Epic Games Releases Epic Citadel for Android Devices - We test it out
Epic Games granted us a huge wish and released Epic Citadel for Android devices publicly this week, and included a benchmark inside. Getting Epic Citadel for Android and thus...
52 by on 1/30/2013
Slightly Smaller Apple TV 3,2 (A1469) Contains A5X SoC, BCM4334 Combo
Yesterday along with iOS 6.1 being pushed to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, Apple released an update to the Apple TV 2,1 and 3,1, and curiously enough released another...
17 by on 1/29/2013
Element Case Sector 5 for iPhone 5 Review
Most of the AnandTech crew seems to be averse to putting cases on their phones for a variety of different reasons. I’m still of the persuasion where I want...
47 by on 1/26/2013
Intel Introduces the Safaricom Yolo Based On Z2420 Lexington Smartphone Platform
At CES I took a look at Intel's newly announced Lexington platform FFRD (Form Factor Reference Design) which is an entry-level smartphone design aimed at emerging markets and uses...
17 by on 1/24/2013
A Look at SkyCross and their Actively Tuned VersiTune Smartphone Antenna
On the last day of CES, while still getting over some of the death curry that we foolishly ingested the night before, I had a meeting with SkyCross, who...
9 by on 1/20/2013
Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa: Powered by PowerVR SGX 544MP3, not ARM's Mali
At CES, Samsung announced its Exynos 5 Octa SoC featuring four ARM Cortex A7s and four ARM Cortex A15s. Unusually absent from the announcement was any mention of the...
43 by on 1/13/2013
Ambarella Announces A9 Camera SoC - Successor to the A7 in GoPro Hero 3 Black
I've been playing around with and trying to review the GoPro Hero 3 Black since the holidays, a small sports-oriented portable camera which can record up to 4K15 video...
6 by on 1/13/2013
Brian's Concluding Thoughts on CES 2013 - The Pre-MWC Show
Anand asked each of us to write up some final thoughts on CES 2013, something which is honestly a daunting task at best, and a potentially controversial or rage-inducing...
8 by on 1/13/2013
CES 2013 LTE Throughput Face-Off - AT&T versus Verizon Wireless
Last year I ran a series of speedtests on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless LTE during CES, the results of which were pretty interesting. My friends continue to poke...
25 by on 1/13/2013
USB-IF Announces USB 3.0 10 Gbps Development, Demos Power Delivery and Display Driving
I stopped by the USB Implementers Forum booth, where they had both an interesting non-final demonstration of the new USB Power Delivery specification and some news about the new...
26 by on 1/12/2013
A Look at Samsung's Curved Smartphone Concept and 4.99-Inch 1080p AMOLED Display
I got a chance to look at some of Samsung Displays' new and upcoming products, probably one of the highlights of my CES 2013 experience. There's a bit to...
31 by on 1/12/2013
Imagination Demonstrates PowerVR Series6 Rogue on LG's H13 SoC
I stopped by Imagination Technologies at CES 2013 and talked about their upcoming GPU IP blocks and a few recently announced SoCs, and one demo caught my eye running...
6 by on 1/12/2013
New from Buffalo Technology - Updated AC1750 802.11ac router, MiniStation Thunderbolt with SSD, and Thunderbolt Duo
Ganesh and I dropped by Buffalo Technology at CES 2013 to get a look at their upcoming products. I'll leave most of the MiniStation NAS news to him as...
6 by on 1/12/2013
Hands On with the Parrot Asteroid Smart - a Double DIN Android Head Unit
At my first CES, one of the devices that caught my attention immediately was a slick looking single-DIN head unit running Android called the Parrot Asteroid. One of the...
19 by on 1/12/2013
LTE Broadcast (EMBMS) Shown Running on Verizon's Band 4 LTE on Qualcomm Hardware
Another demo I was impressed by at the Qualcomm booth was LTE Broadcast (EMBMS - Evolved Multimedia Broadcast / Multicast Service) demonstrated on a live test network showing an...
1 by on 1/11/2013
Qualcomm Demos Category 4 LTE (150 Mbps) running on Snapdragon 800 / MSM8974
At Qualcomm's booth among a number of other Snapdragon 800 (the newly-announced SoC formerly or also known as MSM8974) demos was one that caught my attention. Qualcomm setup a...
5 by on 1/11/2013
Verizon shows off Alcatel Lucent LightRadio-based LTE Small Cells - Deploying in 2H 2013
I dropped by Verizon's booth at CES 2013 and among all the consumer electronics and devices that we've pretty much already seen before saw one new thing — Alcatel...
4 by on 1/11/2013
Hands On with Samsung Galaxy S 2 Plus - Contains BCM28155 SoC
Earlier in the week Samsung announced the Galaxy S 2 Plus, a rather strange late-cycle update to the SGS2. The device is pretty much what you'd expect, and contains...
10 by on 1/11/2013
Broadcom Teases its first LTE-enabled Baseband with VoLTE Demo
I dropped by Broadcom during CES, and while we've already covered most of what they had to show off, one of the things which immediately caught my eye was...
2 by on 1/11/2013
More Details on Allwinner's A31 Quad Core Cortex A7 SoC
I stopped by Allwinner today to discuss their recently announced and now-shipping A31 SoC. The A31 is based around four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs and a Power VR SGX544MP2...
16 by on 1/10/2013
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