Newer Samsung phones are a mess. If your phone fails during a FORCED OTA update, you’re pretty much screwed. Newer Samsung phones are locked just like iPhones if not even more. Everything is a big giant lock with them nowadays. They have become just as miserable as iPhones. Gone are the days of easy rooting and stuff. Contrary to popular opinion rooting newer Qualcomm Snapdragon based Samsung... 

US chipmaker Qualcomm has received the largest fine in Chinese corporate history from anti-monopoly regulators who claim the company needed to lower its patent fees as they were “stifling innovation.” China is the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer and has fined Qualcomm $975 million (6.088 billion yuan) over unfair market dominance. Qualcomm has now agreed to lower its royalty fees on... 

Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon lineup – adding chipsets to both the entry-level S1 line and the Krait lineup. Krait is a brand new design that will scale to up to 2.5GHz with one, two or four cores. It promises better power efficiency than current architectures. The S4 badge will be carried only by the best of the best Snapdragon chipsets with Krait CPU architecture and next-gen Adreno...