HTC Vive Preorder Available In An Hour: Now with Tilt Brush, Regional Pricing
A quick news post for anyone following the HTC Vive announcements: as we reported back at MWC, the official pricing and timing for pre-orders was announced. For your...
18 by Ian Cutress on 2/29/2016
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 36: Mobile World Congress 2016, Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 8890
AnandTech Podcast #36: The annual smartphone extravaganza known as Mobile World Congress has come and gone. We clocked up 45.4km on foot during the week, averaging around five hours...
14 by Ian Cutress on 2/29/2016
MWC 2016: Hands On with Alcatel’s Plus 10, A Win10 2-in-1
Ever since OLPC tried to bring cheaper portable laptops around the world, there has been a steady stream of low level devices with one primary goal – get users...
11 by Ian Cutress on 2/29/2016
Microsoft Ends Effort To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 Mobile
At the 2015 BUILD developer Conference Microsoft demoed four application bridges that they hoped would improve the number of applications available for Windows 10 Mobile, which would benefit the...
46 by Brandon Chester on 2/25/2016
Price Check: Price Gap Between DDR3 and DDR4 Memory Almost Gone
Around a year ago DRAM manufacturers ended up pinning a lot of their hopes on DDR4 as a way to improve their profit margins. In the cutthroat and highly...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2016
MSI Rolls-Out CUBI 2 Plus SFF PCs Featuring Intel’s Mini-STX Platform
MSI this week introduced its all-new CUBI 2 Plus and CUBI 2 Plus vPro miniature personal computers based on Intel’s mini-STX motherboard form-factor. The new PCs are slightly larger...
10 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 Drivers
It didn't take long at all, but AMD has come in with another driver update full of performance enhancements, compatibility fixes, and bug fixes. With continued efforts on their...
16 by Daniel Williams on 2/25/2016
Intel Announces XMM7480 LTE Modem: 4x DL CA, 256QAM
At MWC 2016, Intel announced their latest modem, the XMM7480. While to some extent Intel’s cadence isn’t quite as aggressive as others in the modem space, Intel’s modems are...
9 by Joshua Ho on 2/25/2016
Samsung Announces 256GB UFS Embedded Storage Solution
Interestingly enough, we’re seeing something of a division in the mobile storage space, as it seems that some OEMs are focusing their efforts on UFS for internal storage, while...
23 by Joshua Ho on 2/25/2016
Microsoft Acquires Cross-Platform C# Toolmaker Xamarin
In what has to be the most obvious acquisition Microsoft has made in some time, today the Redmond company announced that they have signed an agreement to purchase Xamarin. Xamarin...
21 by Brett Howse on 2/24/2016
Gigabyte Announces New 17.3” Gaming Laptops with Intel Skylake Processors
GIGABYTE has introduced its new family of desktop replacement gaming notebooks with Intel’s Skylake microprocessors. The new laptops not only feature new CPUs, but also add support for technologies...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/24/2016
Mushkin Impact 256GB and Atom 128GB USB Flash Drives Capsule Review
Flash drives are a dime a dozen these days, and most of them carry uninteresting specifications. In particular, flash drives advertising smaller physical footprints have tended to carry disappointing...
11 by Ganesh T S on 2/24/2016
Sony Unveils New Xperia X Smartphones
This week at Mobile World Congress 2016, Sony has introduced their new high-end Xperia X series smartphones. The new smartphones feature similar designs across the entire series and all...
32 by Anton Shilov on 2/23/2016
MediaTek Announces New Helio P20
Yesterday MediaTek announced the successor to last year's Helio P10. The Helio P10 was announced back in June with devices being announced and released in the following months. Even...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/23/2016
Samsung’s Gear S2 Classic 3G and 4G Smartwatches with eSIM to Hit the Market in March
Samsung has revealed that its Gear S2 Classic 3G and 4G smartwatches, which were formally introduced last September, will be available in the U.S. on March 11, 2016. The...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/23/2016
AMD Expands G-Series Embedded SoCs with Excavator Microarchitecture
Back in October 2015, AMD’s embedded business unit announced the first SoCs from AMD using DDR4, combining AMD’s Excavator cores found in the Carrizo notebook platform but fully...
6 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2016
ARM Announces Cortex-A32 IoT and Embedded Processor
Today ARM announces the new Cortex A32 ultra-low power/high efficiency processor IP. For some readers this might come as a surprise as it's only been a few months since...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/22/2016
CAT Announces S60 Rugged Smartphone with integrated FLIR Thermal Camera
CAT, that company that is usually associated with heavy machinery, actually makes/sells smartphones too. It has announced a new flagship smartphone, which combines the ruggedness you might expect from...
33 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2016
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series8XE Family - Entry-Level GPUs Get Smaller
With Mobile World Congress 2016 now in full swing, we’ll see a slew of announcements this week. Among the crowd is Imagination Technologies, who is using the show as...
10 by Ryan Smith on 2/22/2016
Huawei Enters The PC Market With The MateBook Convertible Tablet
Move over Microsoft. One of the world’s largest smartphone makers has decided to enter the PC marketplace with the launch of the MateBook 2-in-1 tablet. Well, maybe not, but...
15 by Brett Howse on 2/21/2016
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