Snapdragon 821 launched

Qualcomm has received an order from big clients for a faster iteration of Snapdragon and, guess what? The Snapdragon 821 is born and its Kryo core frequency has jumped from a previous 2.15GHz to 2.4Ghz.

One of the design wins that got leaked a few weeks back is the LeEco LeMax 2 Pro with 8GB or RAM but we suspect that Qualcomm wanted to prepare this chip for the Samsung Galaxy Note S7, the biggest design win to come in the Android space.

Since the Snapdragon 820 with Kryo core clocked at 2.15GHz has been selling for two quarters, the company managed to do additional optimization and increased the clock by an impressive 250MHz getting it to a final 2.4Ghz. This is again a maximal processor clock and as you know this maximal clock will only occur occasionally when the SoC needs a lot of power. We can think of two possible scenarios where you will be able to max the Snapdragon 821, launching the application and some of the games.

Qualcomm has managed to get to 115 design wins with Snapdragon 820, but again since the Snapdragon 820 got so successful, some important clients wanted to get something a bit faster. The company claims a 10 percent performance increase in performance.

It is clear that Snapdragon 821 will not replace the Snapdragon 820. They will both co-exist as many vendors will not want to pay the premium.

The rest of the device including DSP, Snapdragon X12 LTE modem remain unchanged and we are waiting to hear back about the possible change of the maximal GPU clock. Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is inside of the Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge , Xiaomi Mi5, LG G5, HTC 10, LeEco LeMax 2 and Sony Xperia X and at least 108 other less prominent phones.

Snapdragon 821 is expected in phones in the second half of 2016 and it won’t be reserved for smartphones only. You can expect to see Snapdragon 821 based tablets, mobile VR head mounted displays and other new devices. The last Galaxy Note 5 was launched in the middle of August, and that gives us the idea that the Galaxy Note 7 might not be far off either.

We can guess that IFA, that starts in the first days of September in Berlin German will be an interesting place and time for some additional Snapdragon 821 devices too.

Source: Chinareview.mobi

Reason! Why XIAOMI launched mi max in India ?

Xiaomi never stops to surprise its customers. Their recent surprise was the massive Mi Max that was launched in India last week.
The phone has a massive 6.44 inch display. In a country like India where bigger is always better, Xiaomi's put their bets on such a form factor. This device is the third launch by Xiaomi in India this year.
Xiaomi believes that there is still a market for calling tablets in India. It's just the design and form-factor that pushes people away from buying large 7-inch calling tablets from Samsung and Lenovo. So they saw a problem and now they seek to resolve that with the Mi Max. A device that's probably confused that whether it's a smartphone or a tablet.
For starters, even I didn't like what I saw. But it's a matter of habit. Back in 2012 when Samsung launched its first Note, many of us were perplexed as to whether the consumers would actually like such a device. But within a year we saw so many smartphones come with screen sizes of more than 5-inch and even inching closer to the 6-inch form-factor.
It's not like other smartphone makers have not experimented with a more than 6-inch display device. Sony tried their hands with the Xperia Ultra. It was a phone that was well made for its time but it was the price that consumers didn't fancy. Micromax has been making a 6-inch plus device for years now in the form of Canvas Doodle.
Both the phones had their takers, but not many. And it's indeed a bold step that Xiaomi has taken to launch such a hulk phone. The phone comes in two variants - 32 GB (with Snapdragon 650 and 3 GB RAM) and 128 GB (with Snapdragon 652 and 4 GB RAM). The former is priced at Rs 14,999, while the latter costs Rs 19,99