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Tech NewsAppleApple’s M1 Chip Is a Cruel Reminder of What Android Users Are Missing Out On
As an Android user, I sometimes feel defeated after sitting through an Apple event, especially when there are new, covetable tablets like the iPad Pro. It reminds me that there are too few viable alternatives in Android land. Android tablets are in a sad state. Even those worth buying are not as flashy or as … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsCheaper 5G Phones Are on the Way Thanks to Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 480 CPU
One of the biggest issues with 5G is the impact it has on phone prices, often increasing the cost of current handsets by around $100 or more compared to standard 4G phones. But with the introduction of its new Snapdragon 480 chip, Qualcomm is looking to make 5G phones much more affordable. Despite being part … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsNew Qualcomm Chip Could Make 5G MR a Very Cool Reality
Following yesterday’s look at the Snapdragon 865, Qualcomm is wrapping up its annual three-day tech summit by announcing a few other new Snapdragon chips: one for mixed reality and a couple for laptops. Of the two different categories, the new mixed reality-focused Snapdragon XR2 is easily the more interesting of the two, as Qualcomm claims … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsQualcomm’s New Mobile Chip Promises to Cut Back on Annoying Gaming Hiccups
If you’ve dabbled in mobile gaming, particularly more resource intensive titles like one of the many battle royale games out there, you know jank. It’s the slight hiccup, frame skip, or graphics lag that can sometimes mean the difference between an early exit and a chicken dinner (or perhaps a victory royale). But on the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsQualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 Is Here—What That Means for Next Year’s Top Android Phones
Yesterday, Qualcomm announced the name of its next big mobile chip—the Snapdragon 855 (Surprise!)—but didn’t say much about what it could do until now. And while innovations in mobile processors can often seem opaque and difficult to follow, advances in tech between generations are the kind of things that give phones the biggest increases in … Continued
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Snapdragon Wear 3100 Chip Arrives to Give Wear OS Watches a Much Needed Boost
Google recently rolled out a big update to Wear OS with improvements including a new streamlined UI, better health and fitness tracking, and an all-around smarter and more useful Google Assistant. But as nice as that all sounds, software is just one piece of what you need to make a good smartwatch, because without the … Continued
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Here Are the 5 Biggest Things Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 Is Bringing to Next Year’s Android Phones
A couple days ago at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company finally unveiled its next flagship smartphone processor: the Snapdragon 845. But until recently, all we had was a name to talk about. Now that details are trickling out about Qualcomm’s new silicon chip—the one that’s going to power all of 2018’s big Android … Continued
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Qualcomm’s Latest Chip Provides Gigabit LTE Speeds
Hold on to your data contracts: Qualcomm’s latest modem chip will enable mobile devices to achieve LTE download speeds of up to 1Gbps. Now you just need to find a network that can support it. The new Snapdragon X16 modem offers what are known as Category 16 LTE download speeds. For normal humans, that means … Continued
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 Chips Will Provide Better Signal and Battery Life
Qulacomm has announced its next generation or chip in the form of the Snapdrgaon 820—and it hopes to usher in better signal and longer battery life to the next slew of high-end phones. The new system-on-a-chip is based on a 64-bit quad-core Kyro processor, which clocks in at 2.2GHz. Qualcomm claims that it’s twice as … Continued
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Qualcomm’s New ‘Quick Charge’ Takes a Phone From 0 to 80% in 35 Minutes
Most phones have some kind of quick charge system these days and on Android many of them are powered by Qualcomm’s Quick Charge. But the technology has been given an overhaul, and the next-gen version will take a dead phone to 80 percent of charge in just 35 minutes. That is lightning fast. Qualcomm has … Continued
