The T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy S II was nowhere to be seen during the IFA conference in Berlin despite well publicized appearances from its Sprint and AT&T counterparts. It was soon revealed that T-Mobile’s Galaxy S II is not using the same Samsung 1.2GHz Exynos processor as the other versions, and that is why it was absent from the show. Samsung and T-Mobile have been silent on officially revealing what the new processor is, but the news may have been broken over Twitter.

Usually when we run down specifications for smartphones, we write something along the lines of “1.2Ghz dual-core Snapdragon processor.” There was a time when words such as “Snapdragon” and “dual-core” were serious terms to throw around. But much like a lot of technology dealing with smartphones, these terms are widely used for marketing purposes. Snapdragon is what Qualcomm calls its set of chipsets, but they can be broken down even further into specific models.

Qualcomm is the maker of all those Snapdragon processors that seem to be in nearly all modern smartphones these days. Qualcomm has a nice foothold in the mobile phone industry and it is looking to innovate even more. Qualcomm announced that it has purchased a portion of a company named GestureTek. One of GestureTek’s specialties deals with gesture controls in mobile devices. Do you see where this is going?

When HP originally announced the Pre 3 way back when they made mention that it would be sporting a single-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor when it launched. And well, given its been quite a while and we are still waiting to see this handset come available, I guess we should not be all that surprised more »

It’s hard to believe that less than two years ago we were dealing with smartphones with 192MBs of RAM and 528MHz processors. Now we question any new phone that doesn’t have a dual core processor. The rate of how fast smartphone technology is improving is enough to make anyone question purchasing a new device. There’s a reasonable fear that a more powerful model will be released within a few months. We hope you don’t get too attached to your top-of-the-line smartphone because by next year, processing speeds will double once again.

We have already heard the rumors and now we have the images as evidence. Yup, the Wold Edition of the Motorola Droid 2 has been spotted in the wild. Except while it is generally nice to see images of unreleased phones, in this case they look fairly similar to the existing Droid 2. That said, more »

Intel has taken over the processing world. In fact, I would call it just short of a monopoly. With just about every netbook, desktop computer, and now phone powered by Intel processors, it is no wonder why Intel has had its best quarter ever. With it’s overall revenue just under $11 billion, the company saw more »

ARM CEO Warren East, made a very bold statement recently by saying that netbooks will dominate at least 90% of the PC market over the next few years. He also went on to say that ARM intends to power up more netbooks with ARM-based CPU architecture. It is widely known that Windows does not support more »

If there’s one boring thing about netbooks, it has to be that they all have essentially the same specs. That will be changing soon with the Pine Trail Atom processors that Intel will be shipping soon, but that’s not enough for Colombian manufacturer Haleron. Haleron set out to make a netbook that’s more useful to more »

The Intel Developer Forum looks to be an excuse for Intel to show off all the cool stuff they’ve been cooking up and let PC makers show off some of their products. Of course there’s a multitude of technical sessions each day, though those probably won’t interest many people outside developers and engineers. Today we more »