Recent content by nafhan

Not great for gaming... (Adreno 305), but it should be a decent phone for most other smartphone usage (especially once it's got Android 4.4). Even though I generally prefer Android and it's ecosystem over WP, I've been referring people looking for a low cost handset to the Lumia 52x line. I'm...

Samsung is involved in MANY more business areas, including chip fabrication. R&D for their fabs, for instance, may be a significant amount of their R&D spending. Apple's R&D spending will be much more focused. Still, with the amount of cash Apple has, it's disappointing that they aren't spending...

neodude007Does the phone hold its breadth for 30 mins then drown?Does it get a headache after 26 drops and quits life?Does it brace itself for dust then give up after 6 hours?How does it make these decisions... I think it boils down to testing and liability, and they're more or less giving...

What's up with 2005? Apple jumped to 21% and "other" to 29%. I'm guessing it was due to how they were measuring things or something. It looks weird. I would have expected a jump in Apple OS usage around the iPhone release, not two years prior.

I would avoid this. The single Cortex A8 is going to run Android 4.x pretty slowly. There are better kid oriented Android tablets at the $150 (will get you dual Cortex A9) and $200 (Tegra 3) price points. I picked up the Nabi 2 for $130 on Black Friday, and that's got a Tegra 3 + 1024x600...

Rockchip... that's my only concern here. The specs look great for the price. I'd just be worried that we might see something similar to the USB controller problems that the Raspberry Pi has.

teh_chemToo bad they were acquired by Zynga. Expect this to look like a Sims ripoff shortly... They were acquired by EA last years. So, they won't be ripping off another EA game, however don't be surprised if we start seeing yearly updates to popular PopCap franchises (i.e. PvZ 4: Modern Yard...

Is it just me or does saying this kind of thing over and over just scream: "We're really not violating the NDA on the 7790!"

Just a thought about the Sandy Bridge comment at the start of the article: It looks like Sandy Bridge may be in the same performance category as the truly low end discrete parts (i.e. Radeon 5450/GT 210). That's a huge improvement for Intel IGP's (and IGP's in general), but those GPU's are...

As others have mentioned, very unfortunate that no Antec case/PSU combos were available. I've been going that route for years, and it hasn't failed me, yet.

I checked it out this weekend, and had a few thoughts: 1 It worked, and it worked fairly well. Very surprised. 2 I'm a lot more likely to play demos if I don't have to download 2gb of game files. 3 $5 a month ends up being about half of what I spend on GPU upgrades... 4 Games on my laptop!

I vote for Kinect as the other option is basically Wiimotes for the PS3. Not completely sure why anyone would get that instead of a Wii unless they were really strapped for space. Not super interested in either one, though. Cracked has a pretty hilarious take on this...

The 1.3mp camera should be more than adequate for video conferencing, and really who's going to be taking pictures with a tablet? Also, it's a pretty big improvement over not having one.

Intel is soon going to have a ton of unused 45nm capacity while they are transitioning from 45nm to 32nm. The plan is probably something along the lines of: transition the big, power hungry, money making chips first and then transition the Atom.

Just bought the ECS board from newegg... it's $70 (after rebate) right now.