At IQ India 2012 , I got a chance to sit down with Anand Chandrasekher , Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) , Qualcomm Inc. Anand joined Qualcomm in August 2012 after a long 24 year stint at Intel. I asked Anand about Snapdragon , Qualcomm’s marketing strategy and why should a consumer buy a Snapdragon powered phone.Watch the full video interview below.
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At IQ India 2012 , I got a chance to sit down with Raj Talluri , Senior Vice President , Application Processors at Qualcomm Inc. Raj is leading the company’s Snapdragon lineup of products. I quizzed Raj about Snapdragon , Nvidia Tegra 3 , Samsung Exynos and even Apple’s custom chip approach.Watch the full video interview below.
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FoneArena is live from Qualcomm’s annual mobile event IQ India 2012 . This event is coming to India after Sao Paulo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany.The event has an interesting line up of speakers including Qualcomm CEO Dr.Paul Jacobs . Watch the live blog below and the live stream on the dedicated site. Continue reading “IQ India 2012 Live Blog”
Just after the news about MediaTek prepping its entry level quad-core chips, the largest SoC maker in the world Qualcomm announced its new entry level quad-core entries into the ever competitive SoC market. And these new chips are added to the Snapdragon S4 play family of SoCs. The specs race gets way interesting after this announcement.
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway is back with bang and this time we have decided to giveaway 2 phones.To enter the Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #5 , all you have to do is Guess the Phone in the questions below and you can walk away with a Sony Xperia Tipo phone. 2 lucky winners get to take home an all new XPERIA Tipo phone.
This is just the fifth contest in a series of contests and activities we are bringing to you in partnership with Qualcomm Snapdragon.Dive into the contest below and send in your entry. 
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Thanks for the great response to the fourth Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway on FoneArena. We are very excited to announce the winner of the giveaway. I think most of you now know what’s the name of the GPU inside Snapdragon phones – Adreno. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #4 Winner Announcement”
LG today launched its next generation flagship smartphone, the Optimus G at an event in Seoul. The Android 4.0 powered smartphone runs on Qualcomm’s Fusion 3 chip which includes a 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC ie the APQ8064 and includes 2 GB of RAM alongside. A 4.7″ 1280×768 True HD IPS Plus display dominated the front with a ppi of 320.
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We already know that a new LG smartphone powered by the Qualcomm S4 Pro Quad-core chip is coming soon. LG even teased about it’s upcoming phone in a video. Earlier today LG has confirmed through a press release that LG Electronics and it’s sister companies LG Chem( Battery ) , LG Display (Display ) and LG Innotek (Touchscreen) are collaborating for the company’s next gen Smartphone. LG says that the upcoming smartphone will feature each company’s best technology.
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway is back ! The response to the third giveaway was great . Thanks to you guys for sending in your entries. We should be announcing the winner shortly.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #4 is here. All you have to do is answer the question below and you can walk away with one Snapdragon device – the HTC One V
This is just the fourth contest in a series of several more contests and activities we will be bringing to you in the next few weeks in partnership with Qualcomm Snapdragon.Dive into the contest below and send in your entry.
Follows the steps below in order to take part in the giveaway.
At the Mobile Benchmarking Workshop here in San Francisco , Qualcomm showed off it’s next generation Quadcore mobile processor – the Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ 8064) . And guess what Qualcomm just did not make just a boring announcement about a chipset and that the devices using the chip will be in the market later this year. But , Qualcomm let us use a tablet (prototype obviously ) which uses the new quadcore chip with 4 Krait cores along with the new Adreno 320 GPU. We ran a lot of tests on this device and this device hit the ball out of the park in most cases.Interesting numbers are reported below. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Preview”
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway is back ! The response to the second giveaway was impressive. Thanks to you guys for sending in your entries. We should be announcing the winner shortly. The giveaways are just not going to stop at least for the next few weeks at FoneArena.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #3 is here. All you have to do is Guess the Phone in the questions below and you can walk away with one Snapdragon device – the Nokia Lumia 710
This is just the third contest in a series of several more contests and activities we will be bringing to you in the next few weeks in partnership with Qualcomm Snapdragon.Dive into the contest below and send in your entry. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #3 – Guess the Phone and Win a Nokia Lumia 710”
At the recent TechLife event in Delhi,we got a chance to check out some really cool demos showcasing the best that Qualcomm has to offer. We got to witness some very interesting ways in which AR powered by Qualcomm’s Vuforia technology has been to put to use in the real world.
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We are back with another giveaway and this time a big one.If you read FoneArena , you must have heard about Snapdragon by Qualcomm and you know the Snapdragon is the Coolest Kid on the Block
We have a fun contest for you this time and you are going to love it. All you got to do is Guess the Phone in the questions below and you can walk away with one Snapdragon device – the Sony Xperia S.
Sounds easy right ? And guess what this is the just first contest in a series of several more contests and activities we will be bringing to you in the next few months in partnership with Qualcomm Snapdragon. Dive into the contest below and send in your entry. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #1 – Guess the Phone and Win a Sony Xperia S”
Folks at Qualcomm think that the Snapdragon S4 processor is cool , guess what ? They have some proof to prove it. In a video released by the company, Qualcomm engineers demonstrate the thermal efficiency of the Snapdragon SoC by melting butter while running the CPU at peak speeds. Continue reading “Qualcomm says Snapdragon S4 runs cooler with innovative Butter benchmark !”
Panasonic just took the wraps off its brand new smartphone , the Eluga Power. With a massive 5″ screen , you’d imagine it to be a usability nightmare but the ergonomics turned out to be pretty good. The above average looking handset is powered by a Qualcomm S4 chip clocked in at 1.5Ghz.
