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Intel and Qualcomm announce their new SoCs at MWC

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-I-get-some-dips-with-that? dept.

Rashek writes:

"Intel and Qualcomm just announced their roadmaps for mobile System on a Chip at this year's Mobile World Congress.

Intel presented performance numbers of their Merrifield SoC, a dual-core Silvermont based SoC that's effectively the phone version of Bay Trail, with some carefully chosen benchmarks that compared it to Apple's A7 SoC and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series. Meanwhile, Qualcomm revealed future 64-bit Snapdragons for its mid-tier Snapdragon series. The Snapdragon 610 and 615 will arrive in Android smartphones in Q4 of this year and are four and eight core implementations of ARM's Cortex A53."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by dilbert on Monday February 24 2014, @12:56PM

    by dilbert (444) on Monday February 24 2014, @12:56PM (#5955)
    I carry an older smartphone (Galaxy S2). When I first got the phone and it was running stock ROM my battery life was approx 8 hours with moderate usage. Too much bloatware running in the background.

    After rooting the phone and loading a custom ROM which removed the bloatware I routinely get 18 hours between charges with moderate use. I've had the phone go 34 hours between charges with little to no use.

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  • (Score: 1) by lhsi on Monday February 24 2014, @05:06PM

    by lhsi (711) on Monday February 24 2014, @05:06PM (#6177)

    I have a HTC desire Z that I no longer use, but keep on in case someone tries to call me but has my old number. I think it lasts about 8 days before it starts to need a charge, but this is with no usage outside me checking it every couple of days.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by greenfruitsalad on Monday February 24 2014, @05:10PM

    by greenfruitsalad (342) on Monday February 24 2014, @05:10PM (#6181)

    on my phone with kitkat, battery life goes to hell as soon as I install gapps. if i run clean cyanogenmod or any other aosp variant, i get 2-3x the battery life. the reason: GoogleLocationManagerService, GoogleLocationService and NlpLocationReceiverService.

    it's actually quite easy to disable those services if one has a rooted phone.