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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform. Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series, code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards the AI PC with...
Motorola's Project Ara: Phonebloks from an OEM
Phonebloks was a campaign that focused upon attracting the interest of OEMs by showing that there was an incredible amount of interest for a modular phone. This was mostly...
55 by Joshua Ho on 10/29/2013
New Version of Google Glass coming, Free Swap for Current Glass Explorers
One of the shortcomings of the initial Glass hardware was its inability to be used in conjunction with prescription eyewear. Although users could sometimes get away with wearing Glass...
13 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013
HTC One max Review - It's Huge
Big phones are all the rage right now. Although tablets promised the kind of extra screen real estate that would increase productivity while still retaining portability, there’s ultimately nothing...
197 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013
NVIDIA Updates Shield to Android 4.3, Adds Features, Brings GameStream out of Beta
It’s been a while since our NVIDIA Shield review, a Tegra 4 packing handheld gaming device running Android Jelly Bean. Today, NVIDIA is taking the lid off a big...
19 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013
A quick look at Blackberry 10.2 and web browsing performance on Z10
Blackberry has started rolling out OS 10.2 to BB10 devices such as Z10, Q10 and Q5. Update appears to be available in Canada and UK for a start. The...
45 by Rahul Garg on 10/26/2013
iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display include Qualcomm's MDM9615 baseband
We've had a few days to digest everything announced at Apple's recent event, and one of the remaining questions was whether the iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina...
10 by Brian Klug on 10/24/2013iPad Air: Hands On [video]
Brian also just finished up some hands on with the iPad Air. Check out the video below for his impressions and a comparison to the new mini. We just played...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013iPad mini with Retina Display: Hands On [video]
Brian just spent some time hands on with the new iPad mini:
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013
Apple Event (October 2013) - Live Blog
Brian and I are on the ground in San Francisco for Apple's event today. We're expecting to see new iPads introduced as well as the long-awaited Haswell rMBP refreshes...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Review
When Microsoft introduced its first Surface devices last year, it did so in a staggered fashion. Surface RT showed up first, then four months later Surface Pro went on...
277 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/21/2013
Microsoft Surface 2 Review
A year ago Microsoft first threw its hat into the tablet race with a new brand, a new OS and a completely new strategy. To make a challenging situation...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/21/2013
ASUS Transformer Book T100 Review: Redefining the Entry-Level Windows Notebook
I started out our Chromebook 11 review with a reminder that we are in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with better hardware, a better sense of materials/industrial...
158 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/18/2013
Nexus 5 Briefly Appears on Google Play - Starts at $349
In what may be one of the most interesting leaks thus far in the road to the official Nexus 5 announcement, today Google seems to have accidentally confirmed both...
28 by Brian Klug on 10/17/2013
Acer Launches Iconia W4 Tablet with Windows 8.1
With Windows 8.1 now officially available to the public, we’re going to see a new onslaught of devices for the OS. Acer’s Iconia W4 is one of the first...
20 by Jarred Walton on 10/17/2013
Hands on with the MOBO Edition 18ct Gold HTC One
Gold seems to be on every device maker's mind right now. Recently we saw Apple introduce the Gold iPhone 5S, and then Samsung countered with a gold Galaxy S4...
30 by Brian Klug on 10/9/2013
Samsung Galaxy Round, a Curved Note 3
Just recently, news broke that the Galaxy Round is being released for sale in Korea. While Samsung can claim that they are the first to create a commercially sold...
25 by Joshua Ho on 10/9/2013
Some Thoughts on Smartphone Region Locking
Recently, reports of Samsung region locking the Note 3 came out via Clove UK, which posted on its blog that the Note 3 would be completely unable to use...
60 by Joshua Ho on 10/7/2013
Dell Updates Venue Line of Tablets
Yesterday Dell announced their latest mobile products, with major updates to their tablet and laptop offerings. Starting with the Venue tablets, Dell has three new models available on October...
51 by Jarred Walton on 10/3/2013
They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
Thanks to AndreiF7's excellent work on discovering it, we kicked off our investigations into Samsung’s CPU/GPU optimizations around the international Galaxy S 4 in July and came away...
375 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/2/2013
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review
I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Note. At that point in time it wasn’t really obvious just how critical larger-display smartphones were going to...
305 by Brian Klug on 10/1/2013
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