Monday, April 16, 2012

Motorola Switching to Snapdragon S4 Processors For Next Lineup of Phones, Including the RAZR HD?

motorola red logo Motorola Switching to Snapdragon S4 Processors For  Next Lineup of Phones, Including the RAZR HD?

Motorola may follow HTC's lead in the processor game going into 2012 according to a new benchmark for a device headed to AT&T. The MB886 (formerly rumored by us to be the Dinara) aka the "Qinara" or possibly even Atrix 3 posed for GLBenchmark this morning, giving us a look at specs for Moto's next big device.

As you can see from the top, it's running Android 4.0.3 just like every other new device these days. What's interesting though, is the chipset used is Qualcomm's MSM8960 or better known to most as the dual-core Snapdragon S4 clocked at 1.5GHz. This is the same chipset used in the HTC One XL that could arrive on AT&T in the next week, but is surprising because this is Motorola using it. In the past, Moto has stayed close with TI and their OMAP series and even cozied up with NVIDIA for a device or two. This would be a first for them and Qualcomm, to our knowledge.