News & Reviews:   Snapdragon

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 hasn't been out for that long, but we're already getting news about its successor. An official update from Qualcomm has confirmed that the Snapdragon Summit will be held from 24-26 October 2023, making it about 3 weeks earlier than the one last year.

Flagships phones are great, but not everyone can afford them. Mid-range devices could be better, as they can be powerful enough while being cheaper. In that sense, the upcoming mid-range Qualcomm chipset could just be what many people want.

Qualcomm and Thales in a joint statement today announced the world’s first GSMA-compliant iSIM that is embedded into a modified version of the former’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Both companies said that the iSIM form factor is highly attractive to manufacturers looking to create compact and cost-efficient smartphones, tablets and wearables.

Many of the things we do daily are at our fingertips. Catching up on the news, binging your favourite shows, mobile photography, gaming and more. If you are very serious about gaming and photography with your phone, the very first thing you need to keep an eye out for would be the chipset. For these reasons, here is why you should get a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered smartphone.

If this rumour were true, Samsung would stop using the Exynos chips on its flagship devices for quite a while. According to the report, the Korean tech giant will take time to revamp its in-house chips and not release new chips for the upcoming two years.

South Korean tech giant Samsung is reportedly planning to use custom in-house processors specific for its popular Galaxy S series smartphones starting from the year 2025. This plan is allegedly due to the insufficient yields and poor thermal management of the latest generation of Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets.

If you ask any smartphone enthusiasts what's the best chipset, they would probably tell you it's the Snapdragon and Apple's A Bionic chipset series. However, both of these chipsets have been taken over by MediaTek as the most popular SoC in China recently.

Besides the TSMC-produced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, we might also be seeing the 4G variant at the upcoming announcement. According to a well-known tipster named Shadow_Leak, the chip is being prepared though not much information is given.

Most of you know that Samsung ships two different variants of its flagship Galaxy S22 series in different regions. One of them uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, while the other one uses the company's own Exynos chip. However, you might not know that doing so will affect the camera's performance in those two variants, giving them different results when it comes to photography.

Shortly after announcing the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 mobile platform, Qualcomm also unveiled another new technology called the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform for Android, Windows PC and Chromebook ecosystem. As the name suggests, it's a new platform for gamers but with a twist - it allows you to run all Android games, play content from cloud gaming libraries, stream games from your home console or PC and enjoy entertainment from your favourite Android apps.