The spill about Qualcomm coming out with next-generation Snapdragon processing chips has already been... spilled. It now looks like more spillage has taken place from a leaked Qualcomm roadmap showing when we should be expecting the new chips to be released. Qualcomm's MSM8960 Snapdragon chip is shown to be ready for release later on this year. It will bring with it dual cores capable of reaching a clockspeed of 1.7GHz, as well as support for dual-channel 500MHz of memory,3G and 4G connectivity and an Adreno 225 graphics processor capable of 1080p video playback as well as shooting 20-megapixel pictures... in 3D! Good stuff indeed, however all this magnificence must wreak havoc on battery life, and with a constant 4G connection, also your savings. It's still a guessing game as to who wil
Leaked information on Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon chip has found the company to be sounding rather ambitious and earnest in their latest product-to-come. The company suggested that the new Snapdragon chip would not only beat existing ARM Cortex-A9 chipped devices like the iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom, but will also beat the up-coming Cortex-A15 chip by the time its new chip architecture arrives - the Krait - which Qualcomms four new chip models will be based on: MSM8270, MSM8930, MSM8960, and APQ8064. The new chips will be made on a 28 nanometer processor and is said to be able to run up to 2.5GHz - almost 23% more computing power than the Cortex-A15 chip as well as 47% less power for the same performance. In comparison to the next-gen Snapdragon's predecessor - the new chip should
Charbax captured this video recently at MWC 2011, showing the the latest edition of the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in action - the dual-core MSM8660. What is most impressive about this is that the chip will do 1080p video playback, 1080p 3D video playback and... also does 1080p video recording & simultaneous playback in 3D. All in a package small enough to go into a mobile phone. While the Qualcomm rep seems to do some backpedalling here and there, it becomes clear at the end that this will work on "most" 3DTVs currently available on the market. It's an interesting showcase, and we're eager to find out more about the MSM8660's capabilities. It already seems very powerful, and we're sure that we haven't seen all that it is capable of. Of particular interest is 3D rendering ability,
HP have committed their Touchpad tablet to Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon processor, the APQ8060, the third generation of the Snapdrago0n series. The APQ8060 is also paired with an integrated Adreno 220 GPU to offer full HD 1080p 3D support - and apparently without batting an eyelid. Also comes support for up to a 16-megapixel camera as well as 1080p HD stereoscopic 3D video capture, something also boasted recently by LG with its G-Slate. It will also be able to capture 8-megapixel stereoscopic 3D image stills. HDMI support is expected and provided. The HP webOS Touchpad doesn't actually make use of all that, but nevertheless the potential for it lies within the Snapdragon chip and we'll likely be seeing much more of it soon. See the full press release after the break.
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To go along with BYD's recent tablet whom they affectionately named Alice comes the W901T Android 2.2 smartphone, a much less creative naming scheme. We missed this when it came around too, and so are filling you in now. The W901T is powered by the Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon at 1GHz (with 512MB RAM), which you'll also find in the HTC Desire HD as well as the recently announced Sharp Galapagos tablets (we think), runs Android 2.2, has an auto-focus 8-megapixel camera, and a 2100mAh battery. It also comes with Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi, WAPI, AGPS, an accelerometer, a compass, and is a Dual SIM/USIM capable handset. Whew, it all sounds good so far. No information yet on pricing and availability - it is certainly not a bad looking device.
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Qualcomm have promised their next flagship-Snapdragon chip, clocked at a whopping 1.5GHz, to arrive in Q4. This chip will be used to power things like smartphones and tablets. Does this mean we'll begin to see this powerful workhorse in the generic tablets we're interested in? Likely not, but what it does mean is that as the higher-end bar gets raised, it must surely affect the pricing of the lower-end, perhaps pushing it down. At least, that's what we hope for. The 1.5GHz beast, a dual-core chip with individual core clock-tuning capability, will play nice with DDR2/DDR3 and will be able to playback 1080p video. It's model number is the QSD8672 (note: not pictured above) but we'll know it affectionately as the Snapdragon.
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Supposedly, Qualcomm have already started / are going to start shipping out processor samples of the Snapdragon CPU, models MSM8260 and MSM8660, which will both be dual core procs. The dual core Snapdragon platforms will be manufactured on a 45nm process, are supposed to be clocked up to 1.2GHz (on each core). Both models will feature GPS integration, GPU 2D / 3D accleration engines for Open GL ES 2.0 an Open VG 1.1, as well as 1080p (!) video decoding, a dedicated audio engine which will be low-power, and rounding off the list, support for 24-bit WXGA 1280x800 pixel displays.
Phew. Hope to hear more of all of this soon.
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Though much of the information of the Huawei SmaKit S7 7-inch Android MID have yet to be verified (you can watch a video of the S7 in action here), a rumour has cropped up that the S7 will be running a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at a frequency of 1GHz, which makes it quite a bit more powerful than comparable 7-inch Android MIDs such as the VIA and Rockchip ones. Also rumoured is that the S7 will come with 3G capability as well as telephony functions - they might be VoIP but that is also yet to be verified.
At any rate, the S7 is no convenient size to use as a phone, but is starting to round out into a good looking MID.
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Engadget have broken news on “one of the hottest pieces of gear this year” becoming available in Japan. The NTT DoCoMo T-01A is the same device Toshiba have previously unveiled as the TG01.
The T-01A is less than a centimetre thick and runs Qualcomm's acclaimed 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. It also sports a 4.1-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen, HSDPA, GPS and WiFi and Toshiba's custom-built UI masks the Windows Mobile 6.1 core.
No release dates have yet been set outside of Japan.
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