Articles about snapdragon

Marvel is not necessary a known name by consumers in the IT industry but that doesn't mean it's not the producer of many of the chip found today inside smartphones and other mobile devices. They're the ones making the Snapdragon 1GHz CPUs found in the latest smartphones. They've announced a few months ago the Armada chipset, specially designed for slim tablets that can run mobile OSes like Android, Chrome OS, not desktop versions like Windows 7.Now Marvell even has a prototype up and running...

One of the most interesting and enigmatic at the same time touch tablets presented during CES was Dell's Mini 5 (codename Streak), a 5 inch tablet running Android OS. Not much info was revealed at that time but some Vietnamese website managed to get their hands on a prototype and stripped it down to reveal what's inside.The findings are quite interesting: a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU (today's wonder boy), two microSD card slots, a SIM Card for 3G Data transfers and a big 1530 mAh battery. Also the ...

What strikes me is that at CES 2010 many mobile devices were powered not by low power Intel chips but by the latest generation Qualcomm SnapDragon processors running at 1 GHz. This means of course no Windows 7 OS, but the simpler (from resources point of view) Android OS and other Linux variants. Qualcomm had at its booth a running prototype named SnapTop, a kind of touch tablet with a detachable Bluetoot keyboard and desk stand that both snap from the back of the device.[caption id="attachm...