Ten years ago, these picateclas made a living by testing cell phones, among other things. make a version low cost what is today xataka They make friends like Ricardo, Iván, Mario or Alejandro. And I remember 2013 as a seemingly normal year but time has shown how an unrepeatable milestone.

There were a few changes for mobile technology that were tectonic and whose results we still see ten years later, but most of all, there were advances that improved the daily lives of many people and no longer had a successor ten years later.

Foundations and a low-level revolution for the next decade

Some of these arrivals were: biometric technology to smartphones. It was released by the iPhone 5s with fingerprint sensor. Since then we have not dreamed of a phone without biometrics.

Another improvement was that of the Nokia Lumia 1020, just at a time when Microsoft was negotiating to buy a brand and eventually went bankrupt, but the 41 megapixels of its sensor were 41 fiddlers who insisted on bringing joy to the Titanic’s deck. Last second.

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We learned from that phone that high resolutions are a good solution to cut on when there is no physical space to put a large optical zoom. That 41-megapixel caused teasing laughter at the time, but no one is laughing at the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s 200-megapixel sensor. Perhaps the Lumia (which had its father in 808) was the seed of a way to understand mobile telephony.

There’s also the LG G2, perhaps the first high-end phone to offer much more than satisfying. LG has never been able to replicate this autonomy in its successors, and this South Korean brand has found its bones on a remote beach, but for those who trusted their purchase in 2013, they got a big battery.

And above all Moto G. Ten years passed and we were orphaned by someone like him: really affordable and highly competent. The panorama of the lowland before he arrived was depressing. The Galaxy Mini was the preferred choice among certain demographics, and those aiming for something a little higher usually ended up with a…Galaxy Ace. LG Optimus L3 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc complete the list of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The majority are those some carriers target unsuspecting buyers.

In this regard, with such bad phones in low range, the arrival of the Moto G has been a real balm. It was indeed a mid-range device at a low price. Well-designed like the HTC of the time, a human touch similar to what Apple offered, a screen on par with the much more expensive Samsung models, and only they could offer the Nexus. and at 180 aurelios As the arrival price, because then it started to fall. Who gives more?

Speaking of them, the Nexus 5 was another short-lived boo. It improved a lot over the previous Nexus, covered the price, and also offered a great design. Its successor, the Nexus 6, jumped onto the vine with a price that wasn’t justified by the product. Then came the Pixels and they improved in terms of quality-price, but we never had anything like the Nexus 5 again.

The first Sony Xperia Z to include has also arrived. water resistance that becomes standard over time for almost any mobile phone. Not long ago, seeing a smartphone fall into water meant losing it forever.

And although we have had many memorable models in this decade, there has never been a year like 2013. plus Google) is as pure as possible, and that it is not impossible to achieve great autonomy on the high end, besides increasing the size of screens without complexes, a trend that is here to stay.

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