As you may already know, there will be two varying models of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Android smartphone when it’s released in the second quarter. One will feature Samsung’s in-house Exynos 5410 1.6GHz octa-core processor while the other sports Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 1.9GHz quad-core chipset. Since Samsung announced the Snapdragon 600 model for markets...
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Whether average consumers know it or not, there will be two significantly different Samsung Galaxy S4 models circulating around the world when it begins shipping to 327 mobile operators across 155 countries in late April 2013. Varying color options and storage configurations are always expected with new phone releases, but what we’re referring to,...
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LG announced a 5.5-inch variant of the Optimus G Pro Android smartphone for Korea last week, but failed to mention exact details of the re-imagined handset. Outside of the larger display and battery, most expected the rest of the internals to be identical to the previously announced Optimus G Pro for the Japanese market....
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If you were impressed with Qualcomm’s MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 processor from CES 2013, you will be blown away by the chipset-maker’s plans for 2014. Looking at the leaked specs for the unofficial Qualcomm APQ8084, it’s clear that it’s a significant upgrade over the current APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 Pro with Adreno 320 GPU and upcoming...
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Samsung has unveiled details about its upcoming ARM Dual Cortex-A15 based mobile application processor, otherwise known as the Exynos 5 Dual. The 32nm dual-core 1.7GHz CPU is considered an upgrade over the current Exynos 4 Quad found in the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S III and should be competitive with Qualcomm’s 28nm...
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The mystery T-Mobile handset previously known as the HTC Era 42 has now been identified as the HTC One X+. The “plus” attached to the One X moniker suggests the T-Mobile version of the popular Android smartphone will offer a bit more than the original found overseas and on AT&T. That could mean it’s...
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Samsung just announced the 32nm 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad, the industry’s first quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. The ARM CORTEXTM A9 quad-core based Exynos 4 Quad doubles the processing power and consumes 20 percent less energy compared to its dual-core predecessor. The improvements will surely be...
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At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference yesterday, Samsung unveiled their latest mobile chipset. The Korean manufacturer’s new Exynos processor can be produced in either quad-core or dual-core configurations with 1.5GHz clock speeds and 200MHz frequencies. The current generation dual-core Exynos chip is 45nm while the upcoming model will be reduced to 32nm, which means...
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Nvidia is sending out their annual Mobile World Congress invitations, but there’s nothing routine or ordinary about the announcement they’re teasing in 2012. As you can see in the invite above, at least one smartphone, likely running Android, will be showcased with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor. We’ve seen how quad-core computing can greatly...
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JPMorgan Chase expects HTC to unveil new smartphones powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core and Qualcomm’s MSM 8906 quad-core processors at Mobile Word Congress 2012 in Barcelona this February. “HTC will maintain its lead against rivals by two months if it unveils Tegra 3 and MSM 8960-based smartphones in February and ships the models...
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Samsung has unleashed details on their latest System-on-Chip (SoC) that will debut in the first half of next year. The Samsung Exynos 5250 features two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. The 2GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 processor, manufactured using a 32nm-low power HKMG process, is said to have twice the performance capabilities and four times...
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Today, Qualcomm announced a new line of Snapdragon S4 processors for high-end devices and the enhancement of its Snapdragon S1 chipsets for entry-level smartphones. The new S4 chipsets include: the MSM8660A, MSM8260A, MSM8630, MSM8230, MSM8627, MSM8227, APQ8060A and APQ8030. They’re based on the Krait CPU, which is the next generation of Qualcomm’s micro architecture...
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ASUS just posted a new teaser video on YouTube for the upcoming Transformer 2, which will succeed the original Eee Pad Transformer Android Honeycomb tablet. While the video only states that the “next Transformation” is coming soon, there have been rumors that we’ll see it in November with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at...
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While we’re currently in an age where dual-core processors have become the norm for smartphones and tablets, we have to remember that NVIDIA is lurking behind the scenes with the next generation Tegra 3 chipset, also known as Kal-El, which harnesses raw quad-core power. If you haven’t heard, there’s a rumor floating around that...
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Curious to see what a prototype NVIDIA quad-core Kal-El powered tablet would look like running Windows 8 developer build? The video below shows a quick demo of such a device in action. Not much is shown here, but you get a good idea of how it’s able to handle the transitions on the Start...
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