Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India’s choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones, arguing the required hardware changes will push up a device’s cost by $30 (nearly Rs. 2,500), according to letters reviewed by Reuters. India is considering a policy to mandate equipping smartphones with hardware to receive live TV signals without …
Time is ticking down to the next big Samsung smartphone release, which is expected to be the Galaxy S24 series in January or February 2024. For the second year in a row it looks like Qualcomm is working closely with Samsung in a deal to give the top Galaxy S phone an exclusive, more powerful …
Arm, the British chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group, on Tuesday unveiled a set of new chip technologies aimed at making video games on smartphones look better while preserving battery life. The latest products are designs for graphics processing units, or GPUs, most often used for video processing in gaming. Arm makes money by …
Samsung Galaxy S23 series with a custom Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy was launched in February this year. This exclusive version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC features overclocked CPU and GPU cores. Now, Samsung seems to be gearing up to unveil the next mainline smartphones in the Galaxy series — …
After years of development, Qualcomm’s first custom CPU architecture for laptops is here — the Snapdragon X Elite. The high-end laptop market is more competitive and varied than the mobile space, especially now that Apple has custom M1 and M2 silicon based on the Arm architecture, so Qualcomm has a job to do to stand …
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Qualcomm executive says the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could be more expensive than the Gen 3. This could mean we’re in for more expensive flagship smartphones in 2025. Qualcomm has taken the wraps off the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship chipset this week. However, the company also confirmed …
It’s been a massive week for Android. Firstly, Qualcomm revealed its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor which looks set to take phone performance to a whole new level. Then, in a first-of-kind announcement, Chinese smartphone firm Xiaomi immediately revealed it’s launching a device that will feature this next-generation brain. The new Xiaomi 14 will …
Almost all TWS earbuds or wireless speakers and headphones use Bluetooth as the connectivity option. Now, Bluetooth has come a long way and it has been improving in terms of audio quality as well as connectivity with every new generation. With Bluetooth 5.3 which is apparently the latest generation of Bluetooth, it has become a …
Latest stats recently revealed that millions of Microsoft users refuse to ditch Windows 10 and make the switch the Windows 11. It’s a massive issue especially with that ageing OS losing full support and security updates at the end of 2025 – that’s just two years away! There are already plenty of reasons to move …
Qualcomm announced its latest flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, on Tuesday at the Snapdragon Summit. The successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC promises to bring a host of new upgrades and claims to be the first mobile platform focusing on generative AI. The SoC’s AI engine supports multi-modal generative AI …