The biggest chunk of what I cover: phones, the silicon inside them, the software that ages them, and the slow creep of AI into every part of the stack. I care more about what a device is actually like to live with than about the spec sheet it launched on.
Xiaomi's YU7 SUV generated 200,000 orders in three minutes and targets Tesla's Model Y with lower prices and superior specs. The company aims for…
Gerard Williams III, former Apple architect, founded Nuvia to adapt Apple’s microarchitecture for a broader market, leading to Qualcomm's Oryon chip. The architecture features…
Apple introduced Metal 4 with native AI capabilities built directly into its graphics API at WWDC 2025, enabling Mac developers to run AI computations…
Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, 2025, introducing groundbreaking on-device AI capabilities across key products, including iPhone, iPad,…
Xiaomi's new XRING O1 flagship system-on-chip boasts impressive specs, including over three million on AnTuTu and a powerful 10-core CPU, marking a significant advancement…
Samsung just launched its most audacious smartphone yet: the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. At just 5.8mm thin and weighing 163g, it is the thinnest…
Google ships Gemini 1.5 Pro with reasoning mode six months after OpenAI's o1, while AMD's MI300X accelerator signals the AI market's shift from training…
Nothing Phone (3a) launched March 11, 2025 with the Essential Key: a physical AI button that delivers the four-year payoff on the Essential Products…
Xiaomi's SU7 Ultra car boasts 1,548 horsepower and a record-breaking Nurburgring lap, launching at an unexpectedly low price of 529,900 yuan. This strategic pricing…
MWC 2025 arrives in Barcelona, and the show floor is buzzing with AI-first smartphone announcements and 5G Advanced deployments. Xiaomi uses MWC as its…
Softonic quoted my tweet about the OnePlus Open 2 cancellation to support a 'Samsung wins' narrative. My actual analysis reaches the opposite conclusion, and…
OnePlus kills the Open 2, and the real story is the OPPO group consolidation, the BBK empire's collapse, and why Motorola, not Samsung, is…
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2025 in San Jose delivered the Galaxy S25 series, and the story is one word: Galaxy AI, now running on the…
The Snapdragon 8 Elite represented a step-change in on-device AI performance when it launched in late 2024, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insider content has done…
Google just released Gemini 2.0, and the question nobody is asking is the right one. The model is 20% better at reasoning benchmarks than…
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