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Apr

12

2011

Vodaphone leaks HTC Pyramid as the HTC Sensation: 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon CPU, 4.3″ qHD SLCD

by Dustin Karnes
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Oh my, oh my… what have we here? Looks like HTC just can’t keep the camera away, and this week’s candid shots are courtesy of Vodaphone UK. Here’s what we’ve got, folks. The new HTC Sensation features: 4.3-inch qHD (540 x 960 pixel) SLCD display 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera8 megapixel rear camera w/ dual-LED flash 1.2GHz [...]

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Mar

8

2011

Qualcomm Purposefully Selling Mobile Chips on The Cheap to Drive Smartphone Market

by Brian Rubin
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Recently at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Qualcomm CFO Bill Keitel told his audience that for the first fiscal quarter of 2011 they achieved operating margins of around 30% on their mobile chipsets, and that they plan to have those margins drop to between 22% to 24%. He also said that they [...]

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Feb

16

2011

Netflix Coming to Android, Starting With Snapdragon

by Michael Murphy
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Netflix has had an iPhone app for a bit now, and has made it clear that they plan to release a similar app for Android. Sadly, because the hardware on Android phones varies so much from device to device, Netflix had quite a struggle developing the app completely in-house. So, they teamed up with Qualcomm, [...]

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Feb

15

2011

Qualcomm building 2.5GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon mobile processors

by Jesse Bauer
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Qualcomm has announced that by 2012, we should start seeing quad-core mobile chips in many mobile devices. This comes just days after we all started seeing dual-core tablets and smartphones becoming much more common at MWC, we just can’t be satisfied with dual-core and 4G. No sir, we need quad-core chips on 8G wireless networks [...]

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Jan

19

2011

Acer 7inch Android Tablet Hands-on

by Jesse Bauer
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The folks over at intomobile got a chance to give us a great look at the new Android 2.3 Acer 7 inch tablet, and it actually looks pretty slick! Specifications are impressive as well as it punches with a 1.2GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, HDMI-out, 1280×800 WXGA resolution, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, and Android 2.3. The [...]

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Jan

9

2011

TalkAndroid’s hands-on with the Verizon 4G LG Revolution (video/photo gallery)

by Tyler Cunningham
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Well folks, today is Sunday and we are wrapping up our CES coverage. We have a ton of great photos and videos which we will be posting throughout the day, beginning with this hands-on with the new LG Revolution which we took while visiting Verizon’s private demo room yesterday. This is the last of the [...]

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Jan

5

2011

Qualcomm Mirasol Promo Video Reveals Pocketbook’s Tablet?

by Joe Sirianni
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In late November, Pocketbook teased that they would be unveiling, at CES, their Mirasol Tablet/e-Reader in all of its glory.  However, it looks like it’s possible that Qualcomm is giving us a first peak at the device in a promo video for their Mirasol screen technology.  So far, there is very little that we do [...]

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Dec

29

2010

Pantech Announces First Android Phone to Use DDR2

by Michael Murphy
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Pantech just recently announced a new smartphone that will debut soon, and it looks very promising. Based on Qualcomm’s MSM8225 chipset, the Vega Xpress will be the first Android smartphone to use DDR2 memory technology. What makes this so special? It allows the device to reach impressive processing speeds by accessing the memory much more [...]

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Nov

19

2010

Qualcomm giving their Snapdragon processor a speed boost

by Tyler Cunningham
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor, which powers devices such as the Motorola Droid, HTC Evo 4G, and the Nexus One, is getting a bit of a speed increase according to the company. The next offering, dubbed the MSM8960, will run roughly 5 times faster than the first Snapdragon thanks in large part to its 1.2GHz dual core. [...]

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Nov

16

2010

Qualcomm hosting Augmented Reality Developer Competition

by Mikka Burrell
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Qualcomm is now accepting submissions into their Augmented Reality Developer Competition. Contestants simply develop apps using augmented reality to make compelling real-world applications. You can participate in this contest and develop apps for an Android device. Click here to download the SDK and get started. The deadline for the contest is January 7th, 2011. The [...]

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