MWC 2019
One of the things that caught our eyes at Mobile World Congress in 2018 and 2019 were new, high-end smartphones coming from China-based manufacturers that are better known for their value handsets. Ulefone is one such company that is trying to break into the market for advanced smartphones by relying on MediaTek's premium, sub-flagship SoC offerings. Last year Ulefone demonstrated its T2 Pro 6.7-inch handset designed for demanding customers. This year the company showcased its T3 smartphone the promises to be even more impressive.
Ulefone Demonstrates the Power 6: A Mid-Range Smartphone with a 6,350 mAh Battery
While the power efficiency of phones has significantly improved over the years, overall phone battery life has none the less been squeezed by design choices such as large screens...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2019
TCL Shows Off the Alcatel 7: Their First High-End 5G Smartphone
Right now, TCL produces smartphones under two major brands. For the Alcatel brand the company produces entry-level and mainstream handsets, whereas under the BlackBerry brand it makes specialized smartphones...
11 by Anton Shilov on 3/7/2019
The Condor Allure X: A Premium Smartphone with a 6.39-Inch AMOLED Display for €300
Condor Electronics introduced its new flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress. The Allure X has a large AMOLED display with a 92% screen-to-body ratio, a higher-end SoC, and advanced...
37 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019
Netgear Preps Next-Gen 4G and 5G Nighthawk Wi-Fi Hotspots
As one of the leading makers of mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, for several years now Netgear has offered a comprehensive lineup of such products. So for this year's Mobile World...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019
Energizer Power Max P18K Pop with 18,000 mAh Battery Demonstrated at MWC 2019
While smartphone vendors have been able to cut power consumption dramatically in the past 10 years, most of those power savings has gone into making thinner phones with smaller...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/5/2019
Hands-On with The Nubia Alpha: A Smartphone or A Smartwatch?
This year at Mobile World Congress, ZTE’s Nubia division introduced its Alpha, a wearable device that can serve both as smartphone and smartwatch. While initially dubbed as an Android-based...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/5/2019
Intel Announces The FPGA PAC N3000 for 5G Networks
One of last week’s early MWC 2019 announcements was Intel’s new FPGA PAC N3000 card. Intel’s networking business is something that the company has been focusing a lot of...
2 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/4/2019
Pictured: Intel and Qualcomm to offer 5G Modules for M.2 Slots
Last week we reported on Fibocom, an Intel partner, had announced a new M.2 module featuring the Intel XMM8160 5G modem to be used in CPEs as well as...
21 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2019
Nokia 9 PureView: Hands On, Impressions, Thoughts
HMD Global introduced its new top-of-the-range Nokia 9 PureView smartphone at Mobile World Congress earlier this week. The handset brings in a unique camera featuring six modules (five RGB...
34 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2019
Dive In: Catalyst Has Apple Watch Protection for Up to 100 Meters
When smartwatches emerged several years ago, they were good enough to work as pedometers or count calories burned when their owner used an elliptical strider. However they were not...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2019
A 32 MP Selfie Camera on ZTE's Blade V10: Because You Love Yourself
The imaging capabilities of mobile phones’ primary cameras have come a long way since the early 2000s, when the first camera phones hit the market. Today premium handsets can...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/28/2019
Xiaomi Teams Up with Light for Multi-Module Smartphone Cameras
Xiaomi and Light, a computational imaging firm, have announced at Mobile World Congress that the two companies will be working together to develop new multi-module cameras for smartphones. The...
9 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Samsung's New 512 GB UFS 3.0 Chip for Galaxy Fold, Now in Mass Production
Samsung this week said that it has begun mass production of its UFS 3.0 chips. The company’s initial lineup of UFS 3.0 products includes embedded drives featuring a 128...
6 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Lenovo's New 595-Gram Portable Display: The ThinkVision M14 USB-C Monitor
At the Mobile World Congress trade show, Lenovo has introduced a new portable display designed specifically for workers on the move. The ThinkVision M14 monitor matches design of the...
4 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Oppo Demonstrates 5G Smartphone at MWC 2019
One theme of the Mobile World Congress trade show is for companies to show off their future 5G products - or at least a prototype with a 5G sticker...
1 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
The Sony Xperia 1: A Long 21:9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone
Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its...
20 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Micron Returns to the microSD Card Market with the Micron c200 Series: From 128 GB to 1 TB
About a year and a half after discontinuing its Lexar consumer storage business, Micron is making a comeback with a series of microSD cards that it's demonstrating at Mobile...
5 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2019
Samsung Galaxy S10: First Exynos 9820 vs Snapdragon 855 Scores
One of AnandTech's more in-depth coverage pieces last year was our analysis of the two different version of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note9. Specifically we covered the quite...
108 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/26/2019
USB 3.2 at 20 Gb/s Coming to High-End Desktops This Year
The USB 3.0 Promoters Group announced its USB 3.2 specification update that increases theoretical performance of a USB 3.2 interface over a Type-C cable to 20 Gbps back in...
62 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2019
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