by Gary Sims, 1 month ago

NVIDIA has been working with car makers for a while now and it announced earlier this year that Audi will use an auto-infotainment system featuring  NVIDIA’s Tegra CPU in selected vehicles this year.  But the company…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

There is some good news for those of you in the UK who have been trying to get your hands on a Nexus 4. Google has taken delivery of a new batch of the phones…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Once in a while a brave soul is needed to stand in the firing line, report the facts and hope he survives! This time it is me. According to recent web browsing data Android’s worldwide…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

The mobile chip company ST-Ericsson, which was a joint venture between STMicroelectronics  and Ericsson, is to close. The troubled mobile technology company has never made a profit, since it was created in 2008, and finally the two parent companies have said enough…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

I took delivery of my new SmartStick, from American company FAVI Entertainment, just a few days ago and to be honest I was expecting to see yet another run-of-the-mill Android mini computer that plugs into the HDMI port on your…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Clearly Samsung is serious about making sure that its soon-to-be-unpacked Galaxy S4 will be a major success not only in its Europe and Asia but also in the USA. The count down has started to the Samsung…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

A newly published analysts report has investigated the potential performance of the the upcoming processors from Nvidia and Qualcomm and concluded that the Tegra 4 will outshine the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. However the caveat is that the conclusion is based…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

What started out as a single game for smartphones has become a worldwide franchise and the latest move by Rovio, the makers of the Angry Birds series, is almost guaranteed to ensure that its global success continues. On the…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

To unlock or not unlock, that is the question… well in the USA at least. The bizarre story of America’s legislators decision to make phone unlocking illegal took another twist this week when a bipartisan bill to…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

The Exynos 4 Quad (or Exynos 4412 as it was previously known) is Samsung’s 32nm HKMG (High K Metal Gate Process) quad-core CPU that powers some versions of the Galaxy S3 along with Samsung’s phablets, the Galaxy Note II…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z was officially revealed at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where it was well received. The 10.1-inch tablet is just 6.9mm thick, and weighs just 495g. It is also water proof and has a…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Towards the end of February Koushik Dutta, best known as the author of ClockworkMod Recovery, released a new superuser access app called ClockworkMod Superuser. The initial release could only be installed via recovery mode but it didn’t…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

As Agent Smith said so succinctly in The Matrix, “It is inevitable.” That is really the only response to the news that Twitter will close TweetDeck for Android, along with TweetDeck AIR and TweetDeck for iPhone, in May. TweetDeck was…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Speaking at a recent Deutsche Bank’s Media, Internet, and Telecom conference Verizon’s CFO Fran Shammo revealed that the company is looking to remove the CDMA chips from phones, in a bid to reduce subsidies. When asked a…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru has announced that Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean has been officially released into the Android Open Source Project along with the matching proprietary binaries. The release of the source code started soon after Google released the…