Motorola has suggested that they will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 SoC in a few of their new devices like the upcoming Droid RAZR HD and Atrix 3. Motorola in the past has used Texas Instruments and Nvidia they need to move forward with processors that can support integrated 4G LTE. Moving forward Motorola will be building a new SoC usage relationship with Qualcomm and hopefully move forward with the newest technologies.
There was a new benchmark for the MB886 also named “Dinara” and “Qinara” posted yesterday showing the new specs. This device will be an AT&T phone and rumors say it will be named the Atrix 3 to continue the Atrix line of high end devices. The screen resolution is 1196 x 720 and there are talks of on screen buttons instead of the normal Atrix setup we know currently.
We have seen a steady stream of improved processors for Android devices as they have become more and more popular. Many of the processor manufacturers are scrambling to have the next great thing for mobile devices since the best will likely be used in thousands of new devices. In this case Qualcomm’s Snapdragon is among the best in the industry and Motorola is making a great move by using them (assuming this is going to be the case).
UPDATE: It seems that Motorola decided to go with TI’s ARM Cortex-A9 for its processor for the Droid Razr making this a bad piece of information. Many of us got it wrong although we do still have to stand behind the power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon processors as some of the best in the industry. We will likely see these chips in many high end devices even if they aren’t Motorola devices their in.
Let us know what you think of the Snapdragon processor assuming you either have a little knowledge about processors in general or happen to at some point own a device that has the processor in it.