It's finally official: At the 2017 Snapdragon Developer Conference in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm took the wraps off the Snapdragon 845, the newest flagship in its 10-year-old Snapdragon system-on-chip series. The San Jose, California-based company wasn't willing to spill all of the beans just yet — it's hosting a talk exclusively about the Snapdragon 845 on Wednesday — but it gave a tantalizing glimpse of its latest and greatest chip on Tuesday.
Here's everything you need to know.
Snapdragon 845
Qualcomm's the largest fabless semiconductor company in the world, and its chips power billions of devices. But it has its eyes on the estimated 8.6 billion smartphones that are expected to ship between 2017 and 2021.
The Snapdragon 845 was three years in the making, Qualcomm said, and the development team honed in one six core features: Content creation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, wireless, and power consumption. It's designed to be highly secure, and to perform tasks like real-time language translation and high-speed wireless without adversely impacting battery life.
"It'll make accessing the apps on the web as fast as the memory on your phone," Alex Katouzian, SVP of Qualcomm Semicon, Qualcomm's semiconductor division, said."It's the ultimate in mobile platform capability."
Qualcomm's keeping some of the Snapdragon 845's details under wraps for now, but Dr. ES Jung, President of Samsung Foundry, announced that Samsung — the chipmaker's longtime hardware partner — would produce the first engineering samples based on a 10nm LPE process.
Xioami CEO Lei Jun, who was also in attendance, said onstage that the company's future flagship devices would use the Snapdragon 845. That's a big get — Xiaomi's worked with Qualcomm for six years, and its more than 238 million smartphones pack Qualcomm processors of all ranges.
5G
Qualcomm took the opportunity Tuesday to give an update on its other big hardware platform: Networking. Following the launch of the X50 modem and 5GNR smartphone reference design earlier this year, the chipmaker says it'll work with 40 other companies toward deploying consumer 5G by the first half of 2019. It's already testing spec compliance with China Mobile, and expects to see mass adoption sometime in 2020.
In the meantime, Qualcomm's focusing on gigabit LTE. It's teaming up with carriers such as T-Mobile and AT&T to deploy high-speed LTE in new regions, and assisting in the installation of millimeter wave technology that'll reduce future rollout costs.
"Smartphones are the custodians of our digital lives," Cristiano Amon, Executive Vice President of Qualcomm's QCT division, said. "Mobile technology transforms everything around us. The goal is to interconnect everything around us — to drive the smartphone platform which changes what we do as a society.
Earlier this year, the Indian smartphone brand CENTRiC had launched four new budget smartphones – CENTRiC L1, CENTRiC P1, CENTRiC P1 Plus and CENTRiC G1. All these devices are priced under Rs. 10,000 and came with 4G VoLTE support. Now, the company is all set to launch a new smartphone called Centric A1. It is priced at Rs. 10,999 and offers unibody metal design. The smartphone will be available in Metallic Earl Grey, White & Peach Gold, Gold & Peach Gold color options.
Unlike many other smartphones in the budget segment, the CENTRiC A1 packs uncompromised specifications. It sports a 5.5-inch In-cell display with Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and includes Dragontrail Glass protection on the top. Under the hood, the CENTRiC A1 is powered by a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) Octa-core processor coupled with Adreno 505 GPU. It includes 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded additionally up to 256GB via a MicroSD card.
On the rear of the device is a 13MP camera with PDAF, 5P lens, and dual LED flash. There is an 8MP front-facing camera with LED flash and 90-degree Field-of-View for wider selfies. The device supports dual SIM dual standby using the hybrid SIM slot. It is backed by a 3,000mAh non-removable that is rated to give up to 15 hours of talk time and lasts up to 210 hours in standby mode. The CENTRiC A1 also supports Quick Charge 3.0 that can give 4 hours of talk time with just 10 minutes of charging.
The fingerprint sensor is placed on the rear of the device. Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, A-GPS, FM Radio, 3.5mm headphone jack, and USB Type-C port. It runs on Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box, and there is no information about the Android 8.0 Oreo update. It also includes a bunch of sensors including Gyroscope, E-Compass, G-Sensor, Light sensor, Proximity sensor, and Hall sensor.
The CENTRiC A1 measures 152 x 76 x 7.8 mm and weighs 160 grams. Beneath the display are the three capacitive navigation button for back, home, and multitasking (left to right). Let us know, would you be interested in using a smartphone from a relatively new brand. Share your opinion with us by commenting down below.
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