Mobile
As the semiconductor industry continues to evolve, Arm stands at the forefront of innovation for its core and IP architecture, especially in the mobile space, by pushing the boundaries of technology to deliver cutting-edge solutions for end users. For 2024, Arm's year-on-year strategic advancements focus on enhancing last year's Armv9.2 architecture with a new twist. Arm has rebranded and re-strategized its efforts by introducing Arm Compute Subsystem (CSS), the direct successor to last year's Total Compute Solutions (TSC2023) platform. Arm is also transitioning its latest IP and Cortex core designs, including the largest Cortex X925, the middle Cortex A725, and the refreshed and smaller Cortex A520 to the more advanced 3 nm process technology. Arm promises that the 3 nm process node will deliver unprecedented...
Sony Launches The Xperia Z5, Z5 Compact, and Z5 Premium With UHD Display
In April of this year Sony launched the Xperia Z4, their sequel to the 2014 Xperia Z3. Since the Z3 had only launched in September of 2014, it was...
71 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2015
Qualcomm Announces Kryo CPU Details: Quad Core 2.2 GHz, 14nm FinFET
Today, Qualcomm announced a number of details in the Snapdragon 820, specifically about their Kryo CPU. Given that the Snapdragon 810 was a somewhat standard 4x Cortex-A57/4x Cortex-A53, it...
60 by Joshua Ho on 9/2/2015
Huawei Launches Mate S - Hands On
Today at Huawei's IFA Berlin 2015 launch event the Chinese handset maker launched it's new fall flagship device, the Mate S. The new 5.5" form-factor places the Mate S...
19 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/2/2015
Lenovo Unveils A Trio Of New Android Tablets.
Today Lenovo has launched three new Android tablets in their YOGA Tab series. In order the new devices are the YOGA Tab 3 8", the YOGA Tab 3 10"...
6 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2015
Lenovo Announces New PHAB and PHAB PLUS Phablets
Today Lenovo has made a number of announcements relating to their mobile device business. We've seen two new low end tablets, and a very strange but also very interesting...
2 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2015
Lenovo Launches Three New VIBE Smartphones
Lenovo has been making quite a number of announcements at IFA this year. We've seen a unique high end Android tablet, low end Android tablets, and really big phablets...
6 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2015
The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing The Real World
Over the last 5 years the mobile space has seen a dramatic change in terms of performance of smartphone and tablet SoCs. The industry has seen a move from...
157 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/1/2015
Obi Worldphone Launches The Worldphone SF1 and SJ1.5
Today Obi Worldphone, the smartphone company co-founded by former CEO of Apple and former president of Pepsi John Sculley, launched two new smartphones targeted at emerging markets. The first...
10 by Brandon Chester on 8/27/2015
Understanding Smartwatch Design
Although I mentioned this in passing in the Apple Watch review, I’ve increasingly realized that it is difficult for both manufacturers and consumers to really understand what makes a...
35 by Joshua Ho on 8/26/2015
Microsoft Makes Cortana For Android Available As A Public Beta
Earlier this year Microsoft announced that their digital assistant Cortana would be making its way to iOS and Android in addition to its launch on Windows Phone and Windows...
12 by Brandon Chester on 8/24/2015
Qualcomm Details Hexagon 680 DSP in Snapdragon 820: Accelerated Imaging
Although we tend not to focus too much on the tertiary aspects of a SoC, they are often important to enabling many aspects of the user experience. DSPs are...
41 by Joshua Ho on 8/24/2015
Understanding Intel's Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework 8.1: Smarter Throttling
In mobile, thermal throttling is effectively a fact of life as modern, thin tablets and smartphones leave little room for implementing high-performance fans. We can use CMOS scaling to...
32 by Joshua Ho on 8/21/2015
The Moto G (2015) Review
Motorola's original Moto G was one of the first Android devices to offer what one could honestly call a good user experience at a price of around $200. It...
90 by Brandon Chester on 8/19/2015
Understanding Qualcomm's ImproveTouch
Although the Xperia Z4 Tablet was announced as far back as MWC, it wasn’t until recently that the enhanced noise rejection of the touchscreen was really shown off. At...
13 by Joshua Ho on 8/18/2015
Google Releases Final M Preview: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Today Google released the third developer preview for the M release and at the same time also reveals its official codename as well as final version name: Android 6.0...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/17/2015
A Quick Look at LG G4 Leather Back Covers
With the LG G4 review, our design commentary was mostly targeted towards the G4’s standard polycarbonate back cover. But recently we received some leather back covers from LG designed...
24 by Joshua Ho on 8/17/2015
Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
Today, Samsung is announcing the next generation of their Galaxy-brand phablets, the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+. Samsung’s phablets have been one of their greatest smartphone...
219 by Joshua Ho on 8/13/2015
Qualcomm Details the Adreno 530 GPU and ISP inside the Snapdragon 820
Snapdragon 820 is still a mystery as far as official information from Qualcomm goes. However, today Qualcomm has given a bit of insight into their upcoming SoC. While there's...
66 by Brandon Chester on 8/12/2015
Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 616, 412, and 212
Today, Qualcomm launched a set of new SoCs, namely the Snapdragon 616, 412, and 212. These are updates to the Snapdragon 615, 410, and 210 respectively. If you were to...
22 by Joshua Ho on 8/10/2015
Google Redesigns Hangouts for Android With Version 4.0
Today Google shipped a major update to their Hangouts application for Android. Ever since Hangouts for iOS was updated to 4.0 a little over a month ago Android users...
37 by Brandon Chester on 8/10/2015
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