The Qualcomm-designed Snapdragon processor was quite the chip but one short year ago. It was “the” chip in fact. But these days as we sit here and look at Samsung’s Hummingbird processor, Nvidia Tegra 2, and upcoming ARM chips, the original Snapdragon processor starts to look quite dated. But Qualcomm, likely aiming to keep our attention on them, revealed new information concerning their upcoming redesigned Snapdragon processor, the MSM8960. Some of the...
We’ve got a couple of important Android stories to update you on this fine Thursday afternoon. Without any fibble fabble, let’s get right to it. First up, Droid Incredible users: a leaked build of Android 2.2 (Froyo) is available from shipped-roms. I don’t have an Incredible myself to test it on, so you’re on your own. While shipped-roms has seen some legal trouble in the past, it wasn’t for any nefarious means. A few manufacturers were a...
Delays are rarely a good thing the gadget world. More often than not, as release dates are pushed farther and farther back, interest in the gadget/service wanes and ultimately kills it. In the case of the unusually stylish Lenovo Skylight and its Qualcomm 1GHz processor, “delay” killed it for a lot of people. But a new rumor surfacing on DigiTimes sheds new hope on Lenovo’s baby. Specifically, the unfortunate delay has resulted in Lenovo having time to...
One core Snapdragon’s are hot, but two? Forget a drool cup, get me a bucket! Announced at Computex, the fresh-off-the-line dual-core Snapdragon’s pack a menacing feature set with the highest talking point being the (2) application cores and single modem core all working in tandem @ 1.2GHz to power displays up to 1280 x 800. Netbooks and friends will obviously be one of the markets the dual-snaps will be geared towards. Even more exciting however is the...
At first, it seemed like Dell’s ambitions with Android were lackluster at best. So far, what they’ve shown us was drawing nothing but yawns on my end. However, the tides changed quite drastically today with the unveiling leak of the Android-powered “Thunder”. A cousin of the Windows Phone 7 “Lightning”, the Thunder aims to usher in the next generation of Android on all new, classy looking hardware. And yes, the body the Thunder is...
