The camera and flash break up the woven pattern and sit offset to the left at the top. The battery is non-removable. There are no buttons at all on the face and the bottom edge of the Z30 is similarly naked. On the right spine there's the volume up and down buttons, which double up as camera keys when the camera app is open. There's also a dedicated voice control key in between the volume controls and it launches BlackBerry's answer to Siri and Google Now. Up top you'll find the central power button with a standard 3. At g you're going to feel the weight of the Z30 as soon as you pick it up.

This is one of the heaviest smartphones around, but that's not to say it's uncomfortable to hold, because it isn't. The textured plastic back cover actually provides a lot of grip, but it's still easy to slide in and out of a pocket. Priority Hub will pay attention to whom you interact with most, whether on Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, or texts, then will float those conversations up to the top of a Priority Hub view.

By default, the criteria for tagging messages as a priority is pretty straightforward. Priority Hub will prioritize hence the name conversations from contacts who have the same last name as you or those labeled as highly important. The same goes for messages you select as vitally significant. Simply long-press a conversation in your inbox to slap it with a priority icon represented by an up arrow to accomplish this.

You can toggle these Priority Hub settings on and off as you see fit.

It seems that every OS is catching notification fever, and BlackBerry No matter which app you happen to be in or settings windows you have open, new notifications appear as thin headers across the top of the screen. Tapping these notifications will launch a full view of the message to read its full contents and respond. Hitting an "x" icon within the notification preview will dismiss it entirely. To quickly handle incoming calls, a new feature called Priority Calling lets you receive caller ID notifications then either accept, dismiss, or respond with a canned reply.

BlackBerry Messenger alerts provide the extra option of responding inside the notification itself so you don't have to switch out of the app or menu you're currently viewing. For all BlackBerry's efforts to breathe life into its smartphone platform, it can't hide the lack of many popular apps gracing its virtual store shelves.

The photo-sharing service Instagram isn't available and neither is my current podcast app of choice, Pocketcast. Keyboard I know many true BlackBerry adherents out there will bemoan the Z30's lack of a physical keyboard. Even so, from someone who gave up tangible keys years ago for tapping out messages on glass panels, the Z30's software keyboard is one of the best I've used. The bigger screen makes for more comfortable typing than on the smaller Z10, and I also appreciate BB10's impressive predictive text abilities.

Able to learn over time what words you're likely working toward, the phone also offers handy suggestions placed over the letter your finger and eyes would have to travel to. Flicking upward pushes predicted text into the body of your message. The Z30 also did an admirable job of accurately detecting what keys I hit. The end result is that this gadget lets me type fast and furiously without many errors. Core components Powering the Z30's software is a respectably zippy 1.

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The Pixel XL runs Android 7. It has an 8MP front camera and a On the outside we have new antenna lines, a solid state home button and two new colors: black and jet black. The iPhone 7 Plus gets two 12MP rear cameras, one with standard wide view and one telephoto. Both run iOS Huawei Honor 8 The Honor sub-brand is Huawei's affordable line that targets Millennials, though I don't see why a 13 year old or 70 year old wouldn't also like the phone. It's a stunning looking phone clad in 2D glass and metal, and it's very pocketable at 5.

The Android 6. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is one heck of a great phone, and it's also an extremely expensive one. Inside, it's the culmination of Samsung's triumphs and past mistakes learned from--TouchWiz is actually useful rather than a Disney adventure, features are well thought out and the phone looks stunning clad in Gorilla Glass 5 and aluminum.

The Note 7 has a 5. It has the S Pen, both fingerprint and iris scanner and much more. Moto Z and Moto Z Force Finally, modular phones done right, at least if you're hankering to slap on nifty accessories. The Moto Z and Z Force aren't the kind of modular that requires you to assemble core parts from building blocks, rather they work with magnetic Moto Mods like the JBL stereo speaker back, a projector and extended batteries.

They're the first phones to break from Moto's attractive, but well-worn look and feel. Gone are the complexly curved sides, thick middle body and unibody construction. Instead we have a modern and somewhat angular design that's actually very slim, unlike the old Moto design that got chubby toward the middle. Inside it's all flagship power with the 2. We look at the Droid Edition of these phones, which means they're on Verizon Wireless. The Moto G4 and G4 Plus are big phones with 5. They're identical except for the fingerprint scanner on the front of the G4 Plus and a high resolution camera with PDAF and laser autofocus.

The phones run Android 6. The phone runs Android 6.

It has a rugged casing that meets IP68 specs for water and dust resistance and it has a shatterproof 5. It truly is much less expensive than the flagship iPhone 6s, but it has the same CPU, RAM and excellent rear camera as the more expensive model. The iPhone SE has the body of the iPhone 5s-- that Leica inspired one that's still my personal favorite iPhone design.

It's available in 4 colors and it has a 4" Retina IPS display. It runs Android 6. The LG G5 has a 5. This is LG's first metal bodied phone, and it's available in several colors. It runs on Qualcomm's fastest mobile CPU, the 1. The phone has a very good 16MP rear camera plus a rear 8MP extreme wide angle camera.

Its most innovative, though perhaps not most sucessful feature is the modular Friends that can add functionality. That means the microSD card slot and water resistant features are back--combine those with stunning looks, the fast new Snapdragon CPU, a revised camera that handles low light and good lighting well, bigger batteries and striking QHD AMOLED displays and you've got two flagship Android 6.

The larger companion to the Lumia is the bigger, faster model for those who want the best Microsoft and Windows 10 for phones have to offer. It has a removable battery, 32 gigs of storage, a microSD card slot and one of the better cameras on the market. The aluminum-clad phone has a 5. It has a 5. It runs a fairly clean version of Android 5. It has single band WiFi This is a video review. Nexus 6P This may well be Google's best Nexus phone yet, at least if you're a fan of big screen smartphones.

As you might expect, the Nexus 6P runs the latest version of Android, with no custom UI overlays or bloatware to bog it down. What you might not expect is the sexy unibody anodized aluminum casing, available in 3 hues. It has capable cameras, a lovely 5. Microsoft Lumia It's been a long time since we've seen a high end Lumia phone.

More than a year, in fact. Microsoft is back at it with the Lumia , a 5. The Lumia has an excellent 20MP rear camera with Zeiss lens, and it supports Microsoft Continuum that allows you to turn your pocket-friendly phone into a desktop PC stand-in. It was a big phone with very good specs for a few hundred dollars less than the big name competition at release in April It has the quad core 2. The phone has 4G LTE, but the band selection is a little weak.

LG V10 Gimmick or great? The LG V10 is a little of both. The big screen LG has a secondary front display--a narrow strip at the top that provides shortcuts, status and can act as a control area for apps like the camera.