Joshua Vergara and Jaime Rivera get together this week to talk about the LG G8 and its unique features after recounting some Qualcomm announcements and Samsung’s surprise Galaxy A80!
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2500 chip could help make kid watches mainstream
Despite what the name suggests, Qualcomm’s all-new Snapdragon Wear 2500 platform is not a true Wear 2100 sequel. But it’s still an interesting wearable SoC.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 is the world’s ‘first dedicated XR platform’ for ‘mainstream’ use
XR stands for “Extended Reality”, which basically lumps VR and AR together, with Qualcomm aiming to power the next wave of “mainstream”, high-quality, affordable XR headsets.
Samsung is ‘talking to all OEMs’, ZTE included, to expand the reach of its Exynos chips
Samsung’s in-house Exynos processors, currently powering exclusively Galaxy devices and a few Meizu phones, may soon expand to handsets made by more companies, including ZTE.
These could be the beastly specs of the ‘mid-range’ Snapdragon 710 and 730 processors
The 10 nm-based Snapdragon 710 might be Qualcomm’s first 700-series SoC to see daylight soon, followed by an absolutely phenomenal-looking 8 nm Snapdragon 730.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 700 SoC family for affordable ‘high-tier’ smartphones
If smartphones powered by Snapdragon 800-series chips are too rich for your blood, but the 600 family feels like too big of a downgrade, Snapdragon 700 SoCs will soon have you covered.
T-Mobile and AT&T join Sprint and Verizon in supporting Always Connected PCs
Set to go on sale “this calendar quarter” across a number of leading retailers in various global markets, Qualcomm and Microsoft’s Always Connected PCs will have the full backing of America’s big four carriers.
