Post Tagged with: "Qualcomm"

Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Picture Frame Demo

In the Qualcomm museum we found an oldly but a goody, an Augmented Reality picture frame. How it works is its based on Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality SDK, which is compatible with any Android 2.1+ device, together with their P2P technology.
The picture frames are actually…

Quick Draw App Showcases AllJoyn Qualcomm’s Peer-to-Peer Technology

AllJoyn is a software framework that enables easy Peer-to-Peer access, developers are now able to integrate this code provided by Qualcomm rather then build functionality from scratch. If you’re looking to create a real life network off the network AllJoyn allows you to access others…

Acer Debuts Allegro Their First Windows Phone 7 Handset in France

Windows Phone 7 handsets are starting to flood the market and Acer is not exception, they’ve launched the Allegro their 3.6 inch handset in France.  Acer’s inaugural Windows Phone 7 isn’t going to win any speed tests its 3.6-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display is…

How Many Praying Mantis Does it Take to Power a Smartphone?

In a very clever attempt to demonstrate just how low power their new processors are, Qualcomm has come out with a Bug Circus video that actually calculates energy usage in terms of PMU: “Praying Mantis Units.”

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors take up less energy and therefore…

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 gets Detailed

The kind folks at Qualcomm in San Diego have decided to detail the Snapdragon S4 processor in a white paper for us to flip through over our Sunday coffee. What we now know is that its manufactured a new 28nm manufacturing process alongside the company’s…

IQ Istanbul: Qualcomm Snapdragon Roadmap Revealed

IQ Istanbul took place September 13-14, 2011 and gave broad details on their roadmap for their Snapdragon processor.  Qualcomm’s …Snapdragon processor is a highly integrated system-on-chip offering for the mobile market.  It has high-performance ARM-based processing cores and Adreno graphics hardware next to 3G –

Android Running on HP TouchPad: Hoax or Not?

Earlier this week a YouTube video was floating around, supposedly showing a test build of Android 2.x running on an HP TouchPad that someone had just purchased. I hadn’t given the news much credence since I felt like the video would be soon proven fake…

iPad competitors Expected to Grow 134% in 2012

Apple enjoyed about a year of being the only tablet on the market, so its not surprising that next year we’re going to see the iPad’s competitors grow as much as 134% year-on-year in 2012. If you compare that the to the iPad’s year on…

Fujitsu Might Beat Nokia To Market in August with a Mango Handset Release

With Nokia’s tight nit relationship with Microsoft its surprising that there is a rumor that Fujitsu might be releasing the first Windows Phone device running Mango as early as August. The device, which was briefly shown off during atWPC this week, is rumored to be…

HP TouchPad released in Europe and Canada

I hope Canada, the UK, France and Germany are pumped for the HP TouchPad release, because after having been offered in the US for a little over two weeks now, the HP TouchPad is now available in these respective locations.
The difference between the international…

Qualcomm Krait Roadmap Leaked – 1.7GHz Dual & 2.5GHz Quad Core

Qualcomm Krait roadmap gets outlined all the way to 2013 according to a very detailed roadmap focused on their upcoming mobile chipset. The MSM8960 which is due out later this year is the high end chipset that will be sporting 1.7GHz on its dual core…

GT70 tablet is a 7″ Tablet with Smartphone Intentions

After Computex 2011 there was a great sigh of relief that the abundance of crappy tablets had resided to a reasonable amount and we’ve got an afforable tablet here that has clear smartphone intentions.  It might be 7 inches like many tablets but its clearly…

Hands on Round Up: Huawei MediaPad 7″ Android 3.2 Tablet

We’re a fan of the 7″ tablet so hearing that Android 3.2 was customized just for them has us very excited to see what optimizations they’ve included. For now details on the updated OS are slim, but we’ve got few photo’s showing off the tablet…

Qualcomm Releases ‘Dragonboard’ Aimed at Component Manufacturers

If you’ve ever tried to develop on Qualcomm technologies, i’m sure you’ve run into insurmountable paperwork that seemed laden with intent to get your first born. Last year they announced The Snapdragon loving company has finally listened to reason by releasing an AP development board…

Quanta Makes a 10″ iPod Running Android 3.0

Qualcomm’s press conference left a lot to be desired news wise, but their was a nice little gem in their showcase. We got our hands on a 10 inch Quanta tablet that looks very much like an iPhone or an iPod. It was running the…