Qualcomm is always innovating and they’ve got a demo of something we’re not sure will take off, but regardless we think it’s pretty cool. Imagine controlling your smartphone with gestures via the use of ultrasound sensors. The technology uses four microphones positioned around the handset…
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Tencent & Qualcomm Allow You to Chat without 3G
Tencent might not be a house hold name in the West but in China their QQ chat service, think MSN Messenger, is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in mainland China. As of July 11, 2011, the active QQ users accounts for QQ…
China’s Alibaba’s Aliyun O/S Optimized for Qualcomm CPU [Video]
Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba launched its mobile operating system, Aliyun, in China in this past July and at UpLinq 2011 showed off a reference design handset running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. The exact model of the CPU is unknown but Alibaba is working hard…
Qualcomm Enters Smartphone Reference Design Business, Tablets on the Way
UpLinq China 2011 has officially kicked off with news that Qualcomm has launched two new Snapdragon S4 processors compatible with the the new Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD). By 2015 half of the smartphone market will go to smartphone handsets that cost under $150 USD and…
China’s AliPay Shames PayPal with P2P Mobile Transactions
At UpLinq 2011 in Shenzhen China Qualcomm’s Alljoyn Peer to Peer technology was showcased by AliPay. Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce service and they use AliPay as their payment method. We get to see two reference design handsets running Qualcomm chipsets & Alibaba’s Aliyun OS…
Tapas 3D UI for Android & P2P Contact Sharing Demo
At UpLinq China 2011 we got to check out a cool contact card sharing application using Qualcomm’s Alljoyn Peer to Peer software solution.
AllJoyn is a software framework that enables easy Peer-to-Peer access, developers are now able to integrate this code provided by Qualcomm rather…
Nokia N9 Unboxing & Lumia 800 Comparison Video
The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia N9 might look identical apart from having a different operating system, but in fact under the hood the phone’s have several differences. The Lumia 800 has a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor paired with 512MB of RAM and 16GB of…
AMD Bows Out of Battle with Intel with a Move to Mobile *Update
AMD has been floundering in terms of a strong direction in mobile since CEO Dirk Meyer was dismissed in January. In a San Jose Mercury News profile, AMD spokesman Mike Silverman spoke about the new direction that AMD is looking to take in 2012. There…
Kyobo eReader with a Mirasol Display & Gingerbread Available in South Korea
Kyobo Book Centre, the largest book retailer in South Korea, has announced the availability of the Kyobo eReader, the world’s first e-reader device using the low-power, color mirasol display by Qualcomm.
The Kyobo eReader will have a 5.7″ touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024…
ASUS Padfone with Snapdragon S4 spotted on GLBenchmarks
The Asus Padfone was annoucenced back in June and we haven’t heard much about until Notebook Italia came across some OpenGL benchmark results. A few interesting facts were uncovered in the system info like that its running a Qualcomm MSM8960 SoC (aka Snapdragon S4), with…
Amazon to Tackle Smartphone Market Next?
An analyst report going around today from Citi analysts Mark Mahaney and Kevin Chang claims that Amazon could have a smartphone offering out by Q4 of 2012. Supposedly, according to information obtained from Amazon’s supply chains in China, Amazon is partnering with Foxconn to develop…
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Tablet Hands On [Video]
Qualcomm announced a few new processors to the Snapdragon line up today and showed off a reference design tablet on the S4 platform. The new Snapdragon S4 processors are aimed at lowering design, engineering, and inventory costs. They are also optimized for use with a…
New Snapdragon S4 & S1 Processors for Tablets & Smartphones
Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon S4 mobile processors line up and adding in the Snapdragon S1 series for entry-level smartphones.
To help simplify things: Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are classified by the S1, S2, S3, and S4 generations of products. The S1 class is meant for…
HTC Zeta: 2.5 GHz, Quad-Core Powerhouse with Ice Cream Sandwich On-Board
Put on your skeptics’ caps. Engadget received a rendering of the HTC Zeta, a smartphone rumored to have a quad-core, 2.5 GHz processor and Ice Cream Sandwich.
Last week there was already a rumor about an upcoming quad-core smartphone from HTC called the Edge. But…
Qualcomm Announces 30 Snapdragon Tablets for 2012
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM processors are found in a variety of smartphones, but in the tablet area but they are rather rare with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 being the dominant processor. All that is mean to change next year with a significant number of tablets with the…
