Jan 08
Moments ago, at a small press event, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm’s VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. “You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher.” My brain instantly exploded. More »
Jan 08
Chest strap heart rate monitors are uncomfortable and annoying. HRM watches, like the MIO Alpha, have a lot of potential, but they still lose contact frequently. Valencell is going in a different direction, building a heart rate sensor into something most of us are already wearing: our headphones. More »
Jan 08
Corsair, primarily known as a manufacturer for PC memory and power supply, is breaking into new territory with Voyager Air, an all-in-one wireless hard drive that’s just as useful on the road as it is in your living room. More »
Jan 07
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro processor has been blowing us away with its speed in phones like the Nexus 4 and HTC’s Droid DNA, and that’s why we can’t wait to meet its big brothers. The Snapdragon 800 boasts a quad-core Krait 400 CPU, that can go up to 2.3GHz per core. More »
Jan 07
Last year Sony kept finding itself behind the curve with Android phones. The new Xperia Z and ZL are the company’s attempt to break that trend. These two phones basically check off every box a spec-hungry geek could want and then some. More »
Jan 07
Eat It, Galaxy Note. Huwawei’s New Phone Has the World’s Largest Screen (Updated: Hands On)
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Oh man, here we go. Phablets are no longer no longer constrained to limits of being under half a foot. Huawei’s new Ascend Mate is an unprecedented 6.1-inches. It’s been around before, but now it’s official, and has the largest screen of any smartphone in the world. To date anyway. Cower in fear beneath its all-encompassing shadow. More »
Jan 07
AT&T’s $50 Android Smartphone Has a 12.6-megapixel Camera, Doesn’t Seem That Terrible
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When I think of Pantech, I don’t have too many fond memories. But the Android 4.0-based Discover might change that. Available starting January 11 from AT&T for $50, the Discover is an 4G LTE smartphone with a 4.8-inch HD display (1280×720) and a crazy 12.6-megapixel camera that shoots full HD video at 30fps. More »
Jan 07
Tiny tablets are oh so stylish today, and Vizio is in the game. And holy hell, this little Jelly Bean thing is lovely to hold. More »
Jan 07
Vizio’s got a nice surprise at CES this year: one of the only tablets with a Tegra 4 processor inside you can find anywhere in the world, outside of some death vault at Nvidia headquarters. We used it. More »
Jan 07
Vizio’s “Tablet PC” (cooler name pending, presumably) gets everything right on paper, and a lot off paper: a 1080p screen, a full, no-bullshit version of Windows 8 (none of that RT nonsense), and an AMD (!) x86 processor inside. But it’s bulky. More »
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