Samsung Announces SAFE with KNOX - Security Container for Enterprise BYOD
I talked with Anand about his impressions of the Note 8 after reading his hands on piece, and one thing that struck me was a mention of how Samsung...
3 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013Audience Announces eS325 Advanced Voice Processor - es515 Sans Codec
Earlier this year Audience announced the eS515, a combination new-generation voice processor and audio codec. The eS515 brought three-microphone noise suppression along with improved noise suppression for reverb, more...
2 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013Intel's Clover Trail+: Dual-Core CPU and Graphics Unveiled at MWC 2013
We find ourselves at another Mobile World Congress, discussing another Intel Atom based smartphone SoC. While last year we were talking about faster and lower performing versions of the...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2013Huawei Ascend P2 LTE: Hands On
We just stopped by Huawei's press event here in Barcelona just before Mobile World Congress 2013 kicks off, and Huawei had an interesting surprise lined up. Huawei put the...
9 by Brian Klug on 2/24/2013Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0: Introduction & Hands On
Samsung's goal for 2013 is to see the same success in tablets as it did in smartphones in 2012. It's a lofty goal, but one that is entirely feasible...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/23/2013How the HTC One's Camera Bucks the Trend in Smartphone Imaging
Now that we’ve seen the HTC One camera announcement, I think it’s worth going over why this is something very exciting from an imaging standpoint, and also a huge...
23 by Brian Klug on 2/22/2013Samsung's TV Discovery Service Enables TV to Smartphone/Tablet Streaming
I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of MWC this year if everyone is going to pre-empt the show with announcements of their own (or in the case...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2013GeForce Titan Pre-Order Available
This week saw the launch of NVIDIA's latest and greatest single GPU consumer graphics card, the GeForce Titan. Priced at a cool grand ($1000), the Titan isn't the sort...
22 by Jarred Walton on 2/22/2013The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 17
We managed to get in one more Podcast before Brian and I leave for MWC 2013 today. With the number of major announcements that happened in the past week...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2013ZTE to Build Tegra 4 Smartphone, Working on i500 Based Design As Well
ZTE just announced that it would be building a Tegra 4 based smartphone for the China market in the first half of 2013. Given NVIDIA's recent statements about Tegra...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013Sony Announces PlayStation 4: PC Hardware Inside
Sony just announced the PlayStation 4, along with some high level system specifications. The high level specs are what we've heard for quite some time: 8-core x86-64 CPU using AMD...
161 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013An Update on Intel's SSD 525 Power Consumption
Intel's SSD 525 is the mSATA version of last year's SF-2281 based Intel SSD 520. The drive isn't just physically smaller, but it also features a new version of...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013Samsung Details Exynos 5 Octa Architecture & Power at ISSCC '13
At CES this year Samsung introduced the oddly named Exynos 5 Octa SoC, one of the first Cortex A15 SoCs to implement ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. Widely expected to be...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013Intel Demos CloverTrail+ Based Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 Ahead of MWC
Lenovo announced its ultra slim (6.9mm) 5.5" 1080p IdeaPhone K900 at CES earlier this year, based on Intel's presently unannounced CloverTrail+ SoC. While we're expecting to learn a lot...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013OCZ Releases Vertex 3.20 with 20nm IMFT NAND
Yesterday OCZ introduced an updated version of their Vertex 3: The Vertex 3.20. The name derives from the fact that the new Vertex 3.20 uses 20nm IMFT MLC NAND...
27 by Kristian Vättö on 2/20/2013NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE and Phoenix Reference Design
It has been a while since we’ve heard anything about Project Grey, the first NVIDIA SoC with an integrated digital baseband, and the result of NVIDIA’s acquisition of soft-modem...
21 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2013NVIDIA GeForce 314.07 WHQL Available
NVIDIA's beta R313 driver with performance enhancements for Crysis 3 (among other titles) has now received WHQL certification. We wouldn't expect much of a difference in performance relative to...
10 by Jarred Walton on 2/18/2013Microsoft Surface Pro mSATA SSD Upgrade: Dangerous but Successful
Unlike current ARM or Atom based tablets, Microsoft's Surface Pro integrates a full blown mSATA SSD. My review sample included a 128GB Micron C400, while I've seen reports of...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/17/2013The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 16
It's the calm before the storm. The coming weeks are full of big announcements from smartphones to PC components, leaving us to talk about everything we can before the...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/17/2013AMD Reiterates 2013 GPU Plans: Sea Islands & Beyond
A few minutes ago AMD wrapped up a somewhat impromptu conference call, which had been called together to reiterate the company’s 2013 GPU plans. While there is technically very...
58 by Ryan Smith on 2/15/2013