by Robert Triggs, 2 weeks ago

MediaTek has released a new quad-core processor, named the MT8125, which will be targeted for use in tablets. Compared with other big chip manufactures such as Samsung, Nvidia, or Qualcomm, MediaTek processors tend to be cheaper,…

by Adam Koueider, 1 month ago

Xiaomi has recorded the sale of all 200,000 Xiaomi M2S smartphones in stock, in just 45 seconds. Yes, you read that correctly, 45 seconds! The Xiaomi M2S comes with some heavy hitting specifications, like a…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

There are a couple of things that appear in the title of this post which you don’t normally see side-by-side. There are plenty of Android smartphones available for $275 (and much less). There are also smartphones with…

by Robert Triggs, 4 months ago

Those who like to follow hardware will have no-doubt noticed the increasing prevalence of quad-core processors in top of the line products, and it looks like the trend is set to continue with the introduction…

by Nate Swanner, 4 months ago

Our phones are what keep us connected to the world. We are increasingly dependent on our devices to navigate us through our day, so we should be concerned with their functionality. As a central part…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 4 months ago

Remember when LG announced the Optimus 4X HD, the “world’s first” quad core smartphone? That was back in February 2012 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Over the next few months we saw several other…

by Shea Harris, 5 months ago

Hot off the heels of three other new mobile processor announcements at CES 2013 from NVidia, Qualcomm, and Samsung, ST-Ericsson has announced its own new processor. ST-Ericsson claims that the quad-core NovaThor L8580 will be…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 5 months ago

Today in Las Vegas, Nvidia lifted the veil on the latest generation of its Tegra line of systems on a chip. Previously codenamed Wayne (as in Bruce Wayne, the superhero), the new Tegra 4 SoC…

by Andi Sykes, 5 months ago

ZTE seems to be just as excited about its super-thin Grand S as we are, so instead of waiting until CES to launch it the company went ahead and held a short preview of the…

by Andi Sykes, 6 months ago

I think we can all agree that 2013 will be a year of amazing 5-inch, quad-core flagship phones, and here in China, “Flagship” doesn’t always mean expensive. We’ve already seen some great phones from Oppo…

by Ken East, 6 months ago

A drained battery is a common problem Android users face every day. The more cores your top-of-the-line phone has, the more battery power it consumes. In most cases, all the cores are running even when…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 10 months ago

System on a chip infrastructures are all the rage with smartphone and tablet platforms. Employing them results in lower power consumption without sacrificing performance. MediaTek, one of the smaller players in the SoC area, is…

by Clayton Ljungberg, 10 months ago

Asus has been dominating the Android tablet market in recent months. From the incredible Nexus 7, to the ever-popular line of Transformer Pads, Asus has really opened the door to a new realm of tablet…

by Mike Andrici, 11 months ago

Although LG have recently announced that they’ve managed to sell north of 3 million LTE smartphones in a number of 10 countries worldwide, the South Korean manufacturer is still struggling to make profit out of…

by Clayton Ljungberg, 12 months ago

After initially choosing Android over IOS, one must then decide which Android phone suits them the most. Whittling down your choice can be tedious, as you will be presented with a large number of phones…