Sony Snapdragon 845 phone specs revealed
Decent horsepower
Sony is working on a successor to the Z1 series, and it is Snapdragon 845 based. We expect this phone to launch at the Mobile World Congress in the last days of February 2018.
Apple loses top chipman
John Bruno moves to Google
ATI and later AMD started the great trend of letting journalists talk to actual engineers. Nvidia followed, and soon I had the chance to meet John Bruno, who this week is leaving Apple to shift to Google.
IPhone X numbers lower than predicted
Numbers down but the margin keeps Apple in clover
The numbers for the iPhone X are well down on what was expected with only 30 million units sold in the fourth quarter of 2017 and the figure is expected to drop slightly in the first quarter of 2018.
Social media says Apple is racist
Face recognition really cannot handle Chinese
The Fruity cargo cult Apple’s iPhone X’s facial recognition systems has been dubbed racist after more Chinese people have said it can’t tell them apart.
Nokia signs licensing deal with Huawei
More cash
The former maker of rubber boots, Nokia, has signed a multi-year smartphone patent license deal with China’s Huawei, completing its list of agreements with the world’s largest handset makers and sending its share price up.