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Lucian Armasu
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Lucian is passionate about writing about different technologies, talking about their potential, and predicting tech trends. Visit his technology news website at TechDomino.com.

HTC Says Nvidia Is at Fault for the Lack of KitKat Updates for HTC One X/X+
Jan 14, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
HTC Says Nvidia Is at Fault for the Lack of KitKat Updates…
There has been quite an uproar over HTC announcing that its One X and One…
Jan 14, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Nvidia's Tegra K1 Shows the Snapdragon 800 and Intel Chips What It's…
It turns out Mobile Kepler is not just the most advanced mobile GPU by far…
Jan 13, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Intel Finished Optimizing Its 64-Bit Chips for Android 4.4 for KitKat
Although the previous Intel Atom architecture was only 32-bit and had some hard limitations baked…
Jan 10, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Sony Wants to Target the US Market and Sell 80 Million Smartphones…
Sony said last year that it's not going to focus on the US market for…
Jan 10, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Lenovo's President Doesn't Think Android on Windows Will Work – And He's…
Lenovo is the world's largest PC manufacturer right now, who's also taken a lot of…
Jan 09, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
What To Expect with the Snapdragon 410, 605A, 802, and 805 Chips…
Qualcomm has recently announced 4 chips that's going to use in 2014 (they may still…
Jan 09, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
PlayStation Now Games Will Require a DualShock 3 Controller
Sony has recently announced the PlayStation Now project, which is a way for Sony to…
Jan 09, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Devices With The 32-Bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 To Start Shipping In May
Qualcomm has revealed to a Japanese publication that the first devices with its new Snapdragon…
Jan 09, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
The New Tegra Note 7 Reference Tablet Comes with Tegra K1, Full…
The year 2014 should be the year of 4GB of RAM inside high-end mobile devices,…
Jan 08, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Chromebooks May Be Receiving Some Mid-Range Options Soon
So far we've only really seen low-end sub-$300 Chromebooks (if you don't count the first-gen…
Jan 08, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Sony "Castor" Tablet Leaks Out with New Qualcomm Chip and 4G Option
It seems Sony's almost entire 2014 line-up is getting leaked, and after we got some…
Jan 08, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Imagination Unveils the New PowerVR Series6XE Entry-Level GPUs
PowerVR Series6 is Imagination's new unified shader and OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible GPU architecture, and…
Jan 07, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
RCA to Launch Low-Cost Android-Based UHD TVs
The 4k TVs, or rather the UHD TVs (if you want to be really accurate…
Jan 07, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
As Cars Become More Connected, Android Has a Big Opportunity to Dominate…
Google has just announced the Open Automotive Alliance, which is formed mainly of some car…
Jan 07, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Gartner: Almost Half of All PCs, Tablets and Smartphones Shipped in 2014…
Around here, we've always thought Android has the potential to one day power most of…
Jan 07, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Lenovo's ThinkVision Is a 28" UHD Android All-In-One Powered by Tegra 4…
It seems All-in-Ones are starting to get increasingly popular, at least with manufacturers like Lenovo,…
Jan 06, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
AH Primetime: Dual-Booting Android/Windows Devices to Come to CES Again. But Does…
It's no secret that Intel has found little success in the mobile market, considering they…
Jan 04, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Qualcomm to Demo New Ultrasound-Based Pen Technology at CES 2014
Qualcomm wasn't about to just let Samsung and Nvidia own that portion of the tablet…
Jan 03, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
The Android-Based "CryptoPhones" Are Coming
Here's some good news in early 2014 about the whole NSA mass spying situation -…
Jan 03, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Mediatek to Show New Chips at CES, Including A Tiny Chip for…
Mediatek has been on a roll lately, especially since not only have many of the…
Jan 03, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Google's Open Source VP9 Codec to Be Supported Almost All Hardware Makers
Finally, we're going to see an open source video codec take over the web and…
Jan 02, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro to Come with Snapdragon 800 and 3GB of…
The 12.2" Galaxy Note tablet from Samsung has been rumored for almost a year, but…
Jan 01, 2014 · By Lucian Armasu
Report Names Canon, Nikon and Sony as the Only Survivors in the…
It was only a matter of time before smartphones started hurting every camera maker in…
Dec 31, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Sony to Launch Two New Flagships in the First Half of 2014:…
According to Digi-Wo, a website that has released many Sony leaks before, Sony will be…
Dec 30, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Qualcomm to Continue Working on Brain-like Chips in 2014
Several companies and organizations have started to work on projects that are trying to emulate…
Dec 30, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Chromebooks Capture 20% of Commercial Notebooks Market Share
Chromebooks started showing up a few years ago, but they were never more than a…
Dec 27, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Samsung to Unveil Two New 12.2" Tablets, Including a Galaxy Note Pro
We may be about to experience the "phablet" effect, but this time in tablets, rather…
Dec 24, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Can XiaoMi Succeed without the "Limited Edition" Marketing?
