Personal Computing

HypeVR Becomes 3nfinite And Launches Enbly App Enabling Spatial Volumetric Video Over 5G

By / 5G, Research, Virtual Reality VR / September 10, 2020

I have been following HypeVR, a San Diego-based company in the VR space, since I encountered it at Intel’s booth at CES 2017, and I’ve watched the company’s technology improve and grow. During a recent visit to the company’s San Diego offices, founder Tonaci Tran walked me through the progress that the company has made …

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Intel’s 11th Gen Core Processors And ‘Evo’ Platform Brand Raises The Notebook Processor Competitive Stakes

By / Notebooks, Personal Computing, Research, Semiconductor / September 10, 2020

Intel has been crushing it financially recently through the execution of a more diversified portfolio even as it faces fierce PC and datacenter server processor competition as well as challenges in future process nodes. Yesterday was a big day in the long history of Intel as it unveiled the next generation of notebook processors, which, …

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The Ins and Outs of Patents and Intellectual Property- A Six Five insider With PatentSight’s Managing Director

By / 5G, Carrier/Wireless, Corporate, Personal Computing, Podcast, Research, Semiconductor, Wireless / September 17, 2020

On this special episode of The Six Five – Insiders Edition, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Will Mansfield, Director of Consulting and Customer Success for PatentSight to discuss the ins and outs of patents, intellectual property and the value of patent data in our current technology climate. In our conversation, Will, …

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DARQ Releases Complete Edition On Current And Next-Gen Consoles

By / Gaming, Research / September 10, 2020

In the fall of 2019, ‘Unfold Games’ released a 2.5D puzzle-platform based psychological horror called DARQ. Lloyd, the protagonist, finds himself in the middle of a lucid dream that surpassed my expectations. Aside from the initial release of DARQ, within the last year, Unfold Games has released the first DLC of two ‘The Tower’ and ‘GameDev: 10 Steps To Making …

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Why Samsung Galaxy’s Smartphone Product Segmentation Makes Sense

By / Research, Smartphone / September 10, 2020

Samsung is the world’s number one smartphone vendor in terms of global unit market share. However, as the company has gotten bigger and more successful, some people have started to claim that the company has too many product lines. This criticism has become increasingly more common as the smartphone market size has grown, with there …

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NVIDIA’s New RTX 3000 Series – Faster, Bigger, Better And More Power

By / Personal Computing, Research, Semiconductor / September 10, 2020

It has been two years since we last saw a new gaming GPU from NVIDIA as last year’s Super GPUs were just speed bumps of the RTX 2000 series from 2018. Gamers have long awaited the arrival of NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 series, especially after seeing the countless rumors and performance expectations after the announcement of …

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The Dell XPS 17 Review: Sleek, Simple, And Powerful

By / Notebooks, Personal Computing, Research / September 10, 2020

For the last five years, the Dell XPS lineup has been extremely innovative and pushed the envelope in terms of design and features. The XPS systems are typically thoughtfully designed for excellent user experience as the XPS displays are crisp and colorful, and features and performance are top of the line. The latest addition to …

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Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G Review: High End Smartphone Done Right

By / Research, Smartphone / September 10, 2020

For the past few weeks, I have been using the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G as my go-to phone. The Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G is Samsung’s newest offering aimed at Android users that view smartphones as an ultimate productivity platform. The Note20 Ultra is the follow on to the Note10 Plus and makes some significant …

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5G Is The Reason Apple Will Eventually Design All Its Processors

By / 5G, Corporate, Personal Computing, Research / August 31, 2020

Recently, Apple finally announced the transition of its computers to the company’s own custom-designed processors, dubbed ‘Apple Silicon.’ While I’m not entirely sure why the company went with such an uninspired name, the reality is that most of Apple’s non-PC devices already run on what I would consider ‘Apple Silicon.’ A while back I actually …

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The Many Moves That Pushed T-Mobile Ahead Of AT&T

By / 5G, Carrier/Wireless, Corporate, Research / August 31, 2020

T-Mobile recently announced that it has surpassed AT&T in total number of customers becoming the #2 wireless provider in the United States. T-Mobile has gone through many major changes in an incredibly pivotal time not only  amid COVID-19 and its integration with Sprint, but also as wireless carriers deploy 5G networks..   If you have been keeping up with Moor Insights & Strategy’s five-part series about 5G, you would know that T-Mobile has set itself up to deliver a balanced mix …

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Microsoft Delivers New Mobile Productivity Use Cases With Surface Duo, Orderable Today For $1,399

