Which upcoming phone are you most excited about?

Well, we are both feet in the second half of the year and the mobile world is up for yet another series of shocks — the announcements of such colossi as the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, the Apple iPhone 8, the Google Pixel 2, LG V30, and Sony Xperia XZ1. For a smartphone fan, there's lots to be excited about. We will see most of these devices at IFA in Berlin come September, while the iPhone and Pixel will take their sweet time until September and October, respectively... at least that's what we expect.

Each new iteration has a lot to live up to. The LG V30 has gotten rid of the ticker display and replaced it with a software module, and is also rumored to come with some amazing features for videographers. The Galaxy Note 8 has a lot of bad stigma to go up against — the Note 7's heritage is a cloud of black smoke, still visible just over the horizon. The iPhone 8 is, supposedly, going to have a brand-new, all-screen-front design and we are just bursting with impatience to see what Apple will do with TouchID. The Pixel 2 will, allegedly, get HTC's squeeze feature, and we are really, really curious to see what Google plans to do with it. And then we have the new Xperia... which is kind of more of the same.

In any case, which of these are you most excited about?