Category: snapdragon

Poco’s X3 is the first smartphone with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 732G

[ad_1] Poco is keeping gamers in mind with this device. The X3 has an Adreno 618 Elite Gaming GPU with liquid cooling. It offers “unique vibration patterns” too, so accelerating, shooting and sprinting should all feel distinct. The phone has 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage, with expandable storage of up to […]

Acer’s Spin 7 convertible will support sub-6 and mmwave 5G

[ad_1] After a busy week of news, Acer isn’t quite done. The company has announced its Spin 7 convertible laptop, which is one of the first to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2. It supports both types of 5G, mmWave and sub-6, though it’s not the first notebook to do so. On top of that, […]

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 732G promises more power for midrange phones

[ad_1] Compared to the 730G, the Snapdragon 732G uses a slightly faster Kryo 470 CPU (tuned to 2.3GHz compared to last year’s 2.2GHz). While they both use the Adreno 618 GPU, Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 732G offers “improved graphics rendering.” Both SoCs also use the X15 LTE modem that can hit up to 800 Mbps. […]

Google’s Pixel 5 may be boring, and that’s not a bad thing

[ad_1] Basically everything else should be taken with at least a small grain of salt. That said, it sounds like, for starters, the Pixel 5 is going to skip on a high-end chipset and instead rock a more modest Snapdragon 765G. And, unlike some of the more extreme phones in recent memory, the Pixel 5 […]

Google’s next Wear OS update will bring more speed and a weather app

[ad_1] A Wear OS update rolling out this fall will bring improved performance and a new weather app. Today, Google announced that the next update will allow faster access to info and apps, more intuitive controls for managing watch modes and workouts, as well as a simplified pairing process. These changes are thanks, in part, […]

Qualcomm reportedly asks US to let it sell chips for Huawei phones

[ad_1] The company hasn’t been shy about wanting Huawei’s business. In its latest earnings call, CEO Steve Mollenkopf said Qualcomm was determining how it could sell to every phone maker, “including Huawei.” However, there weren’t indications of a lobbying campaign at the time. It also comes soon after Huawei settled a patent dispute with Huawei […]

Lenovo’s first gaming phone has a camera on the side and two batteries

[ad_1] Engadget When it comes to the Duel’s other cameras, Lenovo played it safer. For its primary camera, the phone has a dual array that consists of a 64-megapixel sensor paired with an f/1.89 aperture lens and a 16-megapixel ultrawide camera with a 120-degree field of view. By 2020 standards, a dual-camera setup is about […]

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 690 chipset brings 5G to cheaper phones

[ad_1] “Driving the expansion of 5G into the Snapdragon 6-series has the potential to make 5G accessible to more than 2 billion smartphone users around the world,” said Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon in a statement. The big potential caveat here is what kind of 5G this chipset supports. Unlike the Snapdragon 765 and 865, the […]

Qualcomm’s latest mobile gaming chip packs faster graphics and global 5G

[ad_1] Qualcomm isn’t wasting any time following up last year’s Snapdragon 765G gaming chip with a more powerful model. It’s unveiling the Snapdragon 768G, a follow-up that appears to address what many gamers want the most: raw performance. The 2.8GHz Kryo 475 CPU is estimated to run about 15 percent faster than the 2.4GHz part […]

LG confirms specs of its flagship Velvet phone ahead of launch

[ad_1] LG’s certainly a fan of novelty phone features, and while it’s tried to steer clear of anything too gimmicky in this release, the “raindrop” camera design is definitely a standout, bringing together a 48-megapixel primary lens, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide lens and a 5-megapixel depth sensor in a unique pattern. There’s a 16-megapixel camera on […]