By / Personal Computing, Research, Smartphone / August 31, 2020

Last October, Microsoft announced two new products, the Surface Duo (read here) and the Surface Neo (read here), to join its Surface lineup. While the Covid-19 crisis and Windows 10X reprioritization has delayed the release of the Surface Neo, today, Microsoft officially released its new Android smartphone, the Surface Duo. Last year, Microsoft promised Duo …

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Recommendations For A Great Work From Home Setup

By / Connected Home, Personal Computing, Research, Smart Home Automation / August 20, 2020

Long before the outbreak of COVID-19, I was already working from home as a technology analyst. In this line of work, I tend to spend a lot of time perfecting my home office setup, continually trying new PCs, keyboards, monitors, wireless routers and other critical accessories. When many of my family members, friends and professional colleagues …

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Hyperice Releases Their New Flagship Percussion Gun – The Hypervolt Bluetooth And Bluetooth Plus

By / Gaming, Research / August 20, 2020

Vibration technology has been all the hype these days, and it does not surprise me that the many types of products offered to consumers are growing at an alarming rate. Percussion guns are all over wellness and fitness social media and the rest of the internet. If you live in Austin, Texas, as I do, you …

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T-Mobile Is The First Carrier Globally To Launch Nationwide Standalone (SA) 5G

By / 5G, Carrier/Wireless, Research / August 20, 2020

Many carriers around the world raced last year to be the ‘first’ to launch 5G; those networks were built upon the foundation of 4G networks in a type of 5G mode called non-standalone (NSA). This means that the device needs to have both 4G and 5G signals to work because to save time and money, …

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The Samsung Galaxy Note20 Leads A New Crop Of Fresh Galaxy Devices

By / Personal Computing, Research / August 20, 2020

This year’s fall Samsung Unpacked event was loaded with new product announcements, many of which were expected. Earlier this year, right before COVID-19 shut down the whole world, some of the world’s press and analysts, including yours truly, attended the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip launch event in San Francisco. Now, with Covid-19 still a very …

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Samsung Brings Swag To Its Ecosystem At Galaxy Unpacked 2020

By / Personal Computing, Research, Smartphone / August 20, 2020

Yesterday was an exciting day for tech as Futurum Research and Moor Insights & Strategy kick off the second day of The Six Five Summit, and Samsung kicks off the Samsung Unpacked event. Moor Insights & Strategy’s Senior Analyst Anshel Sag covered the Galaxy Unpacked 2020 announcements that you can read about here. At last year’s Samsung Unpacked …

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Exploring Qualcomm’s Vital Position In The 5G Ecosystem With QTL President Alex Rogers – The Six Five Insiders Edition

By / 5G, Corporate, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Internet of Things IoT, Personal Computing, Podcast, Semiconductor, Smartphone, Wireless / August 19, 2020

On this special episode of The Six Five – Insiders Edition, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Qualcomm EVP and QTL President Alex Rogers to discuss Qualcomm’s recent win in the Court of Appeals, its licensing business, 5G intellectual property, and how Qualcomm helping spread the technology around the world. In our conversation, Alex, Patrick and I …

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Part I Book Review: ‘GameDev: 10 Steps To Making Your First Game Successful’ By Wlad Marhulets, Developer Of ‘DARQ’

By / Gaming, Research / August 17, 2020

Learning how to make a video game without any experience can be a fascinating and rewarding process. People worldwide are taking advantage of the vast video game market by creating and selling their games through Valve Steam and Epic Games platforms. Video games for various platforms and operating systems are slightly different, but they are …

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Reliance Jio’s Tesseract Announces Jio Glass XR Glasses

By / Personal Computing, Research, Wearables / August 17, 2020

At Reliance’s RIL 43rd AGM (Annual General Meeting), the company announced the upcoming release of its own in-house designed MR glasses, called the Jio Glass. With 387.5 million subscribers, Reliance Jio is one of the world’s leading operators and the number one operator in India. It was the first in the world to launch a …

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Part II Book Review: ‘GameDev: 10 Steps To Making Your First Game Successful’ By Wlad Marhulets, Developer Of ‘DARQ’

By / Gaming, Research / August 17, 2020

Let’s continue where we left off from Part I. If you missed it, then you can go back and read it here. In the last section, we learned about ‘Marketing, ’Preproduction,’ and ‘Funding.’.   In Part II, you will be covering ‘Development, ‘Business and Law,’ and ‘Marketing and PR.’.   The popularity of video game development is booming, especially with COVID-19 spreading chaos. Despite …

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