This promising Switch emulator now plays more nicely with your Snapdragon 8 Elite phone

by dbadmin | Nov 12, 2025 | Emulator, News, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Qualcomm Snapdragon

Credit: Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR The latest update to the Citron emulator now offers Snapdragon 8 Elite GPU support. This means your Snapdragon 8 Elite phone should see better performance and fewer bugs with the Switch emulator. This update also brings...

Teardown reveals this new Android flagship is hiding an insane cooling system inside!

by dbadmin | Nov 10, 2025 | gaming phones, News, Nubia, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Redmagic

TL;DR YouTuber JerryRigEverything peeled open the new REDMAGIC 11 Pro to reveal its wild liquid cooling system. You can actually see the phone’s blue coolant circulating through the whole system. The RedMagic 11 Pro uses an unfreezable, server-grade fluorinated liquid...

Ready or not, Gemini will soon replace Google Assistant

by dbadmin | Nov 8, 2025 | Authority Insights, Authority Insights Podcast, Features, Google, Google Assistant, Google Gemini, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon

This week, Mishaal Rahman and C. Scott Brown discuss the sweeping changes coming to Android and the Google Play Store thanks to the Epic Games lawsuit settlement, the beginning of the end for Google Assistant on Android, and whether the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 runs hot, and not all phones can handle it

by dbadmin | Nov 6, 2025 | Features, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Realme

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority I was reasonably impressed when benchmarking my first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 handset. The Nubia REDMAGIC 11 Pro I tested performs within just a few percentage points of Qualcomm’s best-case reference model from its launch...

Qualcomm’s next flagship chip might come in two flavors, just to complicate things further?

by dbadmin | Nov 5, 2025 | News, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon

TL;DR Qualcomm is rumored to launch its next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, in two tiers: Standard and Pro. The Pro version may offer faster LPDDR6 RAM, higher GPU clocks, and stronger AI performance, while the Standard could dial things back for...

I benchmarked my first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phone and it (almost) lives up to the hype

by dbadmin | Nov 4, 2025 | Authority Insights, Features, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Redmagic

The first flagship smartphones packed with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset are already here. After an impressive showing in a reference phone, we can finally test how Qualcomm’s latest piece of flagship silicon stacks up in retail handsets and whether...