Qualcomm calls on Samsung for Snapdragon 820. Photo: Qualcomm
Scarred by the Snapdragon 810’s overheating issues? You’re not the only one — but it’s not something we’ll have to worry about with the Snapdragon 820, thanks to Samsung.
The South Korean company has today confirmed that it will manufacture Qualcomm’s latest flagship using its cutting-edge 14-nanometer manufacturing process — the same process used to make its own impressive Exynos 7420.
The Google Now Launcher. Screenshots: Google
Google has rolled out a Now Launcher update for Android that adds auto-rotate and a nifty icon resizing feature that makes your app drawer and home screens look a whole lot neater.
We may have to wait a bit longer for the Minority Report future of driverless cars. Photo: Dreamworks Pictures
As it stands now, self-driving cars may be more accident report than Minority Report.
In a disclosure to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the search-engine giant outlined specifics of its driverless-car testing from November 2014 to December 2015. Demo vehicles reportedly logged about 423,000 miles over that period. During that time, testers recorded over 300 “anomalies” that required them to take control from the vehicles, either through hardware malfunctions or on their own judgment.
The report suggests that we’re not quite as close to the fully autonomous future that science fiction and our amazing dreams have hoped.
The Galaxy S6 edge+ could be outdated early this year. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
Fresh leaks suggest Samsung will launch this year’s Galaxy S7 edge+ alongside the smaller Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. If all three devices go on sale in March as expected, then last year’s Galaxy S6 edge+ will be outdated just 7 months after making its debut.
There’s only one winner here. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
Apple’s latest iPhones are proof that mobile devices don’t need octa-core processors and bags of RAM when they have the right software. Despite lagging behind their rivals on paper, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus were the most powerful smartphones of 2015 — by a mile!
