Official Snapdragon 835 benchmarks shine, but on a reference device

The Snapdragon 835 gets official benchmark runs against Snap 821, 820, Exynos 8890 and Kirin 960 devices. And the numbers look good... for a reference bed.

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Huawei offers glimpse into Mate 9 performance with Kirin 960 announcement

One of the smartphone manufacturers that probably stands to win a great deal of Samsung’s anticipated Galaxy Note 7 sales, especially in Asian markets, is Huawei, which should finally take the wraps off the beastly Mate 9 in New York City and/or Munich ...

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Huawei Mate 9 spec rumors reinforced, puzzling

If you trawl around YouTube enough for reviews and comparisons of tech products, you’ll no doubt find those text-only videos that just pit two devices and their specs, item by item by item.Pretty monotonous, inn’it?Well, some of the latest rumors on Huawei’s wintertime flagship being passed around in the Chinese tech media — and, thusly, us at Pocketnow — seem to trace back to a generic text-only video made by “CanerS Tech” on YouTube, a channel ...

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Huawei phone spotted on GFXBench: is it the Mate S2 or the 7P?

Huawei was not done when it released the P9 earlier this year. Supposedly, it still has plans for a Mate S sequel, a “Nexus” 7P and a Mate 9, too. All that pressure has us wondering more and more about this GFXBench log that we’ve picked up, thanks to Telefoonabonnement.The specs are pretty ...

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Analyst talks MediaTek Helio X30, Kirin 960 and Snapdragon 830 all at once

Artemis Fowl was a book I never read while in school, but you’ll be reading a lot about a certain “Artemis” in a bit.It’s the codename to ARM’s new 10nm-based mobile processor that’s to replace the Cortex-A72. The A72 is the two-core powerhouse that tops the ten-core packages that are MediaTek’s Helio X20 and X25 chipsets. But as we’re already talking about the Helio X30, we’re ...

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