It will power most premium smartphones which will be revealed in 2017. And now, days before Qualcomm could officially disclose details about its flagship Snapdragon 835 chipset, a leak has spilled cold water on the anticipation. Full details were to be disclosed at a presentation by Qualcomm during the CES 2017 on January 6.
In what looks like a legitimate press release, key details about the new chipset tell us that it will be smaller, faster and more energy efficient than any other chipset built in the past. Paving the way for thinner and more energy efficient phones, the Snapdragon 835 will use a 10nm design with over 3 billion transistors. It will be 30% smaller, 27% faster, and 40% more power-efficient than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 820.
Details in the press release promise a 1+ day of talk time, 5+ days of music playback, and 7+ hours of 4K video streaming. With Quick Charge 4 technology, five minutes of charging is likely to provide five hours of battery life. Although these figures have probably been taken from a test device and provide a reference of what we can be expected from a Snapdragon 835-powered phone.
A few more details reveal the following:
- To meet demands of VR technology, the 835 offers 25% faster 3D graphics rendering and 60 times more display colors compared to the Snapdragon 820. It also supports scene- and object-based audio and high-grade DSD audio
- Uses Qualcomm Kryo 280 CPU, Qualcomm Adreno 540 GPU, and Qualcomm Hexagon DSP to manage separate workloads
- Improvement in Motion tracking, with a 20% reduction in motion-to-photon latency and six degrees of freedom
- Photography has been improved with a new generation of 4K video stabilization (EIS 3.0) with advanced yaw, roll, and rolling shutter. Introduction of support for Dual Photodiode and an enhanced hybrid auto-focus framework enable intelligent phase and better lighting detection
- The chip is ready to handle a dual camera setup straightaway and incorporates Qualcomm’s Clear Sight platform
- The Snapdragon 835 is equipped with an X16 LTE modem and custom support for 802.11ad Wi-Fi networks. It supports peak download speeds which are 10X faster than first-generation 4G LTE devices, along with 256-QAM digital signal processing, 4×4 MIMO, and up to 4X carrier aggregation. The modem itself has a 45% smaller footprint and a 60% improvement in power efficiency
- A Haven platform provides three layers of security on SoC, device, and system levels. It can authenticate the user with pin codes, fingerprints, eye and face-based security
- Comes enabled with features like object recognition for better photos,real-time hand-tracking for an immersive VR experiences, voice recognition for virtual assistants, and bio metric authentication
Source: Evleaks