HTC has published the User Agent Prof file for the HTC M8, which is the successor of HTC’s flagship from last year, the HTC One. It seems that it won’t be getting a 1440p panel like ... Read More »
Author Archives: Lucian Armasu
Will Apple Build an 11.1″ iPad Pro Notebook Next Year with a 20nm Quad-Core Processor?
At yesterday’s keynote, Apple changed the name for the big iPad, now calling it the “iPad Air”. It could be that they just wanted to make a more dramatic announcement for the new iPad, in a way ... Read More »
Sony Xperia T (2012) vs Xperia SP (2013) – Which One Should You Get?
So you’re you looking to buy a new Android smartphone, and you only have a budget for a mid-range smartphone, but you want as much as possible for your money. Fortunately, these days, mid-range Android ... Read More »
Sapphire to Become Popular in Smartphones by 2016
Sapphire is supposedly 3x more scratch resistant than Gorilla Glass and other such scratch-resistant materials, and in about 3 years, it should get about 3 times more popular than it is today, thanks to adoption ... Read More »
Nvidia’s 64-bit Tegra 5 with the Denver CPU Core and Kepler Graphics Could Be Arriving in 2014
A new tip says that Nvidia may actually be the first to launch a 64-bit ARMv8-based chip for Android devices in 2014. This is surprising because Nvidia only showed us that the Denver/Maxwell-based chip would arrive chip ... Read More »
Why Apple and Samsung Are Successful and Companies like HTC Aren’t
If I had to use just one word, I’d say “branding”, and it’s one of the main reasons why the iPhone was successful, too. There are other factors that are helping the iPhone, though: first ... Read More »
Contactive – A Caller ID App that Showcases Android’s Openess
Have you ever gotten called by numbers you don’t know, which made you even want to not answer them, because you feared it may be some telemarketing company? Of course you have. Everyone has had ... Read More »
TSMC Shows Path to 16nm FinFET. Great News for AMD and ARM Chip Makers
ARM chip makers (and I hope AMD, too, but they’ll probably wait another year to adopt this) will finally catch-up to Intel (more or less) in process technology when they move to 14/16nm FinFET, especially ... Read More »
Motorola Moto X vs Google Nexus 4
The Motorola Moto X was finally unveiled earlier this month after, after a lot of leaks came out. Since it’s a Motorola phone, and Google bought Motorola it obviously matches the same market that would want ... Read More »
New Google Nexus 7 (2013) vs Apple iPad Mini
The new Google Nexus 7 (2013 version) mad a big splash this summer, because it showed that you can make a “retina” tablet, even under $250, which is something Apple said would be very hard ... Read More »