A look at how Syria censors the net

From	RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>
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Subject	A look at how Syria censors the net
Date	2014-02-26 18:10 +0000
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From the "the tech, not the politics please" department:
Title: Meet the chip powering Samsung’s Galaxy S5: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801
Author: Kevin C. Tofel
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:30:15 -0500
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/eRAT1u84DLQ/
Podcast Download URL: http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/snapdragon-801-soc-image.jpg?w=708

When Samsung’s Galaxy S5 goes on sale, customers will likely be impressed by
the new features, improved speed and reduced software complexity. My
colleague Alex Colon’s hands-on experience with the Galaxy S5[1] suggests
Samsung improved it over the Galaxy S4 in just the right places. Quite a few
of those improvements come from the silicon under the hood: Namely, the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801[2].

A few recent phones and tablets use the Snapdragon 800 — Samsung’s newest
tablets[3] and Nokia’s Lumia 1520, for example — so a jump up to the 801
can’t be that big of a deal, right? Actually, it’s more than you might think.

[image 5][4]

First there’s the expected jump in processing speed. Qualcomm says the new
Krait 400 cores can run at up to 2.5 GHz. The company didn’t just focus on
general computational speed though. Digital imaging processing is faster as
well and likely contributes heavily towards how fast the Galaxy S5 can snap a
picture. Samsung said it takes just 0.3 seconds to auto-focus and take an
image.

Power efficiency is improved in a few ways as well. Phone Scoop noted that
the Snapdragon 801 includes LTE baseband support on the chip itself[6]; any
time you can integrate multiple chip functions on a single piece of silicon
you can save power and space. The 801 also supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge
2.0 which can recharge a device 75 percent faster and has native support for
fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi.

While Qualcomm has already announced the Snapdragon 805 with even more
improvements[7], Samsung is smartly choosing a chip that’s available now to
enhance its phone. It’s likely that some Galaxy S5 variants will run on
Samsung’s own Exynos chip, but for those buying one with a Snapdragon 801,
you’re getting some potent power inside your phone. Note too that Qualcomm
has introduced 64-bit compatibility in some of its chips; oddly, the
lower-end and mid-range chips get that first[8] so the 801 doesn’t support
64-bit software.
[image 9]

[image 11][10]

Related research and analysis from Gigaom Research:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial[12].

* GigaOM Research highs and lows from CES 2013[13]
* How to manage the signaling storm in 2013[14]
* Mobile 2012 and beyond[15]

[image 17][16][image 18]

Links:
[1]: http://gigaom.com/2014/02/24/hands-on-with-the-samsung-galaxy-s5-and-gear-fit/ (link)
[2]: http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/2014/02/23/mwc-snapdragon-801-mwc (link)
[3]: http://gigaom.com/2014/01/06/samsung-notepro-tabpro-slates-merge-pc-experiences-with-post-pc-interfaces/ (link)
[4]: http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/snapdragon-801-soc-image.jpg (link)
[5]: http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/snapdragon-801-soc-image.jpg?w=708&h=360 (image)
[6]: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=13706 (link)
[7]: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/20/qualcomm-builds-a-faster-snapdragon-and-a-higher-capacity-radio-chip/ (link)
[8]: http://gigaom.com/2014/02/23/qualcomms-64-bit-processors-graduate-to-mid-range-phones-but-high-end-must-wait/ (link)
[9]: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&blog=14960843&post=820188&subd=gigaom2&ref=&feed=1 (image)
[10]: http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/1008864/Gigaom_RSS_300x250&sz=300x250&c=374042 (link)
[11]: http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/1008864/Gigaom_RSS_300x250&sz=300x250&c=374042 (image)
[12]: http://research.gigaom.com/?utm_source=mobileutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=820188+meet-the-chip-powering-samsungs-galaxy-s5-qualcomms-snapdragon-801&utm_content=kevintofel (link)
[13]: http://pro.gigaom.com/2013/01/ces-2013-flash-analysis-disruptions-and-disappointments-from-consumer-techs-biggest-show/?utm_source=mobileutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=820188+meet-the-chip-powering-samsungs-galaxy-s5-qualcomms-snapdragon-801&utm_content=kevintofel (link)
[14]: http://pro.gigaom.com/2012/12/how-operators-can-manage-the-signaling-storm-in-2013/?utm_source=mobileutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=820188+meet-the-chip-powering-samsungs-galaxy-s5-qualcomms-snapdragon-801&utm_content=kevintofel (link)
[15]: http://pro.gigaom.com/2012/09/mobile-industry-2012-segment-analysis/?utm_source=mobileutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=820188+meet-the-chip-powering-samsungs-galaxy-s5-qualcomms-snapdragon-801&utm_content=kevintofel (link)
[16]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/OmMalik?a=eRAT1u84DLQ:pS6M5N_k7Mk:yIl2AUoC8zA (link)
[17]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (image)
[18]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~4/eRAT1u84DLQ (image)

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