IFA 2017 recap - the hot smartphones we saw in Berlin
Another edition of the IFA congress is over and done and it was an eventful one. Samsung decided to forgo its big Galaxy Note8 announcement from IFA but LG, Sony and Motorola all showcased their next flagships during the tech congress. So here's a recap of all we saw from Berlin. Alcatel had four smartphones and a smartwatch to show at IFA 2017. The Idol 5S, Idol 5, A7 XL and A7 alongside the Movetime watch. Here's our . Starting in alphabetical order and starting off big with Archos. The company released a slew of products, including four different Archos Access phones (with displays ranging between 4-4.5-5-5.5-inches) and an Archos Core 50. There was the rugged Archos Sense 47X as well as the 10.1-inch Archis Sense 101X slate. The higher end Diamond lineup made an appearance too with the Archos Diamond Alpha+ and Diamond Tab. Acer at IFA but showed what may as well have been a phone. The Holo360 camera comes with a Snapdragon 625, a screen and Android 7.1 Nougat. There was another 360 camera the Vision360, a 15.6-inch Chromebook 15, the Acer Swift 5, Switch 7 Black Edition and the Spin 5. Asus . We always enjoy handling Cat phones they're brick-like build and their nostalgia-inducing bezels are always welcome in our hearts. And so we manhandled the S41 and S31 Cat smartphones. . Honor kept it pretty tame, announcing a color option of the Honor9, which we had seen before.. You probably haven't heard of Hisense. Whether that will change is up to fate. But we saw a very interesting, very beautiful smartphone from Hisense and we shared a with you. We loved the 5.99-inch 18:9 LCD of the Hisense HLTE300T and the phone's super cool blue trim. Motorola with a dual camera on the back, water proofing and a clever front facing camera that either snaps 16MP detailed stills or downsampled 4MP selfies for lower noise in lower light. Here's our . Lenovo of Yoga hybrids and convertibles. but showed nothing in the way of smartphones. LG made the with the V30 it's new flagship. It packs a better set of cameras, a better, curvier design, much better screen (P-OLED !!!) and a classier chassis. Oh and a Snapdragon 835. LG V30 . Samsung kept to for its IFA presentation. It showed the new Gear Sport smartwatch, its Gear Fit2 Pro smart band and its new truly wireless earbuds the Gear IconX (2018). You can find our . Sony and of phones. The XZ1 and XZ1 Compact are equipped with the fastest chipset around, Sony's best camera and display, and have a slightly improved design. The XA1 family is beautiful and attainable. And it covers a wide range of screen sizes. Check out our , and our . Smartphones aside we saw a bunch of Sony . Finally Sony showed a nifty little rugged cam aimed at VR the .