News & Reviews:   Qualcomm Snapdragon

Rumours have been saying that the next generation Samsung Galaxy S flagship series won't feature the in-house Exynos chip. Today, we might have gotten the confirmation from Qualcomm with an executive spilling the tea at a recent conference.

Qualcomm has released a new RF front-end module which supports the next generation Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6E as well as Bluetooth. Made for use for a variety of devices including smartphones, automotive, XR extended reality, PC and more, the new RF module allows manufacturers to be more cost-effective by developing Wi-Fi devices quickly.

HUAWEI has had a rough time with its chip division HiSilicon due to the trade ban imposed by the US. However, it looks like the Chinese tech company is planning for a strong comeback this year by uploading this intriguing poster, as it suggests that HUAWEI will bring the chips back after a 2-year hiatus.

If you came across some rumours of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon name, it turns out to be true! Well, kind of because in the latest news from Qualcomm's newsroom, the company has officially separated the Qualcomm and Snapdragon brands.

Nothing, a tech startup built by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, might be ready to launch a smartphone next year. If you haven't heard, the startup gets funded by big names like iPod inventor Tony Fadell, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTuber Casey Neistat. Besides that, it has also recently debuted its first product, Nothing ear (1), in Malaysia.

Samsung produces in-house chipsets, but they barely get used by the company's own smartphones. However, things might be changing soon as the latest report claims that the Korean tech giant is planning to push the usage of the Exynos chip among the Galaxy devices.

We all know that ASUS has only one gaming smartphone series and it's the ROG Phone. However, the latest source has arrived by pointing out that the company could be in preparation for another gaming series with Qualcomm Snapdragon branding. The device was spotted on the TENNA listing with a few images and tech specs.

Fresh after announcing their Qualcomm 8CX Gen 2 chipset for laptops, Qualcomm recently held a virtual briefing on their upcoming plans for Windows on Snapdragon laptops for Southeast Asia. Suffice to say, they have been working with various laptop makers to bring their Snapdragon 850 and 7c compute platforms to market in Malaysia, perhaps as soon as Q1 or Q2 of 2021.

Smartphone screens come in many forms nowadays. There are LED, OLED, QLED and more, not to say there are also those which can be folded and those which are really curved. However, they're not going to stop evolve even there are already many types of smartphone screens. LG might have been found making a smartphone that has two displays attached together and one of them can be swiveled sideways, and there's something that we've never seen before!

We have talked about a newly discovered vulnerability that affects Android smartphones that is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors named QuadRooter. Thankfully, the majority of the smartphones are safe thanks to Google’s Verify Apps function.