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Popular iOS hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz was recently sued by Sony Computer Entertainment America for jailbreaking the PlayStation. Of course, most of the tech community sided with Geohot, accusing Sony of stifling added accessibility and options to its PlayStation gaming system. However, according to the console maker, it was simply trying to protect its intellectual…
An announcement from Elpida Memory, Inc. confirms it will develop 4 GB mobile DRAM chips for smartphones. The Japanese company is the #3 memory manufacturer in the world and will use its Hiroshima plant to begin production of these new high-capacity memory chips. The company will also produce the memory modules in Taiwan to avoid…
Samsung’s Galaxy S line of devices have been very successful worldwide, which comes as no surprise to any of us. They have vivid Super AMOLED displays, easy-to-use form factors, TouchWiz UI which makes it easy to navigate Android and those 1GHz Hummingbird processors. However, the successor to the Galaxy S devices, the Galaxy S 2,…
Samsung and Boost Mobile announced today the Galaxy Prevail with Android 2.2 Froyo. The 3G smartphone is feature-rich for a budget handset and runs on Sprint’s CDMA network. It is equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS – TeleNav is unlimited and free every month and is pre-installed in the device – and has a 3.2-inch…
Texas Instruments (TI) said it plans to acquire National Semiconductor for about $6.5 billion in order to beef up its chip portfolio. TI’s mobile chips are in products like the Optimus 3D and the National Semiconductor buy will give it access to the company’s 12,000 analog products and customer design tools. Additionally, National Semiconductor has…
The introduction of the EVO 3D was the first glasses-free 3D phone from Sprint but it also included the first dual-core processor from industry giant Qualcomm and it is really pushing the fact that is uses an asynchronous architecture where each core can run at independent frequencies to conserve of battery life. NVIDIA has the…
Remember the Kyocera Echo? Well, the wacky dual-screened Android phone that Sprint announced last month just passed through the FCC, so we should see the handset debut in the near future. The Echo is quite a spin on the traditional smartphone archetype, and while it may be a bit unconventional, it really should appeal those…
The Motorola Atrix 4G became available to the general public today and it’s already been torn to bits by the folks at iFixit. The innards reveal no surprises as we already knew what this Android device would be packing: an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 8-core GeForce GPU, 16GB of on-board memory and 1GB of…
Samsung announced a new mobile DRAM with a wide I/O interface that will be used in smartphones and tablet PCs. The new DRAM is capable of transmitting data at a speed of 12.8 GBs per second which is four times faster than the recently introduced LPDDR2 DRAM and eight times faster than DDR DRAM which…
Texas Instruments is making it a little easier to develop software for Android with what it’s claiming to be the first development platform for Android. TI is trying to make it easier for manufacturers to develop software with the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks, which will allow software that enables smartphones to act as…