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Attack on Qualcomm: Samsung Exynos 1080 launches November 12th

After Samsung last year with the Exynos 990 the displeasure of many Gamer attracted and often talked about the low point in the chip development of the South Korean company, they want to get back with Qualcomm with the Exynos 1080 and Co. draw level. Already at 12. Comprehensive information on the 5G-capable chip is… Read more

Huawei is building a new chip factory to circumvent US ban

Huawei’s operations face great difficulties following the latest US ban, that cut access to chip supply. Now according to Financial Times, the Shenzhen company is now preparing its own chipset plant (instead of relying on TSMC) that will run on behalf of the in-house R&D business and will be backed by the local government. It… Read more

The Snapdragon 875 achieves 847,868 AnTuTu points, 25% more performance than the 865

by Antonio Delgado 5 hours ago … Qualcomm’s next top-of-the-range chip seems to be just around the corner. corner, Qualcomm has prepared an event for the next days 1 and 2 December in which it has not given details about it, but that surely we can see the new Snapdragon 875 of the company ,… Read more

Flashback: remembering the best Tegra-powered phones, tablets and “others”

Nvidia is in the process of acquiring ARM, which made us think of the time when the company, which is best known for its GPUs, was actually a major player in the smartphone market. Here are Tegra chipsets’ greatest hits. Two of the first Tegra-powered phones were the Microsoft Kin One and Two, which we’ve… Read more

OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 edition will arrive before the video game

Even if the game has been postponed to 10 December 2020, Chinese users will be able to purchase the new OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk edition 2077 which will be launched anyway at the beginning of November. No hardware changes. by Mattia Speroni published 31 October 2020 , at 16: 31 in the Telephony channel Android OnePlus… Read more

vivo V20 review

Introduction The vivo V20 is the company’s most recent attempt at making a sensible mid-range smartphone. In the past, it was the higher pricing that kept us from recommending vivo’s previous budget phones. But this time around, the V20 seems to be adequately priced while going for a different market positioning that helps it stand… Read more

Snapdragon 875 could be 25% faster than its predecessor, leaked AnTuTu result shows

The Snapdragon 875 chipset is code-named “Lahaina” and it may be significantly faster than expected – an early benchmark shows a score of over 847,000 points in AnTuTu. This is much higher than its predecessor, which currently tops the charts with 663,000 points or so. That’s a jump of over 25%, a huge leap for… Read more

FT: companies can resume supplying Huawei with smartphone components

The siege on Huawei may be easing off a bit – at least as far as its mobile division is concerned. The Financial Times reports that companies will be able to supply Huawei with components for non-5G uses. More specifically components that won’t be used in the company’s 5G networking equipment. “It has been indicated… Read more

How Chinese brands keep getting big on the smartphone market

Quiz question: which smartphone brand reached the limit of 50 million smartphones delivered ? You may be thinking of Apple, Samsung, Huawei or Xiaomi, but those answers are all wrong. The correct answer is Realme. And that answer tells a lot about how the current smartphone market works. Because although there is often the idea… Read more

LG offers 5G for less with $359 mid-range K92 5G handset

Smartphones with 5G access are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the latest mid-range handset from LG is one of the most affordable yet: the new K92 5G is priced from just $359, and offers 5G access for three US carriers: AT&T, Cricket Wireless, and UScellular. Apart from this, it looks like a pretty average device,… Read more

SiFive HiFive Unmatched: RISC-V developer board with 8 GByte RAM and PCIe 3.0

The Mini-ITX mainboard HiFive Unmatched is equipped with the RISC-V processor SiFive Freedom U 740, the four Linux contains suitable RV 64 GC cores. The FU 740 connects 8 GB of RAM and another controller that provides PCI Express 3.0. The HiFive Unmatched has a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot – e.g. for a graphics card… Read more

OnePlus 9 is headed to Verizon and T-Mobile, apparently

If you’re in the US and are wondering which carriers are going to offer the upcoming OnePlus 9, that may be coming sooner than expected, then wonder no more. The enterprising folks over at XDA Developers have discovered, through a deep dive into the OxygenOS code, that the OnePlus 9 is in fact headed to… Read more

Realme C15 Qualcomm Edition with Snapdragon 460 unveiled

Back in July, Realme unveiled the C15 – an entry level phone with 6,000 mAh battery and MediaTek’s Helio G35 chipset at the helm. Now, Realme is introducing a new Snapdragon 460 version of the C15 dubbed Realme C15 Qualcomm Edition. The only major change here is the chipset while the rest of the spec… Read more

Pro1 X: here is the smartphone for the “ geeks ''! Physical QWERTY keyboard and Linux

A return to the past that of Pro1 X, the smartphone with extended QWERTY physical keyboard . Moreover, the possibility of using not only Android, as an operating system, but also Linux in the Ubuntu Touch and Lineage OS versions is particular. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 28 October 2020 , at 15: 21 in the… Read more

Qualcomm Introduces Immersive Home Platform to Provide Wifi 6 and 6E to Mesh Routers

by Jordi Bercial 6 hours ago … Qualcomm today introduced the Immersive Home Platform , a platform that will provide support for Wifi 6 and Wifi 6E to Mesh routers to increase their speed and bandwidth while maintaining the great coverage extension capabilities that this router architecture is capable of providing to its users. In… Read more