盤點今年夏天最爲出色的五款智能手機
What's the smart buy for a smartphone this summer? The choices are better than ever.
夏天到了，哪款智能手機值得擁有呢？今年可選擇的手機的品質要遠勝以往。As smartphone shipment growth ebbs, sales of large models— the so-called phablets— are expected to be brisk, seeing double-digit growth over the next several years, according to market researcher IDC. Not surprisingly, topping our list is a large smartphone. Here's a brief roundup of the hottest smartphones to consider this summer.
市場研究機構IDC表示，智能手機的出貨量增長放緩，大號智能手機，即所謂的平板手機的銷量在未來幾年中有望實現兩位數的增長。在此背景下，平板手機榮登本榜榜首便不足爲奇了。下面本文將對今夏幾款大熱機型進行盤點：ung Galaxy S7 Edge: Best premier smartphone
1.最佳首發手機：三星Galaxy S7 Edge
This is the high-end smartphone to beat this summer. If it was strictly a design race between Samsung and Apple, Samsung would be the easy winner. The South Korean giant's Super AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) 5.5-inch display has curves on two sides, resulting in a stunning design. It has a practical side too: the wrap-around display delivers added real estate for "edge" apps. The S7 Edge also has one of the best cameras going and the best battery life yet for a high-end Galaxy model.
在這款高端手機面前，炎炎夏日似乎也失去了熱度。如果蘋果和三星進行一場設計競賽，三星將輕鬆勝出。這家韓國巨頭的超炫屏屏幕的大小爲5.5英寸，使用的材料的是超級有源矩陣發光二極體面板，邊緣採用雙曲面設計，整體效果令人炫目。這款手機屏幕的實際使用效果也相當不錯：環繞式處理技術令屏幕邊緣的應用程序也有了展示的空間。S7 Edge配備了最好的攝像鏡頭，電池壽命在高端Galaxy系列中也是最長的。A blow-by-blow comparison with iPhone 6s Plus yields a bunch of upsides, including 4GB of RAM (vs 2GB on the iPhone), wireless charging, and a microSD slot for upgrading the standard 32GB storage with, for instance, a 128GB microSD card that can also be configured with dual SIM cards.
如果把iPhone 6s和G7 Edge放在一起進行詳細比較，後者的優點非常突出：G7 Edge的隨機存取存儲器容量達到4GB（而6s的這一數據爲2GB）；具備無線充電功能；手機內存爲32GB，可插入128GB的SD卡進行拓展。The only downsides are fingerprint smears and Samsung's user interface – but the latter is vastly improved over previous versions. Retail pricing typically starts at between 750 dollars and 790 dollars at major carriers.
這款手機僅有的缺點是指紋識別系統和三星人機互動界面的設計--但是後者的性能在近幾個版本中有了極大的提升。大型運營商處爲這款手機提供的零售價在750美元到790美元之間。ne 6s: Best mainstream phone
2.最佳主流手機：iPhone 6s
Apple still has a lock on the mid-range, mainstream smartphone. The 4.7-inch iPhone 6s has a stiffer chassis than the iPhone 6, excellent front and rear cameras, a novel "3D Touch" pressure-sensitive display for previewing messages, photos, and related links, and the new A9 processor makes everything very snappy. But let's face the facts: While Apple makes great, high-quality hardware, many consumers choose iPhones primarily because they know they're buying into probably the greatest selection of apps in the world. It starts at 649 dollars.
蘋果仍然牢牢把持着中等尺寸和主流智能手機市場。4.7英寸屏幕的iPhone 6s的底盤比iPhone6的更加結實，前置和後置攝像頭性能良好，屏幕配備了新奇的"3D觸摸"壓力傳感器和A9處理器，人們在瀏覽信息、照片和相關鏈接時會覺得非常順暢。然而事實卻擺在眼前：雖然蘋果手機配備的硬件質量極好，但是許多消費者選擇蘋果的原因在於，他們清楚蘋果能爲自己帶來世上最好的手機應用。iPhone 6s售價爲649美元。s 6P: Best pure Android phone
3.最佳原生安卓手機：Nexus 6P
The Nexus brand has a following that, while a lot smaller, is not that unlike the iPhone's following. That's because Nexus phones maintain high standards, are designed in conjunction with Google, and made by world-class phone suppliers. Huawei— the third-largest global smartphone manufacturer behind Samsung and Apple according to IDC— now makes the best Nexus phone. Those specs include an excellent (and extra-large) 5.7-inch very-high-resolution AMOLED display, a good 12-megapixel camera, 3GB of RAM, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor. The only notable downsides are a sometimes less-than-snappy camera experience and unneeded bulk in the chassis. But the best part is the cost, with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of 499 dollars. But the 6P can often be found for under 450 dollars at retailers and even under 400 dollars at some stores.
