Wrapping it up.

Well this is a bit awkward, a little while back I did a bit of research on the OMAP line of SOCs, you know? The line of chips produced by the tech giant Texas Instruments? They scrapped the line, TI that is to pursue more mainstream processor production, when they decided on this move the floodgates opened for other chip producers. Samsung was granted the ability to open up their production, and of course Qualcomm just became monsters and began to lead the way with their chip production. Currently the 800 chipset is in any high end device you can name. Even as Qualcomm are the monsters of the mobile processor world they're not taking their lead with ease. Apple, Samsung and now a company I've seen many mentions of lately. That is MediaTek.

Based out of Taiwan, MediaTek is leading the way overseas in many devices. Including tablets, blu ray players smart TVs and of course smart phones. Of course they're not known much in the US as lte is the wave and Qualcomm is the main supplier of chips supporting lte. As Qualcomm is the leader, all other companies are rushing to catch up. MediaTek has already announced that they're building chips to support lte so that they can compete worldwide. We all know if MediaTek is making moves for lte that of course Samsung will be moving toward lte able chips... Which technically Samsung builds apples chips and they have lte...Thats if you're being technical though.

All n all, 2014 tech is shaping up to be huge, just as 2013 was. The difference between 2013 a d 2014? Is that with more companies going worldwide, consumers will be faced with even tougher decisions. But this will also create tons of jobs if many companies can make the transition overseas and grab a hold of market share. As I always say and as most of the time it comes true, keep your eyes on the smaller companies, they always tend to make impacts.

Happy new year everyone, and keep your eyes peeled, CES is right around the corner.

The mixed year for phone tech

Its been an up and down year for the mobile phone industry. Now when I say this I'm not saying it in any negative way. When I say up I mean up in terms of innovation ad options, now when I say down, I mean in terms of certain flagship devices not necessarily being as successful as they should've been and yet they paved the way for the next generation of devices...

As you may have heard, Samsung is planning to push the Galaxy S5 to the public ahead of schedule (supposedly since the S4 has been underperforming in terms of sales).  Now I'm not certain if this is because of the many other androis flagships that became available recently, or the actual success of the sister note line of devices. I would put my money on the latter, but there's a stronger chance its a combination of the 2. I have some concepts of the device added into this post to make a point as go where technology is going right now.

I happened to spend a lot of time on Google last night, for many things some of which I don't remember. At one point I said to myself "james let's look at GS5 rumors." Some of these rumors include Sammy releasing 2 versions of their baby flawgshop that being an aluminum handset and of course a plastic handset (doesn't that sound familiar?). The other rumors are basically pictured below. Now as I browsed around all of these concepts it reminded me of CES this year where Samsung not only announced flexible OLED technology, but had a working fully flexible screen, ON TOP OF a fully functioning device that happened to have an edge wrapped screen.

Let's rewind for a bit back to the beginning of the excellence that is the Sammy flagship series. In its first generation, back when carrier branding seemed to be mandatory, Samsung released a special edition of the Galaxy s that had a small ticker on the Bottom of the screen. This ticker ran solo as its own screen but it basically operated as a second notification bar. Now let's come Back to present time where at CES Samsung had a workimg device with a wrap around screen that displayed this same ticker idea on the side where the screen rests. These concepts are lining up with exactly what had been shown at CES this year, which if the rumors line up with CES and the test release of the galaxy round the S5 could easily I plot this wrap around design a d altogether do away with hard buttons...which would shrink the device under 6mm possibly? I mean we also know that samsung has been working on new battery technology also. 

So lets wrap all of this up shall we. A possible unibody design. also thrown in the mix...But it could be a unibody design with a wrap around OLED screen. I don't know what they'll do for the camera which is actually a losing battle thanks to Nokia, but thats another discussion. An even slimmer profile than what we're already accustomed to, we know full HD, and to boot I'd hope for a complete overhaul of touchwiz. I mean the first photo I have here just honestly is the perfect device in terms of ergonomics, and of course we'd need gorilla glass... The downfall of course is those of us that are clumsy. But we'll see around February since production is set to begin in January. So best believe I'll be back at the end of January faithfully reporting.