Apr 10, 2013
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
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
Apr 9, 2013
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
Apr 8, 2013
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
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,
Apr 3, 2013
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
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
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
Mar 26, 2013
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
Mar 21, 2013
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
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
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,
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.
Mar 18, 2013
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
Mar 17, 2013
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
