It is unlikely that we will see him soon even in the best Android tablets, but it is sure to be in many of the best phablets next year and it seems possible that it will also be present in a new Surface and on other Windows tablets: what improvements will bring us the Snapdragon 845? He presented it the day before but it was last night when Qualcomm he discovered them for us. These are the main ones.
More power
This was something that we could take for granted, but it does not hurt to have the confirmation: in the CPU of the Snapdragon 845 We are going to have 8 cores again, 4 of maximum performance and 4 more efficient in terms of consumption, and the former will now reach a frequency of 2,8 GHz. These improvements can be used, by the way, not only to launch more powerful devices, but also to maintain similar levels with lower consumption. There is also going to be a major improvement in graphics processing, with a new GPU Adreno 630 which is also 30% faster. And although here we are not going to find an NPU, like the processor of the Huawei Mate 10, Qualcomm also promises that the artificial intelligence processes will have a performance three times higher.
More security
Especially in the field of smartphones, we have been hearing speculation for quite some time about the possibility that the fingerprint reader is located under the screens, but it seems that, at least by Qualcomm, for now we will have to wait to witness this innovation (if it is not displaced by other technologies, such as facial recognition). What we will already have is a more secure and reliable base for biometric sensors making information less vulnerable to attacks by isolating it in what he has called a "safe processing unit".
Faster connection
We are also going to see important improvements in the connectivity section, thanks to a new LTE modem with speeds up to 1.2GBps (for reference, this would allow you to download a 3GB movie in minutes). We will also write down the evolution connected Wi-Fi networks, with a 20% faster connection. There are news even for connections Bluetooth, particularly for headphones, which will benefit from a new system that transmits the signal to each of them directly with a battery saving of up to 50%.
Better photos and videos
We end up with an improvement that may not attract so much attention for tablets, Windows or Android (although it is also true that we have better cameras on high-end tablets every time), but that we will certainly be grateful for when it comes to phablets. and is that the Snapdragon 845 will leave us a few improvements in this section, supporting video recordings in 4K and photography up to 16 MP a 60 FPS, in addition to being prepared to record in ultra slow-motion, with quality 720p a 480 FPS. There will also be improvements for low light conditions, thanks to accelerated image stabilization and an algorithm that will help preserve detail better by reducing noise.