Qualcomm announces new MSM7X30 mainstream chipsets & first Dual-carrier LTE...
Qualcomm is announcing a new line of mainstrem chipset today based on the their Scorpion CPU core (the same one found in the SnapDragon chipset): SAN DIEGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualcomm...
View ArticleThe future hardware powering Windows Phone 7
As you probably already know by now all Windows Phone 7 handsets will be powered by a Qualcomm SoC. The specifics of the chipsets used are still unknown but we do know that it will have minimum click...
View ArticleThe T-Mobile G2 aka HTC Desire Z will feature a Qualcomm MSM7x30 Chipset
A leaked T-Mobile G2 aka HTC Vision / Desire Z reveals that the chipset powering the device isn’t a regular QSD8x50 Snapdragon but the new MSM7x30 that was introduced at MWC in February. The MSM7x30...
View ArticleT-Mobile officially confirms that the G2 / HTC Desire Z has an MSM7x30...
Contrary to yesterday’s bogus specifications T-mobile has now officially confirmed that the T-mobile G2 aka HTC Desire Z features the new Qualcomm MSM7x30 chipset clocked at 800Mhz (with the new...
View ArticleT-Mobile G2 officially announced
T-Mobile is officially announcing the T-Mobile G2 Android handset today. The G2 also known as the HTC Desire Z is the first commercial device to feature Qualcomm’s MSM7230 chipset (which is now part...
View ArticleOfficial HTC T-Mobile G2 / Desire Z specifications
Tomorrow is going to be a big day filled by HTC’s event and the launch of Internet Explorer 9 Beta (I’ll be present at the event at the Microsoft Campus). Even-though the G2 has already been announced...
View ArticleHTC Desire Z Specifications
No surprises here folks, the just announced HTC Desire Z features nearly the same hardware specifications as the HTC T-Mobile G2 recently unveiled in the US (the G2 has 4Gb of internal ROM). The only...
View ArticleHTC Merge preview and benchmark
Today’s a relatively slow news day so I’m going to post some HTC Merge related sotries here. The HTC Merge (also know as the HTC Lexikon) is the Dual-mode (GSM-CDMA) version of the HTC Desire Z...
View ArticleOpenGL ES 2.0 benchmark: Adreno 205 vs SGX540 / HTC Desire HD vs Samsung...
GLBenchmark 2.0 has finally been released to the public today nearly 2 years after being unveiled during MWC 2008. The opportunity was too good so I decided to run it on the HTC Desire HD and Samsung...
View ArticleQualcomm MSM8260 and MSM8660 with Adreno 220 GPU shown on video
During last weeks CES Qualcomm publicly demonstrated for the first time the upcoming MSM8260 and MSM8660 SoC which is expected to be in retail devices later this year. The Dual -Core Scorpion powered...
View ArticleMicrosoft planning to announce new Windows Phone 7 hardware requirements at MWC
File this under the rumor tag but I’m hearing that Microsoft is about to announce new hardware requirements (Chassis specifications) for Windows Phone 7 next Monday in Barcelona during Mobile World...
View ArticleNew Windows Phone 7 Chassis unveiled: MSM7X30 and MSM8x55
Last night Microsoft’s Itsvan Cseri unveiled the new Windows Phone 7 chassis that OEM’s can use to build Windows Phone 7 handsets slated to be released in the coming months (I talked about this...
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