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Qualcomm is reporting its financial numbers for the last quarter and has been the trend, it’s a good time to be everywhere in the wireless business. Continued strong demand for 3G and 4G-connected hardware is keeping sales high, driving “strong year-over-year growth” according to CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, contributing to a bottom line of $4.63 billion in revenue and net income of $1.21 billion. The company’s MSM (mobile station modem) chipsets continue to be the main contributor with 141 million units sold, also up yearly by 18 percent but down 7 percent from Q2, with reported device sales following the same pattern at $47.8 billion.

About that slight drop from last quarter, the Doctor continues by saying the company expects demand to be back-loaded as “new devices” are launched for the holiday season. With that in mind, it’s ramping up production for 28nm Snapdragon S4 chipsets, a move that reportedly has required help from Samsung and UMC. With the next iPhone, new Android Jelly Bean hardware, Windows Phone 8 / Windows 8 devices and much more expected to arrive soon, we’ll keep the old money-flying-at-Qualcomm’s-HQ graphic close by. For more details, hit the source link for the PDF or read the press release after the break.

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This week the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note has been revealed with a bow on it, showing off its own unique selection of carrier-added apps and the same fabulous S-Pen as the original. This device has been released internationally as well as on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, while this newest release, set for later this summer, will be coming with T-Mobile’s 4G – that being HSPA+, not quite LTE. T-Mobile has announced that this device will be popping up with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box in “the coming weeks” with a specific date showing its face much sooner than that.

This device will be coming with a surprise engine: the Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 dual-core processor at 1.5GHz. While we may have expected Samsung to have upgraded to the same Snapdragon S4 that their Galaxy S III lineup is coming fresh with this season, it’s also quite clear that the Galaxy Note is running swift as it needs to with only the pre-S4 under the hood.

T-Mobile’s own lineup of apps includes everything they’d normally drop inside as far as data and content handlers plus gems such as Square, Dropbox, Evernote, and CamScanner. The last app on that list, CamScanner, is an app quick uses your device’s camera to snap photos that are then converted into PDFs. This can be extremely useful with the Galaxy Note’s newfound ability to interact with PDFs in its “Premium Suite” upgrade which we got our hands on just this past week.

Have a peek below at the video of the Premium Suite working on the AT&T version of this device:

And get pumped for the T-Mobile version with such fabulous carrier additions as Wi-fi phone calls for this device coming up quick!

T-Mobile Galaxy Note to add Dropbox and Wi-fi calls is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Earlier today, Verizon and GameTanium released info on their new game subscription service for mobile devices, this once again proving that the world is still, despite all other greatnesses, unable to reconcile with the high cost of smartphones and tablets. We’re in a place right now where it’s actually quite normal, at least across the USA, for a person to own a mobile device that has access to the internet. What isn’t normal is the idea that a person would own one of these magical tiny computers without a little bit of some video game action embedded within.

The service that Verizon and GameTanium have released today is one in which you can add just a bit more to your monthly data bill in exchange for unlimited access to a vast set of games that would normally cost a one-time fee. This makes access seem invisible while the cost shows up on your monthly bill. Much in the same way that the world has become addicted to using credit cards because you don’t physically see your money leaving your account, so too has carrier billing become an awesome way for carriers (such as Verizon) to create a friendly environment for max cash transfers.

This game hub they’re promoting is part of a much greater wave of similar techniques.

NVIDIA did it, Qualcomm is still trying to do it, and several other groups have their own game hubs for Android devices in an effort to make the whole app-finding experience easy enough for the common person to access. At the carrier level, it’s set to work, leading skeptical prospective smartphone buyers to see the value in owning a device that costs them tens of dollars a month rather than fives.

If you’re on the fence about buying a smartphone instead of a feature phone with nothing more than text and voice, a package full of games is just the ticket to drive you in. Smartphones have had one or two games on them since the dawn of the smartphone in general, now Verizon and GameTanium are taking this method up a notch.

Will it work?

It sure as heck is working for NVIDIA.

As for the carrier end of things, we’ll see over the next few months. We’re staying in close contact with Verizon on this one, so we’ll let you know!

Video Games drag us kicking and screaming into the mobile future is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Starting today you’ll officially be able to order a Samsung Galaxy S III from Verizon, the last of the big 4 carriers to offer the device in the USA. This device is essentially the same as we’ve seen several times before on other carriers such at AT&T, T-Mobile, and internationally, but today you’ll be able to order your own Verizon-carried device with 4G LTE. We’ve also got our own hands-on with the Verizon version complete with speed tests and first impressions.

This device has a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor at 1.5GHz, works with features such as S-Beam to wirelessly transfer media from one GSIII to another, and Allshare Play, another fabulous wireless service for in-room playing of videos, music, and person to person presentations. You’ll be working with a massive 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display and a lovely curved-edge glass panel up front and an 8 megapixel camera on the back with 1080p video capture.

Be sure to check out all of our hands-on experiences and reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S III for Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and beyond in the timeline below. This is Samsung’s greatest effort yet, and today you’ll be able to order it straight from Verizon. Note that it’s not clear quite yet if you’ll be able to actually head to a physical store yet to grab a unit, but the Verizon online store says that units will ship by the 16th of this month – soon enough!

Verizon Galaxy S III available today is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Samsung’s first Windows RT tablet will drop in October, sources have claimed, running Microsoft’s slate-version of Windows 8 on ARM processors from Qualcomm. The tablet’s release is expected to be alongside initial availability of Windows RT models, Bloomberg‘s insiders say, despite high-profile drop outs such as HP deciding not to follow the RT path.

Talk of Samsung partnering with Qualcomm to use Snapdragon in Windows RT hardware first surfaced back in December, with Microsoft supposedly playing matchmaker between device manufacturers and chipset companies. At the time, Qualcomm supposedly selected Samsung because of its comprehensive manufacturing capabilities, in addition to the fact that Samsung already had its Galaxy Tab series of Android slates in the marketplace.

Exact specifications for the Samsung Windows RT model have not been confirmed, though as it stands the company looks likely to use a Snapdragon S4 processor. Such chips have been found in recent high-end phones  like the Samsung Galaxy S III variants in the US, and indeed Qualcomm provided developers with Windows RT prototypes using the processors earlier this year.

Microsoft threw the tablet cat among the pigeons in recent weeks, revealing its own Surface tablet running Windows RT. Though HP subsequently insisted that its decision to bypass the RT slate segment (in favor of full-fat Windows 8 tablets running x86 processors from Intel and AMD) was settled prior to Surface being revealed, rumors indicate many of Microsoft’s high-profile OEM partners were frustrated by the own-brand tablets.

Samsung Windows RT tablet tipped for October with Qualcomm chip is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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