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Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 865 is 25% Faster, Comes With Mandatory 5G

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday December 07 2019, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 865 is 25% faster, comes with mandatory 5G

Today, Qualcomm detailed its new flagship SoC for 2020: the Snapdragon 865. This is going to be the chip that ships in every single high-end Android phone that comes out in 2020, and there's a lot to go over.

Details include speed increases, improvements in camera performance, some android specific enhancements, and 5G related hardware.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 07 2019, @03:51PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday December 07 2019, @03:51PM (#929415) Journal

    The 5G modem still isn't integrated, but Qualcomm won't sell the 865 without one.

    Optionally mandatory 5G.

    Dimensity 1000 [soylentnews.org] has AV1 decode and Snapdragon doesn't.

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday December 07 2019, @05:01PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday December 07 2019, @05:01PM (#929434)

    Hooray, faster cat pictures!

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 07 2019, @05:33PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday December 07 2019, @05:33PM (#929448) Journal

    I remember the car dealers doing things like this. If you wanted the more powerful engine and sport suspension, you have to buy the Landau roof and chrome tail fins and whitewall tires.

    And the drivers license gimmick please, nothing can go wrong there, right?

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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday December 07 2019, @06:24PM

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Saturday December 07 2019, @06:24PM (#929465) Journal

    https://consumer.huawei.com/en/campaign/kirin-990-series/ [huawei.com]

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Snospar on Saturday December 07 2019, @07:50PM

    by Snospar (5366) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 07 2019, @07:50PM (#929493)

    But we've been promised Gigabit speeds for 5G. Even ridiculous claims of 10Gbps [5g.co.uk].

    How dare they say that in reality we will likely see a modest speed boost of 20% (e.g. from 22Mbps to 26Mbps). I want my Gigabit phone so that I can... I can... errr... download a whole movie in seconds? Use up my contracted monthly data allowance in minutes? Stream 8K content to my HD screen?

    Oh hang on, these new 5G signals can't travel through walls, I'll just keep using my wired connection for proper computing.

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