Qualcomm has announced a new refresh to its Snapdragon 700 series and the name of the new SoC is Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. This naming scheme draws from the new naming scheme used on the 800 series flagships like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 […]

I want to talk about Oppo A96 and the death of the Midrange segment. I think I mentioned it to Ken (a reader) the other day and someone messaged me on Friday to take a look at the Oppo A96 and I was appalled. I’d love to make a video on this but let’s be […]

So what I want to look at is a teeny tiny thing called SoC optimization. Yes, SoC optimization. It’s something that a lot of people tend to overlook. What is optimization? Without wasting time, optimization is the act of making something function better at its job. This is a very peculiar way to describe it […]

Samsung have been making SoCs for a long time now. 12 years to be exact. For most of that time, they have used ARM’s IP cores, but for a brief period of time, they dabbled into making their own custom cores. These were known as Exynos Mongoose custom cores or the Exynos M series. This […]

Hi, welcome to the second part of our series, Introduction to Smartphone SoCs 2 (CPU cores). So in our last talk, I listed all the major parts of an SoC and I shed light on them. This time, we’re going to look at a major part of the SoC. This is the part that we […]

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 695 5G late last year and it has mostly flown under the radar. At least till now. The Snapdragon 695 5G is a midrange SoC. Now for those in the know, Qualcomm has a 4 tiered system of SoCs. These are the: SD400 series (Entry level/budget) SD600 series (Lower midrange) SD700 […]

In today’s post, we are going to be comparing the Redmi Note 10 Pro vs Vivo V21. These are both upper midrange devices from 2 very competitive Chinese brands. With the members of the BBK consortium such as Realme, Oppo, and Vivo keen to take on Xiaomi, there are going to be more of these […]

After several stop-starts, Samsung has finally announced the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S22 series. The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is the successor to last year’s S21 series as well as the Note series. The S22 Ultra also doubles as a Note as it comes with a Stylus. This could be a move to placate […]

The Redmi Note 11 series is live. For those who are not in the know, the Redmi Note series is a midrange lineup of Chinese smartphones. The Redmi Note series is very popular due to its high price-to-performance ratio, quality, and affordability. There are a lot of phones on the Redmi Note 11 series but […]

Hi, I’m sure that you clicked the link because you were probably searching for the top 100 smartphone GPU rankings. Well, you’re in the right place. Come on in. GPUs are kind of overlooked in this whole SoC craze, but they’re important. Trust me. As with the SoCs, I went with the title top 100 […]