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Specs of Qualcomm's First ARM Processor Capable of Running Windows 10 Leaks (mspoweruser.com)
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 835's specs have leaked ahead of its CES reveal. An anonymous reader writes: According to the leaked press release, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 sports the Qualcomm Kryo 280 CPU (quad-core), Qualcomm Adreno 540 GPU, and Qualcomm Hexagon DSP to manage the different workloads. All of this combined together will result in a 27% increase in performance when compared to the previous generation. Qualcomm is also making significant improvements with the Snapdragon 835 when it comes to power consumption. To be precise, the Snapdragon 835 consumes 40% less power than the older generation which is supposed to offer the following: "1+ day of talk time, 5+ days of music playback, and 7+ hours of 4K video streaming. Should your phone need more power, Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 provides five hours of battery life for five minutes of charging." Qualcomm stated in the press release that the Snapdragon also comes with substantial improvements to the graphics rendering and virtual reality. According to the company, the Snapdragon 835 includes "game-changing" enhancements to improve audio, intuitive interactions, and vibrant visuals. The processor also offers 25 percent faster 3D graphic rendering and produces 60X display colors than the Snapdragon 820.
Well except for one thing, Android is dying at the top end. Try to buy an Android tablet and the market has been crushed by 2-in-1 Windows tablets. You can't get a >=11 inch tablet with Android on it now. You won't find an Android tablet with a spec of the likes of a Samsung Note Pro 12.2 now, but that was 3 years ago, you should be able to get something a lot better/bigger/faster. But they've all gone.
Google failed to deliver multiple windows on Android for years after Samsung introduced them. They failed to implement all the pen features like handwriting for years. *Now* Google have finally delivered those APIs (sort of, the pen support is partial) but then Pichai just had to slap his Chrome OS crap into it, pre-announcing a merged OS that effectively undermines Android multi-windows. So Android is dead for yet another year in the top end while manufacturers wait for the next OS to turn up. And the next OS, adds nothing to Android 7 which already supports multiple windows.
So Microsoft have hacked away at the price till you can get a Windows tablet for $50 more than an Android one. And the price difference is the processor, Intel are overpriced for the performance. And so Microsoft are undermining Intel to encourage them to drop the price of chips. Intel are afraid to give away cheap an 8 core 2Ghz 64 bit processor and undermine their desktop processors, but Qualcomm have no desktop market share to undermine.
And now Microsoft owns the top end mobile again that once was only Apple and Android.
As they push downwards, we'll likely see another smartphone attack, this time Phablets from the top end.
It's not that Microsoft are doing things right, its that Google are doing things wrong. Their own tablet, the Pixel C, has no stylus (mid range Samsung devices have), it was their mid-range device too, with a 12 inch Chrome device better than it. Pixel C *still* switches to portrait for apps designed for phones, instead of running them in a vertical window. It still will only run software pre-designed to run in windows in windows, making no attempt to run the apps in a window (yet skins regularly wrap the same apps in a window for overlays etc.). Since 5.0 they've taken the choice to break software, lots of 4.4 software crashed on 5.0 as they force removed every app from memory and adding extra requirements to stay in memory (like raising a notify to warn them you're still running). So imagine corporate apps, they get a new device, and have to rework all their bestope software each version or Google will do something to break their app. Obviously the wrong mindset for business.
Google think they'll finally crack the desktop market with Android merged with Chrome OS, when Chrome OS brings fuck all to the party and they clearly don't have clue. So they make something that looks like an old Window version and somehow that will sell why??