A quick news post for anyone following the HTC Vive announcements: as we reported back at MWC, the official pricing and timing for pre-orders was announced. For your $799 on February 29th at 10am EST, you get the following:
HTC Vive head m…
Late last year Huawei introduced the Honor 5X, a phone branded and sold under their Honor sub brand for their home Chinese market. A few months later, the company announced that it would be the first Honor branded smartphone to launch in the United States, and we were first given access to the phone during Honor’s launch event in Las Vegas. With the Honor 5X the company is hoping to bring a great smartphone experience with capable specifications to a relatively low $199 price point, delivering a phone at the tail-end of the mid-range category that should be able to punch above its weight.
Late last year Huawei introduced the Honor 5X, a phone branded and sold under their Honor sub brand for their home Chinese market. A few months later, the company announced that it would be the first Honor branded smartphone to launch in the United States, and we were first given access to the phone during Honor’s launch event in Las Vegas. With the Honor 5X the company is hoping to bring a great smartphone experience with capable specifications to a relatively low $199 price point, delivering a phone at the tail-end of the mid-range category that should be able to punch above its weight.
AnandTech Podcast #36: The annual smartphone extravaganza known as Mobile World Congress has come and gone. We clocked up 45.4km on foot during the week, averaging around five hours sleep and one meal a day to be able to see everyone of interest. Because so many interesting things were presented, from LG, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and others, just before we left Barcelona Andrei and I put together a podcast of details, experience and analysis of the new devices. There are plenty of talking points with each of them, from a modular design to heatpipes to new silicon microarchitectures, and we recorded our initial impressions in a podcast.
iTunes
RSS – mp3, m4a
Direct Links – mp3, m4a
Total Time: 1 hour 04 minutes 34 seconds
Outline mm:ss
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – LG G5
08:04 – Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge
15:35 – Some thoughts about heatpipes on smartphones
17:27 – Details on 8890, thoughts on turbo mode on SoCs
22:40 – Waterproofing on S7/S7e
26:13 – Camera on S7/S7e
28:43 – Xiaomi Mi 5
42:32 – There’s a low bin of the Snapdragon 820
44:25 – HTC Vive Pricing
48:21 – Cat S60
52:23 – LG VR
58:49 – Huawei Matebook
1:04:24 – FIN
LG G5 Launch
Exynos 8890 (Samsung Galaxy S7) Initial Test and Thoughts
Hands On with the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge
Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro Hands on and Snapdragon 820 Initial Test
HTC Vive Announces Pricing: $799 For The Kit
Cat S60: Rugged Smartphone with Integrated Thermal Camera
Huawei Matebook Launched
LG G5 Live Blog
Huawei Live Blog
Samsung Live Blog
Sony Live Blog
Gionee Live Blog
Xiaomi Live Blog
AnandTech Podcast #36: The annual smartphone extravaganza known as Mobile World Congress has come and gone. We clocked up 45.4km on foot during the week, averaging around five hours sleep and one meal a day to be able to see everyone of interest. Because so many interesting things were presented, from LG, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and others, just before we left Barcelona Andrei and I put together a podcast of details, experience and analysis of the new devices. There are plenty of talking points with each of them, from a modular design to heatpipes to new silicon microarchitectures, and we recorded our initial impressions in a podcast.
iTunes
RSS – mp3, m4a
Direct Links – mp3, m4a
Total Time: 1 hour 04 minutes 34 seconds
Outline mm:ss
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – LG G5
08:04 – Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge
15:35 – Some thoughts about heatpipes on smartphones
17:27 – Details on 8890, thoughts on turbo mode on SoCs
22:40 – Waterproofing on S7/S7e
26:13 – Camera on S7/S7e
28:43 – Xiaomi Mi 5
42:32 – There’s a low bin of the Snapdragon 820
44:25 – HTC Vive Pricing
48:21 – Cat S60
52:23 – LG VR
58:49 – Huawei Matebook
1:04:24 – FIN
LG G5 Launch
Exynos 8890 (Samsung Galaxy S7) Initial Test and Thoughts
Hands On with the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge
Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro Hands on and Snapdragon 820 Initial Test
HTC Vive Announces Pricing: $799 For The Kit
Cat S60: Rugged Smartphone with Integrated Thermal Camera
Huawei Matebook Launched
LG G5 Live Blog
Huawei Live Blog
Samsung Live Blog
Sony Live Blog
Gionee Live Blog
Xiaomi Live Blog