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Nvidia’s Tegra 3 has been quite hyped on tech blogs before it got released and even afterwards. But that was a little shortlived until the dual core Qualcomm S4 processor, which stole a bit of thunder from Tegra 3, as it was achieving at least as much performance, but better battery life and comes with [...]
From the rumors we’ve heard so far the Galaxy Note 10.1 has suffered quite a few changes. That may be because Samsung, like many others, are finally starting to realize that they need to release something that is a little more compelling than the original Galaxy Tab 10.1, and the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, which [...]
Google has officially closed the deal for the acquisition of Motorola. Now Motorola is fully owned by Google and Google has already announced some changes like replacing the CEO of Motorola with one of their Senior VP’s, and cutting 30% of the workforce, which makes sense since Google will need Motorola to be as lean [...]
We’ve been expecting the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity to arrive for a while now, but we’ve hard it has had some delays because of the lack of supply for the S4 processor that is also LTE enabled. This may be also why we can see that only the Wi-Fi only Tegra 3 version has passed [...]
Samsung has been on a roll in the Android world ever since they launched the Galaxy S, which again besides the very controversial design, it had some very innovative features, like the Super AMOLED display, which at the time was absolutely incredible compared to any mobile LCD on the market, and the very powerful Hummingbird [...]
Ever since the iPhone and the iPad appeared, people have praised the iOS’s simplistic design in comparison to what a user gets on a Windows machine, which can be a lot more complicated for most people than iOS. Android was built by engineers and for people who want more features and functionality, and not necessarily [...]
HTC got caught off-guard a few days ago when HTC’s shipments of One X were stalled at customs because of a previous patent fight HTC had with Apple. So now they are checking if HTC infringes one of Apple’s patents or not. But HTC has already built a solution around it, by making a new [...]
When ICS was launched, I was worried that ICS might never arrive on the low-end phones with ARM11 processors. In a way, I was even hoping that doesn’t happen, because I am really tired of seeing this slow and ancient processor on the market. The biggest problem might not even be that it’s slow, but [...]
Both Google and Samsung have been pushing for phones and displays that curve for the past one year and a half since the Nexus S, but to be honest, I’ve never really understood them. I don’t see this as a huge benefit to the user, but more like a gimmick, that might even hurt the [...]
The LG LS970, also rumored to be called the LG Eclipse 4G LTE (again an ugly long name), is said to come with a quad core 1.5 Ghz S4 Pro processor, that will have the new GPU architecture and GPU chip called Adreno 320. The phone is also rumored to have 2 GB of [...]
Google is finally understanding that games play a big role for mobile devices these days, and they need a way to make people more entertained with Android devices, play games with their friends, and if possible use Google+ more, which will most likely be integrated into this new social gaming hub. Things gaming hub will [...]
Google may have lost yet another negotiation with carriers, and might now have to introduce bandwidth throttling in future versions of Android, at least that’s what a new patent filed by them says. Google’s bandwidth throttling would allow carriers to set usage thresholds for data that is transferred during a certain timeframe, and react with a [...]
HTC is really pushing their One branding, which is smart, because for years they’ve lacked a very coherent branding strategy. They’ve never really followed in Apple or Samsung’s footsteps when it came to branding their phones, and set some expectations for their current and upcoming devices that bear that specific brand name. Even Sony had [...]
A screenshot of a Rogers Adwords ad is showing us that their version of Galaxy S3 will have LTE and “a new Exynos processor”. So what does this mean? We know that Exynos 4 Quad doesn’t have integrated LTE, and we’ve already heard rumors that the US version will be a dual core version. Most [...]
AT&T CEO said something that you’d think wouldn’t come from the CEO of a company that deals with so many Android phones. He basically said that Google decides who and when manufacturers get Android updates, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s his quote: “Google kind of determines what platform gets the newest releases [...]
Last week Pantech launched the Vega Racer 2, and its CEO said that “even though Samsung and Apple are powerful players, the product quality of the Vega Racer 2 is second-to-none”. That’s a very bold claim coming from a manufacturer much smaller than both Samsung and Apple, but also a great way to grab attention. [...]
Today, the US judge will decide if Microsoft’s Xbox infringes on Motorola’s Wifi and video codec patents. We’ve already had a ruling in Germany stating that Microsoft should pay Google because they infringed their patents, but they couldn’t put an injunction on Microsoft’s Xbox until the US judge took a decision. Now Microsoft risks paying [...]
