Video Interview with Raj Talluri SVP , Qualcomm about Snapdragon and the Competition at IQ India 2012

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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Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #5 – Guess the Phone and Win 2 Sony Xperia Tipo Phones

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. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #5 – Guess the Phone and Win 2 Sony Xperia Tipo Phones”

Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #4 Winner Announcement

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 Optimus G launched: powered by quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB RAM

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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LG Electronics, LG Chem, LG Display & LG Innotek collaborate for next gen Smartphone

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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Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #4 – Guess What’s Inside the Phone and Win a HTC One V

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.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Preview

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”

Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #3 – Guess the Phone and Win a Nokia Lumia 710

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”

Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway #1 – Guess the Phone and Win a Sony Xperia S

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”

HTC One S Unboxing

Here is quick unboxing of the HTC One S which went on sale in Europe recently. It is expected to come to India at a later date. The HTC One S is a Dual Core phone and was announced at MWC 2012 earlier this year  and is powered by a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor an runs on the latest version Android Ice Cream Sandwich. We managed to get a UK unit of the device for unboxing for you guys , and the box does not very interesting. Check out the video below to see whats inside the box.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia HD images, specs surface before official launch

The Sony Ericsson Nozomi or which will officially will be called as Xperia HD has been in the news from quite sometime and has been rumored to be Sony Ericsson’s flagship device in CES. Now ITProPortal is claiming they have some exclusive images and benchmarks of this device which will leave us speechless.

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Sony Ericsson Nozomi images gets leaked

Now Sony Ericsson may not be the foremost makers of Android phones, nonetheless they release exceptionally trendy devices. The blogosphere have been talking about Nozomi from a couple of days previously, and now some guys got their hands on the snaps of the manufacturer’s forthcoming Sony Ericsson flagship device and its specs too. This device is code named Sony Ericsson LT26i. 

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Pantech Vega Racer – Dual Core 1.5 GHz Smartphone

Pantech has just announced the Vega Racer which is the world’s first dual core 1.5 GHz smartphone. The phone will be released only in Korea.

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HTC Puccini Tablet Details Leaked

Details of the HTC Puccini which is believed to be HTC’s next Android tablet have been leaked. It will be the first HTC tablet to run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb and will also support AT&T LTE 4G.

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