XiaoMi has some very popular products in China, but part of that popularity is due…
Dec 23, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Canonical Unveils Ubuntu and Android Dual-Boot Developer Preview
Canonical has just released a method for dual-booting Ubuntu Touch and Android on your phone.…
Dec 23, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Benchmarks Show Huawei Honor 3C to Be a Decent Low-End Smartphone
New leaks point to some benchmarks of a Huawei Honor 3C that managed to reach…
Dec 23, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Huawei's K3V2 Chip's Successor Will Support LTE Cat 6 Speeds
LTE is rapidly becoming a big market in China, where Huawei is from, so it's…
Dec 23, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Qualcomm to See Rising Competition from Low-Cost Chip Makers in 2014
Qualcomm has enjoyed quite a smooth ride over the past few years, especially since they…
Dec 20, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Asus to Take the Focus Back to Android with New Transformer Book…
Asus has been launching hybrid notebooks with Android for almost 3 years now, and they've…
Dec 20, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
AH Tech Talk: The Ending of Moore's Law Pushes Intel to Make…
We're fast approaching the end of Moore's Law - at least as it was originally…
Dec 19, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Google Pulls Koush' ROM Manager from the Play Store
The ROM Manager, Koush' very popular app for managing and installing custom roms, has been…
Dec 19, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Whatsapp Reaches 400 Million Active Users – A Good Time for Them…
Whatsapp is already one of the most popular ways to communicate with friends on mobile…
Dec 19, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
AH Tech Talk: Why Carriers Are Switching to Selling Phones Off-Contract
T-mobile might've just sparked a revolution in the US with its "un-carrier" strategy - a…
Dec 18, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Dolphin Zero Launches as a Privacy-Focused Mobile Browser
Privacy is the word of the year, according to Dictionary.com, which comes as no surprise…
Dec 18, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Nexus 7 or G Pad 8.3 Play Edition – Which One Is…
There used to be a time when stock Android devices could be narrowed down to…
Dec 18, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Oppo Find 7 to Officially Come with a 2.5k Resolution
The Oppo Find 7 phablet has been rumored before to come with a 2.5k resolution…
Dec 17, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Samsung Tries to Address the Elderly Market with Samsung Galaxy Core Advance
Samsung is trying to get all of its bases covered, and it's now said to…
Dec 16, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
AH Primetime: Forget 32GB by Default – Next Year's Flagships Should Come…
You can check the bill of materials of smartphones and tablets over the years, and…
Dec 14, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Low-End Sony Xperia E2 with LTE to Launch Early 2014
Sony Xperia E has been one of the better low-end 120-140 euro smartphones in Europe…
Dec 13, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Chrome for Android v32 Kills the 300ms Tap Delay for Mobile Websites
According to Google, "every touch-based mobile browser, across platforms, has an artificial ~300ms delay between…
Dec 13, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Google To Make Its Own ARM-Based Chips For Servers-Only (At Least For…
According to Bloomberg, Google is "considering designing its own server processors using technology from ARM." This…
Dec 13, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Indian-based Smartphone Maker, Micromax, Strives to Become a Global Brand
Android has given not just big phone makers an opportunity to sell even more phones,…
Dec 13, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Samsung Will Merge Wireless and Camera Divisions to Create Better Smartphone Cameras
Android smartphone cameras have been criticized for a long time. No one really knows why…
Dec 12, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
The Rezence Standard Promises More Convenient Wireless Charging
We've already seen devices coming to market and using the Qi wireless charging standard, and…
Dec 12, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
The New Google Play Edition Devices Come with Google+ "Photos" as the…
Even though Google greatly improved the photo editor in the Gallery app on the Nexus…
Dec 12, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
AH Tech Talk: The Invalidation of Microsoft's FAT Patent in Europe Could…
The Federal Patent Court in Germany, a country that's usually very friendly towards patents, has…
Dec 11, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
If These Specs for the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite Are Real, Samsung…
We've heard rumors of a Galaxy Tab 3 Lite recently, and now we are getting…
Dec 10, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu
Rumor: 4.7-Inch LG G2 "Mini" Might Be Coming Soon
The LG G2 isn't exactly one of the smaller phones around, and I think LG…
Dec 10, 2013 · By Lucian Armasu