Articles tagged "Qualcomm"

In a recent interview Qualcomm's Senior Director of Product Management Judd Heape revealed that phones with 64MP and even 100MP cameras will likely come in 2019. However ultra high-megapixel cameras in phones isn't the direction Qualcomm wants...

With the new wave of 48MP mobile camera sensors and devices like the Nokia 9 PureView and its five or even six, depending on how you count, snapper setup, it is pretty clear that the mobile industry is still actively experimenting and pushing camera...

Few battles on the smartphone scene are quite as volatile as the charging one. We seem to be at an interesting juncture with many proprietary technologies, like Super VOOC outpacing more traditional players like Quick Charge in raw performance. All...

Qualcomm unveiled its second generation 5G modem – the Snapdragon X55. It pushes wireless speeds up to 7Gbps, but more importantly it also supports 4G LTE as well as “legacy” technologies like 3G and 2G. The X55 supports both flavors of 5G,...

It looks like Qualcomm is preparing a chipset for simple, affordable phones – think Android Go and such. The chip is called QM215 and may not be part of the Snapdragon line. It could be marketed as the Qualcomm Mobile 215 Platform...

Qualcomm announced a new addition to its chipset portfolio - the Snapdragon 712. It is built on the 10 nm process and comes as a modest upgrade to the popular Snapdragon 710. It has faster octa-core processor “that adds performance boost and makes...

Back in December, the German court ruled in favor of Qualcomm and moved to ban sales of those affected iPhone including the iPhone 7 and 8 models due to an ongoing patent dispute with Qualcomm. Following the ban, Apple released a statement...

Apple and Qualcomm have a turbulent relationship to say the least. They are locked in multiple court battles around the world and it’s becoming clear that this fight is responsible for Apple’s slow adoption of 5G – insider sources claim that the...

An unknown device has appeared on AnTuTu, sporting the new 11nm Snapdragon 675 chipset. It scored 174K, which is a lot higher than the 155K we got with the 10nm Snapdragon 710-powered Oppo RX17 Pro. What's more interesting than the chip...

During its keynote at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Qualcomm said it's expecting a little over 30 5G-capable devices this year with most of them being smartphones. The spokesperson then went on to say that Qualcomm has won the majority of contracts with...

Before the Christmas holidays, the German court ruled that Apple had infringed Qualcomm's patent regarding low-voltage power-efficient envelope tracker. Then it ordered a sales ban on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 while the current 2018 lineup remains...

LG is the latest smartphone maker to join the KFTC (Korean Fair Trade Commission) and other companies in the lawsuit against Qualcomm. While Samsung’s withdrawal didn’t do the lawsuit any favors, LG’s new stance strengthens the KFTC’s case again,...

Qualcomm won another legal battle against Apple, this time in Germany. According to a German court iPhone 7 and 8 models with Intel modems infringe on one Qualcomm patent. The court issued a sales ban on said models until Apple is able to...

Apple is facing a ban of its older iPhones in China ranging from iPhone 6s to iPhone X because it doesn't infringe with Qualcomm's patents. So in order to solve the issue, the Cupertino-based company will push a software update that will comply with...

On Monday the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court in China banned the import and sale of select iPhones due to a lawsuit between Qualcomm and Apple. Cupertino had to pull out phones from iPhone 6s all the way to iPhone X but said the 2018 devices are...

Qualcomm is disputing Apple’s claims about the iPhone sales ban in China that affected last year’s models (iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus) and older ones going back to the iPhone 6s. Apple statement said that all iPhone models remain available and...

Qualcomm scored a win in its legal battle with Apple – a Chinese court has issued a preliminary order banning the import and sale of select Apple phones in China. The affected models include the iPhone X, iPhone 8, 8 Plus and older models going back...

At the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm has taken the wraps off its latest chipset intended for Windows 10 computers - the Snapdragon 8cx. This is the successor to the Snapdragon 850, but it's a different beast altogether. Whereas the 850...

A Snapdragon SM6150 chipset has posted a score to the Geekbench database. It features an octa-core processor and will likely launch as a 600-series chip. Geekbench doesn’t say much about the CPU cores, other than one clock speed – 1.8GHz. That’s...

Just yesterday, an early leak revealed that Qualcomm’s next major Snapdragon chip would be called the Snapdragon 855. Low and behold, Qualcomm made the announcement today. Previous rumors suggested that the new chip would not be called the...