New Nexus 5 & 6 Leaks, Qualcomm 820, and Android Stagefright Exploit!

For this week’s green news, we discuss the Qualcomm 820 quad-core processor, New Nexus 5/6 leaks, and Android Stagefright exploit and how to fix it easily.

Here’s transcript of the video:

To say 2015 hasn’t been a great year for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon flagship would be a severe understatement. The Snapdragon 810 was supposed to be the latest and greatest processor. Instead, words like ‘overheating’ and ‘throttling’ accompanied any talk of the 810 in a new phone throughout the year. The disaster began in January with the LG G Flex 2 and continued with the HTC One M9 a few months later. By the time we arrived at the release of the G4, LG opted for the Snapdragon 808 instead of the 810 to curtail any heating concerns.

Recently several slides emerged out of China claiming to detail the specs and performance improvements for the 820. This is the first chip with Qualcomm’s new custom ARM core, codenamed Hydra. The leaked slides claim a 35% performance increase over the Cortex-A57 ARM reference core. This will be a quad-core chip rather than an octa-core configuration used for the Snapdragon 810. The GPU is also seeing a bump to the Adreno 530, with any accompanying 40% improvement in performance and 30% efficiency boost.  This may be the best decision Qualcomm has made this year.  We all know it was rather risky for Qualcomm to be jumping right into Octa-core processors without previous experience.  On the other hand, Samsung has been making Octa-core processors since a few years ago starting with the Galaxy Note 2.  By going back to quad-core processors, Qualcomm will definitely get back on top of their game and hopefully we will see it at the the top of the ranks again.  This happens happens so I am not too worried and Qualcomm 820 should be damn fast, lookin’ forward to that.

The fact that LG and Huawei are working on the next lineup of Nexus flagship handsets has been rumored for a few months now, but the actual devices have been pretty elusive until now. Now we finally have some solid leaks on both the LG Nexus 5 and the Huawei Nexus 6 thanks to a report by GizmoChina.

 The next LG Nexus device is expected to be a rehash of the LG Nexus 5. This phone will be packing quite the punch according to the leaked specs. It should release with a 5.2″ 1080p screen, a whopping 3180mah battery, a quad core Snapdragon 620 processor, 4GB of Ram, 64GB of storage, a 13mp rear camera with OIS, and a 4mp iris scanning camera on the front of the device. Some other rubbish specs include a fingerprint scanner on the back, USB Type-C, and fast charging. This could be one heck of a device, and should come as a budget Android device retailing at less than $400.   Very interesting, I may get one if the price is right.

Next up we have some Huawei Nexus leaks. The Huawei Nexus is expected to be a phablet device, the next Nexus 6. It is shaping up to be a true power house device. Sources say we will see a 21mp rear facing camera, wireless charging, and a metal unibody design. Sources didn’t have any info on the processor at this time. We fully expect to see a fingerprint scanner and USB Type-C in this device. It will also be running Android M out of the box along with the LG Nexus 4.