Smartphone industry saw a huge decline in sales mostly during the second half of 2018 manufacturers struggled to cope up to their first-half records. The reason was a global economic slowdown, due to which people preferred not to buy a spend their hard earned money and companies also tried to adjust as per the situation. Manufacturers came up with low-cost devices to create interest in which some fared well but some failed miserably.

Recently, counterpoint released a list of bestselling smartphones of 2018 and it gave a look at which smartphones generated the most traction and ended up in public hands.

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Before giving you a glimpse here’s a short summary for you. That 6 out of 10 top smartphones are of Apple which is kind of shocking as we all know how costly these smartphones are and statistically Apple had a terrible first half.

So starting up with the list, Apple’s iPhone X tops the list followed by another Apple device you may know as iPhone 8, Apple’s 2016 flagship. Going on to the 3rd place we get the iPhone 8 big brother basically it’s huge variant called iPhone 8 Plus and on the 4th position, we have Apple’s 2015 flagship smartphone iPhone 7. So, the Apple streak ends here and now we continue to the fifth position.

On 5th we have Xiaomi’s ultra-budget smartphone Redmi 5A with basic specifications and a solid low cost it attracted a huge amount of attention.

Now, Samsung instead of great sales record and huge profits came 6th place with their 2018’s flagship the S9 and then continued by two another Apple devices, the iPhone XS Max and iPhone XS at 7th and 8th position respectively.

Whereas Samsung S9 and it’s budget smartphone J6 got 9th and 10th position respectively.

According to Counterpoint, developing countries with a huge amount of millennials helped these companies to boost their smartphone sales.

Counterpoint also released another China specific report where Oppo dominated the list and Apple just got two spots in the list where iPhone X is on the second spot.

With many versatile features, Xiaomi black shark’s sequel Black Shark 2 is here and In the box, you will get

• Black Shark 2
• Charger
• USB-C cable
• Slim case

Black Shark 2 doesn’t come with any gaming accessories like a controller and the box contains very basic smartphone accessories. The device doesn’t’ have a 3.5mm headphone jack and above those USB-C headphones are an optional purchase.

Moving towards the design and body, the device has gaming lights with 163.6mm x 75mm x 8.77mm body dimensions and a solid aluminum chassis and the front portion is of glass. The logo of Black shark is positioned in central and glows in 16.8 million colors as per Black Shark. You can choose the gaming smartphone from its two variant colors, Frozen silver, and shadow black.

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However, because of the aluminum chassis, the device seems bit heavy, thus you might feel the device bit heavy in your pocket while walking around.

The 3.5mm headphone jack is missing and the sim tray is at the bottom with 2 sim card support but no memory card support. Just like every other smartphone the rear camera are positioned in the exact same way.

Keep your phone away from water and wet hands as there’s no waterproofing and water resistance support.

Moving towards the display the device comes with a 6.39 inches screen full hd+ and AMOLED, 2,340 x 1,080 resolution, 430ppi, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 430-nit brightness.

Customer’s complaint helped Black shark improve colors in the successor version providing more color accuracy. And for security, it provides face unlock and fingerprint reader which is nothing new.

Under the hood, it runs on Snapdragon 855 S0C with 2.8GHz octa-core, the 7nm process, 8 or 12GB of RAM which depends upon the users’ need and 128 or 256GB of storage with liquid cooling. The battery is a 4000 mah lithium-ion with Qualcomm quick charge 4.0 and sadly the device doesn’t support wireless charging.

Moving ahead on camera Black shark has a stunning camera. The rear camera has 48MP primary sensor, f/1.75 aperture, and 12MP 2x telephoto sensor, f/2.2 aperture while the front camera has a 20MP sensor, f/2.0 aperture and you can shoot video up to 4k.

The device runs on Android 9 with Joy UI as a skin. The device is available in U.K and Europe for 470 pounds which is equals to $ 625 which is value for money.