Hi there, let’s look at thermal throttling and thermal runaway. These are terms that are thrown around quite frequently. Now, let’s start with the basics. Key terms Thermal is derived from the Greek word Thermos meaning heat. Throttling means to choke on something or on someone thereby restricting their movement and airflow. In other words, […]

Google have finally released the details to the new SoC on the new Pixel phones. The name of this new SoC is the Google Tensor G2. Last year, Google, a software company, decided to that it needed to up its game in the smartphone market. Inorder to do this, it needed its own hardware, but […]

In today’s post, we are going to be counting down the top 20 smartphone cameras in the world. Article was updated at 12pm on the 24th of May, 2023. Cameras on a smartphone are very very important. They are one of the four main specs that people look out for alongside the SoC, display and […]

Africa is emerging as a new battlefront for smartphone companies to fight for supremacy. Here are the top 10 smartphone brands in Africa. The competition for market shares is very stiff in the African market (Q1, 2022). Using data from Counterpoint, let’s see how brands are faring on the African market. 1st place: Samsung Samsung […]

Hard Drives vs SSDs is one of the very many questions I have to field. Lots of people who want to buy a laptop or a storage drive for general purpose use have had to tackle this question as well. So since we have been looking at the storage options on offer for smartphones and […]

Solid State Drives are now becoming popular but more importantly, cheaper. So lets tackle the question, what are SSDs? An Solid state drive is a type of device that uses flash memory to store data permanently. It usually functions as a secondary memory for PCs and tertiary storage in general. SSDs are used to store […]

What is eMMC storage for smartphones? Well to answer that, we need to know what smartphone storage is. Storage is a place where you keep stuff. All smartphones (and computers) require some sort of storage to hold important stuff. These important stuff could be critical to the proper functioning of your device. The most important […]

In today’s post, I want to talk about Generic vs Branded image sensors. An image sensor is a photosensitive plate that sits at the back of every camera. It is the part of the camera that captures light and converts them into digital data (pictures) that can be processed by the ISP + Software. With […]

So what I want to look at is a teeny tiny thing called SoC optimization. Yes, SoC optimization. It’s something that a lot of people tend to overlook. What is optimization? Without wasting time, optimization is the act of making something function better at its job. This is a very peculiar way to describe it […]

Samsung have been making SoCs for a long time now. 12 years to be exact. For most of that time, they have used ARM’s IP cores, but for a brief period of time, they dabbled into making their own custom cores. These were known as Exynos Mongoose custom cores or the Exynos M series. This […]