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• Qualcomm's Second-Gen Spectra ISP Brings Massive Improvements to Smartphone Photography

  At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii on Wednesday, Qualcomm finally took the wraps off its newest Snapdragon Mobile Platform: The Snapdragon 845. A crucial component of the new system-on-chip is the Spectra 280 Image Signal Processor (ISP), the co-processor that accelerates on-device processing. It's been redesigned from the ground up in the Snapdragon 845, and there's a lot that's new.

• Facebook joins AOMedia to promote Royalty-Free AV1 Video

  As Google's new open source AV1 video standard nears completion, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has announced that Facebook will be joining them to promote the AV1 video compression format.

• DO Trust OnePlus 5T Benchmarks in Reviews

  Earlier this year, we published a report where we found that a couple smartphone vendors, including OnePlus, had begun cheating on benchmarks. This came as a bit of a surprise, as there was a massive backlash in 2013 when smartphone vendors had previously attempted to cheat on benchmarks, and benchmark cheating had fallen to the wayside in the meantime. With every new phone comes new information however, and for the OnePlus 5T benchmarks will look a little bit different than they did with the OnePlus 5.

• Google Launches Resonance Audio SDK for Immersive Virtual Reality Positional Audio

  We constantly use sound to help us navigate the world in ways that we often do not even realize, and as a result inaccurate positional audio is often one of the key factors that can break immersion with virtual reality (VR). Today, Google is announcing that they are taking steps to improve the quality and ease of implementation of spatial audio with the launch of their new Resonance Audio SDK.

• Project Treble Brings Extended Linux Kernel Security Support to Combat Fragmentation

  One of the major issues for Android over the years has been device fragmentation. The Android version and Linux kernel version a device are on can have a massive impact on the device's security and usability, and Google is making a concerted effort to improve Android's update lifecycle with Project Treble.