LG Announces 4-Pronged Mobile Strategy for 2011
On the first day of MWC 2011, LG announced its four-part smartphone and tablet strategy for 2011 as part of what it's calling a "new beginning" for becoming a...
22 by Brian Klug on 2/14/2011Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Play, Neo, and Pro
Sony Ericsson’s big news from Barcelona is obviously the Xperia Play, the mysterious and oft-rumoured PSP-phone. But they’ve also announced two new additions to the Xperia line - the...
20 by Vivek Gowri on 2/14/2011Samsung's Galaxy S II Preliminary Performance: Mali-400MP Benchmarked
There's a lot of speculation about the SoC used in Samsung's Galaxy S II, thankfully through process of elimination and some snooping around we've been able to figure it...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 2/14/2011Microsoft Announces a Host of Windows Phone 7 Updates
At MWC 2011, Microsoft just announced a number of improvements for WP7 including the timeline for when its first update will be pushed to devices. The update with app-loading performance...
35 by Brian Klug on 2/14/2011Qualcomm Demos Remote Handwriting Recognition Using an Ultrasonic Pen
We've been talking about higher performance SoCs for quite a while now, but the number of applications for these things beyond making your UI faster is fairly limited today...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011HP's TouchPad at MWC 2011
HP stopped by a Qualcomm roundtable discussion to demonstrate the HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad that it recently announced. Mithun covered the webOS event for us but this...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011Intel @ MWC 2011: Atom-Based Medfield SoC Now Sampling, Low-Power LTE Modems In 2012
Though we still like to think of Intel first and foremost as a computer CPU company, the fact of the matter is the company is trying its hardest to...
21 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2011Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet User Experience
While I was scheduling my Mobile World Congress meetings I got an email request from Intel. It wanted to give me a quick tour of the latest MeeGo UI...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD2 - First Realtek 1185 Media Streamer in the Wild!
AnandTech started covering the media streamer market last year. Thanks to the support of readers like you, the response has been very encouraging. Over the last few months, manufacturers...
31 by Ganesh T S on 2/14/2011Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011Budget System Builder’s Guide February 2011
With the recent launch of Sandy Bridge, we had hoped to put together some Buyers' Guides covering the changes in the market. Unfortunately, with the recall/bug of the 6-series...
58 by Zach Throckmorton on 2/14/2011Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 10.1
In a not completely unexpected move Samsung Mobile announced that it would be working with NVIDIA on two different projects. First and foremost is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011Samsung Intros NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 & New Superphone, Galaxy S II Debuts
Including Apple, we've covered six major players in the high end smartphone SoC space: Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung and Qualcomm. Not all of these six will survive in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011Verizon iPhone 4: Thoroughly Reviewed
After literally years of fruitless rumor, speculation, and waiting, the Verizon iPhone is finally here. It's a CDMA version with almost identical hardware to the GSM/UMTS version which shipped...
35 by Brian Klug on 2/13/2011MWC 2011: LG Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad Announced
Mobile World Congress 2011 is upon us, and LG is kicking things off by announcing the Optimus 3D smartphone and the Optimus Pad tablet. The Optimus 3D is an...
4 by Vivek Gowri on 2/13/2011The Motorola Atrix 4G Preview
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to join a bunch of NVIDIA employees for dinner. Among those at the table were Michael Toksvig and Tony Tamasi...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011Nokia and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
Today Nokia and Microsoft have announced partnership that will collectively leverage Microsoft and Nokia's strengths and resources. Although the fruit of this long-term partnership will primarily affect Windows Phone...
66 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/11/2011Puget Systems Serenity SPCR Edition: Blissful Silence
We've had the opportunity to look at a few custom builds from different boutiques so far. While most have generally been well-rounded builds using cherry picked off-the-shelf parts and...
139 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/10/2011Analysis of HP's event : It's Raining webOS
Today's HP webOS event was all about letting everyone know that webOS is definitely here to stay and HP is putting in massive resources (human and monetary) to ensure...
20 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/9/2011HP's Spring Collection: TouchSmart 610 and New dv6/dv7 Laptops
Just in time for the Sandy Bridge recall, HP held a press conference updating their desktop and notebook lines. In some ways it's just business as usual, but there...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/9/2011