Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta to Developers
Apple seems to have had a Cyber Monday surprise of its own lined up, releasing iOS 5.1 Beta (build 9B5117b) to developers this evening. We've updated an iPhone 4S...
13 by on 11/28/2011Adding Vellamo to our Mobile Benchmark Suite - Six Android Phones Tested
For a while now we've been keeping track of mobile browser performance using two relatively popular JavaScript heavy benchmarks that are a regular fixation in our smartphone reviews. If...
82 by on 11/16/2011Samsung and AT&T Announce Galaxy Tab 8.9, Six new LTE Markets
Not to be outdone by Verizon with its LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which we reviewed), Samsung and AT&T today announced that it's introducing an LTE enabled Galaxy Tab 8.9...
9 by on 11/14/2011Apple Confirms Battery Life Bug in iOS 5 - Releases iOS 5.0.1 Beta
Since the launch of iOS 5, a number of users have begun reporting decreased battery life on their iDevices, and alongside it have been reports of battery life issues...
26 by on 11/2/2011ST-Ericsson Announces Inclusion in Future Nokia Windows Phones
Up until now, if you wanted a Windows Phone, it'd implicitly come with a Qualcomm SoC inside. The Windows Phone platform started out with QSD8x50 (first generation Snapdragon), and...
10 by on 11/2/2011Apple iPhone 4S: Thoroughly Reviewed
History loves to repeat itself, and even Apple isn’t immune to the yearly cycle of rumor and release. Leading to each year’s iPhone refresh, excitement, rumors, and hype build...
201 by on 10/31/2011Confirmed: Galaxy Nexus Includes PenTile
Though we've learned a lot about the Galaxy Nexus specifications already, one of the things that has remained a question thus far is whether its 4.65" 720p HD Super...
152 by on 10/21/2011Samsung Galaxy Nexus Officially Announced
Samsung today officially announced the specifications for the newest member of the Nexus family - Galaxy Nexus. The announcement closely matches what we've been anticipating for some time now...
52 by on 10/18/2011Apple iOS 5 Review
The original iPhone was designed to address a significant user experience problem with smartphones of the day. The iPhone itself was just the delivery vehicle, what later became known...
87 by on 10/18/2011AirPort Utility for iOS Launches
When we reviewed the 5th generation Airport Extreme and 4th generation Time Capsule, several people pointed out that the iOS 5 beta included an Airport configuration mode inside settings...
10 by on 10/12/2011iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks: ~800MHz A5, Slightly Slower GPU than iPad 2, Still Very Fast
Apple's ability to control the entire information chain, down to the point of limiting leaks, appears to be gradually slipping as it grows as a company. Case in point...
217 by on 10/11/2011Motorola Droid Bionic Review - Dual Core with 4G LTE
It is something of an understatement to start out by mentioning that the Motorola Droid Bionic was easily this summer’s most anticipated smartphone. The story of the Bionic started...
64 by on 10/11/2011The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
A while after the iPhone 4S announcement, I posted a piece on the iPhone 4S' cellular architecture and talked about the new inclusion of HSPA+ alongside CDMA2000 1x/EVDO and...
54 by on 10/9/2011Qualcomm's New Snapdragon S4: MSM8960 & Krait Architecture Explored
Let's recap the current smartphone/tablet SoC landscape. Everything shipping today is built on a 4x-nm process, built either at Global Foundries, Samsung, TSMC or UMC. Next year we'll see...
108 by on 10/7/2011Samsung Teases Nexus Prime in Video Form
Samsung has teased us a few times about the Nexus Prime which is expected to get a full debut at CTIA Enterprise. We got the invite and will be...
19 by on 10/5/2011Apple iPhone 4S includes HSPA+ 14.4, GSM/CDMA Dual Mode, Diversity
Apple got up on stage today and announced the iPhone 4S, and alongside it confirmed that the smartphone will have a reworked cellular architecture complete with dual-mode HSPA+ and...
42 by on 10/4/2011T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 2 Available October 12
This morning, Samsung officially announced the last set of details surrounding the relatively enigmatic T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 2, which we have been following pretty closely. First up, Samsung...
5 by on 9/26/2011Broadcom Announces its first NFC Solution - BCM2079x
Near Field Communication (NFC) is quickly shaping up to be a must-have feature in this next generation of smartphones. We talked about it briefly in the context of the...
2 by on 9/26/2011A look at Windows 8 Tablets running on TI, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Intel silicon
This afternoon (and yesterday) we had a chance to meet with a number of SoC vendors who have partnered with Microsoft for Windows 8. Each of them has their...
94 by on 9/14/2011New Server Manager Shown Off for Windows Server 8
Ryan and I are on the floor at Microsoft BUILD for day two, where Windows Server 8 is the subject. There's still more for the keynote, but Microsoft briefly...
5 by on 9/14/2011