A closer look at the Snapdragon 6xx family

Unless they’re made by Apple, when you think about smartphones and tablets, chances are they’ve got a Qualcomm Snapdragon powering them. Generally speaking, when we rank devices they typically fall into one of those three categories: entry-level, entry level, midrange, and high-end. Oddly enough, Qualcomm’s SoCs are also segmented by device class, but Qualcomm opted for four tiers (rather than three), this can make it a little confusing to tell which category a device falls into – such is the case with the Snapdragon 6xx family.

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All you need to know about Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragons

NVIDIAs newest SoC, the Tegra K1, made waves at CES 2014 when it was announced to have 192 cores! Alas, they’re graphics cores, not processor cores. Another chip maker has some news out of CES as well! What does Qualcomm has in store for us in 2014? What cool new things can its chips do? ...

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Are chip shortages keeping the Snapdragon 800 out of the HTC One Max?

By now, we’ve seen the HTC One Max six ways from Sunday; its most recent appearance put the handset up against the Galaxy Note II and 3. Underneath all that, a mystery’s been trying to work itself out: just what SoC would this phablet run? While early rumors and frankly, common sense, suggested that we’d be seeing a Snapdragon 800, more recently there’s been talk that

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HTC One Max specs leak appears to confirm absence of Snapdragon 800

The HTC One Max sure isn’t shy about posing for the camera, and earlier today we brought you the latest pics of the hardware to arrive. While the general layout looks like a lock, we’ve been hearing some conflicting rumors about internal hardware choices, and last week the idea landed that the phablet might not run a Snapdragon 800, but something more along the lines of an S4 Pro, instead. That’s not particularly great news, but one way or another, we’d like to get it either confirmed and learn ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 043: The Post-Galaxy S 4 Tech Podcast You’ve Been Waiting For

At Pocketnow, we have a responsibility to try the new, the fresh, and the weird – and that latter swamp is exactly the one Managing Editor Anton D. Nagy waded into with his recent review of the ASUS Fonepad – the tablet with an earpiece. Or the phone with a tablet screen. Whatever you want to call it, we’ve covered it – and Tony has some thoughts about using a seven-inch smartphone in this edition of one of your favorite tech podcasts. After we clear the giant-phone convo, we’ve ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 042: HTC One-and-a-Half, Galaxy S 4 Octa, & Super-Cheap Windows Phones (Podcast)

Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week’s podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate “manufacturers” well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we’re not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren’t of the ...

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Octa VS Quad: Galaxy S 4 Snapdragon vs Galaxy S 4 Exynos (Video)

The Galaxy S 4. It’s a name that commands respect: one that strikes fear into the hearts of other smartphones, and incites envy in the eyes of would-be buyers. As our full review reinforces, it’s a name that represents one of the best Android smartphones you can buy today. But the Galaxy S 4 isn’t just one phone: it’s a device family comprised of many globally-specific variants. The SPH-L720 we reviewed last week was built especially for the American carrier Sprint, and while ...

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LG Optimus G Pro Sells 500k Units In Home Country Alone

LG’s new phablet in town, the Optimus G Pro hasn’t even been globally released yet, and it’s already breaking some sales records. So far the device sold 10k units in the first day in Korea, and it just reached 500k units sold in 40 days, and still ahead of it’s global launch planned some time within the current month of April. Now what makes this even more interesting is that LG is treating this device as a proof of concept. They actually went as far as to treating potential customers with a 30-day trial of the ...

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T-Mobile iPhone 5 Official, HTC Butterfly 2 Leaks, Windows Phone 8 Updates & More – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the T-Mobile announcement of their LTE network and an iPhone 5 to go along with it. Then we move to Windows Phone 8 as new rumors have it supporting FM radio in the near future. Sprint is next as it finally confirms what Windows Phones it’ll start their line-up with. Then we talk about HTC and Qualcomm as they both team-up to promote the new HTC One, and we even talk about the Desire P and Desire Q we sadly can’t recommend. We end todays show talking about HTC’s plans for a Butterfly 2, and what this means to the HTC ...

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Red HTC One Disappears, Asus Metallic Miracle Teased, LG MWC Teaser & More – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how the red HTC One mysteriously vanished from the HTC website. Then we go through some of the amazing benchmarks of the HTC One, though we’d wait for some real-world tests before we declare them as faster than anything out there. Samsung is next as new rumors have the company adopting the Snapdragon 600 for the Galaxy S IV. Then LG takes the stage as we have their new MWC teaser along with an Optimus F7 and F5 being rumored. We end today’s show talking about the Asus MWC teaser, and what they could mean with their ...

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HTC One Event Tomorrow, Galaxy S IV Dates, Ubuntu Tablet & More – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Galaxy Note 8.0 one more time, hoping this is actually the last because so many rumors without a device tend to bore. Then we move to the Galaxy S IV, which now has a new and earlier release date rumor. LG is next as we talk about their new Optimus G Pro and the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor included. Nokia is next as apparently MWC 2013 will show us four smartphones to be released, and no tablet. We end today’s show talking about the Ubuntu Tablet that’ll be released tomorrow. All this and more after the break. ...

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