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Lucian Armasu
Senior Writer

Lucian is passionate about writing about different technologies, talking about their potential, and predicting tech trends. Visit his technology news website at TechDomino.com.

HTC Says Nvidia Is at Fault for the Lack of KitKat Updates for HTC One X/X+
By Lucian Armasu · January 14, 2014
Nvidia's Tegra K1 Shows the Snapdragon 800 and Intel Chips What It's…
It turns out Mobile Kepler is not just the most advanced mobile GPU by far…
By Lucian Armasu · January 13, 2014
Intel Finished Optimizing Its 64-Bit Chips for Android 4.4 for KitKat
Although the previous Intel Atom architecture was only 32-bit and had some hard limitations baked…
By Lucian Armasu · January 10, 2014
Sony Wants to Target the US Market and Sell 80 Million Smartphones…
Sony said last year that it's not going to focus on the US market for…
By Lucian Armasu · January 10, 2014
Lenovo's President Doesn't Think Android on Windows Will Work – And He's…
Lenovo is the world's largest PC manufacturer right now, who's also taken a lot of…
By Lucian Armasu · January 9, 2014
What To Expect with the Snapdragon 410, 605A, 802, and 805 Chips…
Qualcomm has recently announced 4 chips that's going to use in 2014 (they may still…
By Lucian Armasu · January 9, 2014
PlayStation Now Games Will Require a DualShock 3 Controller
Sony has recently announced the PlayStation Now project, which is a way for Sony to…
By Lucian Armasu · January 9, 2014
Devices With The 32-Bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 To Start Shipping In May
Qualcomm has revealed to a Japanese publication that the first devices with its new Snapdragon…
By Lucian Armasu · January 9, 2014
The New Tegra Note 7 Reference Tablet Comes with Tegra K1, Full…
The year 2014 should be the year of 4GB of RAM inside high-end mobile devices,…
By Lucian Armasu · January 8, 2014
Chromebooks May Be Receiving Some Mid-Range Options Soon
So far we've only really seen low-end sub-$300 Chromebooks (if you don't count the first-gen…
By Lucian Armasu · January 8, 2014
Sony "Castor" Tablet Leaks Out with New Qualcomm Chip and 4G Option
It seems Sony's almost entire 2014 line-up is getting leaked, and after we got some…
By Lucian Armasu · January 8, 2014
Imagination Unveils the New PowerVR Series6XE Entry-Level GPUs
PowerVR Series6 is Imagination's new unified shader and OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible GPU architecture, and…
By Lucian Armasu · January 7, 2014
RCA to Launch Low-Cost Android-Based UHD TVs
The 4k TVs, or rather the UHD TVs (if you want to be really accurate…
By Lucian Armasu · January 7, 2014
As Cars Become More Connected, Android Has a Big Opportunity to Dominate…
Google has just announced the Open Automotive Alliance, which is formed mainly of some car…
By Lucian Armasu · January 7, 2014
Gartner: Almost Half of All PCs, Tablets and Smartphones Shipped in 2014…
Around here, we've always thought Android has the potential to one day power most of…
By Lucian Armasu · January 7, 2014
Lenovo's ThinkVision Is a 28" UHD Android All-In-One Powered by Tegra 4…
It seems All-in-Ones are starting to get increasingly popular, at least with manufacturers like Lenovo,…
By Lucian Armasu · January 6, 2014
AH Primetime: Dual-Booting Android/Windows Devices to Come to CES Again. But Does…
It's no secret that Intel has found little success in the mobile market, considering they…
By Lucian Armasu · January 4, 2014
Qualcomm to Demo New Ultrasound-Based Pen Technology at CES 2014
Qualcomm wasn't about to just let Samsung and Nvidia own that portion of the tablet…
By Lucian Armasu · January 3, 2014
The Android-Based "CryptoPhones" Are Coming
Here's some good news in early 2014 about the whole NSA mass spying situation -…
By Lucian Armasu · January 3, 2014
Mediatek to Show New Chips at CES, Including A Tiny Chip for…
Mediatek has been on a roll lately, especially since not only have many of the…
By Lucian Armasu · January 3, 2014
Google's Open Source VP9 Codec to Be Supported Almost All Hardware Makers
Finally, we're going to see an open source video codec take over the web and…
By Lucian Armasu · January 2, 2014
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro to Come with Snapdragon 800 and 3GB of…
The 12.2" Galaxy Note tablet from Samsung has been rumored for almost a year, but…
By Lucian Armasu · January 1, 2014
Report Names Canon, Nikon and Sony as the Only Survivors in the…
It was only a matter of time before smartphones started hurting every camera maker in…
By Lucian Armasu · December 31, 2013
Sony to Launch Two New Flagships in the First Half of 2014:…
According to Digi-Wo, a website that has released many Sony leaks before, Sony will be…
By Lucian Armasu · December 30, 2013
Qualcomm to Continue Working on Brain-like Chips in 2014
Several companies and organizations have started to work on projects that are trying to emulate…
By Lucian Armasu · December 30, 2013
Chromebooks Capture 20% of Commercial Notebooks Market Share
Chromebooks started showing up a few years ago, but they were never more than a…
By Lucian Armasu · December 27, 2013
Samsung to Unveil Two New 12.2" Tablets, Including a Galaxy Note Pro
We may be about to experience the "phablet" effect, but this time in tablets, rather…
By Lucian Armasu · December 24, 2013
Can XiaoMi Succeed without the "Limited Edition" Marketing?
