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Last month we got a chance to chat with Louis Tannyeres (pictured above), Chief Chip Architect at ST-Ericsson. We discussed how almost no one knows about ST-Ericsson, the rise of Qualcomm, how Texas Instruments does business, ST-Ericsson’s relationship to Nokia, Windows Phone, and more. Check out our full interview below: Thanks for taking the time…
Update: On Thursday July 07, 2011 at 04:43 Helsinki time we received an email from Qualcomm asking us to remove all the information in this article. Despite said information being available on numerous websites, our legal team told us that we should just bite our lip and comply with Qualcomm’s requests since they have the…
It’s hard to imagine that the iPhone 4 fiasco of 2010 was already over a year ago — it seems like only yesterday that the Internet erupted over the Apple smartphone leak and police were breaking down blogger doors. Over a year after its launch, the iPhone 4 is quickly aging with news that the…
If the HTC Eternity is a sign of things to come for future HTC or Windows Phone 7 devices, it’s really time to get pumped. This new Windows Phone handset retains HTC’s design cues, but it is much larger and more powerful than what we’ve seen in a Windows Phone device before. The Eternity boasts…
The HP TouchPad is the sexy webOS tablet we’d all been waiting for. With Android tablets failing to make a huge splash, the HP TouchPad was really our only hope against the reigning king of the tablet world – the Apple iPad. When HP presented it during its webOS conference, it looked incredibly hot and…
The Motorola Roadster is the best Bluetooth accessory ever sold. The best. It is easy to set up, charge, operate, and, even more impressive, it’s smart. Really smart. Setup The Roadster is the first Bluetooth accessory to kindly explain that it is ready to be paired to my cell phone. Think about all of the…
Images of an upcoming Nokia Windows Phone device surfaced online, and while the images themselves seem a little dubious, the presentation from which they came does not. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop held a little presentation and demo to employees asking for their confidence, and to put away cameras. Elop is a smart enough man to…
While most Android users have the option to expand the available memory for their handsets, many competitors have yet to include that option. Even if you do have the option for memory expansion, sometimes you still can’t fit in all of the media you’d like to have on the go. The next logical step for…
Though I still feel that glasses-free 3D devices are still a gimmick, it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to see the feature on a device like the iPad. At Display Taiwan, a prototype of a 3D iPad 2 shows us the possibilities when you combine Apple’s powerful and popular tablet with a display capable of…
Last week Qualcomm announced that they were going to acquire Rapid Bridge for an undisclosed sum of money. Rapid Bridge, based out of San Diego, has expertise in the field of chip design. According to EE Times they’re known for what’s called “Liquid Cell”, which can best be described by thinking of all the elements…