One of the complains that Samsung clients have had as of late is that the Exynos variations of the organization's lead telephones appear to fail to meet expectations contrasted with the Qualcomm variants. The irritated is justifiable in light of the fact that clients are basically following through on a similar cost, despite the fact that for this situation, Exynos clients are getting "less".

 

Fortunately with the Samsung Galaxy S21, apparently the Exynos variations could really beat those controlled by Qualcomm. This is as indicated by a tweet by Ice Universe who shared what seems, by all accounts, to be benchmark results for the Exynos 2100, and how it might beat the Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 as far as execution.

 

Both chipsets are said to utilize the Cortex-X1 as the essential center, yet clearly Samsung's customizations in the Exynos 2100 could permit it to pull in front of the Snapdragon 875. While this is uplifting news, assuming valid, Samsung will currently have another issue on their hands where clients with the Qualcomm variation probably won't be excessively satisfied by this.

 

There have been bits of gossip proposing that Samsung could really open up its Exynos chipsets to more handset producers one year from now, so if the benchmarks are precise, it would appear that Qualcomm could have stiffer rivalry to anticipate. The way things are, Qualcomm is pretty much the default chipset of decision for some cell phones, yet if Samsung somehow managed to step their game up, we could be taking a gander at more varieties in 2021.

 

 

A whole long list of SD 865 smartphones are going to arrive soon, so hold on to your purse and don't waste your money on current gen flagship smartphones just yet, because they are going to become a lot cheaper in a matter of weeks!

 

To give you an idea of what's to come, we have compiled a short list of the three highly anticipated Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 powered smartphones which will be the first to reach consumers.

 

Samsung Galaxy S20 Series

 

 

No one can say for sure whether the S20-series will really be the first smartphones to get to the market, with a SD 865 SoC in them, but rumors surrounding Samsung are almost always true these days! The Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra mau also have the following specs to show off later in the month.

 

·        OS: Android 10 (Q)

·        1440 x 3040, S AMOLED, 6.2"/6.7"/6.9"/ QHD+, 20:9 display

·        8GB - 12GB RAM and 128GB - 1TB internal storage

·        64+13+8 megapixel / 64+13+8+2 megapixel rear cameras on the S20 and S20 Plus respectively

·        108+13+8+2 megapixel setup at the back with 5x optical zoom on the S20 Ultra

·        5,000mAh battery

·        Will be announced at the Unpacked 2020 event on February 11, 2020 in San Francisco

 

Xiaomi Mi 10 Series

 

 

Also coming in February, but probably in the last week is Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro. Other interesting rumors about the 5G capable duo are as follows.

 

·        OS: Android 10 (Q)

·        1080 x 2340, 19.5:9, S AMOLED 6.39" / 6.7", 120Hz display

·        128GB storage & 8GB RAM / 256GB storage & 12GB RAM / 512GB Storage & 16GB RAM

·        108 + 16 + 12 + 5 / 108 + 16 + 12 + 8 megapixel rear cam modules with 2x optical zoom (Mi 10 & Mi 10 Pro respectively)

·        4,500mAh / 5,250mAh battery for the Mi 10 and 10 Pro respectively

·        Will be announced in late February

 

Vivo IQoo

 

 

This one will likely be a timed exclusive in India, and this move could make the new sub-brand of Vivo, the first OEM to release a Snapdragon 865 powered smartphone in the country. Not much else is known about the smartphone, but it is rumored to have impressive flagship specs such as a 120Hz display and 64+12+12+8 megapixel rear camera modules to go along with that flagship SoC as well. 

 

As of now, it is expected that the Snapdragon 865 chip with its brand new Cortex A77 - powered Kryo 585 cores will finally be able to close the huge performance gap that exists between Apple's latest A-series chips and anything that any Android OEM is able to churn up. Of course, we will just have to wait and see how that actually turns out!

 

Sources: GSMArena, 91Mobiles and Ice Universe

 

Author: Saikat

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset has been unveiled, setting the stage for new flagships in 2018. It's still going to be a few months of course before we see the chip in action inside any smartphone, but till then, here is everything that you need to know.

·         Semi-custom ARM Cortex Kryo 385 CPU and Adreno 630 GPU built on Samsung's 2^nd gen 10nm LPP FinFET process

·         2 MB of shared L3 cache

·         Four performance cores with clock speeds up to 2.8 GHz and four energy efficient cores with a max clock speed of 1.7 GHz

·         25% increase in performance as compared to the SD 835 CPU

·         30% improvement in graphics and video rendering performance by the GPU

·         The Adrenon630 can support 120Hz displays of 2K resolutions

·         30% better energy-efficiency

·         room-scale 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)

·         3^rd generation Vector DSP with HVX, aka the Hexagon 685. It is optimized for AI and imaging workloads

·         Support for Google's Android Nueral Networks API, Open Neural Network Exchange and TensorFlow Lite

·         Support for 480 fps slow motion 720p video, 60 fps video recording at up to 16-mp resolution

·         Ability to capture 64 times more high-dynamic range color information than the SD 835

·         multi-frame noise reduction

·         accelerated software image stabilization

·         temporal filtering with motion compensation

·         10-bit HDR support and support for the Rec. 2020 gamut for 4K/Ultra HD content

·         Improved Wi-Fi modem and X20 LTE modem

·         Support for License Assisted Access (LAA) for unlicensed spectrum, dual SIM with dual VoLTE, 4×4 MIMO on up to 3 carriers and 5x carrier aggregation

·         Diversity-enhanced 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi for stronger multi-gigabit coverage at speeds up to 4.6 Gbps

·         802.11ac Wi-Fi with up to a 16 times faster connection setup, simultaneous dual-band support, and 30% more capacity utilization

If all this didn't blow you over, don't worry because there's a lot more and you can check it all out in details at Android Authority.

After a number of leaks started predicting that flagship smartphones released during the latter half of the year will be sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 chip, almost everyone thought that the Qualcomm was going to do the same thing it did last year when it released a faster version of the SD 820 SOC; the SD 821. However, now that both the Galaxy Note 8 and the Pixel 2 (more or less) has been confirmed to sport the SD 835 chip, we can rest assured that it was indeed a myth.

If you are disappointed, know that there is no reason to be! After all, the SD 835 is a very capable chip and until the SD 845 comes out next year, it will continue to be one of the most powerful smartphone chips ever created. Also, it makes absolutely no sense to release two flagship chips in the same year, unless there's anything wrong with the first one. Since the Snapdragon 835 is as close to perfection as it can be both in terms of power usage and performance, we would say that there's nothing to worry about at all.

Via: The Android Soul

Saikat Kar (tech-enthusiast)

Vivo has apparently done what Samsung could not and Apple was only planning to. The famous in-screen fingerprint scanner which has so far eluded all devices till date, has been brought forth and showcased on a Vivo smartphone.

The Qualcomm fingerprint scanner which was put into effect at the show on a Vivo Xplay 6 prototype was announced earlier at the same show. It detects ultrasonic fingerprint signals through OLED displays up to 1200um and is more secure than any other fingerprint scanners that are available on smartphones at the moment. Check out the GIF image which we can now look at, thanks to Engadget.

The fingerprint scanner works underwater and doesn't care much even when your phone or your fingers are dirty. There are two points to be noted though. Engadget reports that the actual fingerprint recognition is much slower than what we are used to and also that the display was only able to detect the fingerprint from one particular place on the display. In theory however, the whole display should be able to detect your fingerprints flawlessly. Then again, this is just a prototype that we are looking at and things will definitely improve once the ultrasonic technology and the smartphone is ready for commercial release.

Via: Engadget

Saikat Kar (tech-enthusiast)