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December 2012. OPPO announces the Find 5 with a 1080p display before any global flagship has one at retail. The phone that makes the…
The Wii U, Nintendo's first high-definition console, faces significant challenges due to its confusing branding and marketing, leading many to mistake it for a…
The Snapdragon S4, launched in February, integrates a custom dual-core Krait CPU and LTE modem on a single chip, enhancing efficiency. Qualcomm's innovative design…
Palmer Luckey's Oculus Rift Kickstarter revives virtual reality on cheap phone screens and low-latency tracking, and for the first time in 20 years I…
July 2012. The OPPO Finder at 6.55mm is the world's thinnest smartphone. OPPO's first Android phone is also the company's first global hardware flex:…
CES 2012 puts the whole industry on a diet: Intel's Ultrabooks, Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3, and 55-inch OLED TVs that cost more than a…
CES 2012, held January 10–13 in Las Vegas, marked the end of an era before it opened: it was the last Consumer Electronics Show…
Jolla MeeGo is the lineage everyone forgot about. A handful of former Nokia engineers walked out after the burning platform memo and registered a…
TSMC's 28nm node brought gate-last high-k metal gate just as every mobile chip designer arrived at once, triggering a capacity crunch, while Intel's Tri-Gate…
Xiaomi launched its first phone, the Mi 1, at 1,999 yuan, swiftly selling 300,000 units in 34 hours. The device features competitive specs for…
Qualcomm's acquisition of Atheros for $3.1 billion expands its control over smartphone components, combining cellular and short-range radios. With the upcoming custom Krait CPU…
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
Motorola's Atrix 4G brings the first dual-core phone and a laptop dock to CES 2011, the Xoom kicks off Android tablets, and 4G LTE…
Microsoft's Kinect ditches the controller for a depth-sensing camera, and the real story is the cheap 3D sensing that makes spatial computing thinkable.
This week, Microsoft launched Kinect, a controller-free gaming camera aimed at attracting casual gamers, competing with Sony's PlayStation Move. Despite impressive sales, skepticism remains…
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