News & Reviews: Qualcomm announce
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Jan 12, 2021
Ever since Apple introduced the fingerprint scanner, phone brands started integrating the feature and soon introduced an under-display fingerprint scanner. Although it's not entirely perfect yet, Qualcomm just announced their own Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensors (second-generation) technology to unlock phones. They said it can even recognize wet fingertips.
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Oct 06, 2020
As we continue to surf through 2020, the tech industry continues to thrive and do what they can. In Qualcomm's case, it seems that they have officially sent invites about their upcoming Tech Summit Digital 2020 that will be held on 1-2 December 2020. In the description, the company said they are going to announce the latest and greatest Snapdragon news.
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Jul 28, 2020
You already know there's Quick Charge 4.0, now get ready for Quick Charge 5.0! It was officially announced by Qualcomm a few hours ago at this time of posting and it's the world's first commercial 100W+ charging platform that will arrive soon this year.
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Jul 09, 2020
As speculated over the past few weeks, Qualcomm have finally revealed the long-awaited Snapdragon 865+ 5G Mobile Platform. Presented by Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, Alex Katouzian said this new chipset will more powerful in terms of gameplay and a more "intuitive" AI.
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Jun 17, 2020
With 5G technology picking back up its feet to the tech world, Qualcomm was secretly working on a new chipset all this while. Introducing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 5G chipset, it will be the first 600-series that is integrated with 5G technology.
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Apr 28, 2020
As smartphone features continue to improve exponentially throughout the years, it has come to our attention that many companies are attempting to integrate a faster-charging technology for devices. So far, we have seen Android companies in pursuing this such as OPPO, vivo, Huawei, Samsung and more but the super nice ones (like around 40W) are mostly seen on premium phones. For Qualcomm, they aim to change that with a new Quick Charge 3+ technology.
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May 21, 2019
If you thought Google cutting business ties with Huawei wasn’t brutal enough, Qualcomm and Intel have now hopped on the bandwagon as well. The two companies will be cutting chip supplies to the Chinese manufacturer under orders by the Trump administration.
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Feb 26, 2019
Qualcomm has always been ahead of the rest when it comes to technology. We’ve only barely scratched the surface when it comes to 5G chipsets on smartphones and Qualcomm has already announced their next-gen modem-integrated processor.
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Dec 19, 2018
Qualcomm officially launched the Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem chipset earlier. The chipset is made for low power and wide area IoT products and boasts a 70% reduced idle power consumption besides being 50% smaller than its predecessor. The chipset is said to be available next year.
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Nov 05, 2018
The first foldable phone in the world was announced last week which utilizes the rarely seen Snapdragon 8150. Gsmarena.com shared from Geekbench the early performance of the chipset. Rumour has it that the chipset is a 2+2+4 instead of the standard 4+4. So far, only the the Kirin 980 uses a similar design consisting of 2 cores for burst performance, 2 to sustain speed and the last smaller 4 cores for lighter tasks.
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