Smartphones
Arm and Samsung this week announced their joint design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) program for Arm's next-generation Cortex general-purpose CPU cores as well as Samsung's next-generation process technology featuring gate-all-around (GAA) multi-bridge-channel field-effect transistors (MBCFETs). "Optimizing Cortex-X and Cortex-A processors on the latest Samsung process node underscores our shared vision to redefine what’s possible in mobile computing, and we look forward to continuing to push boundaries to meet the relentless performance and efficiency demands of the AI era," said Chris Bergey, SVP and GM, Client Business at Arm. Under the program, the companies aim to deliver tailored versions of Cortex-A and Cortex-X cores made on Samsung's 2 nm-class process technology for various applications, including smartphones, datacenters, infrastructure, and various customized system-on-chips. For now, the companies does not...
Motorola Droid 3 Review - Third Time's a Charm
If ever a product has summed up the progression of the Android ecosystem, it’s the Motorola Droid. The first Droid catapulted Android into the mainstream with its first 2.x...
84 by Brian Klug on 7/30/2011AT&T Officially Confirms Throttling Plans for Heaviest Users
There has been considerable talk and rumor in the last week about AT&T considering throttling the heaviest users on its 3G networks. Turns out those rumors were true, as...
24 by Brian Klug on 7/29/2011This Just In - Motorola Droid 3 for Verizon
Almost a month ago, we posted about the Motorola Droid 3 popping up in GLBenchmark 2.0's online result browser, with a dual-core 1 GHz OMAP 4430 SoC at its...
39 by Brian Klug on 7/15/2011Novatel Wireless MiFi 4510L Review - The Best 4G LTE WiFi Hotspot?
A while back we explored almost all of Verizon’s 4G LTE network launch hardware - two USB modems, the Samsung SCH-LC11 hotspot, and the HTC Thunderbolt, to be exact...
24 by Brian Klug on 7/14/2011Motorola Droid X2 Review - A Droid X with Tegra 2
Almost exactly one year ago we reviewed and thoroughly explored the Motorola Droid X. At that point, its 1 GHz OMAP 3630 made it a competent performer and a...
72 by Brian Klug on 7/7/2011TI 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 7/5/2011HTC 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 7/3/2011HTC 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 7/1/2011Samsung 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 6/22/2011LG 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 6/21/2011Nokia 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 6/21/2011Motorola 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 6/20/2011HP 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 6/7/2011WWDC 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 6/6/2011Hands 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 6/3/2011Qualcomm 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 6/2/2011TI 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 6/2/2011Qualcomm 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 6/1/2011The 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 5/30/2011NVIDIA'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