The all-in-one Gear VR? Alcatel Vision runs on Exynos 7420

We didn’t know what kind of engine that the Alcatel Vision all-in-one VR headset was running on when TCL debuted it at IFA 2016. It was an octa-core chipset — obviously not a quad-core Snapdragon 820 — that didn’t have a name to it.Well, Samsung has come out and said it all. The Vision runs on its workhorse Exynos 7420 chipset.Introducing VISION, the Exynos-powered stylish all-in-one VR device from @Alcatelmobile

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Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) marked on Geekbench

More Galaxy A phones are to come, one of them likely being the Galaxy A8 (2016). GFXBench already has it logged in its database, now we get to see readings from Geekbench.Remember that we’re dealing with an Exynos 7420 processor from last year as well as 3GB of RAM, so beyond the possible tweaks this A8 may get, it’s essentially a Galaxy S6 with Android Marshmallow at boot.Of course, the ...

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The latest on what to expect from the Galaxy Note 7

This supposed phablet started out in the rumor mills as the Samsung Galaxy Note 6. Since then, we’ve been trying to parse together the ins and outs, the hairpins and straightaways, and all of the jokes claiming that six was too afraid of seven ...

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Benchmarks revive Galaxy Note 7 as a lighter Note 7 edge

While it’s nice to see what kind of guts we can expect on a CDMA variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (mainly because ‘Murica), if you want a little arm grease in action, you’re going to have to check out these Geekbench scores the thing supposed put up.Well, actually, the two things.You thought it was just going to be the Note 7 edge that will be the Note 7 this year, right? It ...

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Analyst group names Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 2015’s best mobile processor

With Qualcomm pretty clearly out of contention for the title of last year’s fastest and most reliable smartphone SoC, due to Snapdragon 810’s highly publicized overheating woes and SD808’s sub-flagship capabilities, you have to figure Samsung and Apple ultimately disputed the crown.Technically, Nvidia could have posed a threat too, but its otherwise impressive

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BlackBerry Vienna potentially benchmarked with Exynos SoC

Can we call the Priv a success just yet? Maybe not just yet. After all, we don’t dispute the power of real numbers and we have a lack of them right now. We also lack concrete evidence of a further BlackBerry push for the Android ecosystem, other than an all-points render.Add this to the iffy picture pile as five GFXBench ...

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Chinese parts source leaks Samsung Exynos 8890 benchmarks

There’s been a lot of dip to put our chips in recently. 24 hours ago, we fed you some trade wind rumors of Apple’s purported A10 processor with the takeaway being the possible presence of six cores. We got the tip from a Weibo user who claims to be tapped into the semiconductor industry in China. Now, we have new word from him on what new silicon might look like from Samsung. Keep in mind that we’re ...

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