Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Although the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is already powering some absolutely brilliant smartphones, we can’t help but think ahead to what the next generation will have to offer. Qualcomm will undoubtedly have a new chipset to power 2024 flagship smartphones, tentatively dubbed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Of course, Qualcomm keeps the details of its upcoming chipset tightly under wraps until its official unveiling. Still, we can glean a bit about what to expect based on information and rumors currently dotted around the web ..read more

Credit: Qualcomm The first apparent Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 leaks have surfaced online. It’s claimed that the chipset will have a Nuvia/Oryon CPU. The processor could offer two big cores and six little cores. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is one of the best Android phone processors on the market right now, but we’ve already seen a few Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leaks ahead of its release. Now, it looks like we’ve got the first purported details regarding the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Frequent tipster Digital Chat Station has claimed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (apparently bearing the SM87505 model number) will use ..read more

Credit: Qualcomm A leaker has claimed that Samsung’s monopoly on an exclusive Snapdragon chip is over. The tipster adds that this Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chip could come to other brands soon. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is an impressive return to form for Qualcomm after last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 turned out to be a somewhat disappointing smartphone chip. The best Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip has been reserved for Samsung phones though, but that could change soon. Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station claimed that Samsung’s monopoly on the so-called Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor is o ..read more

Credit: Qualcomm Qualcomm is rolling out new upscaling technology called Snapdragon Game Super Resolution. Qualcomm claims its upscaling tech can boost games from 1080p to 4K and 30FPS to 60 and over FPS. Mobile games and XR products that use this tech will launch later this year. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has done a lot to take Android games to the next level. Even the ROG Phone 7, a mobile gaming powerhouse, relies on the SoC. And it looks like the maker of the chip, Qualcomm, isn’t quite done with enhancing mobile gaming. The company is launching new tech that should give games a boost in ..read more

Credit: Qualcomm Details for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor have apparently leaked online. The new chipset will reportedly offer a 1+3+2+2 CPU design. Qualcomm’s chipset will purportedly be a 64-bit-only design as well. Qualcomm has long stuck with the same CPU layout for its flagship processors used in high-end phones, offering one powerful big core, three medium cores, and four little cores. That changed with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, as the company switched to one big core, four medium cores, and three little cores ..read more

Credit: Supplied by Qualcomm Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 last year, following in the footsteps of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 by adopting a new naming convention. Now, the company has announced an all-new chipset in the Snapdragon 7 line, dubbed the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2. I know what you’re thinking, but Qualcomm confirmed that there was no vanilla Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 chipset. Qualcomm chipset product manager Cindy Lei noted in a media briefing that the Plus designation no longer represents a chipset with a minor performance improvement compared to its predecessor ..read more

Credit: Qualcomm Qualcomm has partnered with Thales to bake iSIM or Integrated SIM capabilities right inside the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The new form factor makes swapping carrier services much smoother and faster. iSIMs also occupy significantly less space inside phones than eSIMs and physical SIM slots. eSIMs are a great way to circumvent the need for a physical SIM card. Having eSIM capabilities on a phone can also be very helpful when you’re traveling and have to use switch carriers on the go. But Qualcomm now has tech that could make eSIMs obsolete ..read more

At MWC 2023, Qualcomm was showing off its new AI chops, particularly the ability to run a local instance of Stable Diffusion 1.5 to generate an image on a phone offline. We went hands-on with it to see how fast and how well it works. The model was running on an Android phone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, in airplane mode. You just input a prompt for a photo using natural language, and the offline AI image generator starts building the image from a blurry outline to a finished product. The entire process takes less than 15 seconds to generate a 512 x 512 image ..read more

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Qualcomm’s satellite connectivity tech is coming to phones from Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, and other Android manufacturers. All future Qualcomm 5G modems and Snapdragon processors will support the tech. Qualcomm has finally revealed the names of all the smartphone manufacturers launching new Android phones equipped with its Snapdragon Satellite platform. On the sidelines of MWC 2023, Qualcomm announced that next-generation phones from Motorola, Nothing, Honor, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi would enable two-way messaging via satellite connectivity ..read more

Qualcomm used an Android phone to generate an AI image in under 15 seconds. The task was completed on-device without an internet connection. The company used a phone powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Stable Diffusion. Qualcomm has demonstrated the ability for Android phones to generate AI images within seconds using simple text prompts. The chipmaker was able to create a 512 x 512 pixel image of a warrior cat wearing armor using an Android phone and Stable Diffusion, a popular text-to-image generative AI model. Qualcomm says it utilized its AI stack to run Stable Diffusion 1.5 on the ..read more