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Apr 4, 2014

Developer tablet with Snapdragon 805 launching later this month for $800

Manufacturer Intrinsyc is now taking pre-orders for a Snapdragon 805 powered developer edition tablet. Interestingly, this modern tablet will only cost $800, which is what people would pay instantaneously considering the hardware on offer.

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Mar 10, 2014

The difference between Snapdragon 800 and 801

Back at Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm introduced its latest high-end chipset -- the Snapdragon 801. The chipset is already being used in many upcoming flagship devices including the Galaxy S5 and the Xperia Z2. However,

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Jan 13, 2014

Video: Watch this guy play Fruit Ninja using just his eyes thanks to a $99 Android accessory

Sensors are all the rage these days. Slap one in a pair of headphones, and boom, you get a heart rate monitor. Put one in your bracelet, and there you go, instant pedometer. Now Eye

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Jan 7, 2014

Former Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha now in charge of chip making firm GlobalFoundries

If you care about Android, then Sanjay Jha should be a man you're already well familiar with. He used to work at Qualcomm, but then he took the helm at Motorola when the company

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Dec 5, 2013

Bluetooth gets updated, say hi to version 4.1

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just announced that they've created a new Bluetooth standard, version 4.1. For those who don't care about Bluetooth all that much, you should, because devices like

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Nov 20, 2013

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 805

Remember when that small Chinese company you've never heard of accidentally said that their next phone was going to be powered by a 2.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8974AC? Well, that specific chip has now

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Nov 11, 2013

Intel to make 50,000 ‘Tesla’ phones in Serbia

Once upon a time, Intel was a brand that used to mean something. You didn't buy a computer unless there was an Intel logo either on the machine itself or on the box that

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Oct 30, 2013

Intel to start making quad-core 64-bit ARM processors from next year

Intel is the largest supplier of x86 based processors. The company has been, unsuccessfully, trying to enter the mobile market with its lower power Atom processors. Now, in a highly ironic move, Altera - Intel's

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Oct 21, 2013

Benchmark results point to 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

Qualcomm may have a faster and better processor coming down the pike. Benchmark results hints at ab updated version of the Snapdragon 800 chip, which was introduced earlier this year and now powers the Moto

samsung confirms theyll unveil a curved phone next month doesnt provide any further details

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Sep 25, 2013

Samsung confirms they’ll unveil a curved phone next month, doesn’t provide any further details

For as long as I can remember, Samsung has been demoing bendable OLED screens at various tradeshows. A video my old colleagues from IntoMobile uploaded in January 2011 (see below) is proof of that. Now

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Sep 5, 2013

Here’s difference between Snapdragon 800 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz

Binning the CPU and GPU is a pretty common phenomenon in the PC industry. When a certain chip fails to reach a desired clock speed, or has stability issues running at those clock speeds, the

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Aug 31, 2013

Qualcomm explains why better cores and not their quantity matters

Qualcomm is among the most popular SoC vendor to most Android OEMs out there. In fact, there is a very high probability of at least one or two devices in your household being powered by

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Jul 24, 2013

Samsung announces 3GB RAM chips for phones

You know all those rumors about the Note III having 3GB of RAM? Well, they might be legit. Samsung just published a press release this morning saying they've begun mass producing "three gigabyte (GB)

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Jul 23, 2013

Samsung announces new Exynos 5420, says mass production should begin next month

The original Exynos 5 Octa, the one announced at CES 2012, was a bit of a failure. Americans never saw it. Europeans never saw it. Many Asian countries didn't see it either. Instead, they

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Jul 5, 2013

DigiTimes: The NVIDIA Tegra 4 has failed

Few companies hype their SoCs (system on chips) as much as NVIDIA. It's actually quite disturbing how often they try to remind press people that they're still around. What's odd, however, is

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Jun 19, 2013

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 tested, it screams

By the end of this year, you'll be able to buy Android device that are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800. Today's flagship phones are all powered by the Snapdragon 600, so now

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Jun 10, 2013

SK Hynix announces 8Gb LPDDR3, world’s first

Samsung might make the bulk of RAM found in smartphones and tablets, but there are other companies out there, with the most important being SK Hynix. Today they've announced a "world's first" technology,

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Jun 4, 2013

Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 400 is a quad core ARM Cortex A7 chip with a 4G LTE modem

Qualcomm's "Snapdragon 400" brand is a bit confusing. Until now, we've known that the Snapdragon 400 featured two Qualcomm Krait cores. Today, that changes. The company has introduced a new chip with the