Mobile

Getting smarter about glasses

2018 the year of the specs As you may recall, you regular readers of TechWatch, I’ve made bets with people that 20% of us elite class will be wearing attractive looking smart glasses by 2020.  At the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Deutsche Telekom and Zeiss announced future collaboration in the field of smart glasses. Their goal is to … Read more

HP releases nine new laptops and monitors

In one of the largest product launches outside of CES where Premium consumer products took center stage, HP is taking premium to the mainstream with its latest commercial product launch. The company has introduced three Elite commercial notebooks, two Z-series workstation notebooks, four high-res monitors, and docker for all. Elitebook 800 G5 series HP positions its EliteBook series as the … Read more

When it comes to GPUs, who’s your daddy?

Qualcomm ships more GPU than almost everyone else combined In our annual quest to count every GPU in the world, and document developments, we reviewed the year’s shipment numbers, and we found Qualcomm is the big dog in the park. We estimate Qualcomm will ship over 815 million GPUs in 2017 (we’ll get the final count from everyone by mid-February … Read more

Pixel phones are plain

Nothing really revolutionary about the basic phones, but the camera’s way cool. Google’s new phones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB of RAM. The Pixel 2 has a 5-inch 1920 × 1080 OLED display (441 ppi), a 64GB version is priced $649; a 128GB model $749. They are available in three colors … Read more