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