News & Reviews:   Snapdragon

There were reports spotted on mydrivers.com, stating that Qualcomm might be thinking of putting a limit on how cheap a smartphone equipped with the Snapdragon 865 with 5G can be priced at. While not much has been confirmed, it seems that the lowest a smartphone with the chipset can be priced at is around USD430(~RM1788).

vivo has recently announced, that they will be one of the first smartphone manufacturers to feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset in their upcoming smartphones. The aforementioned chipset also features the X55 5G Modem-RF System, which is capable of reaching speeds of up to 7.5 Gbps.

Based on a statement by gizmochina.com, Qualcomm will most likely unveil their latest Snapdragon 865 chipset during the Qualcomm Tech Summit, which is on the 3 to 5 December 2019. Just like its predecessor, the Snapdragon 855 chipset, the 865 will be Qualcomm’s top of the line high-performance chipset which will most likely be used in various flagship smartphones in the future.

Qualcomm announced during IFA 2019, that majority of their Snapdragon chipsets such as the 600, 700 as well as the 800 series is expected to ship with 5G-capabilities starting next year. With that said, there is a high possibility that smartphones releasing next year that are priced under the RM1000 could come with the new 5G modem embedded in the chipset.

A leaked image has recently surfaced on Geekbench, showing benchmarks for a chipset from Qualcomm called Kona. We suspect that this could be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset, which is expected to be installed in most flagship smartphones in the year 2020.

Based on the information provided by WinFuture, the Snapdragon 1000 will have a 12W power draw and it will be sized around 20 x 15mm design which allows more room to fit more cores into the chipset. Not only that, the size and additional cores is expected to give the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 a significant performance.

A new superpower in mobile processing will be heading to smartphones soon, as Qualcomm unveiled the new Snapdragon 835 SoC. The new processor will be built on Samsung’s 10 nanomtre FinFET process, which promises better performance and energy efficiency.

A new technology was just announced by the maker of Snapdragon processor. Qualcomm announced the new Clear Sight dual camera processing tech, supported on the Snapdragon 820 and 821, which promises better images out of the box.

There were rumours about two new Nokia smartphones coming soon earlier this year. The news is apparently correct, as a report stated that Nokia is readying an announcement by the end of the year, with a return to markets by early 2017.

In our first smartphone view of Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor, a Pantech smartphone recently got an amazing score on the AnTuTu benchmark site. Previously, the king of the AnTuTu benchmark score was the Exynos 5 Octa powered Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 with an AnTuTu score of 27000+. The new Snapdragon 800 powered Pantech smartphone got a score of 30133, beating the S4 by an amazying 3000 point margin.