The Next Stage in Mobile Imaging
This article was originally published on RCR Wireless News. There’s no doubt about it: smartphones have become the world’s favorite cameras. Approximately 1 trillion images will be created this year, according to Josh Haftel, who manages mobile photography solutions at Adobe: that comes to over 31,000 new images per second. Of the 5.8 billion cameras […]
December 10, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Hands-on: Putting the HTC 10 Through the Paces
Back on the 12th April, HTC took a big step forward in the evolution of their mobile phones – they launched the HTC 10. Lucky for me, I’d had a pre-production unit to play with a little before launch and was then invited to attend the launch event in New York City, where my pre-production […]
May 10, 2016 • 3 min read Data
Google’s Choon Chng Explains Why Computational Photography Is The Future
We can’t defy the laws of physics, but we can sneak around them with computing power. That essentially is the idea behind computational photography, a technique that will increasingly be adopted by mobile phone makers to improve the resolution and performance of their products. “Computing is disrupting optics,” said Choon Chng, an engineering manager at […]
December 16, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Windows 10 on SSD: 3 Questions & 3 Answers
Unless you spent all of 2015 living under a rock, you are well aware that Microsoft released its latest and greatest operating system, Windows 10. The release sports a revamped design, enhanced search functions, Cortana, and some old favorite features such the familiar customizable start menu. But one of the big changes is that Windows […]
November 3, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Why The Automotive Opportunity Is Bigger Than You Think
Over-the-air software (OTA) upgrades have become standard for laptops and phones. In cars, it’s a completely different story. Research firm IHS recently reported that vehicles with OTA-capable infotainment systems will grow from just over 200,000 units in 2015 to more than 96.4 million enabled vehicles by 2022. Put another way, the savings achieved through OTA […]
February 2, 2016 • 1 min read Data
SQL Server Best Practices: Optimizing Power for SQL Server
If you’re expecting high performance from your SQL Servers, you'll need to optimize power. This post will take you through essential best practices, including instances hosted on SSD and Fusion ioMemory.
January 19, 2016 • 5 min read Data
What’s Driving Your Business? Optimizing Embedded Applications with the new Z400s
Digital signs and point of sale (POS) kiosks serve as a brand’s public-face, critical touchpoints that should never fade, flicker or turn the entire sign into a wall of blue. Outdoor digital signs are constantly “on” in harsh roadside or remote environments, meaning they need to perform at peak levels, even when they’re running hot due […]
May 26, 2015 • 2 min read Data
EPIC Times Ahead
Mobile imaging is here to stay and through the EPIC initiative SanDisk aims to help drive this growth by partnering with mobile manufacturers and taking a holistic view to mobile device imaging to provide greater image quality and a more enjoyable user experience. Mobile phone photography is here to stay. This is no longer a […]
September 2, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Improve Your Photos with the Rule of Thirds
We all want to take better pictures, so why is it that we don’t spend the time actually composing the pictures we capture with our phones? Camera – phone – phone – camera. The two are these days basically indistinguishable. But many people still treat their phones as a point and shoot snapshot camera. You […]
February 1, 2016 • 3 min read Data
Who Makes the World’s Best Smartphone For Shooting Pictures? It Depends When You Ask
The Sony Xperia Z5 is highest rated camera for photo and video quality. For now. Nicolas Touchard, vice president of marketing and product management at DxO, gave attendees of Future Proof Storage an overview of DxOMark Mobile, the company’s innovative suite of benchmarks for rating video and picture quality on smartphones. If you’re not familiar […]
December 21, 2015 • 3 min read Data