The no.1 n3 phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with its quad-core 2.2 GHz Krait 400 processor

 The jiayu g4 basic smartphone that got everyone to sit up and take notice of Sony as a formidable player early this year stands out from its peers with its water and dust resistance. It is powered by a quad-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm chipset, a Krait CPU, an Adreano 320 GPU and a 2330 mAh battery. It houses 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory which can be extended externally by another 64 GB. Sony has given its handset a 5-inch Full HD TFT capacitive touchscreen display with a pixel density of 441ppi and its Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 technology. The phone is equipped with a 13.1-megapixel rear camera and a 2.2-megapixel front sensor. Connectivity options on this Android Jelly Bean handset include NFC, Bluetooth, USB and 4G LTE.

That Coolpad is the third most popular handset brand (in terms of shipped phones) for the world’s largest cellphone market helps its global standing. But it has also started to sell its phones in Europe and the US through Vodafone and T-Mobile. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Nov. 20, China’s vice president Zhang Guang-qiang said the company is also in talks with distributors in Taiwan and India.

But Qualcomm CFO George Davis put things in perspective yesterday in a presentation to analysts and institutional investors that was part of Qualcomm Analyst Day, held at the Ritz Carlton in New York’s Battery Park.

Qualcomm also has been stockpiling so much cash that the company says it returned $6.7 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2013 in the form of higher dividends and stock buybacks. The company says it had $8.1 billion in available cash in the U.S., with another $21.3 billion held in foreign accounts. (Returning that cash to the United States would incur taxes that Qualcomm considers prohibitive.) Going forward, the company says it intends to return 75 percent of its free cash flow to shareholders.

“While we’re doing this, we want to make sure that we can [still] take strategic actions,” Jacobs said. That doesn’t necessarily mean the company is planning some acquisitions. (Over the past five years, Qualcomm has made 49 acquisitions, and 38 were valued at less than $50 million. The only M&A deal valued at more than $350 million was Qualcomm’s 2011 acquisition of Atheros Communications, which was actually more than $3 billion.) There are others reasons to amass cash, Jacobs said. “It’s important to retain enough cash and mass to prevent your competitors from coming after you.”

For the past three years, Davis said, Qualcomm has been riding a wave of extraordinary growth in cubot phone smartphone sales. It was one of just 25 companies listed on the S&P 500 that managed to double revenue over the past three years. In fact, only six companies on the list had at least $10 billion in 2011 revenue—and still managed to double their sales in 2013. Of those six, Davis said four are tech companies: Apple, Google, Amazon, and Qualcomm.

Coolpad (or Kupai in Chinese, which can translate as “cool clique”) has a price advantage with China’s new smartphone buyers, though lately the company has also been trying to sell more mid to high-end phones. Its prices aim to undercut the competition abroad, too. The company unveiled its no-contract Coolpad Quattro 4G in the US last year for $150. As a CNET review of the phone put it: “Nothing fancy to be sure, but it ought to be plenty for first-time smartphone buyers.”

Sony Xperia Z1: Sony's latest updated Xperia handset is up there with the best of them. The Xperia Z1 is also water and dust proof and packs in a 5-inch Full HD TFT capacitive touchscreen display with its 441ppi pixel density. It does, however, boasts of Sony's new and improved Triluminous Display and X Reality Engine technologies as well. The no.1 n3 phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with its quad-core 2.2 GHz Krait 400 processor and its Adreno 330 GPU.