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
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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…
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
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…
