Dual-band Wi-Fi isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and Gigabit video streaming, all coming from the same chip. Qualcomm’s new triple-headed radio monster does just that. Space saved, stuff streamed speedily.
Microsoft’z zippy touch-suitable Windows 8 will be compatible with Qualcomm’s dual-core and quad-core Snapdragon processors, including the MSM8960 chip, the company confirmed. Expect the other old favourites to throw their hats in the ring shortly, too.
A fairer test would involve comparing a chocolate bar with a granola bar, but Qualcomm doesn’t care. Not when their video “shows” a second-gen single-core Snapdragon (in Verizon’s Thunderbolt) speeding against a dual-core Tegra 2 (in AT&T’s Motorola Atrix).
Geeks across the country are excited by the impending launch of LTE in Australia. Politicians keep wrongfully using it as an alternative to the NBN. But according to Spandas Lui over at ARN, Qualcomm believes LTE technology isn’t even an alternative for 3G.
The venerable Star Trek tricorder, often imitated but never actually shown 100% emulating the one demonstrated in science fiction, could net an inventor $US10 million if they’re able to produce the real thing.
More to-ing and fro-ing on the subject of an upcoming iPhone having NFC: the New York Times spoke to two people who claim to have knowledge that it’ll support NFC via a new Qualcomm chip.
Those upcoming Snapdragon chips of Qualcomm’s can actually stream Netflix on Android phones, as we saw on an LG Revolution at MWC. It’s unlikely you’ll be streaming from your queue anytime this year though, as we wait for Qualcomm’s new chips to find its way into phones, but as you can see from our video above, it can even stream to TVs through HDMI – and do a good job of it, too.
