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.
December 2012. OPPO announces the Find 5 with a 1080p display before any global flagship has one at retail. The phone that makes the…
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:…
Et comme tout le monde le sait cela sera #free. Les offres sont lancées de 0€ à 19,99€. Et oui tout cela sans engagement.…
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 Snapdragon S2, featuring the Adreno 205 GPU, delivers impressive mid-range performance, enhancing gaming smoothness. Its effective graphics capabilities support over 120 device designs,…
A new Beijing-based company, Xiaomi, has launched MIUI, a customized Android ROM, prioritizing software over hardware. Founded by Lei Jun, it aims to develop…
Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…
China Mobile's research institute wants to empty every cell tower, pull the baseband back into one central pool, and turn the radio network into…
May 2008. OPPO's first mobile phone — the A103 "Smiley Phone" — goes on sale in China. Not a smartphone. Not for the tech…
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
2006. OPPO Digital opens in Menlo Park, California, selling audiophile Blu-ray players online to American home theater enthusiasts who've never heard of Dongguan. The…