AnandTech: Gadgets Section

Windows Phone 7 Series Takeaway

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Microsoft has finally unveiled its platform to return to feature competition in the smartphone space. Is it enough to hang with the likes of Android, iPhone OS and webOS?

February 22, 2010, 40 comments

The Patriot Box Office Review: A Portent of Great Things to Come

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Patriot sent us its first foray into the streaming media market. This tiny little box will let you stream everything from ripped movies to full blown Blu-ray images to your TV. We took it for a spin.

February 16, 2010, 76 comments

The Apple iPad - Anand's Analysis

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For not actually shipping a product, there's a lot to take in based on today's iPad announcement. We wrestle with available information to figure out where this thing will compete and whether or not it even makes sense. To answer that we have to go back about a decade.

January 27, 2010, 153 comments

NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2

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NVIDIA's new SoC has a pair of ARM Cortex A9s on a single die. If you thought the A8 was fast, this is going to blow your mind.

January 7, 2010, 54 comments

XBMC & Broadcom Bring 1080p Decode Upgrade to ill-equipped netbooks, nettops, Apple TVs

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Have $30? Thanks to the XBMC team and Broadcom you now have a way of upgrading your anemic netbook, nettop, AppleTV or Mac Mini to a HTPC capable of playing back 1080p video. Open source rocks.

December 29, 2009, 54 comments

Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS

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Preparing for the ultra mobile future, Epic Games showed us an exclusive demo of Unreal Engine 3 running on a 3rd generation iPod touch.

December 22, 2009, 53 comments

Anand's Thoughts on the Kindle 2 and Marvell Making Affordable eBook Readers

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A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more detail on one of its members: the 166E. Marvell hopes that the 166E will pave the way for affordable ebook readers in 2010.

November 3, 2009, 51 comments

Understanding the iPhone 3GS

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The iPhone 3GS improves performance by leaps and bounds over its predecessor. Today, we go through its architecture and understand how.

July 7, 2009, 59 comments

Lab Update: The Pre, Nokia and Intel, SSDs and More

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I provide some brief looks into what's going on in my lab this week and next.

June 24, 2009, 37 comments

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When I first met Apple's iPhone, I was very impressed. Meet the first smartphone to impress me since.

June 19, 2009, 91 comments

iPhone 3GS Performance: A Significant Performance Bump

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What's the first thing I did with my new iPhone 3GS? Benchmarked it.

June 19, 2009, 73 comments

Gigabyte GM-M8000 Mouse - A GHOST Story

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We take a look at the top gaming mouse from Gigabyte and realize it might indeed be a real GHOST when it comes to gameplay.

June 15, 2009, 44 comments

The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzed

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Two days ago Apple announced the iPhone 3GS. Today we talk about the hardware that makes it the fastest iPhone (and possibly smartphone) ever.

June 10, 2009, 66 comments

Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360

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We've finally got a Jasper in house, meaning we've also got die measurements, power consumption and more hardware details than we should have to provide about a closed box game console. Let's hope the RRoD is finally fixed.

December 10, 2008, 79 comments

Jasper Found in the Wild: 65nm Xbox 360s are Appearing

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After entirely too long, Jasper has finally been discovered in the wild.

November 28, 2008, 21 comments