It's become de rigeur for manufacturers to whack a Snapdragon processor in smartphones nowadays—even if people don't quite understand what it means (or does), they want nothing less. Now, Qualcomm's offering dual-core 1.2GHz chips to manufacturers.


See the MSM8260 and MSM8660 in an Android phone near you soon, with support for 1080p video encoding and decoding amongst other features. Full release below.