Lately I have found myself doing a case review here and there, and battery cases are particularly interesting since they're easy enough for us to test and integrate into our workflow in a unique matter. Plus, there's never such thing as too much battery life for a device. Battery life is a big part of our smartphone reviews, and for a while now I've been carrying around the newly-released Mophie Juice Pack Helium case for the iPhone 5. Back in the iPhone 4S days, I had a previous generation Mophie for that form factor, and even though I ran the battery life tests, I never got around to actually writing a review of the case for whatever reason. When I saw the Helium come...
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 20
This time on the AnandTech Podcast we're talking about Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Also on the menu today are the HTC First, T-Mobile iPhone 5, ASUS FonePad, Samsung Galaxy...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Incompatible with Original TecTiles, TecTile 2 Announced
In our part 1 review of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (SGS4) I noted that the device included a BCM2079x NFC controller. This is the same controller as we’ve...
28 by Brian Klug on 4/26/2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review - Part 1
It’s no secret that Samsung enjoyed huge success with Galaxy S 3. In many markets, SGS3 was easily the Android handset to beat, even as faster and arguably better...
314 by Brian Klug on 4/24/2013
Google Announces Glass Specs, Developer SDK, Shipment to Glass Explorers in Waves
Google dropped a bunch of Glass related news today. First up are some high level specifications which posted in an FAQ document. There's still no word about SoC or...
21 by Brian Klug on 4/16/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 19
Remember Brian Klug? Want to hear him rant about phones, operators and Facebook? It's time for the next podcast. The AnandTech Podcast - Episode 19 featuring Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug &...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/12/2013
The HTC One Review
It is nearly impossible to begin to review the HTC One without some context, and I’ll begin our review of the HTC One (formerly the device known as codename...
611 by Brian Klug on 4/5/2013
Facebook Announces Home, and HTC First
Today saw some interesting news from Facebook, which announced a new Android experience named Facebook Home, and alongside a new handset from HTC which will run it out of...
20 by Brian Klug on 4/4/2013
The Great Equalizer 3: How Fast is Your Smartphone/Tablet in PC GPU Terms
For the past several days I've been playing around with Futuremark's new 3DMark for Android, as well as Kishonti's GL and DXBenchmark 2.7. All of these tests are scheduled...
121 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/4/2013
The Great Equalizer Part 2: Surface Pro vs. Android Devices in 3DMark
While we're still waiting for Windows RT and iOS versions of the latest 3DMark, there is one cross-platform comparison we can make: Ivy Bridge/Clover Trail to the Android devices...
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/2/2013
3DMark for Android: Performance Preview
As I mentioned in our coverage of GL/DXBenchmark 2.7, with the arrival of Windows RT/8 we'd finally see our first truly cross-platform benchmarks. Kishonti was first out of the...
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 4/2/2013
A Visual Guide to the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile
This is normally Brian's beat but with him busy putting the finishing touches on his review of HTC's One, I thought I'd help out. We're still seeing (and hearing...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2013
Apple to Ship Updated A1428 iPhone 5 With AWS WCDMA Enabled for T-Mobile USA
Back when I did my Qualcomm modems and transceivers piece, I gained a deeper understanding about the cellular RF engineering side of the handset puzzle. Specifically, how an OEM...
31 by Brian Klug on 3/26/2013
The HTC One: A Remarkable Device, Anand’s mini Review
For the past week and a half our own Brian Klug has been hard at work on his review of HTC’s new flagship smartphone, the One. These things take...
435 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/21/2013
More Details On NVIDIA’s Kayla: A Dev Platform for CUDA on ARM
In this morning’s GTC 2013 keynote, one of the items briefly mentioned by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was Kayla, an NVIDIA project combining a Tegra 3 processor and an...
17 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
NVIDIA Updates Tegra Roadmap Details at GTC - Logan and Parker Detailed
We're at NVIDIA's GTC 2013 event where team green just updated their official roadmap and shared some more details about their Tegra portfolio, specifically additional information about Logan and...
25 by Brian Klug & Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
Samsung's Galaxy S 4: Introduction & Hands On
Since 2010 Samsung has grown to become not only the clear leader in the Android smartphone space, but the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Its annual iteration of...
207 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Samsung's Unpacked 2013 Launch Event Live Blog
We're live from Samsung's Unpacked event in NYC where the company is about to announce their next-generation flagship smartphone. Keep it parked here for live updates!
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Imagination Technologies Confirms PowerVR SGX 544 IP used in Exynos 5 Octa
ARM was being unusually coy when talking about the GPU IP used in Samsung's recently announced Exynos 5 Octa. We eventually found out why: unlike the Exynos 5 Dual...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013OpenCL drivers discovered on Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices
As regular Anandtech readers will know, OpenCL is a standard by Khronos group that allows you to access the computational power of parallel devices such as multicore CPUs and...
19 by Rahul Garg on 2/27/2013