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Proving the adage “ask, and you shall receive”, Qualcomm is back this week for a second Snapdragon SoC announcement for mobile phones. This time, the company is announcing the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, the latest-generation member of their relatively new Snapdragon 7+ lineup of SoCs. Like its predecessor, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, the Gen 3 is aimed at the premium segment of smartphones, offering high-end features with more modest performance and costs – but still a feature set and level of performance ahead of “mid-tier” smartphone SoCs. And, with Monday’s launch of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, this is a segment that has been bifurcated into two lines of SKUs over at Qualcomm.
Samsung Galaxy R Announced - A Tegra 2 Smartphone
Earlier this year while at MWC, Anand and I broke news of a Samsung Galaxy phone with Tegra 2 inside. At the time, we assumed it was a Galaxy...
9 by Brian Klug on 8/10/2011Nokia to Suspend Sales of Symbian, Feature Phones in the US
Nokia President Chris Weber announced in an interview today that the company will completely stop selling feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the US in order to focus on...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/9/2011The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: Where Do You Want To Take Your Gaming Today?
The debate over the potential (or not, depending on your perspective) for cellular handsets to supplant dedicated portable gaming consoles was already at the 'dull roar' stage when Steve...
34 by Brian Dipert on 8/8/2011HTC Launches HTC Dev Developer Portal - HTC Pen SDK and S3D SDK
Earlier this year at Qualcomm's annual Uplinq conference, HTC announced that it was going to open up parts of Sense to devleopers and launch HTC OpenSense. HTC OpenSense is...
1 by Brian Klug on 8/8/2011Samsung TouchWiz UX Review: Honeycomb Gets Skinned
TouchWiz UX is rolling out to Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 as you read this! Samsung's introducing more than just some different fonts and color schemes with this one. But...
32 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/5/2011Back To School Technology Buyer's Guide
It’s that time of year again, when thousands of wide-eyed 17- and 18-year-olds will be setting foot on college campuses for the first time. Many more students will be...
95 by Zach Throckmorton on 8/4/2011Clearwire Makes its LTE Advanced Plans Official
We've suspected for a long time now that this was inevitable, but Clearwire today announced its official intent to build an "LTE Advanced-ready" network alongside its existing WiMAX network...
8 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011HTC Announces Web-Based Bootloader Unlock Tool
Via its Facebook page today, HTC announced some more details about how it will unlock the bootloaders of devices that are currently selling with them locked. The tool will...
5 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011Qualcomm's March into the Gaming Market
We've mentioned before that the next-generation of mobile, particularly tablet, SoCs are supposed to give us performance equal to or greater than current generation gaming consoles (e.g. Xbox 360...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011Qualcomm's Updated Brand: Introducing Snapdragon S1, S2, S3 & S4 Processors
All microprocessor companies struggle with the same basic marketing problem: how do you explain to the average consumer why one part is faster than another without saying cache, GHz...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011RIM Announces BlackBerry Torch 9810, Bold 9900, Torch 9860 - 2011 Lineup
Almost exactly a year ago, AT&T and RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800, which we reviewed and found brought a much-needed new WebKit based browser and OS update, but...
11 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011Android 3.2 on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer: Tested
Back in June, Google announced that Android 3.2 would be arriving beginning this summer for Honeycomb tablets. Motorola, being Google's launch partner for Honeycomb, was first to get the...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011T-Mobile G2x Review: Gingerbread-Infused
I’ve been a loyal T-Mobile user for the last five years, so the logjam of sorts at the top of The Big Magenta’s smartphone linuep is particularly interesting to...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 8/3/2011Droid Bionic Outed: OMAP 4430 Reigns
When the hype machine for a product hits a certain decibel, you can expect some legitimate news to come rolling in. And so it is, after covering the leaked...
16 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/2/2011Motorola Droid 3 Review - Third Time's a Charm
If ever a product has summed up the progression of the Android ecosystem, it’s the Motorola Droid. The first Droid catapulted Android into the mainstream with its first 2.x...
84 by Brian Klug on 7/30/2011AT&T Officially Confirms Throttling Plans for Heaviest Users
There has been considerable talk and rumor in the last week about AT&T considering throttling the heaviest users on its 3G networks. Turns out those rumors were true, as...
24 by Brian Klug on 7/29/2011The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 3: Win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
It's the Summer of Honeycomb and we now have two lucky readers who have won Eee Pad Transformers thanks to our friends at NVIDIA. Congrats to AnandTech reader unbellum...
2820 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/29/2011Archos 80 and 101 G9 Tablets: The Fastest Tablets In The World?
Archos is shedding its downmarket reputation while preserving its downmarket price with the release of the G9 series of tablets. Available in 8" and 10.1" form factors and starting...
43 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/18/2011The HP TouchPad Review: webOS on the Big Screen
If this were a race of numbers, Apple would have already won. It isn't. The iPad 2, as successful as it is, isn't perfect. There's tons of room for...
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2011The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 2: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
Want to know if you're the winner of our first Summer of Honeycomb giveaway? Congrats to AnandTech reader jdobratz for winning our first Eee Pad Transformer. Be sure to...
2046 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2011