UPDATE: For better or worse, Qualcomm says all the insects are real.
Never heard of Qualcomm? You may be surprised, but you’ve probably used a smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip in: they’ve been powering the finest Android and Windows Phones for years. However, you won’t be as surprised to know that as to witness this latest promotional video for Snapdragon, where several poor insects are worked on a treadmill, then, um, fired out of a cannon.
The Xiamoi Phone brings together the infamous MIUI ROM and the latest 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. With a price point that nearly every Android fan can agree with, Xiamoi phone has just set the benchmark for Android super phones. Let’s get down to brass tax.
Under the hood is a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor to compliment the 4-inch FWVGA (480×854 pixel) resolution capacitive touchscreen. At just 11.9 mm thick and 149 grams, you’ll be surprised to find a massive 1930mAh battery on the rear. There’s also an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, a 266MHz Adreno220 GPU with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of ROM. Not to be outdone by blockbuster specs, the Xiamoi phone ships with an unlocked bootloader and Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread (MIUI ROM).
Straight from the horse’s mouth, HTC’s CFO Winston Yung has confirmed to the Chinese publication Liberty Times that the company plans to launch the 10-inch Puccini at the end of the third or early fourth quarter. Since the Chinese fiscal year runs from January 1st until December 31st, expect the slate to land late next month or early October.
Samsung and HTC, you’ve been warned. Huawei is leaving the low to mid-range smartphone game and coming to play ball in the big leagues with its Vision smartphone. The Huawei Vision packs a 3.7-inch display, 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording and a unibody frame that even Apple could admire.
Typically known for entry to mid-level smartphones, Huawei is quietly working on its first Android Honeycomb tablet. The unnamed slate will reportedly feature either a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon or a Nvidia Tegra 2 chip processor. Here’s what we know so far.
Beyond the lighting quick chip, the Huawei tablet will run Android Honeycomb (3.x) and feature a 7-inch display running at a resolution of 1280 x 800 . Normally a 7-inch display would not receive much fanfare, but considering the resolution matches 10-inch competitors, this is no small feat.
Forget the quad-core OMAP5 platform and the dual-core Samsung Exynos, it’s Snapdragon time. Qualcomm rocked the mobile industry this afternoon at Mobile World Congress with their next-generation, quad-core Snapdragon CPU architecture and Adreno GPU. With speeds of up to 2.5 GHz per core, the quad-core Snapdragon chipset is set to redefine the modern tablet.
We blew the lid off the HP press event yesterday, where the acquisition of Palm finally materialized into three webOS devices: HP Veer, HP TouchPad and HP Pre 3. Today, reports have come in suggesting the TouchPad will retail for $699, $100 cheaper than the Motorola Xoom, but still considerably more expensive than the WiFi iPad.
The HTC Mondrian is one of the most talked about Windows Phone 7 devices set to emerge from the Taiwanese phone maker’s stable and we’ve got yet another leak! What look like genuine press pictures of the tasty Windows Phone 7 device has skipped onto the web giving us a look at it in all its glory…
