Qualcomm Announces Renewed Agreement With Apple

Qualcomm today announced the renewal of its global patent licensing agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027. No further details were provided. This patent agreement is separate from Qualcomm’s agreement to supply Apple with cellular modems for smartphone launches through 2026, so we expect Apple’s transition to its own custom-designed modems to continue. Among the […]

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Galaxy S27 may use UFS 5.1, memory and storage configurations leak

Previous reports about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S27 series claimed that the phones could feature LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage. These are expected to offer significantly faster performance than LPDDR5X and UFS 4.1 found in the Galaxy S26 series. Earlier today, Samsung validated LPDDR6 support on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, the chipset […]

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Poll: What’s your favorite Surface of 2026?

Microsoft just refreshed the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 processors. The company also announced the return of the Surface Mouse. In a couple of weeks, we’ll get a closer look at the Surface Laptop Ultra during Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event. The Surface family has undergone a lot of changes […]

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