It’s like the LG G7 ThinQ, only thinner on the inside and outside. It’s a very interesting offering late in 2018 and it’s available starting now.
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The story about the G6 getting the Snapdragon 821 instead of the Snapdragon 835 may be a little more complicated than we have first thought.
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The Snapdragon 835 gets official benchmark runs against Snap 821, 820, Exynos 8890 and Kirin 960 devices. And the numbers look good... for a reference bed.
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We can't be sure this is the LG G6, although it certainly fits the description, sadly packing a previous-gen Qualcomm SoC and 4 gigs of memory.
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You know that user-removable battery you liked so much about last year's LG G5 and V20? You'll probably have to make do without one on the LG G6.
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A new picture of a rumored phone and an old chipset, too. Why is it so hard to obtain the freshly-minted Snapdragon 835 right now?
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Samsung believed in Qualcomm after the Snapdragon 810 flop, helping shape up the SD820 SoC which the Galaxy S7 then used in the US and China as opposed to the entirely homebrewed Exynos 8890. Now it’s the semiconductor specialist’s turn to return the favor, trusting in the chaebol’s advanced, industry-first 10nm FinFET technology, despite Samsung’s very full plate that could interfere with the production and release schedule of the Snapdragon 835 processor.
Forget 830, 825 or 823 naming speculation. The SD820 and 821’s H1 2017 sequel is something special, and the Snapdragon 835 moniker perfectly reflects its many notable improvements.
Unfortunately, Qualcomm only confirms a considerably “smaller chip footprint, giving OEMs more usable space inside upcoming products to support larger batteries or slimmer designs.” We’re told to expect “significant improvements in battery life”, while Samsung’s 10-nanometer die shrink theoretically allows “up to a 30% increase in area efficiency with 27% higher performance or up to 40% lower power consumption” compared to 14nm chips like the 820 and 821.
It’s important to note the Snapdragon 835 isn’t explicitly said to boost energy efficiency and raw speed by 30 or 40 percent, with details of that nature, as well as a CPU core count, frequency, GPU specs, memory or wireless capabilities coming later on, as we approach the vague “first half of 2017” commercial launch deadline.
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If you’re still left wondering whether that Snapdragon 820 phone of yours can handle Android’s new VR platform (ahem, ZTE), wonder a little less. The minimum spec requirements for a device with Nougat on it to support virtual reality (and specifically, high performance VR) have been published in the latest Compatibility Definition Document.
Some of the software requirements include OpenGL ES 3.2 support, 4K H.264 encoding, Vulkan Hardware Level 0 support (though Level 1 is preferable) and sustained performance mode.
Hardware-wise, it’s a little more complicated. The screen of the phone must be between 4.7 and 6 inches in diameter with at least full HD resolution, though quad HD is preferred. Refresh rates should be at least 60Hz and, when implemented with alternate-eye buffering, must be synchronized between the two render regions to avoid tearing and artifacting. Bluetooth 4.2 must also be supported.
Qualcomm previously said that only the Snapdragon 821 is currently able to support Daydream spec and thus, the only surefire phones to support Daydream out of the gate are the Pixel and Pixel XL. We believe that the most powerful ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe SKU should also support it. Other phones, however, we’re a little more doubtful of.
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What may be considered the “Turbo” edition of the OnePlus 3 is due out in just seven days. OnePlus itself has confirmed the existence and launch date of a device that features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chipset as opposed to the Snapdragon 820 as put on the OnePlus 3.
A 15-second teaser video posted to the company’s Twitter account brags about the extra 200 megacycles clocked per second between the 821 and the 820.
T-7: The @Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 (2.35GHz) is coming your way. Find out more on November 15. pic.twitter.com/fA8mUTYAjd
— OnePlus (@oneplus) November 8, 2016
There will be a Facebook Live event on November 15 at 1pm Eastern to showcase the product. It is not clear if the event will be in London, as previously rumored. Also not clear is what other spec changes will follow along with the “T” and if a price change will take effect.
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Qualcomm is without a doubt the world leader in supplying processors for both high-end and mid-range smartphones, but even though the San Diego-based semiconductor titan’s vast partner roster includes everyone from Samsung to LG, Huawei, Lenovo, HTC, BlackBerry, OPPO and Xiaomi, the company still finds time to promote a slightly lower-profile alliance.
In case you forgot, QCM insists on calling attention via Twitter to “something new from OnePlus” that’s apparently “on the way”, “powered by our #Snapdragon 821 processor.” That’s all you’ll get from the ever-growing American chip champion for now, which should be plenty to lend further credence to recent OnePlus 3T gossip.
Unless, of course, this is merely the super-early beginning of a buzz-building campaign for next year’s OnePlus 4, which feels like a stretch, not to mention a greatly improved SD830 SoC will probably become the flagship handheld norm by then.
For its part, the Snapdragon 821 marginally enhances the raw power and energy efficiency of the 820 inside the original OnePlus 3, begging the question of this 3T’s necessity. But perhaps the $479 incremental upgrade is to bump screen resolution up to Quad HD after all, picking up a superior 20MP rear-facing camera and souped-up 3,300 mAh or so battery as well. All shall be revealed and fully detailed next week, rumor has it.
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The souped-up OnePlus 3 we’re expecting should be headed for us within the next two weeks. At least, it’ll supposedly be headed for a London event — ha, take that Brexit!
More specifications are being tossed around about the OnePlus 3T that will supposedly have a quad HD LCD. At least, that’s what the rumors keep saying — company co-founder Carl Pei has insisted that Optic AMOLED is far superior.
Backing that display is a Snapdragon 821 with 6GB of RAM and either 64GB or 128GB of storage. Battery capacity goes up 10 percent to 3,300mAh. Finally, there should be a black variant that will leave Soft Gold lovers questioning their purchasing decision.
All of the above represent either lateral moves or slight improvements from the OnePlus 3’s specifications.
That London event is rumored for Monday, November 14. We’ll see if we get any indications from OnePlus about this in the coming days.
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OnePlus may commit to a controversial move — ending sales of the OnePlus 3 — if a supply chain source has spoken the truth. Why might it make so many waves? Well, the phone could be due for a complete change without necassarily changing its looks.Is OnePlus playing Apple’s limbo?For example, we may see the Qualcomm Snapdragon ...
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A few of these Chinese manufacturers know what it’s like to have a phone bought off by the lot in a flash. LeEco is one of them and its latest flagship, the Le Pro 3 featuring the rare Snapdragon 821 if you pay enough, is the latest hot button example.The company reports that it got 3.57 million ...
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AnTuTu is widely recognized as one of the most fickle, least trustworthy mobile device performance testing tools, and yet, everyone keeps paying attention to its reports, especially prior to and shortly after various flagship model releases.Even OEMs will sometimes flaunt unusually high benchmarking scores as ultimate evidence of their products’ imposing raw speed, as seems to be the case for the Xiaomi Mi 5s. This bad boy has practically been confirmed for a September 27 announcement a couple of days ...
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Popular Weibo tech analyst Bing Yuzhou isn’t afraid to toss around silicon and yap about it like the rest of their kind. AnTuTu here, HiSilicon over there, CPU, GPU, multi-thread, multi-core… just a whole bunch of numbers get put out there.But since we’re in Galaxy S8 territory and looking towards what a rumored Exynos 8895 might have, we ...
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