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.
The Nothing Phone (1) launched July 12, 2022 at £399 with Snapdragon 778G+, 900 individual LEDs in the Glyph Interface, and a transparent back…
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra features a groundbreaking one-inch Sony IMX989 sensor and a partnership with Leica, enhancing its camera capabilities. This approach aims to…
Samsung 3nm beat TSMC to gate-all-around with its MBCFET transistor, but poor yields and thin customers meant the world's first GAA node barely mattered.
In the past year, Europe has taken significant steps towards Open RAN, highlighted by a joint declaration from major operators like Telefónica and Vodafone.…
Samsung 4nm built the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which ran so hot Qualcomm moved the refresh to TSMC, where the same chip ran cooler.…
Between 2019 and 2021, MediaTek transformed from a budget chip supplier to the largest smartphone chip vendor by volume with its Dimensity 5G line.…
Three weeks with the OPPO Find X5 in Chicago as one of twenty Product Ambassadors worldwide. Full review: ColorOS 12.1, MariSilicon X imaging NPU,…
The saga of France's 5G rollout was characterized by prolonged debates over spectrum auctions and frustation, while neighboring countries advanced. Delays stemmed from political…
OxygenOS 12 launched in March 2022 and XDA Developers called it "a disaster" in their opening line. The community agreed. Slower animations, worse battery…
March 9, 2022: Nothing closed a $70M Series B and announced "The Truth" event for March 23. The phone was coming. A hundred thousand…
February 2022. OPPO selects me as one of twenty Find X5 Product Ambassadors worldwide. A Frenchman in Chicago who has never held an OPPO…
Uptake of the open-video codec AV1 has been slow, with major video providers waiting for broader device support. Things could change over the coming…
The brand new Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (Exynos) is a phone of superlatives. Samsung says the Exynos 2200 chipset is its fastest ever and…
Hello All, Take a look to this quick Unboxing and Ride video with the Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter Pro 2 Mercedes-AMG-Petronas F1 EditionMy threads…
The “Cloud Gaming Market Research Report by Type, by Device, by Gamer, by Region – Global Forecast to 2026 – Cumulative Impact of COVID-19” report has…
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