Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I saw the future of Smart Phones”.
Thanks to qualcomm technologies inc for sponsoring this video every year, we get countless devices that all try to accomplish something different. They have different cameras, different designs, different screens, but one thing they all have in common is the brain. Inside snapchat processors are used in millions upon millions of devices and it’s what lets some of your favorite products just straight up, exist and be things and every year the new version is really asleep. That’S mostly been the case and qualcomm technology’s inc, and i got a soft spot on.
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new snapdragon 8 gen 1.. It’S a bit of a mouthful, but this is the top end of their line, and the goal here is to bring the best of computing gaming connectivity together. There are a few different areas. Qualcomm focused on with the launch there’s a few that got me the most excited.
If you’ve watched any of my phone reviews over the past like two years, it should not be a surprise. Uh camera upgrade getting a better camera system, at least for me, has been one of the main reasons to choose a new phone. It is hands down the most important part of devices nowadays, and it’s also been the biggest way for manufacturers to differentiate themselves. What they can do and snapdragon is pushing the limits pretty significantly on, what’s possible, with cameras in our pockets. This is another aspect of the way you don’t think about the processor, but the processor is what enables all these generally bonkers camera things that we’ve seen so qualcomm had a few different reference devices that were set up. There got a chance to check out one that was showing sort of a new take on panorama and sort of what it could do for still and sort of see it happen live instead of having to sort of do a little bit of this action and then Hope you got a good picture being able to actually see the full panoramic in a live preview like you would taking any other picture.
That was awesome. Obviously, phones now, with multiple cameras on the back qualcomm, was showing off how you could get live previews from all of those cameras at the same time and then pick the one you want that was really cool to see. We also got a chance to check out some new motion blur effects. We saw motion blur happen in video, but everything that enables this is the technical stuff. So this is the first 18-bit isp in a mobile processor and that’s going to allow for what you’d expect more data processing to get like extra nerdy over 4 000 times more data, and that might not mean much to isp and all that stuff.
But 4 000 times more data should mean something it’s a lot and what that’s going to lead to is features being able to shoot like 240 photos in one second, at 12 megapixels, it’s actually 3.2 gigapixels per second. If you want to go ahead and do that, math uh it’s hard to even like conceptualize, how many photos that is, but the actual capability on your phone to do that has not been possible uh before and because of all that data, capturing and processing intensive things. That’S happening, there’s also support for a new mega night mode.
You can capture more light in darker conditions without any blur and that’s awesome. One feature that is really looking forward to, though uh is 8k hdr video from a phone uh snapdragon enabled 8k on phones in the past. But now you get excellent hdr with that video. So it should look way closer to what you expect from sort of the really solid 1080p 4k video. Now just with more resolution, i had a chance to see this and really to be honest. Snapdragon platform is a reason for most android phones and sort of gotten. The ability to do these new things, the reason that they had 8k last year was snapdragon you’ll, never hear the oems talking about it or sort of flexing what their processor is capable of. They like to take credit for it themselves, but snapdragon and the processing that snapdragon is doing and that qualcomm has enabled is really the secret sauce behind why android phones have become so amazing at stills and why the video has taken such huge leaps. The past few years, most of the time there, i’ve spent asking questions, checking out the platform going to very delicious dinners and get a chance just to to talk and be able to see not only what phones or people are using, but why they’re using those phones? So one thing that people were interested in was gaming and that’s sort of an area that we’ve seen just blow up recently.
I’M sure you played a few games on your phone game. Pass obviously has enabled mobile phones to do a ton of awesome stuff, but gaming on mobile is one of the biggest growth segments in the space. Qualcomm does the gpu side as well? There are juno gpu.
It’S going to give you about a 30 boost in graphics, rendering and a 25 improvement in power savings over the previous generation. Not only where games look better uh, but you can play them for longer. So there’s also a new variable rate, shading feature and they’re, calling it vrs pro, essentially just going to give developers more control between the performance of the game without compromising the visual and graphics quality. And you take all of that. On top of the existing snapdragon elite, gaming features – and i think this is probably one of the most exciting sort of prospects for this next generation of platforms being really optimized for mobile games. If you play intensive games on your phone generally, you know they’re really good.
For maybe a short period of time frame rates start to drop battery life goes down, they start to get maybe on the warmer side. This is working sort of to address each one of those points to make sure you can play longer and keep those frame rates up, especially with these flagship high frame rate displays. So that is awesome but snapdragon’s taking gaming next level. This is actually a dual announcement with razer and it uses the new snapdragon g3x gen 1 processor, to bring kind of great handheld gaming to new platforms like this one. So right now this is just for developers get their hands on and use, but even still, it seems like something that could super easily come to market and it brings all the same features that snapdragon is focusing on like solid performance per watt. Great battery 5g connectivity, ai kind of all the things that you would sort of look for in a powerful portable gaming device.
This thing was cool to see and probably look back on. You know this event at the end of 2021. I think this is what i’m gon na remember, probably the most so aside from gaming they’re, also showing off their compute platform inside of pcs with the hcx gen 3 running windows 11 and there’s a big urgency to get computers that boot up quick and are instant On and have the latest connectivity with wi-fi 6 6e and 5g data, so you can use them virtually everywhere at the same time, not sacrifice performance and still have all day or even multiple day. Battery life. Qualcomm is banking on this 3rd gen, 8cx, sort of being the chip that opens up that door, so they had some reference devices there to check out. There was one demo that i thought was really cool.
I don’t know if it’s going to translate to video, they were actually taking noises out in real time. There was a guy that had like a noise machine that was playing uh dogs, barking and kid streaming in the background, both very relatable, as well as opening a bag of chips, and he turned on this technology. Did it all again. All i could hear was his voice.
It seemed a little bit like magic. I couldn’t verify what was going on on his end, but on my end i couldn’t hear any of those things that i could hear before. I asked qualcomm about this and they explained the reason the snapdragon compute platform does this noise reduction so well is because they’re leveraging what they’re calling a qualcomm ai engine that is built in to get the performance and efficiency needed to get this type of experience? That was really cool and just sort of another real world use of this technology and sort of the processing power that you need to make things like this happen. There was obviously a lot to talk about, and that was only a sampling of the stuff that i saw, but qualcomm is building on their foundation and building on what the snapdragon is capable of and when you think about your flagship features in your phone. Most of those are enabled by a processor. So when you hear things like 8k hdr and multi-gigabit on the uploads for 5g, those things matter and you might always think about them. But when they’re, not there, you miss them and qualcomm is positioning themselves and their processors to sort of take us into the next generation of what mobile devices are going to be and where they’re starting is with snapdragon 8 gen. 1.
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