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 Brian Klug on 2/24/2014

Audience 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 Brian Klug 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

Samsung 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 Brian Klug on 2/23/2014

HP 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 Brian Klug on 1/15/2014

Google 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 Brian Klug on 1/14/2014

Broadcom 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 Brian Klug on 1/11/2014

A 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 Brian Klug on 1/11/2014

A 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 Brian Klug on 1/11/2014

Eyes 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 Brian Klug on 1/10/2014

T-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 Brian Klug on 1/8/2014

USB-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 Brian Klug on 1/7/2014

Ambarella 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 Brian Klug on 1/7/2014

Intel 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 Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

Qualcomm 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 Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

Huawei 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 Brian Klug on 1/6/2014

Audience 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 Brian Klug on 1/6/2014

LG 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 Brian Klug on 1/6/2014

Motorola 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 Brian Klug on 12/18/2013

Google 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 Brian Klug on 12/10/2013

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