Broadcom Announces BCM4354 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Combo for Smartphones
Today Broadcom is announcing the newest member of their popular WiFi/BT/FM series of combo chips, the BCM4354, which adds 2x2 MIMO (two spatial stream) for smartphones and retains 802.11ac...
7 by on 2/24/2014Audience Announces MQ100 Motion Processor
Just a few weeks ago, Audience announced its fourth generation of voice processors at CES, which added an always-on voice activation feature called VoiceQ designed to enable experiences similar...
3 by on 2/24/2014Microsoft'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 on 2/23/2014Samsung Announces Tizen-based Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo Smartwatches
This morning Samsung dropped some news ahead of its Unpacked 5 event with the announcement of a refresh of its smart watch lineup, the Gear 2 and Gear 2...
9 by on 2/23/2014HP Chromebook 11 with LTE Arrives at Best Buy, Altair's LTE Modem Inside
We reviewed HP's Chromebook 11 a while back in the WiFi-only variety and found it to be an interesting value play for Chromebooks, even though the Exynos 5250 left...
6 by on 1/15/2014Google Announces Moto G Google Play Edition
We've already taken a look at the international Moto G, and today Google surprised us with the formal announcement of a Google Play edition Moto G based on that...
19 by on 1/14/2014Broadcom Teases Upcoming Cat 6 LTE Multimode Modem, M320 SoC with LTE
Last year at CES we took a look at Broadcom's LTE modem portfolio, where the company showed off a Cat 4 LTE baseband doing 10+10 MHz carrier aggregation, before...
18 by on 1/11/2014A Look at Sequans Single Mode LTE Baseband
Verizon completed its LTE coverage rollout and achieved nearly parity with its 3G EVDO coverage in 2013, in addition to green-lighting LTE-only devices with its newest RFPs, allowing a...
3 by on 1/11/2014A Look At Altair's Single Mode LTE Modem in the Ellipsis 7
I met with a number of LTE baseband makers at CES 2014, the first of which was Altair Semiconductor, who recently scored an interesting design win with Verizon's first...
3 by on 1/11/2014Eyes On With the Oculus Crystal Cove Prototype
Last year, one of the most intriguing and hotly anticipated things I saw at CES was the Oculus Rift. Although the hardware was still early, and the display not...
17 by on 1/10/2014T-Mobile CES 2014 Uncarrier 4.0 Event Live Blog
We're seated now at T-Mobile's CES 2014 press event, where the operator will hopefully share some of its plans for the fourth step in its uncarrier series of changes...
31 by on 1/8/2014USB-IF Updates Us on Type C Connector, Demonstrates USB SuperSpeed 3.1 Transfers
December of last year, the USB-IF announced that the definition of a new type of compact connector, dubbed type C, was underway. After pushback from the USB 3.0 micro-B...
31 by on 1/7/2014Ambarella Shows off Wearable A7LW Camera Platform for Google Helpouts
Wearables seem to already be the unofficial theme of CES 2014, which officially begins today. I stopped by Ambarella to see their latest and greatest, now well known for...
3 by on 1/7/2014Intel CES 2014 Live Blog
We just walked over from the Qualcomm press conference slash Q&A extravaganza to Intel's press conference, which should be getting underway at 1 PM PT.
26 by on 1/6/2014Qualcomm CES 2014 Live Blog
We're seated at Qualcomm's CES 2014 press conference, which is getting underway shortly at noon PT. Stay tuned for our live coverage.
16 by on 1/6/2014Huawei Announces Ascend Mate 2 - 6.1 inch and 1.6 GHz Quad Core
We’re here at Huawei’s 2014 CES press conference, where they’ve announced their newest smartphone, the Huawei Ascend Mate 2. The Ascend Mate 2 is the successor to the Ascend...
8 by on 1/6/2014Audience Announces its Fourth Generation Voice Processor - eS700 Series
We've been covering and tracking ambient noise reduction technologies in smartphones for a while now, and one of the players in that space, Audience, is announcing its fourth generation...
4 by on 1/6/2014LG Announces G Flex Coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile in 2014
We've been using and working on our review of the SK Telecom version of the LG G Flex, and have heard rumors about the device coming stateside and to...
2 by on 1/6/2014Motorola Moto G Review
I like what the new Motorola is doing. It seems like an eternity ago, but I remember when phone launches with Motorola meant a variety of variants all with...
120 by on 12/18/2013Google Play Edition LG G Pad 8.3, Sony Z Ultra, White Nexus 7 Announced
Today Google dropped by news of three new products hitting the Google Play store's device section, Google Play editions of LG's G Pad 8.3 and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra...
39 by on 12/10/2013