The LG V30 is a bezel-free device with numerous clever additions. The focus is on audio and videography, but LG isn’t forgetting about smartphone basics. This is a gorgeous, powerful phone that could well be one of the year’s best. Related: Available LG Smartphones and Price LG V30 – Design The LG V30 is the brand’s slickest phone to date and there won’t be many who question that. If the G6 showed that LG had started to care about how its phones look, then the V30 takes that to the next level. Yes, it does have a whiff – and a strong one, at that – of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8, but I feel this is simply the direction in which phone design is headed. Like the S8, the LG V30 says ‘bye-bye’ to bezels and ‘hello’ to a screen that makes up much of the front of the phone. The sides of the screen curve ever so slightly and so does the rear, making it super-comfortable to hold. Considering the V30 has a 6-inch display, it feels almost unbelievably compact

BlackBerry was once the dominant smartphone maker on the market - but the brand has fallen far behind the likes of Samsung and Apple. It recently switched to the Android operating system and a new Chinese manufacturing partner in an effort to recapture past glories. BlackBerry's decision to embrace Android may not restore the brand to its former glory, but it's been a promising start. We were impressed with its latest phone, the KeyOne, which catered to classicists with its hardware keyboard. Now, a new image has been leaked onto the web showing what the next phone from the BlackBerry stable could be. Blackberry will once again ditch the brand's defining physical QWERTY keyboard characteristic for an all-touchscreen phone in favour of a more compact design -- at least, if a new leaked render is anything to go by. Reportedly called the BlackBerry Motion it will be a waterproof handset with a home button with an embedded BlackBerry logo and a 3.5mm headphone jack

Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are the new smartphones from the search giant and these are pitched as ‘premium’ Android flagships. While Google says the hardware on Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 2 is pretty much the same, the fact remains the bigger phone has a newer style of display with 18:9 aspect ratio. That’s something we’re seeing on most of the flagships these days. So how does the Pixel 2 XL match up against the other two flagships in the market: Apple iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Here’s a quick look. Google Pixel 2 XL vs Galaxy Note 8 vs Apple iPhone X: Design, Display  If you look at all three phones, they are very different with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 being the heaviest and also sporting the biggest display. The Pixel 2 XL has a 6-inch POLED 2K display with 18:9 aspect ratio and a reduced bezels on the top and bottom of the smartphone. It has a two tone design, half metal and half glass on the back. Of course, whether customers approve of this will boil down to personal