Yesterday at the 2019 Qualcomm Tech Summit the Snapdragon 865 mobile platform was announced for the premium tier market. We have been told how this platform is loaded with 5G and AI capabilities that were designed to make next generation capabilities possible, but weren’t told all the details on Day 1. On Day 2 of the …more
Qualcomm has been pushing the Always-Connected PC (ACPC for short) for a number of years now and the ACPC segment continues to mature and getting better. All mobile users want an always connected, highly portable device that has extreme battery life. Current flagship smartphones have all day battery life and are always-on, so why can’t …more
The Kingston Nucleum 7-in-1 USB Type-C Hub was released at CES 2018 and it became immediately available for $79.99. The price on the Kingston Nucluem has dropped to $49.99 shipped since it was released, but the need for a USB Type-C hub has never been greater than now. More and more thin-and-light laptop makers are reducing the number …more
MateBook 13 – Ready To Challenge Other Popular Models? When we got our hands on the Huawei Matebook 13 Signiture Edition laptop we figured that we would replace the Dell XPS 13 laptop that we use as a daily driver for a week or two. The only problem is that was couple months ago and …more
Huawei announced the latest versions of its flagship smartphone, the P30 and P30 Pro, at a press conference in Paris, France this afternoon. The hype from all the rumors and teasers have smartphone fans sitting at the edge of their seat and Huawei didn’t disappoint. The press event was packed with roughly 3,000 journalists around the …more
Huawei Mate 20 Pro – Packed With Cool Features When the Huawei Mate 20 Pro showed up to be reviewed back in October I went straight to using the smartphone to see how I liked it. Well, it’s been two months and I’m still using the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as it has the best …more
Mobile gaming is a booming right now and “PUBG Mobile” has been one of the most successful titles in 2018. This battle-royale shooter has been downloaded over 100 million times and was recently named Google Play’s Best Game of 2018 and Fan Favorite Game of 2018! While we were checking out the demo room at the 3rd Annual Qualcomm …more
On December 5th, 2010, Verizon Wireless became the first carrier in the United States to launch a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The roll out happened slowly at first covering just 38 major cities spanning 22 states and 60 airports at launch. Those lucky enough to live in an area with 4G LTE coverage, …more
Bargain retail chain Dollar General is currently having a 4-day sale on an Emerson EM756BK-8 7-inch tablet running Android 5 ‘Lollipop’ for $35. We just happened to be in the market for some cheap tablets for the kids to watch movies on during holiday travels. Seeing your 2-year old and 4-year old grabbing your expensive …more
Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform yesterday at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2017 and gave more details on the upcoming “premium’ mobile SoC during the second days keynote presentation. Qualcomm said it’s focusing on five key areas with this new processor – AI, security, connectivity, performance and immersion. Immersion The first area Qualcomm talked …more
Today at the second annual Snapdragon Technology Summit we got a chance to see Qualcomm show off retail Windows mobile devices! You won’t find any Intel inside these products though as they all run Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. The first wave of devices will be using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835, ARM-based processors. The Snapdragon 835 features the big.Little configuration …more
Qualcomm today announced that its next flagship processor will be called the Snapdragon 845. The news came during the opening keynote at the second annual Snapdragon Tech Summit. The Snapdragon 845 SoC is a direct successor to last year’s immensely popular Snapdragon 835 SoC that has can now be found powering over 120 mobile devices. …more
ASUS ROG Strix GL502 Gaming Notebook Review Last month we were on hand at a press event that NVIDIA held when they announced the GeForce GTX 10-series of GPUs was coming to notebooks. While we were excited to hear about how NVIDIA was able to stuff full desktop version Pascal GPUs into gaming notebooks for unreal …more
Transcend JetDrive Go 300 For iOS There are a few long standing complaints about iOS devices and they are somewhat related. First is the high price of flash storage when buying larger capacity models and the second is the lack of expandable storage via secure digital cards or other digital media cards. The Android platform …more