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Jan 15, 2014

Qualcomm teaming up with Toshiba to bring SSD-like speed to smartphones and tablets

The tiny chips that hold all your music and your phone's mobile operating system come in various grades of quality. USB thumb drives, for example, often have bottom of the barrel NAND components. Smartphones

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Jan 13, 2014

BlackBerry to go back to their roots and focus on QWERTY, should Android do the same?

What you're looking at above is the very first prototype of an Android smartphone. Note that this is what Android looked like before Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the world. Back then, Google

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Jan 13, 2014

Video: Watch this guy play Fruit Ninja using just his eyes thanks to a $99 Android accessory

Sensors are all the rage these days. Slap one in a pair of headphones, and boom, you get a heart rate monitor. Put one in your bracelet, and there you go, instant pedometer. Now Eye

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Jan 10, 2014

Fun Fact: NVIDIA and Qualcomm were showing off 32-bit tablets with 4 GB of RAM at CES

Chances are you've heard about Apple's A7 chip and how it's the first 64-bit mobile processor. Many people, myself included, wondered why Apple would switch to 64-bit when all their

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Jan 9, 2014

Toshiba thinks your next phone should have two cameras, not one, and no, it’s not for 3D

Smartphone photography has a come a long way since I started covering this industry back in 2006. Back then, Nokia was leading the pack with their 3.2 megapixel N73 that had autofocus, but it

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Jan 7, 2014

Former Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha now in charge of chip making firm GlobalFoundries

If you care about Android, then Sanjay Jha should be a man you're already well familiar with. He used to work at Qualcomm, but then he took the helm at Motorola when the company

videos here are all the camera tricks that qualcomms snapdragon 805 will enable

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Jan 6, 2014

Videos: Here are all the camera tricks that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 805 will enable

Qualcomm's newest smartphone chip, the Snapdragon 805, hasn't started shipping yet. When it does later this year, it promises to have a graphics processor onboard that's 40% faster than what's inside

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Jan 6, 2014

Tegra K1: NVIDIA’s newest vaporware

NVIDIA just announced a new mobile chip called the Tegra K1. It's going to come in two versions. The first, due to be released during the first half of 2014, will have four ARM

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Dec 17, 2013

Alleged Qualcomm insider says Apple “kicked everybody in the balls” with their 64-bit chip

Dan Lyons, better known as Fake Steve Jobs, recently sat down with someone at Qualcomm that wishes to remain anonymous. Said man (or woman) of mystery then proceeded to do nothing other than complain about

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Dec 13, 2013

Google thinking about making their own ARM chips, but it’ll be for their servers, not phones

Building a server farm used to be easy. You bought a bunch of computers that used off the shelf components, put them in an air conditioned room, hired a Linux expert with a wizard beard,

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Dec 9, 2013

Rumor: Intel to make chips for $99 Android tablets, expect to see a couple in Q1 2014

Watching companies compete with each other is fun, but only to a certain point. Let's take the iPad as an example. When it launched, many people called it a giant iPhone because it was

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Dec 6, 2013

Samsung mass producing 8 inch and 10 inch AMOLED panels, first products coming in April

Samsung's AMOLED panels have steadily improved over the years, and while some people tend to prefer an LCD's more accurate color reproduction, AMOLED admittedly offers that "pop" that some consumers prefer. But it'

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Dec 5, 2013

Bluetooth gets updated, say hi to version 4.1

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just announced that they've created a new Bluetooth standard, version 4.1. For those who don't care about Bluetooth all that much, you should, because devices like

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Dec 4, 2013

Reversible USB connector similar to Apple Lightning will show up on devices in H2 2014

The "USB 3.0 Promotor Group" has just announced a brand new connector called "USB Type C". The current microUSB port you see on all your Android devices is known internally as "Micro B". So

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Dec 2, 2013

Samsung working on 20 megapixel camera sensors, they might end up in phones in 2014

According to the Korean website ETNews, Samsung is having issues producing camera modules with optical image stabilization in sufficient quantities. That's going to make them look bad next year when everyone else has optical

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Nov 29, 2013

That rumor about HTC using someone other than Qualcomm for chips is going around again

Did you know that Qualcomm has a small stake in HTC? Did you also know that the North American HTC One X was the best smartphone of 2012, but HTC made the terrible mistake of

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Nov 29, 2013

Rumor: Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Broadcom will have 64-bit chips out during H1 2014

When Apple introduced the iPhone 5s earlier this year, the most hotly debated spec was the 64-bit A7 processor. Why did they go 64-bit when their phone only has 1 GB of RAM?

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Nov 26, 2013

Qualcomm being investigated by China

Qualcomm issued a press release this morning saying that the company is being investigated by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) regarding Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). What exactly did Qualcomm do to