If you fancy something different from all the generic clones out there then the newly announced nubia Z20 might pique your interest. Offering a unique alternative to pop-up or rotating selfie cameras, the nubia Z20 boasts a worldclass front-facing camera and a bezel-less display. In addition to groundbreaking display technology, the nubia Z20 also features…
Last year the Asus ROG phone stood out from the crowd with their speed binned Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chips. This year, Qualcomm has officially released a new faster chip catering to the gaming market, the Snapdragon 855 Plus. Some say it is to fend off the new Kirin 985 which is set to launch, or…
[Update] The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 has officially launched and the phone is confirmed to features the Exynos 9825 chipset and the older none plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. With the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launching soon there is a lot of hype building up for it as well as multiple leaks. The new phone (are…
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…
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