by dbadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Mediatek, News, Qualcomm, Samsung, Survey
Credit: Qualcomm An SoC is the heart of a smartphone. It can make or break your experience of using a handset. There are only a handful of chipset vendors in the Android chipset market, of which Qualcomm and Mediatek are the largest and most popular ones. You also...
by dbadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insiders phone has missed nearly six months of security updates. The company says the next security update will arrive on June 20, although gave no mention of an Android 12 upgrade. Qualcomm has only committed to releasing security updates every...
by dbadmin | Jun 9, 2022 | News, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new leak has dished out apparent Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 specs. The chipset is rumored to offer a quad-tier CPU layout. Qualcomm might use two older CPU cores for 32-bit compatibility. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1...
by dbadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | News, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung, Samsung Exynos
Samsung’s Exynos-powered phones can’t run Diablo Immortal. Blizzard is working on a fix “as soon as possible” and may disable downloads for impacted devices. The issue is the latest evidence of the Exynos’ inferiority compared to other SoCs. Samsung users eager to...
by dbadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | ARM, News, Qualcomm
Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Qualcomm says it’s willing to team up with a consortium of rivals to buy Arm. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon reckons a consortium would help keep Arm independent. Intel also suggested this idea back in February. Nvidia called off...
by dbadmin | May 30, 2022 | Features, Fingerprint scanner, Opinions, Qualcomm, Vivo
Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Opinion post byHadlee Simons In-display fingerprint sensors were instant hot hardware when they were first introduced in 2018, as major players embraced the ability to hide biometric authentication behind a smartphone’s...
