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This week in Android: new Snapdragon processors, ugly camera bumps, and more
August 05, 2025
This week’s big news came out ofQualcomm’s Tech Summitin Hawaii, with the announcement of theSnapdragon 865andSnapdragon 765processors. Later in the week, Qualcomm also announcedaffordable 4G laptop and mixed reality chips, which couldmake their way into Chromebooksin the near future.
Samsung’s upcomingGalaxy S11 lineupis closer than ever, and it looks to be packing someimpressive camera tech. The camera bump design on the S11 is somewhat controversial, butother phones don’t do much better. Plus, there are even more rumors swirling about aGalaxy Note 10 Lite.
On the review side, this week we had a look at theNokia 800 Tough, theLenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and theSkyroam Solis X.
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