Cheap Phone Contracts: Nexus 5, Moto X, Xperia Z1, LG G2, HTC One Max: The leaks of the year

John Wallat 2013-10-20T09: 55:00 Z before 3 hours

John Wallat

John came by chance on Android and it has given him so much that he stayed right there. After a period as a freelance writer and photographer in his home in the beautiful cathedral, it has brought him to the capital to enjoy AndroidPIT. In his free time he listens to music constantly actually, is underway on his bike, taking pictures of people, houses and things, and occasionally sports.

The Nexus 5 is on Friday, supposedly randomly appeared in the Play Store, a short time later it was gone. Evil to him who evil thinks, but so has the blogosphere a short time before the presentation of the Google smartphone ever been an official image of the Nexus 5 And you can see the images already leaked in advance damn similar. If you familiar? In fact, it is now run before the release of top devices from mostly follow the same pattern. Reason enough to remember and look back on the leaks of the year.

Many beautiful devices has brought us the year – but real surprises were few there. / © AndroidPIT

The “Who’s Who” of Android smartphones

Well, so much we have to admit right at the beginning: As we thought about that flagship this year before the publication of the most leaked, we quickly realized: Basically there is no flagship that is not properly before the publication by the Leak-mill was rotated. The Galaxy S4 it was not quite as wild, but otherwise the internet this year was full of holes as a Swiss cheese. Our list reads then as a Who’s Who of Android smartphones in 2013.

Nexus 5

For weeks, the Nexus 5 is a permanent guest in our news section. Almost every day seep through new information, just before the official launch, we know basically everything about the next Google smartphone. The emergence of the Nexus 5 in Play Store was the culmination, but only the tip of the iceberg. Back in March, talked about the Nexus 5, although at that time purely speculative. Then when it is actually officially unveiled, we will probably not do much more than shrug their shoulders, “Finally” say and put a tick behind the images and the specifications that we know already.

Even before the release we know: So the Nexus will look like 5 . / © Google

Moto X

The Motorola Moto X had felt an eternally long start-up time. Months it took from the first rumors until the official presentation, in the spring when it was still traded as X Phone smartphone was a permanent guest in the blogs. When it finally came down to it, then we already knew almost everything about the first product of the collaboration between Google and Motorola. Too bad, as Stephen in his article “Hello Moto – Goodbye surprises” aptly remarked. About 35 items are with us in advance for Moto X and X-Show phone, the Motorola Smartphone also had quite a long time a regular place in our rumor mill.

For us it is not available, but the Moto X occupied us for some time almost every day. / © AndroidPIT / Motorola

HTC One max

that it would not leave for a top of the range HTC was clear pretty quickly after the launch of the HTC one. In addition to models in red and blue was quickly already talk of a mini and a maxi version. The HTC one max was still trading at the beginning of the T6, the location information was already at this time, the end of May, quite clearly. To the One Mini came, still some time passed, the maximum one was even officially launched recently. Here, too, but we knew basically everything in advance, the fingerprint scanner was in the rumor mill, the main ingredient. Spicy detail: The originally planned presentation date was even pulled from HTC due to massive leaks the day after the front.

The One max – the most worst kept secret from HTC this year. / © AndroidPIT

Sony Xperia Z1

as fast as Sony this year probably no manufacturer has made its latest flagship model with a better flagship themselves to the courts. After Xperia Z was the Xperia Z1, previously traded as Honami, the highlight of the Sony IFA. Only it was not a surprise: Especially the high-resolution camera stir the imagination and the Rubbed Writes the blogger in advance to such an extent that we had to do much more than check off a list of things at the launch of Z1. In May, the first rumors had surfaced this, and lo and behold, most of the information that we had received beforehand also voted match here.

LG G2

LG made it to the G2 to draw a lot of attention in advance. This is not necessarily obvious, but LG was, at least in this country, always in the shadow of a little oversized Samsung. However, with the hardware buttons on the back of the Koreans were able to convince not only myself and my colleagues (for testing), but also attract a lot of attention. Correspondingly strong was also the flow of information before the presentation, in April, the first information about the innovative keys had appeared. The curiosity no longer limited to the G2 then on the device itself, but on how well the back hardware buttons would work in practice. Because one can not replace Leak:’s own experience.

or not?

In all these stories are similar to each well in the course, always appears at the end of a question: How much of this is intentional, that is directly controlled by the company, and how many actually get advance information unintentionally outward? Can not be definitively answer the question – first, it is different from case to case, secondly, would hardly admit a company to deliberately mix information and blurry little picture under the people to keep talking.

But whether intended or not, I find it a pity that the real surprises are so rare. As you stand at the Leak routine that inevitably accompanies every top model – welcome information or unavoidable nuisance

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