAM SJ8 Plus
The SJ8 Plus version tries to get the best of both worlds. It’s in the middle when it comes to both price and performance. This model has a dual screen. Front LCD display is 0.96 inch, whereas the back is 2.33-inch touchscreen. It’s biggest selling point is that it can record in 4K at 30 frames per second.
It is possible that the gyro video stabilization will work in 4K @30fps. The SJ8 Plus is powered by a boosted Novatek NTK96683 chip and Sony Sony IMX117 image sensor. I was unable to find more information on NTK96683 chipset.
Image credit: Poshgadget
SJCAM SJ8 Pro
The most advanced of all, SJ8 Pro version is the only model from the series which can record in 4K at 60 frames per second. This camera arrives with a powerful Ambarella H2-2S85 chip and improved image sensor over the plus version – Sony IMX377. The Pro has all the features and compatibility of the two cheaper models but arrives with a voice control support. This is the first SJCAM camera which will implement such feature.
Even though there were rumors that SJ8 will support a GPS, according to the information we have now, this won’t happen. I was personally very excited about the GPS.
Summary
While the information is still pretty unconfirmed and scarce, we hope we managed to present the upcoming SJ8 series by SJCAM in the most comprehensive way possible. If you have more information or leaks about the cameras, please let us know in the comments. We will keep this article up to date and additional information we discover. Make sure to bookmark us and re-visit the article for updates.
While we wait for more information on these, check out our SJCAM category for more news and reviews, and do not forget to take a peek at our Editors’ choice –Best Action camera list.
