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Sony has launched a Japan-only handset today , the phone - named as the Xperia J1 is said to be a carrier based smartphone which is built on the kind of old Xperia Z1compact from about a year back , although the phone might sound old , the device is still quite powerful for its size and it comes with  Android 4.4 with no word on a Lollipop update  . The phone has a Snapdragon 800 Soc . 2GB of RAM , 16GB of internal storage along with a Micro SD card slot . The phone still retains the water resistance and it also has a new metal frame which is probably a indication as to how future Xperias such as the (Z4) would look like . Specs at a glance *4.3" 1280x720p display , 341ppi  *LTE , NFC  *Qualcomm snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) , 2.2Ghz Quadcore  *2GB Ram , 16GB storage with MicroSD expansion *20.7mp Sony sensor with G Lens optics , LED flash  *2mp front facing camera  *Water resistance (IPX5 and X8) and metal frame  *non removable 2300 ...

Qualcomm has officially unveiled their new 64Bit mobile processors - the Snapdragon 808 and the 810 , The processors lead the new squadron of 64bit processors starting with the low end Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615 , The 808 is the lower spec'ed version of the two processors .The Snapdragon 808 uses 2 Cortex A57 cores and has 4 A53 cores making it a "Hexa-core" processor , The 808 has a new GPU called Adreno 418 , the Adreno 418 GPU puts it 30% ahead of the Adreno 330 found on the Snapdragon 800 but it slips under the Adreno 420 found on the Snapdragon 805 . The 808 has a 64-bit wide LPDDR3-933 interface ,giving it a 1,866MHz data rate and 15GB/s bandwidth , the Chip has a H265/HEVC decoder ISP but it can not encode it .The processor is only rated for a maximum resolution of 2560x1600 . The Snapdragon 808 is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2015 The other chip launched today was the Snapdragon 810 , the number itself show us that this is the flagship...