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LG Optimus G successor to feature the Snapdragon 800 CPU

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Jaime Rivera

The LG Optimus G proved to be more than just another LG phone. It did a great job at amazing us when it launched in the fall of last year since it marked a new and more elegant deployment of smartphones from LG at times when their past was clouded by cheap phones. Another thing that characterized that Optimus G was that it was the firs smartphone to launch with the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, which has now led the way to more efficient and powerful processors like the Snapdragon 600 and 800. A lot of us have been left wondering when Qualcomm will launch the first smartphone with the ...

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Nokia developing Snapdragon 800-powered Lumia handset?

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

So far, Windows Phone has done an admirable job at avoiding temptations to get caught up in the hardware spec rat race, as so many Android OEMs do. WP hardware may not have the highest-end components around, but darn it – it gets the job done. Still, while the platform may not be racing to adopt the bleeding edge, it does need to modernize itself from time to time – just look at the addition of 720p support last year. We’ve already heard rumors that 1080p could be in the platform’s future, along with ...

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Galaxy S 4 running Snapdragon 800 coming to South Korean market?

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

So far, if you’ve wanted a Samsung Galaxy S 4, that’s meant the choice between a phone running an Exynos 5 Octa and a Snapdragon 600. That Exynos chip may still be the top dog in Samsung’s SoC family, but the 600 is about to give way to the Snapdragon 800 this summer. Rather than letting that new chip only power brand new phones, we’re wondering if Samsung could be planning to release new GS4 models with Snapdragon 800s at their core, after seeing a few phones ...

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

Posted on May 8, 2013 by admin

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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Waterproof Galaxy S 4 Active, Snapdragon 800 Up Next, ASUS Fonepad Unboxing & More – Pocketnow Daily

Posted on April 26, 2013 by admin

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the ASUS Fonepad and our coverage of the device. Then we go through Windows Phone and some revealing stats from a recent poll in the United States. Google is next as we cover the news regarding the Play Store’s new app update policies. We later talk about Qualcomm’s plans to begin deploying the Snapdragon 800 processor and what this means for the mobile industry. We end today’s show talking about Samsung’s plans to bring us the Galaxy S 4 Active, a ruggedized version of their new flagship. All this and more after ...