Articles tagged "Mobile hardware"

The Tecno Phantom X2 Pro is one of the more memorable phones in recent memory thanks to its unique retractable telephoto/portrait lens. We’ve wondered how the phone looks on the inside and luckily PBKreviews has us covered with his latest teardown...

In 2019 the US placed Huawei on a trade blacklist, which meant that US companies required a special license to continue trading. Licenses were granted to the likes of AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, the latter was allowed to ship 4G-only chipsets (which we...

Apple is in a battle to reduce its reliance on third-party suppliers by taking component manufacturing in-house. Just as it did with its A-series mobile chipsets and M-series SoCs, Cupertino is rumored to bring wireless chips, 5G modems and even...

SK hynix unveiled the “world’s fastest mobile DRAM”, which it calls LPDDR5T. The “T” stands for “Turbo” as the new RAM chips are 13% faster than the LPDDR5X RAM that has recently started appearing on premium devices. LPDDR5T runs at 9.6Gbps...

At the end of 2021 Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, the first 5nm chipset for Windows on ARM devices. It used ARM-designed cores, so its performance is not too different from its siblings that are used for Android. But soon Qualcomm’s...

The Red Magic 8 Pro from nubia is the latest gaming phone from the brand and it’s the first device to undergo a JerryRigEverything durability test in 2023. As usual, the test kicks off with a screen scratch test which shows the Gorilla Glass 5...

The smartphone market shrunk in 2022, which impacted the suppliers of image sensors. Some fared better than others though – Sony was the only supplier to see its revenue grow on a yearly basis. And it was mostly thanks to Apple upgrading the...

Last year Samsung announced its self-repair program in partnership with iFixit, starting in the US in August with support for seven devices: the Galaxy S20 and S21 flagships (sans the FE models) and the Galaxy Tab S7+. Today, the company is adding...

Samsung is the biggest OLED display supplier for smartphones and smartwatches. Apple's Watch series use Samsung OLED panels, and the Korean tech giant is trying to secure its leadership by pushing the transition to the next-generation display...

MicroLED is one of the most promising display techs today. It promises the benefits of OLED with deep blacks and great contrast but with better power efficiency, higher brightness output and most importantly its pixels won’t degrade over time. It’s...

Perhaps you've heard about Apple's plans to design its own cellular chip, which is rumored to debut in late 2024 or early 2025, but the latest rumor also includes the wireless chip responsible for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections. As of now, Apple is...

Samsung Display demoed a smartphone OLED panel that achieved a peak brightness greater of over 2,000 nits at CES 2023. The UDR (Ultra Dynamic Range) 2,000 luminance mark was certified by UL Solutions and represents the pinnacle of Samsung’s mobile...

After introducing its Raptor Lake desktop CPUs in 2022, Intel now unveiled its laptop equivalents with the new 13th gen HX-series at CES 2023. The new HX Series CPUs target gamers and creators and offer up to 24 total cores with 8 performance cores...

Smartphones are constrained by batteries and thermals and perform optimally when specialized hardware does the heavy lifting – hardware like Oppo’s MariSilicon X ISP and the new MariSilicon Y Bluetooth chip. Of course, these are partial solutions,...

The EU is on a roll – first it will force smartphones makers to open their devices to third-party app stores from January 2024, then it will make USB-C mandatory for portable electronics starting at the end of 2024, now it has reached a provisional...

Last month during its Q4 earnings call, Qualcomm basically confirmed that the Galaxy S23 phones will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 globally. All three upcoming phones (S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra) already passed through Geekbench exclusively with the SD...

Everyone in the smartphone industry knows that Apple keeps a tight lid on its suppliers and a lot the more technical specs of its products, so Tim Cook's visit to Sony's facility for CMOS sensors is kind of a big deal. Analysts and fans have been...

The EU has published its new 'Common Charger' directive in its Official Journal, and with that we finally get the date from when it goes into action. Starting on December 28, 2024, every phone, tablet, camera, pair of headphones and earbuds,...

Apple is expanding its Self Service repair program to Europe giving users access to genuine parts, tools and official manuals for select iPhones and MacBook laptops. The service is now live in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden,...

The tenth generation iPad launched back in October with a redesigned look and specs that closely resemble the fourth gen iPad Air from 2020. The new baseline iPad was subjected to a teardown by iFixit which revealed some interesting bits like why it...