It has already appeared in the market. Toshiba and NVIDIA have launched their own devices for this chip, while as competitors Of course, not to be outdone. In addition to Xperia Z Ultra, which was launched on June 25, Samsung's Galaxy S4 LTE-A has also been launched in South Korea. The SoC battle in the second half of the year will be more and more exciting.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 is a new generation SoC to replace Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 and Snapdragon 600 commonly used in high-end mobile phones. It uses the new Krait 400 core, with a frequency of 2.3GHz. The GPU is equipped with Adreno 330, which has more than twice the performance of Adreno 320 in the previous generation APQ8064. This level of graphics processing capacity can be described as excessive performance. It supports a maximum resolution of 2560 * 2048.
Galaxy S4 LTE-A
As the strongest work of the Galaxy S4 series, the Galaxy S4 LTE-A has the most powerful performance and is also the first batch of Snapdragon 800 devices to be launched. It is equipped with a 2.3GHz MSM8974, and its ROM capacity is also larger than that of the general Galaxy S4, reaching 32G. As the name implies, the Galaxy S4 LTE-A also supports LTE-A (LTE-Advance) technology. Of course, this ultra high-speed network is meaningless for our domestic users for the time being. The Galaxy S4 LTE-A also has two new colors, red and blue. Because it is a Korean version, the top of the Galaxy S4 LTE-A has an antenna.
Of course, for the "old users" of the Galaxy S4 in China, the upgrade of the Galaxy S4 LTE-A is not enough to make them pay the bill. Although the Snapdragon 800 is much better than the Snapdragon 600 and Exynos 5410 on the Galaxy S4 in terms of GPU performance, it will not make any difference to ordinary users in actual use. In particular, the SGX544MP3 on the Exynos 5410 is very handy for large games, and even performs better on the CPU side than the Snapdragon 800. Therefore, for users using Exynos 5410, the biggest advantage of Galaxy S4 LTE-A may be that the ROM is increased to 32G and the color is more "beautiful". For Galaxy S4 users who use Snapdragon 600, the performance improvement of Galaxy S4 LTE-A is undoubtedly huge, but we are not sure what the actual impact of high frequency processors will have on the endurance.
Xperia Z Ultra
Xperia Z Ultra is Sony's heavyweight product in the second half of the year. This "heavyweight" is not only reflected in product positioning and configuration, but also in its size and weight. For a mobile phone, the 6.44-inch screen is definitely a Big Mac product, and it also has a weight of 220g. Xperia Z Ultra is also equipped with Snapdragon 800 MSM8274 (only different from MSM8974 in baseband, with the same performance) processor. The frequency is 2.2GHz, and it is also equipped with 2G Ram and 16G Rom. In addition to its super strong configuration and super large size, Xperia Z Ultra is the thinnest mobile phone with 1080P resolution today, only 6.5mm thick. At the same time, it also uses IPS, X-Reality, TRILUMINOS and other modern display technologies, providing it with excellent display performance.
Of course, Sony's Big Mac is not impeccable. Too large and too heavy will make many users flinch from it. At the same time, the ultra-thin 8 megapixel camera also limits its use in taking photos due to the need to take into account the thickness. In terms of batteries, Xperia Z Ultra uses a high-frequency processor and a large screen, but it only uses 3000mAh batteries. This combination of battery life is worrying.
In addition to the Galaxy S4 LTE-A and Xperia Z Ultra, there are many new devices to be released that may use the Snapdragon 800 processor, including the widely expected Xiaomi 3, and the Optimus G2, which has leaked real phone photos. They are all phones worth looking forward to in the second half of the year.
Xiaomi 3 (authenticity has not been determined)
Optimus G2
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