The AnandTech Podcast - M4A Feed

Recorded live from Mobile World Congress 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss all things mobile. Anand & Brian kick things off with a discussion recapping our recent expose on Imagination's PowerVR Rogue architecture, before segueing with a discussion of SoC core counts and core wars on both the CPU and GPU side. Anand and Brian then get into the ARM Coretex-A53 and its adoption in high core count designs, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 series, and then what Intel is up to at MWC, including their Merrifield SoC announcements. Anand and Brian then wrap things up with a discussion of Samsung's just-announced flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, and their brief impressions on various aspects of it, including the sensors, UI, and the use of both Qualcomm and in-house Exynos SoCs in various S5 models.

Recorded live from CES 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss Intel's mobile product launch with the VP & GM of Mobile Comm. group, Hermann Eul. Anand & Brian also discuss the recently launched Mac Pro, Qualcomm's Toq and other smartwatches, Asus's ZenFone smartphones, Brian's switch from AT&T to T-Mobile, Sony's latest smartphones, NVIDIA's Tegra K1, and the fluctuating CPU core counts in CPUs.

On this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss Surface 2/Pro 2, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, Galaxy Gear, Galaxy Note 3, Cheating in Android Benchmarks and a preview of the 2013 iMac review.

Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss Intel's Bay Trail, Haswell E/DDR4 spotted at IDF, ASUS' Transformer Book T100, new improvements to the Moto X camera, LG's G2 and the new iPhones

Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss the BenchmarkBoost findings, implications of CPU governor optimizations for mobile benchmarks, the new Nexus 7, Android 4.3 & TRIM, Chromecast and the Moto X.

Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug talk about Nokia's Lumia 1020, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8.1, the HTC One mini, a giant battery for the Galaxy S 4, Aptina and the ARM Cortex A12.

Anand and Dustin debate the merits of Haswell on the desktop, as well as the future of the enthusiast desktop.

On the list for this episode are Google Glass, Google IO, the HTC One/SGS4 Google Play Edition, Galaxy NX, Galaxy S 4 Active, Snapdragon 800, Exynos 5 Octa, WWDC, Haswell ULT, ARM vs. Intel and the Xbox One vs. PS4.

Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug & Vivek Gowri discuss Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Also on the list for this episode are Crucial's $600 960GB M500 SSD, the HTC First, ASUS' FonePad, the T-Mobile iPhone 5 and Galaxy Note 8.0.

Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug and Vivek Gowri talk about the HTC One, Samsung's Galaxy S 4 and Facebook Home.