Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 888 Specifications Compared – Big camera improvements but no AV1 decoding
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 888 Specifications Compared – Big camera improvements but no AV1 decoding

During the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced its latest flagship chipset, which will be featured on phones from 2022. It is the biggest chipset announcement of the year for Android users, but with much of the details already leaked, the actual announcement doesn’t bring much exciting to the table. I have already compared the Snapdragon 8…

Samsung Exynos 9611 vs 9610 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 vs 675 vs 710 Comparison with Antutu, Geekbench Benchmarks
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Samsung Exynos 9611 vs 9610 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 vs 675 vs 710 Comparison with Antutu, Geekbench Benchmarks

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…

Integrated 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 vs Snapdragon 730
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Integrated 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 vs Snapdragon 730

[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…

Samsung Exynos 980 5G vs Kirin 810 vs Snapdragon 730 vs Helio G90T
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Samsung Exynos 980 5G vs Kirin 810 vs Snapdragon 730 vs Helio G90T

With the launch of the Samsung Exynos 980 5G, Samsung set a new standard for upper mid-range chipsets. MediaTek, HiSilicon and Qualcomm have all launched their latest upper mid-range chips recently, which promise near-flagship performance but at a more attractive price point. During IFA we had multiple announcements with new chipsets with integrated 5G modems….

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 & 730 vs SD 712, 710, 675, 670, 660 & HiSilicon Kirin 710 Compared: That’s NINE upper mid-range chips Qualcomm now has on the market.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 & 730 vs SD 712, 710, 675, 670, 660 & HiSilicon Kirin 710 Compared: That’s NINE upper mid-range chips Qualcomm now has on the market.

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…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 outperforms Snapdragon 710 SoC on AnTuTu
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 outperforms Snapdragon 710 SoC on AnTuTu

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….

Snapdragon 8180 System on Chip specification revealed for Windows on Arm devices
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Snapdragon 8180 System on Chip specification revealed for Windows on Arm devices

Earlier in the year, I got to test the new HP Envy X2 laptop which was running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC and was the first attempt at getting an ARM-based processor working with Windows. My experience was a little mixed, I love the concept, the battery life is awesome and the always-on connectivity perfect for a blogger…

Acer Holo360 Camera Review – An all in one 360-degree action camera
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Acer Holo360 Camera Review – An all in one 360-degree action camera

I have always been a big fan of Acer products; they make great laptops, monitors as well as the excellent Windows Mixed Reality Headset. They also like to dabble with other products and the most exciting product they have launched recently is the Acer Holo360, which is a 360-degree camera that is built around Android…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 benchmark results look good
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 benchmark results look good

I have already covered the new technology in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system on chip (SoC) but that doesn’t mean a great deal without some real-world results. Qualcomm has finally started demoing units built on the Snapdragon 845 SoC to selected press. The tests are not ideal as the hardware is Qualcomm’s demo units, so…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 – The chip behind most of 2018/19’s Flagship Android Phones
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 – The chip behind most of 2018/19’s Flagship Android Phones

During my event with Qualcomm, they were obviously keen to talk about their latest and greatest product, the Snapdragon 845. For several years not the 800 series of chips have been used in the vast majority of the flagship Android phones you can buy. The only real exceptions are Samsung Exynos used in the European…