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Jul 18, 2013

The ClearPixel article you’ve been waiting for

When it was revealed that the Motorola X might ship with a "ClearPixel" camera, I did my best to explain the technology, but I included a (HUGE) disclaimer saying that optics weren't my field

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Jul 11, 2013

LG unveils 5.2″ 1080p LCD that’s 2.2 mm thick

Remember when the Greek website Techblog (worst name ever, I know) said that the LG G2 would have a 5.2 inch screen last week? Looks like they were right, because LG just announced a

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Jul 10, 2013

SanDisk’s new microSD cards are crazy fast, unfortunately the phone in your pocket isn’t

SanDisk has just announced their new "Extreme" microSD cards. They say the cards can hit 80 MBps, and they're not joking. The guys over at Android Police tested the 64GB model, and they managed

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Jul 5, 2013

DigiTimes: The NVIDIA Tegra 4 has failed

Few companies hype their SoCs (system on chips) as much as NVIDIA. It's actually quite disturbing how often they try to remind press people that they're still around. What's odd, however, is

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Jul 4, 2013

Intel Bay Trail-T benchmarked, blows minds

About a month ago, the guys over at AnandTech got a chance to play with an Intel Bay Trail-T reference platform. The device they handled had a 10 inch 2560 x 1440 pixel screen,

ANDROID PHONES

Jul 3, 2013

Rumor: LG G2 and Note III to have 3 GB of RAM

The Korea Economic Daily, a newspaper that's been around for almost half a century (1964), is reporting that both the Samsung Galaxy Note III and the LG G2 will ship with 3 GB of

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Jul 3, 2013

World’s first true octocore chip to be made by Mediatek, will be as fast as a Snapdragon 800

Samsung may have been the first company to announce an "octocore" chip, but they kind of lied. The Exynos 5 Octa does indeed have eight physical application processors, but only four of them are active

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Jul 1, 2013

Benchmarks show the Snapdragon 800 uses just a tiny bit more electricity than the 600

Qualcomm's flagship chip, the Snapdragon 800, is going to be at the heart of several flagship smartphones due to hit the market later this year. Those fortunate enough to live in Korea can already

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Jun 27, 2013

Qualcomm ZOLA smartwatch coming in Q3?

According to the anonymous Twitter user @evleaks, Qualcomm, the chip designer, is going to release their very own smartwatch in September of this year. It's going to be called the ZOLA. That's all

leef bridge a usb key that talks to both your smarpthone and your computer now available

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Jun 26, 2013

Leef Bridge: A USB key that talks to both your smartphone and your computer, now available

Earlier this month, I published a list of three accessories I want to see Samsung release during the second half of 2013. One of them was a "USB key with full sized and micro sized

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Jun 19, 2013

Volume flexible OLED display production starting in Q4, LG to beat Samsung to the punch

According to The Korea Times, LG will begin mass producing flexible OLED displays during the fourth quarter of this year. The company has also reaffirmed that there will indeed be a smartphone on store shelves

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Jun 19, 2013

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 tested, it screams

By the end of this year, you'll be able to buy Android device that are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800. Today's flagship phones are all powered by the Snapdragon 600, so now

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Jun 19, 2013

Experts say the Huawei Ascend D2 has the best 1080p screen on the market, Xperia Z worst

The analysts at DisplayMate have just published a piece comparing three smartphones: HTC's One, Huawei's Ascend D2, and Sony's Xperia Z. All three have 1080p displays. Why wasn't the S4 included

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Jun 19, 2013

NVIDIA admits no one wants to use their Tegra chips, decides to license their GPU technology

Month after month, quarter after quarter, NVIDIA's marketing machine desperately tries to convince people that the Tegra chip for smartphones and tablets is the best thing to ever happen to the mobile industry. But

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Jun 18, 2013

Liquid cooling coming to tier one smartphones?

Earlier this year, NEC announced the "world's first" liquid cooled smartphone. Forget about pumps and radiators, this is a phone we're talking about; it uses heat pipe technology. The principle is really simple

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Jun 17, 2013

Not content with 1080p, display makers are working on WQXGA panels for smartphones

It feels just like yesterday when Samsung announced the 720p Galaxy S III. When rumors started floating around about the Galaxy S4, saying that it would have a 1080p panel, very few people, myself included,

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Jun 10, 2013

SK Hynix announces 8Gb LPDDR3, world’s first

Samsung might make the bulk of RAM found in smartphones and tablets, but there are other companies out there, with the most important being SK Hynix. Today they've announced a "world's first" technology,

COMPONENTS

Jun 6, 2013

Intel’s new 15-band 4G LTE modem in the final stages of testing in the U.S., Europe, and Asia

Qualcomm is the leader in 4G LTE technology. According to Strategy Analytics, they controlled an incredible 97% of the 4G LTE baseband market during Q1 2013. No, that's isn't a typo. Other firms