Trade Wars strike again

Semiconductor firm Qualcomm indicated that it would drop its bid to buy Philips subsidiary NXP – looking like it is suffering from collateral damage because of the China-USA trade wars.

Starting at €420 in Europe

Xiaomi's  Pocophone lineup has been rumored earlier and it appears that the Pocophone F1 could be the most affordable smartphone with Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 845 SoC, rumored to be priced at €420 for the 6GB/64GB and €460 for the 6GB/128GB version.

Smaller and more affordable Mi A2 Lite in tow

Just as rumored earlier, Xiaomi has now unveiled its successor to the Mi A1 Android One smartphone, the aluminum unibody 5.99-inch Mi A2, which comes with some rather impressive specifications and a very affordable price. It also announced an even more affordable but less capable Mi A2 Lite version, which could be interesting to some buyers as well.

TIM Italy with multi Gigabit speeds

After yesterday’s announcement that Qualcomm has four mm wave 5G antenna solution for a phone form factor, we wanted to shift some attention to carriers that might support these wave lengths and fast speeds and it looks like US and Europe will start straight away.

Wednesday is D-Day

Qualcomm's long term bid to buy Philips spin-off NXP has until Wednesday to be finalised – and the US-Chinese trade wars haven't made things as clear as mud can be.

Mi8 still not launched in Europe

Xiaomi has finally listed publicly, and the company has launched a few flagship phones including Mi 8 and MI8 SE but these latter two are yet to be shipped in Europe.

Another Snapdragon 835-based Windows 10 tablet

The Lenovo MiiX 630 2-in-1 tablet has now finally become available, becoming the third Qualcomm Snapdragon 835-based Windows 10 tablet to debut.

13 percent jump the second day

Xiaomi has finally listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange with an initial public offering of $17HK per share and in the first day it jumped 13 percent.

Interoperability between a motorcycle, vehicles and traffic signals

AUDI, Ducati, Ericsson  SWARCO, the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and Qualcomm have demonstrated C-V2X direct communication interoperability between a motorcycle, vehicles and roadside infrastructure such as traffic lights.

Significant speed upgrade

We have already described the most prominent features of Snapdragon 632 and we wanted to address the entry level Snapdragon 439 and 429 in a separate article. These octa and quad core processors also show a steep performance upgrade from the previous generation.