Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

Meizu has already scheduled a MWC press event on February 28 in Barcelona. Its slogan is Faster Than Ever, but that's all the hints we got so far. According to the latest rumors though, the star of the Meizu show will be mCharge 4.0. That's quite...

Samsung’s Exynos chipset is venturing into 10nm territory with the latest Exynos 9 Series 8895. This chip promises up to 27% higher performance and 40% lower power consumption than a comparable 14nm chip. The chipset features an octa-core CPU...

Xiaomi recruited Wang Feng to star in the trailer of its upcoming chipset, Pinecone. Yes, a trailer for a chipset - Xiaomi is sparing no expense to drive up the hype. Anyway, Feng is a two-time World Memory Champion and he shows off his skills by...

Xiaomi plans to unveil its in-house chipset next week (Tuesday) but we’re still fuzzy on the details. This isn’t quite official, but here’s what the rumor mill expects out of the two Pinecone chipsets, dubbed V670 and V970. The more powerful...

Some of us are working on an HTC 10 evo review and have to deal with the reality having USB-C as the only port. No, not even a 3.5mm headphone jack. But that’s not the only issue, we have plenty of microUSB cables in the office while our USB-C...

It seems that we’ve hit a wall when it comes to mobile screen resolutions - not that the technology isn’t there, it’s the purpose that is missing. Sure, VR enthusiasts (15% of voters) are excited for 4K 2160p screens since virtual reality headsets...

Doesn't everybody love a good pixel war? Just a decade ago QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) screens were considered high-res and now you can even find 1080p displays on phones under $200. We even saw a 4K screen in the meantime - the Xperia Z5 Premium...

Sony has many imaging revolutions under its belt but the tech giant keeps pushing the envelope. It just introduced the industry’s first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor. Plainly put, Sony added RAM to the image sensor to enable high-speed capture -...

The Land Down Under is getting some impressive LTE speeds - Telstra demonstrated its new gigabit network which achieved 930Mbps downlink and 127Mbps uplink speeds in a test. The test was done over a Netgear Nighthawk M1 mobile router. That router...

A couple of years ago Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi 2A - a phone powered by a Leadcore chipset. You’d be forgiven if you haven’t heard the name before, but both companies partnered to create Beijing Songguo (of which Xiaomi controls 51%, Leadcore the...

The merger of Android and Chrome OS has long been discussed, but now we’re seeing the first real step towards that goal - Google announced that any and all Chromebooks sold from 2017 onwards will supports the Google Play Store. That means you can...

Qualcomm sort of announced the Snapdragon 835 last month but without going into specifics - Samsung will manufacture it on a 10nm process and it'll feature QuickCharge 4.0, that's about it. Good thing there's GFXBench to shed some light on the...

It appears the Samsung foldable phone plot is thickening yet again. Another interesting patent has surfaced online, showing a brand new design concept for a foldable handset, with bendable displays and what appears to be a detachable camera...

MediaTek has definitely been keeping busy lately and thankfully so, since the Chinese company's chips play a huge part in powering much of the diverse Android device realm. The company now has two new interesting offers in its deca-core lineup - the...

Bendable and flexible screens have been a lot like the iconic self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future for some time now. There has been a lot of of talk about the feasibility of the technology at least as far back as three years ago and we have...

Fingerprint readers have become a wide-spread feature in smartphones, with even the lower-end reaching towards it. Previously we heard whispers of a widespread fingerprint reader roll-out across Samsung's device family and now industry sources...

Tech companies are looking to smart cars as their next big source of revenue - Nvidia’s profits are rising on chips that power self-driving cars and now Samsung is making its biggest acquisition yet. In an all-cash transaction, the Korean giant will...

Growth in battery capacity seems to have stalled but one thing keeps growing - the rate at which batteries charge. Qualcomm is rumored to introduce Quick Charge 4.0 soon which will push a whopping 28W of power to supported phones. For comparison,...

The rumor that Apple will be moving to an OLED panel for its anniversary iPhone in 2017 has been around for so long now, that we would be surprised if it didn't materialize. Perhaps the biggest proof in this regard thus far has been a comment from...

With VR heating up, companies have been looking for ways to provide an affordable entry, but VR requires a very different GPU than gaming on a screen. Meet ARM’s new GPU - the Mali-G51 - built specifically for VR. A smaller brother of the G71,...