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Qualcomm renames a couple Snapdragon chips: meet the newly christened 650 and 652

Posted on December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

With as many products as we deal with in the smartphone world, naming conventions can be lifesavers for helping us keep track of them all. Take Lumia smartphones, for example: you don’t need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all the different hardware options to understand that the Lumia 930 is a higher-end model than the Lumia 530, or that the Lumia 950 represents a further upgrade over the 930. Once companies get started with a naming scheme like that, they often do their best to stick with a logical order for future models, but sometimes not everything’s quite as ...

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Samsung spotted testing Snapdragon 620-powered phone: possible Galaxy A9?

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

It’s been a long time since Qualcomm first announced its new 600-series SoCs, revealing the Snapdragon 618 and 620 all the way back in February. Since then, we’ve been looking forward to manufacturers beginning to incorporate these chips in their phones, particularly the higher-end Snapdragon 620. With an octa-core processor and Adreno 510 GPU, there’s a lot of promise here, but the first 620-powered handsets ...

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A closer look at the Snapdragon 6xx family

Posted on August 25, 2015August 24, 2015 by Joe Levi

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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Qualcomm shares Snapdragon 820 features, offers ETA on first 820-based devices

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 820 SoC has been official for a long time now, but so far the company’s been light on details about the chip, only providing some brief “preview” data. Ever since, we’ve been looking to get the full picture on this component, and rumors had suggested that answers might come this week. Well, the rumored August 11 date passed by without any new 820 info, but it turns out that was ...

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Qualcomm leak outs upcoming Snapdragon SoCs, including 820

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Right now, the hot Qualcomm SoC everyone seems to be talking about is the Snapdragon 810: which phones will get the 810 first, and what do all those rumors of production issues mean for availability? And while the 810’s top-shelf performance means that we’ll be paying attention to it for some time to come, it’s still a chip that was announced coming up on a year ago; when will the 810 find itself ...

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