Sep 5, 2013
Samsung's Galaxy Note III is going to be the first phone on the market to feature a micro USB 3.0 connector. As The Verge notes, there are many obvious benefits to the new
ARM is the UK company that powers the mobile industry. They design chips and architectures that they then allow anyone and every to use, for a licensing fee. Whether you're talking Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple,
Aug 31, 2013
Qualcomm is among the most popular SoC vendor to most Android OEMs out there. In fact, there is a very high probability of at least one or two devices in your household being powered by
Aug 21, 2013
Back in my day, when WiFi and Bluetooth started creeping into devices, most folks didn't trust the technology. Bluetooth was damn near impossible to get working at the turn of the century, and WiFi
Whether LG phones are worth buying is debatable, but there's one thing the company does that needs to be applauded: They make some of the best LCD panels on the planet. Last night the
Aug 20, 2013
According to the Korean site ET News, both Samsung and LG will have devices out on the market by the end of this year that use flexible screen technology. Now before you get too excited,
Aug 14, 2013
Both Samsung and LG are working on flexible display technology. LG has even said that they want to release a flexible smartphone by the end of this year. Whether they actually achieve that goal is
Aug 9, 2013
Remember when NVIDIA announced the Tegra 4 earlier this year and promised to deliver the best performance inside a tablet the world has ever seen? Yeah, small problem. No one actually built any tablets that
Aug 7, 2013
Qualcomm designs some of the best chips being used in mobile devices today, but they don't actually make them. That job is outsourced to dedicated fabrication plants, commonly referred to as fabs. TSMC has
Aug 6, 2013
Motorola's new Moto X has a feature that gets a lot of attention: touch-less control. By simply saying "OK, Google Now", your phone wakes up, even if it's across the room, and
Aug 2, 2013
There are a handful of companies out there that make image sensors for mobile devices like smartphone and tablets. Samsung and Apple tend to stick sensors from Sony in their high end devices. But what
Jul 30, 2013
You've never heard of Novaled. It's OK, neither have I. According to their website, however, we should all know about them since their mission statement is to make "customers' OLED visions a reality".
Jul 29, 2013
Over the weekend, Samsung announced what they're calling "the world's fastest embedded memory". Using the new eMMC 5.0 standard, these new chips, which will come in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64
Qualcomm gets all the attention from the media these days, but there are other chip companies out there who serve their particular markets extremely well. You've likely heard of MediaTek and their efforts to
Jul 26, 2013
Samsung had a lot of nerve announcing an octa-core chip at CES this year. Not only did that chip fail to reach the United States and most European markets, but it's not even
Jul 24, 2013
You know all those rumors about the Note III having 3GB of RAM? Well, they might be legit. Samsung just published a press release this morning saying they've begun mass producing "three gigabyte (GB)
Jul 23, 2013
The original Exynos 5 Octa, the one announced at CES 2012, was a bit of a failure. Americans never saw it. Europeans never saw it. Many Asian countries didn't see it either. Instead, they
Jul 19, 2013
Samsung just sent out a tweet saying a new Exynos 5 Octa will be announced next week. They say it'll be "more powerful" and "enhanced", but don't provide any details. I'd like
