Techspressive: The Reticle Research Blog

Exynos-based Windows laptop could open the Arm floodgates

on March 7, 2021

Samsung uniquely makes its flagship smartphones available with two different SoCs. American buyers get the flavor with the latest leading Qualcomm processor while those in Korea and elsewhere get the one with the leading-edge Exynos processor, Samsung’s homegrown processor...

Hasselblad could give OnePlus its Leica moment

on February 9, 2021

On the back of a partnership with fellow disruptor T-Mobile, OnePlus’s roaring entry into the U.S. market has been one of the most successful for a handset brand in the U.S. in some time. According to Counterpoint Research, the...

LG as the last O.G.

on January 26, 2021

Mobile phone history can be described in two eras — B.C. (Basic Cellphones) and A.D. (Apple Dominance). So profound was the iPhone’s imact was that it wiped the slate of competitors nearly clean; Samsung is the only company from...

Google’s moves could help, then hurt, Apple’s app store battle

on September 29, 2020

Epic’s efforts to coerce Apple to allow it to use alternative forms of payments and even establish its own store on iOS have gotten off…

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When second screens are the second priority

on September 28, 2020

Phones with internal folding or dual displays dramatically increase the real estate available to work on an app or multiple apps. But in current implementations such as the Surface Duo and Galaxy Z Fold 2, these come at a...

The Prisoner as a metaphor for the information economy

on August 7, 2020

1984 is often held up as the science fiction work that best exemplifies the dystopian surveillance state. (You could certainly do worse.) But as I’ve been taking in a few episodes of the 1967 British TV classic The Prisoner,...

The Sidekick video chat device brings cubicle culture home

on July 29, 2020

In a parallel to the Garden of Eden story (one of of The Matrix‘s many religious allusions), Agent Smith reveals that the film’s humanity-conquering machines first tried to create a virtual paradise for those whose bodies they harnessed, but...

Tearing up the Note

on July 15, 2020

At Digital Trends, Samsung alum Phil Berne argues that it’s time to retire the Galaxy Note line. Phil characterizes the Note 7 exploding battery imbroglio as a turning point form which the line never recovered. He also argues that...

Quibi needs a free tier

on July 6, 2020

Vulture has an extensive, let’s call it, “pre-mortem” article on Quibi, the short-form, episodic video content service that’s gotten off to a slow start. The piece focuses a lot on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s involvement. However, this simple economic Catch-22 highlights...

Microsoft store closures a loss for Xbox Series X

on June 26, 2020

If you were planning to take along your Olympus camera on your Segway to visit the Microsoft Store, it’s not been your week. Microsoft Stores were often the subject of derision compared to the robust traffic of the Apple...