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From the birth of Android to foldable displays, from vapor chambers to on-device AI: the engineering inside the phone.

7 parts 31 min reading

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1. 01 MOBILE✓ READ The Untold Story of Android: From Smart Cameras to Smartphones Android was not born as a smartphone OS. It began as a camera operating system, survived a startup on the brink of bankruptcy and a deal Samsung laughed off… 5 MIN READ
2. 02 MOBILE✓ READ iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone Duo: Pre-Order Hardware and AI Analysis While the smartphone industry has long been stuck in a vicious cycle of "the same chassis, just a little shinier", Apple's latest move has shaken things up. The traditional flagship iPhone 18 Pro … 4 MIN READ
3. 03 MOBILE✓ READ A Thermal Revolution: The iPhone 18 Pro Max Vapor Chamber As an electrical and electronics engineer examining hardware designs, the rule I pay most attention to is this: "Performance is determined not by the chip's clock speed (GHz), but by its thermal threshold." For years… 4 MIN READ
4. 04 MOBILE✓ READ Foldable Giants Clash: Samsung vs. Apple Hinge Engineering As the standard rectangular slab design in the smartphone market reaches its thermal and physical limits, the industry's two lodestars have entered a head-on materials and patent war over the foldable form factor… 4 MIN READ
5. 05 MOBILE✓ READ Generative AI on Mobile Silicon: Samsung Gauss 2 and Galaxy AI When the AI race first kicked off in the smartphone market, almost every manufacturer took refuge in cloud solutions that sent queries to giant data centres on remote servers. Seen through an… 4 MIN READ
6. 06 MOBILE✓ READ Hidden Power: Samsung Gauss 2 and Its Secret MoE Architecture Tech newsletters gloss over Samsung Gauss 2 with superficial headlines, treating it as just another Galaxy AI update that "erases objects from photos" or "transcribes voice recordings." Yet for a… 4 MIN READ
7. 07 MOBILE✓ READ Smartphone Ghost Touch: 5 Root Causes and Fixes, Explained Is your phone opening apps on its own, typing random letters or ignoring your taps? Ghost touch is rarely a software bug. Here are its hardware root causes and fixes… 6 MIN READ

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