Even though the Galaxy S3 has only a relatively small increase in GPU performance compared to the Galaxy S2 GPU (about 2/3 faster), it still manages to beat every other smartphone out there, and that includes both the Tegra 3 and S4 versions of the HTC One X and even the iPhone 4S, which was [...]
HTC is pulling no punches regarding the new Galaxy S3. It’s obvious they took the Galaxy S3 very seriously because of all the hype mounting up around it, and because Samsung is known for making very competitive devices. I’m sure they were very nervous before Samsung’s event in London, because they didn’t know what to [...]
May 3rd has arrived, and the Galaxy S3 was finally unveiled at Samsung’s Unpacked 2012 event. To my surprise it seemed a few of the major tech news sites had access to all the information about the Galaxy S3 before the event even began, which means that for some there was little point in actually [...]
TSMC has been having a hard time catching up with demand for 28nm chips, thanks to Qualcomm’s S4 chip which is booked up until the end of the year to their customers. But today they have announced that they are going to make a very powerful dual core Cortex A9 at 3.1 Ghz made at [...]
Yes, most people would laugh at this. It’s been like 6 months since ICS was first launched, and we only have 5% of the devices with ICS on them. But look at it this way. It’s taken everyone this much (compared to 2+ months for Gingerbread upgrade), because ICS a major overhaul of Android, and [...]
The next Galaxy S device might put an end to Samsung’s habit to make all-black phones. The Galaxy S, the Nexus S, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus, and a lot of other lower-end phones from Samsung are all black. I think they’ve figured out that they need more style for their phones, so they are going [...]
One of the main problems with monetizing content on the Google Play Store, whether it’s apps, books, music or videos, is that many users don’t have a Google Wallet (former Checkout) account. It’s much easy to buy something with one or two clicks when you already have a payment method set-up. Since Google isn’t allowing [...]
According to ComScore, Android is now (back) at 51% market share. It actually achieved this market share earlier last year, and has mostly stagnated around 50%, but then the big iPhone 4S launch came, and dropped Android’s market share for about a quarter by a few percentage points. But now Android is back at over [...]
Today, the Blackberry OS 10 was unveiled by RIM, and it looks surprisingly good for an OS coming from RIM. The demo hardware also had some high-end specs, like an 1280×768 resolution on a 4.2″ display, which obviously means you won’t be able to see any pixelation, although it remains to be seen if [...]
This rumor is most impressive, especially coming from Sony. When they first tried to enter the Android market with the Xperia X10, they had a huge delay in releasing the phone, and it didn’t even have the best hardware for the time they were planning to launch it. So it came out with very old [...]
This is history in the making and also an end of an era – an era of 14 years in which Nokia dominated the world as the biggest phone manufacturer. From here on, that top position belongs to Samsung. I’ve realized this would happen about 2 years ago, when I started noticing how fast Samsung [...]
HTC doesn’t want to let Samsung one-up them at all, so they are fighting hard to be at least as good as Samsung in all areas. That’s why we’ve seen the best processors on the market in the latest One X flagship, and also the best display on the market, which is currently the Super [...]
Samsung has done a marvelous job not only at hiding the real Galaxy S3 from the public, and its specs, but they were probably even working on multiple “Galaxy S3″ devices so that whenever one of them got leaked, the public just got more confused about what the real Galaxy S3 will have. The same [...]
In a perhaps unsurprising move, because we’ve been predicting it for a months already, Samsung has just unveiled that the next Galaxy S device will have an Exynos 4 Quad processor with improved graphics performance. The processor is most likely the chip previously known as Exynos 4412, which they said has 50% faster graphics performance. [...]
The way Google assigns the Nexus contract (meaning who gets to make the next Nexus device) is they pit the manufacturers against each other and see who is able to make the best device for their liking, with the specs that they want. It seems Samsung has done it once again, and will be making [...]
The Amazon Kindle Fire had a good run in the Android ecosystem because of its very low price of $200, which is something no major Android manufacturer dared or thought to do that until then, even though it should’ve been an obvious move for both them and Google if they wanted to capture as much [...]
It’s not surprise that LG tries to follow Samsung around in the market place as much as possible, simply because they are both from the same small country, South Korea, and they are large companies, and they’ve been always been competitors. So the desire to compete with one another in everything they do must be [...]
The Droid Incredible 4G has been spotted on Verizon’s Droid Does web portal, and it looks like Verizon has completely taken over the marketing for these Droid phones, because even though this is a HTC phone, it makes it look like one of Motorola’s Droid phones. Also I don’t know if it’s HTC’s fault or [...]
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