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Apparently, the sweet spot in terms of mobile hardware is a quad-core processor, at least that’s what recent sales numbers show. According to analyst firm Berg Insight, high-end smartphone sales grew considerably in 2012. For devices with retail prices higher than €400 (before subsidized pricing) sales grew from about 150 million units in 2011 to [...]
Nvidia to License Its Kepler-Based Mobile GPU Technology; Why That’s a Smart Move
Nvidia has never had a ton of success with their Tegra chips. Tegra 2 wasn’t very popular and was pretty seriously flawed by lacking NEON extensions, and it also arrived too late on the market when dual core chips weren’t such a big surprise anymore. Then came Tegra 3, which was a bit more successful, but [...]
Droid Daily 6/18/13: Lifetime, History, Minuum Keyboard, and More
Facebook looking for Samsung to make its Next phone? Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince Samsung to make their next phone to replace the HTC First. But we also learned today that Samsung has turned Zuckerberg and Facebook down. So it looks like no Samsung-Facebook phone coming. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 With Accessories for [...]
Dish Backs Away from Sprint Merger, Instead Will Focus on Clearwire Acquisition
Dish Network announced earlier today that they were stepping down from the offer they made to purchase Sprint. Instead, they’re going to focus on another deal they have with Clearwire. Originally, Dish offered Sprint $25.5 billion to purchase the network and its spectrum. “While DISH continues to see strategic value in a merger with Sprint, [...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP Gets Benchmarked – Speeds will Blow You Away
Today, Engadget got a chance to play with the latest Qualcomm MDP devices. Which there was both a tablet and a phone. It packs the OEM’s latest Snapdragon SoC which we should be seeing in devices later this year. It’s the MSM8974. The tablet is a bit larger than last years MDP. It features an [...]
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