We focus a lot on individual smartphone releases, but for Android smartphones, nothing is more important than what Qualcomm has to say. Being the most dominant producer of mobile chipsets for those Android smartphones, new chipset announcements tell us exactly what features we can expect from smartphones to be released in the year to come. […]
Last week, we saw the next step forward in cellular network technology in the United States. Sprint, which might be the comeback kid of the big four in the 4G+ and 5G eras, debuted the United States’ first Gigabit LTE network in New Orleans. The demonstration used Sprint’s network and a Qualcomm modem sitting in […]
Last month, Intel pulled ahead of Qualcomm with the introduction of a 5G modem that could support wide-band 28 GHz mmWave and sub-6 GHz connectivity, the new bands that will be put to use in the speedier, more localized 5G era. Well, Qualcomm just blew the doors off all that by announcing some big advances they’ve […]
A lot of us don’t pay much attention to antennas past how they can best be covered up, but rest assured, there are some people out there stressing over them. A lot of those people work for Qualcomm and TDK, two companies that have just embarked on a joint venture to make sure that smartphones […]
All of a sudden, things have turned ugly for the foremost producer of chipsets for Android smartphones. While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets are their most visible products, the company makes chips and modems enabling network connectivity, too, and it’s that part of their business under attack. Who’s leading the charge? Apple. Qualcomm has supplied modems to Apple […]
Last year at MWC in Barcelona, Intel revealed their plans for 5G network deployment, speaking of a data network that wouldn’t just be faster, but would be better at handling the load of the estimated 50 billion connected devices that will be in service by 2020. This year at CES 2017, Intel backed up their […]
It’s a new year, and that means it’s time for a new brain behind all those upcoming flagship Android smartphones. As usual, most of those phones will be powered by a Qualcomm SoC — an all-in-one mobile chipset that includes the CPU, GPU, image processor, modem, audio processor, and a handful of other chips that […]
Qualcomm is getting us excited for next year’s phones this week by telling us what to expect from their next-gen chipsets. What Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets are capable of outlines what smartphones are capable of, making their announcements a preview of the next year’s hot smartphone features. Here’s a couple — Quick Charge 4.0 is ready to […]
IoT devices are going to become a little friendlier on the wallet in more ways than one soon. Today, Qualcomm is announcing their Snapdragon 600E and 410E chipsets, low-power versions of the existing 600 and 410 chipsets. The E series will be a little less powerful, but will consume less energy and come with a 10-year […]
The iPhone 7 Plus has a dual-camera system on the rear, but Apple is far from the first to pull this trick off. Just this year, LG’s G5 and V20 and Huawei’s P9 and Honor 8 all had two rear cameras, with varying implementations. The LG phones’ cameras function independently, while the Huawei phones’ cameras work […]
When Lenovo announced the Google Tango-enabled Phab2 Pro at their Lenovo Tech World event earlier this month, we noticed that it ran on an unfamiliar Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 SoC. At MWC Shanghai this week, Qualcomm is shedding a little more light on that SoC and their involvement in Google’s Tango technology. As a refresher, Google […]
Arguably the most important smartphone announcement of 2016 (a three-way tie with the iPhone 7 and the Galaxy S7, and oh boy the ad campaigns are going to be fun because the numbers match) went down this week, with Qualcomm detailing in full their new top-line system on chip, the Snapdragon 820. The announcement carries […]
It wasn’t too long ago that we were talking up the potential of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC, which promised to enable all manner of 4K viewing, streaming and recording on mobile devices. But, we don’t need to belabor the point about 4K being of questionable use on mobile devices—outside of 4K recording, which […]
Qualcomm has a new development platform that will help make the real world a little more interesting when viewed through a VR lens. Their new Vuforia SDK might just be the thing that finally enables developers to take augmented reality firmly out of the realm of gimmick and into the future. The SDK will work […]
Toys,
Lego remains one of the best loved and best selling kids toys. And they’re no slouch when it comes to advances in technology either. Products like Lego Mindstorms and Lego Universe pushed the Lego envelope by melding real land virtual play. The newest high touch meets high tech collection is Lego Fusion — a mashup […]
Qualcomm was a major player behind the scenes at MWC this year. For starters, their Snapdragon processor is powering practically all of the hottest phones that have been announced at the show – that includes everything from the Samsung Galaxy S5, to the Xperia Z2. But beyond the hardware announcements, Qualcomm had several other new […]
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800 processors – whoa! Next step is 1,000, right? Well actually, Qualcomm has released a new processor called the Snapdragon 801, opting for the most modest of numerical increases. There’s a reason for the incremental name change – the 801 isn’t a total redesign, and has a lot […]
Sony has had a busy Mobile World Congress, updating their line of smartphones and tablets and adding in a brand new smart wristband. By and large, waterproofing is still a big part of what Sony is doing, but they definitely have the specs to back it up this year. With the Sony Xperia Z2, Sony […]
It’s that time of year again – Samsung is officially trotting out this year’s upgrade to their ultra-popular smartphone. The Galaxy S5 is coming April 11, and the changes are – well, they’re significant in some respects, but also pretty minimal in some ways. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it, right? At 5.1”, the […]
At Mobile World Congress, ZTE has announced a brand new 6” phablet with LTE capabilities called the Grand Memo II. The specs aren’t half bad, which is pretty impressive, because as far as 6” devices go, this one is ridiculously thin. The Grand Memo II LTE has a 6” HD display and runs on a […]
Lenovo has been driving pretty hard at getting into the mobile game the past couple of years, and they’re making the same kind of push at this year’s Mobile World Congress. They’re announcing updates to their S line of smartphones – the S860, S850, and S660. The S860 isn’t a flagship phone in the strictest […]
