Last year the Asus ROG Phone differentiated itself from the other gaming phones on the market with its binned Snapdragon 845 chipset with higher 2.96GHz clocks than the standard 2.8GHz. This year things are different, Qualcomm has announced a specific Snapdragon 855+ chipset and multiple manufactures are on board to use it. The Plus model…
A few days ago Huawei owned HiSilicon launched the new Kirin 810 chipset which will target the upper midrange market and presumably act as a tier above the current HiSilicon 710. The new chip fabricated on TSMC’s 7 nm process, features two Cortex-A76 big cores operating at up to 2.27 GHz along with six Cortex-A55…
When Qualcomm launched their first Windows and ARM devices, the performance was a little lacklustre as well as compatibility issue with 64-bit applications. I still use my HP Envy X2, and things have improved with Windows updates, but it is not good enough as a main laptop. The laptop used the Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC…
As much as I love Qualcomm, their upper mid-range system on chip product range is starting to become quite confusing, to say the least. Today they announced two more products with the Snapdragon 665 and Snapdragon 730 system on chips. Now to be fair, these two new chips are replacing the older models which I…
While this may not be as exciting as most of the up and coming phone releases over the next week, but it is arguable as important. This year many phones will launch with 5G and the modem behind this is the X50 modem which was announced in October 2016. However, the problem with this chip…
Qualcomm have officially announced the successor to the Snapdragon 710 which was launch last year as an upper mid-range model focussed on the Asian market. Some of the phones that featured the Snapdragon 710 include the Xiaomi Mi 8 SE, Nokia 8.1, Xiaomi Mi Max 3 and the OPPO R17 Pro. Since then the Snapdragon…
Update – Qualcomm have now announced the 665 & 730 which will replace the Snapdragon 710 & 660 – Our full upper-mid-range Qualcomm SoC comparison is here, and yes it gets confusing. In somewhat of a surprising move Qualcomm has just launched the Snapdragon 675 which will supplant the Snapdragon 670 that was launched less…
The Redmi Note 7 was announced last week featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 with an extremely low price of around £138 in its launch countries, though more like £240 in the UK. The more powerful Redmi Note 7 Pro is expected to be announced sometime in February (maybe at MWC) and the specifications have recently…
Each year a there is a common trend of Huawei owned Hisilicon announcing their flagship system on chip then Qualcomm to launch theirs a few months later which then beats it. While there is only a 3-month difference between announcements Huawei launch their flagship Mate series device in October while Qualcomm based devices don’t come…
Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 675 in October last year, which appeared to be an odd launch as the Snapdragon 670 was only launched two months prior on 8th of August 2018. It has been rumoured that Xiaomi will be launching a new phone with this chipset and a 48MP camera in January 2019….
2019 is a very exciting year for mobile, not only do we have the usual upgrades in performance from system on chips like the newly announced Snapdragon 855 and the Kiron 980, but this is the year where 5G will rollout and foldable displays. Xiaomi has confirmed that the Mi MIX 3 with 5G capabilities will…
Qualcomm has just announced the new flagship system on chip at their Tech Summit event in Maui, Hawaii. This is the chip that will power nearly all the flagship phones on the market that don’t come from Huawei or Apple. It also means we now have information on all the main SoCs that will be…