16 Apr 13
9 ways to stretch your battery to the max
We all love our smartphones, and rely on them for a lot of daily tasks. But we’re all left with the same frustration when they run out of power in the middle of an important call or while watching a video. Fortunately, there are some easy steps you can take to extend the life of your battery.
Mobile Processors 101: How Snapdragon processors bring your phone to life
We hope that by getting to know some basics of mobile processing, you will better understand how all the work going on inside helps deliver the experiences you love on your smartphone and tablet, and you’ll be able to shop for your next device with complete confidence. We’ll have you talking in gigahertz and GPUs in no time.
Verizon announces new cloud service for Android mobile devices
Verizon has announced that it will be providing its own cloud storage service directly to customers. Verizon Cloud gives Android users an off-site, in-network option to supplement the storage on their mobile device.
The power of Snapdragon processors: Asynchronous Processing
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile processors are designed to deliver amazing gaming, video and web browsing at fast speeds and low power, in part because of the power efficient CPU.
Snapdragon BatteryGuru and Qualcomm Quick Charge: Do More, Recharge Less
Here at Qualcomm, we often talk about all the ways Snapdragon processors can help your phone or tablet have better battery life, but there's more that we're doing to minimize the amount of time you spend charging your device.
Snapdragon S4 Processor and Windows Phone 8: A Perfect Marriage
Since the release of Windows Phone, Snapdragon processors have been the only hardware platform deemed worthy to support it. Inside every Window Phone 7 handset was either a Snapdragon™ S1 or S2 processor.
Samsung Galaxy S III, Proud Recipient of a Snapdragon S4 Processor
Two phones that look exactly alike may not always be the same. We know—it’s confusing. It happened with the HTC One X, where there is an international version and a U.S version that are identical in looks, but run on different processors.
How cool is a Snapdragon S4 Processor?
And by cool, we’re not referring to its looks. Heat isn’t something gadget users always worry about. However, there are circumstances when a mobile device will heat up significantly, say, when you’re playing a 3D intensive game, chatting with video enabled, or watching an HD movie continuously for long periods of time.
Windows 8 on Snapdragon Processors
Qualcomm has spent the last few years working closely with Microsoft on its Windows Phone operating system for smartphones. To date, every one of these Windows Phones use a Snapdragon Processor, offering fast graphics, zippy web browsing, and long battery life. Because this collaboration has been so successful, Microsoft is making its next-generation Windows platform—for both PCs and Smartphones—available to Snapdragon processors as well.
The Snapdragon S4 Processor Unveiled
After much anticipation, the details of the Snapdragon S4 processor and all of its trail-blazing features have been announced in time for Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.
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