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Qualcomm have just released their financial figures from their first fiscal quarter of 2012. The company generated $ 4.68 billion in revenue, up 40% from the same quarter in a year ago and up 14% from last quarter. Net income (profit) was $ 1.40 billion, up 20 percent year-on-year and up 33% from last quarter. [...]

At the 2011 Uplinq Conference in China, Qualcomm showed off 2 of the latest additions to their S4-class SoC family with the upcoming MSM8625 and the MSM8225 dual-core processors. This pair of S4-class chips can reach clock speeds of 1GHz and come equipped with an Adreno 203 GPU and integrated 3G modem. While no means [...]

Sometimes there is so much news that comes our way it’s darn near impossible to cover it all. Thankfully, we have the Android Overload. This is the place you can turn to when you still feel the need to quench your insatiable thirst for all things Android/Google/mobile. So kick your feet up and dig right [...]

Bing, bang, boom. It’s time for another great episode of the Android Overload! This is the place where we drop all the news stories we couldn’t get to throughout the day (we’re only human). Don’t worry, in a few more weeks those chimps with type writers we ordered online will arrive soon and help out. [...]

Happy Monday everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. It’s back to the daily grind and the Android news stories that come with it. Seeing how it’s impossible for us to write up everything that comes in, we’ve got the Android Overload to gather these storied in a nice little pool for you. [...]

Touch screens? That’s sooooo 2011. In the future, we can launch apps simply by making a few silly hand gestures. Well, that might be the future Qualcomm has in mind thanks to some new gesture related IP’s the company recently acquired from GestureTek. Steve Mollenkopf executive vice president of group president of Qualcomm announced via [...]

For all you benchmarking junkies out there that look to benchmarks as a way of proving one phone/chipset is better than another, you now have a new tool at your disposal. Say hello to Vellamo. Vellamo is a benchmarking app created by Qualcomm (same company who made the Neocore benchmark) that looks to give you [...]

If you own an Android device, you should already be familiar with something that’s we’ve been seeing a lot in Android – app exclusives. With the release of the Xperia Play, we’ve seen certain apps that are supposedly optimized for and can only be found on that specific device. Nvidia may have started off the [...]

In something straight out of left field, Qualcomm uploaded a nice little video on their YouTube channel today showing off the speed improvements of, get this — their 2nd generation single-core Snapdragon processor over Nvidia’s dual-core Tegra 2. Ballsy right? In the video, Qualcomm demonstrates the connectivity speeds of these CPU’s in the form of [...]

It was only a few days ago I posted a leaked internal document from Qualcomm showing off the raw power of their next generation dual-core Snapdragon processors. In case you’re not the benchmark type and are more interested in getting a real world sense of what all those bar graphs meant, Qualcomm was nice enough [...]