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...
TI OMAP4 First to be Awarded Netflix HD DRM Certification
Last week, TI Invited me out to their Dallas, Texas headquarters as part of an editors day. There they showed and talked about a number of exciting projects, including...
23 by Brian Klug on 7/5/2011
HTC Droid Incredible 2 Review
The original Droid Incredible by HTC was the second Android phone I ever officially reviewed. The first was Google's Nexus One. A year ago I proudly proclaimed that the...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/3/2011
HTC Sensation 4G Review - A Sensational Smartphone
I like what HTC has been up to lately. Rather than fighting a race to the bottom with endless soulless variants of the same piece of hardware in a...
107 by Brian Klug on 7/1/2011
Samsung Droid Charge Review - Droid Goes LTE
Samsung is doing something interesting lately. Instead of outright releasing Galaxy S 2 in the US, each carrier is getting a mid-cycle refresh of the Galaxy S with 4G...
61 by Brian Klug on 6/22/2011
LG Revolution: LTE for the Masses
The LTE bug is on in full force over at Verizon, and after launching the HTC Thunderbolt in March and Samsung Droid Charge in May, they’re back for more...
24 by Vivek Gowri & Brian Klug on 6/21/2011
Nokia N9 and N950 Officially Announced - MeeGo Running on OMAP 3630
Back when we reviewed the Nokia N900 we really only wanted a few major improvements. A faster SoC, slightly thinner and more compact hardware, and more of Maemo Linux...
39 by Brian Klug on 6/21/2011
Motorola Droid 3 Pops up in GLBenchmark - A Verizon XT883 with OMAP4
A tipster dropped a link our way early this morning to a GLBenchmark 2.0 results browser page that might be of interest to many. Hit that page and you'll...
43 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2011
HP Veer 4G Review - Getting Us Excited for Pre 3
We touched on the Veer when it first hit our doorstep with a this just in post, and since then I’ve been using the device daily and trying to...
26 by Brian Klug on 6/7/2011
WWDC 2011: iOS 5
After giving us a look at OS X 10.7 Lion in its WWDC keynote today, Apple turned to what is seen as the more important of its OS platforms...
24 by Andrew Cunningham on 6/6/2011
Hands on and Benchmarks of two MSM8x60 Phones - HTC Sensation 4G and HTC EVO 3D
Yesterday evening I met up with HTC, who let me take a quick look at a number of upcoming unreleased phones, including the HTC Sensation 4G and HTC EVO...
55 by Brian Klug on 6/3/2011
Qualcomm Uplinq 2011 Day Two Keynote - HTC and Nokia
Today is the second and last day of Qualcomm's Uplinq conference in San Diego California, but we've still got a bunch in store. This morning, we sat down at...
32 by Brian Klug on 6/2/2011
TI Announces OMAP4470 and Specs: PowerVR SGX544, 1.8 GHz Dual Core Cortex-A9
The last time we visited TI's OMAP 4 SoC was at Mobile World Congress, there we benchmarked the LG Optimus 3D and came away decently impressed with performance even...
30 by Brian Klug on 6/2/2011
Qualcomm Uplinq 2011 Day One Keynote - Mobile is King
Today marks the first day of our coverage of Qualcomm's annual Uplinq conference in San Diego, California. It's our first time coming to Uplinq, a conference whose roots trace...
4 by Brian Klug on 6/1/2011
The ASUS Padfone: A Smartphone That Docks into a Tablet
A number of you have asked for this innovation over the past few months: a smartphone that docks into a tablet. Given that the two platforms generally share the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
NVIDIA's Kal-El Glowball Shows off Dynamic Lighting & Quad-Core Physics on a Tablet
I've warned both Qualcomm and TI that the danger they have to face in the SoC space going forward isn't just NVIDIA engineering, but NVIDIA marketing. Although too aggressive...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/29/2011
Android 3.1 on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
I ran into a number of hiccups in my review of the Eee Pad Transformer last month. Some of the issues were of course due to the early nature...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/28/2011
Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" - Mobile IE 9 Browser Explored
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a number of details and the first official look at the next release of Windows Phone 7, codename “mango.” Back when we reviewed Windows Phone 7...
35 by Brian Klug on 5/26/2011
HTC HD7: Now With NoDo
When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 late last year, it was readily evident that they had a solid platform on their hands, but it was missing some critical details...
45 by Vivek Gowri on 5/12/2011
Google I/O 2011 Keynote: Updates for Phone, Tablet, TV and Accessories
Google’s I/O 2011 keynote may have suffered from a few choice leaks, namely the new Music service and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but Google still managed to include some...
22 by Nirdhar Khazanie & Jason Inofuentes on 5/10/2011
This Just In: HP Veer 4G for AT&T
It's going to be a busy week for smartphones. We've got Google I/O, a bunch of finishing touches on the Droid Charge review, the Infuse 4G on its way...
29 by Brian Klug on 5/9/2011