The Motorola X’s release must be fast approaching because we’re getting more and more leaks about it lately. The latest one says the Motorola X smartphone will be arriving with “pure Android”, “fast upgrade cycle”, ... Read More »
Author Archives: Lucian Armasu
Tizen Is Dead. Long Live Android
According to known leaker Eldar Murtazin, Tizen is not only delayed, but actually dead. It seems Samsung will be back to square one: Android. “Tizen is almost dead. It isn’t delay. That’s cancel of the ... Read More »
Mediatek MT6592 to Have 8 ARM Cortex A7 Cores at 2 Ghz Each
Mediatek is rumored to launch a new 28nm chip based on ARM Cortex A7 cores, that will be clocked at 2 Ghz each, and named the Mediatek MT6592. With this chip, Mediatek is taking its battle ... Read More »
Mediatek Gains Market Share for Low-End Chips, while Qualcomm Declines
Qualcomm, like Nvidia and Samsung, don’t seem to care that much about the very low-end of the mobile chip market, which is why this leaves the door wide open for companies like Mediatek and Spreadtrum ... Read More »
What Is HP Up to in the Smartphone Market?
HP may be making a comeback in the smartphone market, after failing to do anything with the $1.2 billion webOS acquisition, and unlike then when they immediately ditched Android, this time they may be a ... Read More »
Aakash 4 Tablet to Come with Both Android and Ubuntu
Android is not the only open source OS that has been growing in popularity in India, but also Ubuntu, which I think is mainly due to Dell selling Ubuntu machines in 800 stores through out ... Read More »
Google to Finally Make an Android Console
Finally! I’ve been begging them to do this since even before Google TV was merely rumored to be announced – 3 years ago. It should’ve been the strategy from day one. The TV business was ... Read More »
Imagination Brings “Warrior” MIPS CPU to the Mobile Architecture War
Imagination has announced that it will release the “Warrior” MIPS-based CPU core later this year, with compatibility for both 32 and 64 bit. This isn’t as exciting as it may sound, however, because it seems like ... Read More »
Why Nvidia Licensing Its GPU Technology Is Smart
Nvidia has recently announced that they will be licensing their GPU technology to other chip makers. This meant mainly for mobile chip makers, who can use their GPU instead of Imagination or Vivante’s GPU, coupled ... Read More »
Samsung to Kill Its Declining PC Business
Samsung has never had a huge desktop PC business, which is why they are one of the first to kill it, and focus more on tablets and smartphones, and of course notebooks (at least for ... Read More »