Jan 15, 2014
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
Jan 13, 2014
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
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
Jan 10, 2014
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
Jan 9, 2014
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
Jan 7, 2014
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
Jan 6, 2014
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
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
Dec 17, 2013
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
Dec 13, 2013
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,
Dec 9, 2013
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
Dec 6, 2013
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'
Dec 5, 2013
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
Dec 4, 2013
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
Dec 2, 2013
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
Nov 29, 2013
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
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?
Nov 26, 2013
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
