These days in the USA is the world technology summit organized by Qualcomm. Hi-News.ru had the opportunity to cover this event, so we will be happy to tell you what surprises are in store for us company and its partners, who took part in it.
Although Qualcomm seeks to gain Central positions in virtually all sectors — from artificial intelligence to smart cities, this year’s summit focused on mobile technologies. The company boasted successful sales of smartphones based on Snapdragon 835, slightly lifted the veil of secrecy over the Snapdragon 845 and promised massive deployment of 5G networks in 2019.
But the most curious announcements, usually associated with hardware innovations, without which no cost at this time. ASUS and HP has officially unveiled laptops-transformers on the basis of Windows 10 is equipped with a Snapdragon processor 835.
ASUS has announced NovaGo, which is the world’s first laptop that gigabytes LTE. The device works with SIM cards nanoSIM and eSIM, which became possible due to the LTE chip Qualcomm X16. For the performance of the laptop-transformer meets the OCTA-core chipset Snapdragon 835, which has worked well in the mobile segment.
Capacious battery and optimized FOR NovaGo allow you to play video within 22 hours and work in standby for up to 30 days. Universal design hinged keyboard gives you the ability to use the device in laptop mode or tablet.
The cost of the basic version NovaGo with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage will be $ 599, the top model with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage will cost $ 799. On sale both novelties will be sold in the first quarter of next year, information about the availability of the device on the Russian market yet.
HP, in turn, announced the successor to the popular line of ENVY, a tablet with a detachable keyboard ENVY x2. The device is also equipped with a Snapdragon processor 835 and a Qualcomm X16, which provided the new support for LTE to Gigabit speeds.
The manufacturer proudly claims that the ENVY x2 has no analogues in its class on the issue of autonomy: in view mode video tablet can work up to 20 hours. In sale the device will arrive in spring of next year, pricing information yet.
Ahead of us the second day of the summit, which will lift the veil of secrecy on the latest Snapdragon chipset, the 845, which was casually mentioned by the head Xiaomi lei Jun. So don’t forget to look at our website to see the long-awaited novelty from Qualcomm.
Report from the summit Qualcomm. The first day
Eugene Mosunov