Nexus品牌系列手機的規模雖不比蘋果，但在質量上卻不遑多讓。Nexus出產的手機一向質量上佳，不僅Google鼎力支持，世界級的手機供應商亦爲其保駕護航。據IDC稱，位列三星和蘋果之後的第三大智能手機生產商華爲生產的Nexus手機品質最佳。這款手機的屏幕尺寸達到了5.7英寸（又是超大屏幕），使用的材料是有超高分辨率的有源矩陣發光二極管面板，其他硬件還包括1200萬像素的攝像頭，3GB的隨機存取存儲器和高通Snapdragon 810處理器。拍照反應較慢，底盤進行加重處理是該機型較爲顯著的缺點。Nexus最吸引人的是價格，其建議零售價僅爲499美元，而一些零售商給出的價格僅爲450美元，在一些門店更是低至400美元。G5: Best modular phone
4.最佳模塊化智能手機：LG G5
Though overshadowed by Samsung, the smaller South Korean phone supplier has come up with a pretty radical smartphone. The killer feature for the 5.3-inch phone is modularity. By pressing a button, the bottom of the phone slides out, which allows you to not only swap in a fresh battery but add upgrade modules too. And the camera is different too. The LG G5 has both 8- and 16-megapixel sensors on the back, located on either side of the LED flash. The secondary 8MP sensor allows wide-angle shots. At retail, it ranges between 575 dollars and 625 dollars.
籠罩在三星陰影之下的LG最近終於推出了一款顛覆性的智能手機。這款屏幕尺寸爲5.3英寸的機型的最大賣點在於其模塊化的手機結構。按下相應按鍵，手機底部會自動滑出，不僅可以更換電池，也可以裝載其他升級模塊。LG G5的攝像頭也與衆不同，在手機背面有兩個分列於LED閃光燈兩側的傳感器，像素分別達到800萬和1600萬，而800萬像素的傳感器賦予了手機廣角拍攝的功能。這款手機的零售價在575美元和625美元之間。ne SE: Best small phone
5.最佳小型智能手機：iPhone SE
The 4-inch SE is the best deal Apple has ever offered on a new iPhone: It's not only the cheapest iPhone, but has cutting-edge internals. This is a more advanced phone internally than the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, and is on par with the iPhone 6s/6s Plus. And it has the same great rear-facing 12-megapixel camera of the 6s, with better battery life than both the 6 and 6s. The iPhone SE also excels at one-handed operation. It's a cinch to do all sorts of things: thumb-scrolling, photo-taking, typing. The SE is also more pocketable than, let's say, the large 5.5-inch 6s Plus. The icing on the cake is the price: it starts at 399 dollars for a 16GB version and 499 dollars for 64GB.
屏幕大小僅爲4英寸的iPhone SE是蘋果公司出產過的最好的新手機。該機型是史上賣得最便宜的iPhone，內在配置也走在時代前沿。其配置令iPhone6和iPhone6 Plus相形見絀，與iPhone6s和iPhone6s Plus可謂旗鼓相當，1200萬像素後置攝像頭的配置與iPhone 6s相同，電池壽命卻優於iPhone6和6s。iPhone SE的單手操作體驗同樣非常流暢，使用者能夠非常輕鬆地用大拇指瀏覽網頁，拍照，打字。相比5.5英寸的iPhone6s Plus，iPhone SE攜帶起來更加方便，價格更是該機型的加分項：16GB版本的售價僅爲399美元，64GB版本的售價也僅需499美元。
