MediaTek announced the Helio G90T a few months ago and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro is the first and only phone to use this chipset. MediaTek is not particularly well known for their high-performance chipsets so this launch has come as a bit of a surprise with the specification looking like it should provide…
Samsung’s custom CPU core arm is officially shutting down which will mean that future Samsung devices will no longer feature Exynos M performance cores, but instead employ ARM designs. The move has been rumoured for some time now. While Samsung Exynos chipsets are excellent they have generally lagged behind the Qualcomm equivalent which implements all…
As much as I love Qualcomm and their mobile chipsets, one of the biggest issues Android WearOS has faced is the truly shocking chipsets available to it. We are currently only just seeing watches feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100, which launched last year and is based on the SD425 chipset that launched in 2016 that…
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 was launched almost two years ago, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is due to be replaced with the Snapdragon 865. Earlier this year the Snapdragon 710 was superseded by the new Snapdragon 730 and as technology improves the performance trickles down with generations. So how do this year’s upper-midrange chipsets compare…
In September Samsung announced their new Exynos 9611 chipset which is aimed at the mid-end of the market and features on the Samsung Galaxy M30s, and the A50s and is expected to be in the Samsung Galaxy A51. The older Exynos 9610 which this replaces is featured on the Samsung Galaxy A50 2019 which currently…
Samsung has unexpectedly announced its new flagship earlier than their normal schedule. It was expected to launch around the same time as the Samsung Galaxy S11 which would be at the start of 2020. With the announcement of the Samsung Exynos 990 that just leaves Qualcomm to show their cards for next years flagship chipset….
[Update] It had been previously leaked that the new integrated 5G Qualcomm chipset would be called the Qualcomm Snapdragon 735. Today Qualcomm has now announced the Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 765G. Currently, Qualcomm has not announced the full specification of the Snapdragon 735, but one of the slides confirmed that the new SoC will feature…
As part of yesterdays Surface event, where Microsoft launched their first foldable devices, the Surface Pro X was launched featuring a custom ARM-powered chipset co-engineered with Qualcomm called the SQ1. So what is the SQ1 and how does it differ from the Snapdragon 8cx which is Qualcomm’s current top of the range Windows and Arm…
Windows on Arm has been slow to take off, Windows doesn’t naturally play nice with Arm microarchitecture, so things have to be rewritten or emulated. I reviewed the HP Envy X2 back in 2018 and generally had mixed feelings towards it. The always-on always-connected feature was a revelation, the battery life was phenomenal, and it…
If you fancy something different from all the generic clones out there then the newly announced nubia Z20 might pique your interest. Offering a unique alternative to pop-up or rotating selfie cameras, the nubia Z20 boasts a worldclass front-facing camera and a bezel-less display. In addition to groundbreaking display technology, the nubia Z20 also features…
Last year the Asus ROG phone stood out from the crowd with their speed binned Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chips. This year, Qualcomm has officially released a new faster chip catering to the gaming market, the Snapdragon 855 Plus. Some say it is to fend off the new Kirin 985 which is set to launch, or…
[Update] The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 has officially launched and the phone is confirmed to features the Exynos 9825 chipset and the older none plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. With the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launching soon there is a lot of hype building up for it as well as multiple leaks. The new phone (are…