by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Smartphones and tablets are the fastest growing markets in the electronics industry right now. As such, they also drive the growth of the DRAM market, which is estimated to hit $6.56 billion in revenues this year,…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

A few weeks ago some news popped out about a Sony LT25c phone, which indicated it will be a China Telecom smartphone for exclusive sale in China. But new benchmark leaks for a Sony LT25i prove…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

So far, the new Google Now feature in Android has received a lot of positive feedback from users, saying it’s very useful, and also that the card style answers look very good. Google is moving…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Nokia has run an online poll on their official blog, asking people whether they prefer a QWERTY keyboard, a touchscreen, a number keypad, or voice control as their favorite way of controlling their device. The…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Nokia bought the Qt (pronounced “cute”) team before they made the deal with Microsoft to run WP7 on their smartphones. Back then, the old CEO was still hoping Symbian will survive the iPhone and the…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

One thing that custom ROM’s don’t benefit from, the way stock ROM’s do, is a good way of checking for updates on your phone and then being able to update the ROM with the latest…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game made by id Software, that was released in 2004 for Windows. It’s been id Software’s most successful game so far, selling over 3.5 million copies. Later…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

The CyanogenMod team released the RC1 version of CM9 just before Google I/O started. A couple of weeks later, RC2 was launched, and now it seems that CyanogenMod 9 stable is trickling out for some devices….

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Samsung has just released the whitepaper for their long-awaited Exynos 5250 SoC, now called the Exynos 5 Dual, and there’s a lot of interesting information to be discovered in it. The Exynos 5 Dual will…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

The Verge Piracy is a problem for developers on any platform, and pirating an app on Android is not that much harder than doing it on Windows. Some would say the piracy on Android is…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Over the past few years, we’ve seen many arguments that Google needs to become more “social” if it doesn’t want to be somehow made irrelevant by Facebook. But while the social signal can be an…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

The Nexus 7 got a slightly weaker version of the Tegra 3 SoC, clocked at 1.2 GHz, compared to say the one in the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, which reaches 1.6 GHz, or the one…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

HTC’s financial results haven’t been kind to them lately, and neither has the media. All of HTC’s problems have been documented extensively lately, which, in turn leads to shareholders losing trust in the company’s ability…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

According to IDC, Android and iOS now represent 85% of the 152 million smartphones sold in Q2 2012, globally. But while the iPhone kept growing in raw numbers, it couldn’t keep up with Android, and…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

RIM put itself in a terrible position in the market in the past couple of years, by not listening to all the signs that the market is shifting to touchscreen phones. Not only RIM still…