Tablets
Minisforum has formally announced its V3, one of the industry's first AMD Ryzen 7 8840U-based hybrid PCs that can serve as a tablet, a laptop, and an external display, which is why the company positions it as a '3-in-1' system. As the machine packs an eight-core CPU, it may offer the performance of some mid-range laptops. Meanwhile, despite being a 'tablet,' it has two USB4 ports and an SD card reader, a rare feature for this class of devices. The Minisforum V3 is closer to a classic laptop than a tablet, but this happens often. The system features a 14-inch detachable multitouch display with a 2560×1600 resolution, a 500 nits brightness, a 165 Hz refresh rate (which will undoubtedly be appreciated by gamers), and a...
Google Updates Maps for Android and iOS with Improvements to Offline Maps, Navigation, and More
Today Google updated its maps application for Android and iOS. Google seems confident enough in the updates that it decided to call this major release version 8.0 on Android...
30 by Brandon Chester on 5/6/2014
ARM's Impact on the Chip Market: 100M China-Designed SoCs Shipped in 2013
At its second ever Tech Day, ARM shared a pretty interesting slide about its impact on the mobile SoC market. ARM's business model allows for pretty much anyone to...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2014
A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile
Within the past four years, the smartphone market has changed drastically. Displays have dramatically increased in quality. Battery life has increased. As OEMs converge on largely similar platforms, the...
77 by Joshua Ho on 5/5/2014
A quick look at Google’s new Google Docs and Sheets mobile apps
Today Google released two new applications on Google Play and the iOS App Store. The new apps are called Google Sheets and Google Docs and they are essentially standalone...
12 by Brandon Chester on 4/30/2014
Acer Announces Aspire Switch 10
Acer took the wraps off of a new product today – the Acer Aspire Switch 10. This is a new take on the two in one for Acer, offering...
30 by Brett Howse on 4/29/2014
AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture & Performance Preview
When AMD launched its Kabini and Temash APUs last year it delivered a compelling cost/performance story, but its power story wasn’t all that impressive. Despite being built out of...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/29/2014
Apple Q2 2014 Fiscal Results
Today Apple announced its Q2 results, and sales of the iPhone continue to dominate revenue and earnings for the company. Revenue for the quarter came in at $45.6B – a...
27 by Brett Howse on 4/23/2014
ARM Partners Ship 50 Billion Chips Since 1991 - Where Did They Go?
A few weeks ago ARM celebrated its partners shipping over 10 billion ARM based chips in 2013. As ARM makes a royalty on every IP license shipped, it was...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2014
NVIDIA Announces Jetson TK1 Dev Board; Adds Erista To Tegra Roadmap
Continuing our coverage of NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference, today we’re looking at NVIDIA’s Tegra-related announcements. As Tegra is primarily a consumer facing product, especially the pre-K1 parts, NVIDIA...
33 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2014
NVIDIA SHIELD Price Cuts and Portal
NVIDIA has a couple big SHIELD-related announcements today. The first is a “limited time” price cut to $199. The original price was $299, which then dropped to $249 &ndash...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 and 10.1 Review
Samsung Galaxy series of tablets and smartphones have been well received since they first started appearing on store shelves, and with good reason. Not all manufacturers really get industrial...
125 by Jarred Walton on 3/22/2014
NVIDIA's Tegra Note 7 LTE and Tegra 4i Devices: Hands On
Yesterday I spent some time with NVIDIA where I played with the newly announced Tegra Note 7 LTE. Internally the $299 Note 7 LTE is identical to the WiFi-only...
28 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/26/2014
Samsung's Exynos 5422 & The Ideal big.LITTLE: Exynos 5 Hexa (5260)
Samsung announced two new mobile SoCs at MWC today. The first is an update to the Exynos 5 Octa with the new Exynos 5422. The 5422 is a mild...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2014
The AnandTech Mobile Show - MWC 2014 Edition
Earlier this morning (Barcelona time) Brian and I sat down in front of a camera and recapped some of the major news at MWC. We talked about the new...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2014
SanDisk iNAND Extreme in 2014: Finally a Good eMMC Solution for Mobile?
For the past couple of years we've been focusing more on tracking storage performance within smartphones and tablets. For the most part, we've come away disappointed. With smartphone ASPs...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2014
Microsoft's Mobile World Congress 2014 Event Live Blog
We're seated and ready to go Microsoft's press event here at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Read on for our live blog.
17 by Brian Klug & Ian Cutress on 2/23/2014
MWC 2014: Archos Unveils Q1 2014 Line
Archos is a factor in European markets and I often see their name attached to a variety of devices here in the UK at least. They are making...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2014
NVIDIA Adds LTE to Tegra Note 7
As Brian, Josh, Ian and myself prepare to head to Barcelona for this year's MWC, NVIDIA makes its first announcement before the show: the Tegra Note 7 will now...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/21/2014
ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015
ARM has been doing a good job figuring out its PR strategy as of late. In the span of a couple of years we went from very little outward...
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Toshiba Excite and Encore Tablets, Click and Z10t Hybrids - CES 2014
The tablet and hybrid side of Toshiba was similarly diversified, with and ultra-budget device sitting right next to a very high-end tablet. Toshiba reps said they’re going after the...
19 by Jarred Walton on 1/17/2014
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