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Proving the adage “ask, and you shall receive”, Qualcomm is back this week for a second Snapdragon SoC announcement for mobile phones. This time, the company is announcing the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, the latest-generation member of their relatively new Snapdragon 7+ lineup of SoCs. Like its predecessor, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, the Gen 3 is aimed at the premium segment of smartphones, offering high-end features with more modest performance and costs – but still a feature set and level of performance ahead of “mid-tier” smartphone SoCs. And, with Monday’s launch of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, this is a segment that has been bifurcated into two lines of SKUs over at Qualcomm.
Hands On With Motorola's Tegra 2 Devices: Atrix 4G, Droid Bionic, XOOM Tablet
Today Motorola unveiled 4 new Android based devices during their press conference at CES today; three smartphones and 1 tablet. We were able to get some limited hands...
21 by Manveer Wasson on 1/6/2011NVIDIA's Project Denver: NV Designed, High Performance ARM Core: Updated!
NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Project Denver - its first CPU architecture design ever, based on ARM's ISA. This is a custom design done by NVIDIA in conjunction...
49 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011NVIDIA's Tegra 2 Take Two: More Architectural Details and Design Wins
Twelve months ago NVIDIA stood on stage at CES and introduced its Tegra 2 SoC. It promised dozens of design wins and smartphones shipping before Spring 2010. That obviously...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011Samsung Infuse 4G Announced
Rounding out the devices AT&T has announced this morning is the Samsung Infuse 4G, which packs a huge 4.5" Super AMOLED plus display. We're not certain what plus adds...
14 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011HTC Inspire 4G with New HTC Sense Announced
HTC CEO Peter Chou just announced the HTC Inspire 4G. Details about the HTC Inspire 4G's hardware stack are relatively scant, but the 4.3" screen begets a platform likely...
6 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011Motorola's ATRIX 4G: Tegra 2 Smartphone & Netbook in One
Motorola just announced its flagship Tegra 2 based smartphone: the ATRIX 4G. Running Android 2.2, the ATRIX 4G has a pair of Cortex A9s running at 1GHz inside NVIDIA's...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011AT&T Announces 4G LTE Plans
Anand and I rushed from the LG press conference over to AT&T's, where CEO Ralph de la Vega has just announced the carrier's LTE plans for the future. Some...
13 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011LG's Optimus 2X: World's First Tegra 2 Smartphone
Brian and I are currently at LG's press conference where the company announced, as expected, the LG Optimus 2X - the world's first dual-core Cortex A9 smartphone based on...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011ASUS Announces Eee Pad and Eee Slate Tablets
With CES 2011 upon us, we must acknowledge that 2011 could well be the “Year of the Tablet”. Everyone—Motorola, Dell, HP, HTC, Acer, you name it—is releasing a tablet...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2011Samsung Galaxy Tab - The AnandTech Review
The iPad started shipping in April, and since then it has basically had the tablet market to itself. Literally, in the six months after the iPad’s release, it didn’t...
97 by Vivek Gowri on 12/23/2010Nvidia Tegra 2 - Graphics Performance Update
So I have a confession to make. Before we posted our Tegra 2 performance preview, I ran the Quake 3 demo on the Viewsonic G Tablet and the Samsung...
28 by Vivek Gowri on 12/20/2010GLBenchmark 2.0 Released - Modern SoCs Benchmarked
We've constantly on the lookout for new benchmarks to use for benchmarking the latest SoCs in devices. Today, Kishonti Informatics released the latest version of its popular GLBenchmark suite...
64 by Brian Klug on 12/17/2010Nexus S and Android 2.3 Review: Gingerbread for the Holidays
The Nexus S, spiritual successor to the Nexus One, is finally here. The Nexus One was supposed revolutionize in the way people buy mobile phones stateside, effectively decoupling phone...
75 by Brian Klug on 12/14/2010First Look: Viewsonic G Tablet and Tegra 2 Performance Preview
The slate computing market is about to explode, with a literal flood of new tablets releasing over the coming months. Many of them will be Android based, running NVIDIA’s...
81 by Vivek Gowri on 12/9/2010TI Reveals OMAP4440 Specs: Dual 1.5GHz Cortex A9, 25% Faster GPU, HDMI 1.4 3D, 1080p60
Next year is looking to be a very important year for smartphone and tablet performance. Just as we saw widespread migration to the ARM Cortex A8 and Qualcomm Scorpion...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010A Busy Day for Android - Nexus S and Gingerbread (2.3) Officially Announced
As expected, today Google announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Nexus S. Android 2.3 is the latest iteration of Google’s popular smartphone platform, and includes a number of immediately...
45 by Brian Klug on 12/6/2010Holiday Smartphone Buyer's Guide
Since there are so many smartphones on the market, we figured that the holiday season was a great time to write our first smartphone buyer's guide. And so we...
52 by Vivek Gowri on 12/4/2010LG's Optimus 7 & Samsung's Focus Reviewed: A Tale of Two Windows Phones
The only aspect of purchasing a Windows Phone that's more difficult than jumping on the iPhone bandwagon is choosing hardware. While the OS may be polished, nearly all Windows...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/3/2010Verizon Flips the Switch on its 4G/LTE Network December 5, $50 for 5GB
Verizon just announced that on this Sunday, December 5, Verizon will launch its LTE network in the US. The network will launch in 39 cities around the country (listed...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/1/2010The Nokia E5 Review: A Cheaper E72
When Anand first asked if I wanted to review the Nokia E5-00 (referred to as E5 henceforth), I wasn’t sure what to say. Having used Nokia’s Symbian based smartphones...
40 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 11/30/2010