XiaoMi has some very popular products in China, but part of that popularity is due…
By Lucian Armasu · December 23, 2013
Canonical Unveils Ubuntu and Android Dual-Boot Developer Preview
Canonical has just released a method for dual-booting Ubuntu Touch and Android on your phone.…
By Lucian Armasu · December 23, 2013
The Jolla Phone Is Now Available for Sale in Europe for €399
Jolla is a company that was formed by former Nokia employees in Finland, soon after…
By Lucian Armasu · December 23, 2013
Benchmarks Show Huawei Honor 3C to Be a Decent Low-End Smartphone
New leaks point to some benchmarks of a Huawei Honor 3C that managed to reach…
By Lucian Armasu · December 23, 2013
Huawei's K3V2 Chip's Successor Will Support LTE Cat 6 Speeds
LTE is rapidly becoming a big market in China, where Huawei is from, so it's…
By Lucian Armasu · December 23, 2013
Qualcomm to See Rising Competition from Low-Cost Chip Makers in 2014
Qualcomm has enjoyed quite a smooth ride over the past few years, especially since they…
By Lucian Armasu · December 20, 2013
Asus to Take the Focus Back to Android with New Transformer Book…
Asus has been launching hybrid notebooks with Android for almost 3 years now, and they've…
By Lucian Armasu · December 20, 2013
AH Tech Talk: The Ending of Moore's Law Pushes Intel to Make…
We're fast approaching the end of Moore's Law - at least as it was originally…
By Lucian Armasu · December 19, 2013
Google Pulls Koush' ROM Manager from the Play Store
The ROM Manager, Koush' very popular app for managing and installing custom roms, has been…
By Lucian Armasu · December 19, 2013
Whatsapp Reaches 400 Million Active Users – A Good Time for Them…
Whatsapp is already one of the most popular ways to communicate with friends on mobile…
By Lucian Armasu · December 19, 2013
AH Tech Talk: Why Carriers Are Switching to Selling Phones Off-Contract
T-mobile might've just sparked a revolution in the US with its "un-carrier" strategy - a…
By Lucian Armasu · December 18, 2013
Dolphin Zero Launches as a Privacy-Focused Mobile Browser
Privacy is the word of the year, according to Dictionary.com, which comes as no surprise…
By Lucian Armasu · December 18, 2013
Nexus 7 or G Pad 8.3 Play Edition – Which One Is…
There used to be a time when stock Android devices could be narrowed down to…
By Lucian Armasu · December 18, 2013
Oppo Find 7 to Officially Come with a 2.5k Resolution
The Oppo Find 7 phablet has been rumored before to come with a 2.5k resolution…
By Lucian Armasu · December 17, 2013
Samsung Tries to Address the Elderly Market with Samsung Galaxy Core Advance
Samsung is trying to get all of its bases covered, and it's now said to…
By Lucian Armasu · December 16, 2013
AH Primetime: Forget 32GB by Default – Next Year's Flagships Should Come…
You can check the bill of materials of smartphones and tablets over the years, and…
By Lucian Armasu · December 14, 2013
Low-End Sony Xperia E2 with LTE to Launch Early 2014
Sony Xperia E has been one of the better low-end 120-140 euro smartphones in Europe…
By Lucian Armasu · December 13, 2013
Chrome for Android v32 Kills the 300ms Tap Delay for Mobile Websites
According to Google, "every touch-based mobile browser, across platforms, has an artificial ~300ms delay between…
By Lucian Armasu · December 13, 2013
Google To Make Its Own ARM-Based Chips For Servers-Only (At Least For…
According to Bloomberg, Google is "considering designing its own server processors using technology from ARM." This…
By Lucian Armasu · December 13, 2013
Indian-based Smartphone Maker, Micromax, Strives to Become a Global Brand
Android has given not just big phone makers an opportunity to sell even more phones,…
By Lucian Armasu · December 13, 2013
Samsung Will Merge Wireless and Camera Divisions to Create Better Smartphone Cameras
Android smartphone cameras have been criticized for a long time. No one really knows why…
By Lucian Armasu · December 12, 2013
The Rezence Standard Promises More Convenient Wireless Charging
We've already seen devices coming to market and using the Qi wireless charging standard, and…
By Lucian Armasu · December 12, 2013
The New Google Play Edition Devices Come with Google+ "Photos" as the…
Even though Google greatly improved the photo editor in the Gallery app on the Nexus…
By Lucian Armasu · December 12, 2013
AH Tech Talk: The Invalidation of Microsoft's FAT Patent in Europe Could…
The Federal Patent Court in Germany, a country that's usually very friendly towards patents, has…
By Lucian Armasu · December 11, 2013
If These Specs for the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite Are Real, Samsung…
We've heard rumors of a Galaxy Tab 3 Lite recently, and now we are getting…
By Lucian Armasu · December 10, 2013