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Apr 10, 2013

Korea Times: LG will start shipping flexible displays this year, way before Samsung

According to a report published in The Korea Times, LG is on track to ship flexible displays before their archnemesis Samsung. Said displays should hit the market this year, but the report doesn't say

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Apr 10, 2013

ZTE Geek: One of the first Android phones to use Intel’s new 2 GHz Atom Z2580 chip

ZTE has just announced a phone in China called the "Geek". Not making this up. It has a 5 inch 720p screen (boo!), but what makes it special is the CPU: Intel's brand new

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Apr 9, 2013

AUO: Hey Samsung, we can make 5 inch 1080p AMOLED panels for smartphones too!

HTC was the first company that I'm aware of to ship a smartphone with a 5 inch 1080p screen. That device was called the Butterfly. The thing about the Butterfly is that it used

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Apr 8, 2013

DigiTimes: 6 inch smartphones are going to become a real thing, expect to see a few in Q3

According to the Taiwanese supply chain slash rumor website DigiTimes, handset makers have come to believe that there's a space between 5 inch smartphones and 7 inch tablets that needs to be filled. Ridiculous

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Apr 8, 2013

Broadcom’s newest chips allow a team of 50 people to design a smartphone in one month

Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips get a lot of attention, and rightfully so considering that they power a majority of high end Android devices, but there are definitely other players out there. NVIDIA comes to mind,

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Apr 3, 2013

ARM’s Cortex A57 just taped out, so it should end up in phones in about two to three years

ARM is the company that designs the processors and instruction sets that damn near every smartphone on the planet uses. Their fastest creation to date is the Cortex A15. The only products I can think

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Apr 3, 2013

TSMC to start preparing their factories for 20 nanometer chip production this month

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 in the HTC One, the Exynos 5 Octa in the Samsung Galaxy S4, they're both built using 28 nanometer technology. According to DigiTimes, TSMC was supposed to start preparing their

CHINESE PLAYERS

Apr 3, 2013

Lenovo to pull a Samsung and start making their own chips

Why are Apple and Samsung so healthy while everyone else in the handset business is barely getting by? Depending on who you ask you'll get a different answer, but for me it's all

qualcomm to help htc market the one because qualcomms so awesome at advertising right

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Mar 26, 2013

Qualcomm to help HTC market the One, because Qualcomm’s so awesome at advertising, right?

Qualcomm is an amazing company. They were one of the first to combine everything needed to make a smartphone into a simple package that anyone could then use to build a smartphone. Yet for some

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Mar 21, 2013

Now that ST-Ericsson bit the dust, is it time for Renesas to do the same?

Earlier this week, ST-Ericsson said the joint venture was going to be shut down by the end of this year. There aren't many companies out there who know how to make a capable

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Mar 21, 2013

Samsung says the UK GS4 will use a Qualcomm chip, not an Exynos as originally thought

It's pretty common knowledge that whenever Samsung announces a new device, it comes in two versions. One version has a Qualcomm chip, the other has a Samsung chip. Why two versions? Because American operators

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Mar 21, 2013

NVIDIA just teased Tegra 5 and Tegra 6, but they’re not really saying anything

NVIDIA is currently hosting an event called the "GPU Technology Conference". It's a silly name when you think about it, because there are plenty of other graphics players, but I digress. At this conference,

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Mar 21, 2013

Will the next Nexus really have a Nikon camera? I don’t buy it.

PhoneArena recently published a rumor that hit the internet like a lightening bolt. They say that the next Nexus phone, which they're calling the Nexus 5, will have a camera that has Nikon branding.

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Mar 18, 2013

It’s official: ST-Ericsson is dead

How odd. Less than 24 hours ago I published a piece saying ST-Ericsson tried to sell themselves to Samsung, and Samsung said no. Now this Reuters article just hit the wire: "STMicroelectronics and Ericsson

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Mar 17, 2013

ST-Ericsson asked Samsung to buy them, and Samsung said no

Chances are you've never heard of ST-Ericsson, despite the fact that they've announced some pretty amazing silicon in the past. Short summary: It's a joint venture between the French chip company