Video portrait and biometry mode under the screen: see the new features of the Snapdragon 855

Samsung is preparing a package of news for its next launch, the Galaxy S10. And many of these improvements over its predecessor are due to the new flagship processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855.

The chip maker has shown the power and capabilities of its new product at Qualcomm Summit 2018 held in Hawaii (follow the cover of TodoCelular) . Manufacturer partners such as Samsung, OnePlus, Verizon and AT & T showcased their plans for 5G smartphones and compatible networks in 2019.

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Most smartphones that will be released next year should be equipped with the Qualcomm chipset. There are few exceptions in this context: Huawei, which uses its own Kirin phones) and Apple, which also manufactures its chips and, in the middle of a licensing battle with Qualcomm, uses Intel modems for connectivity .

These brands will be able to count on new features from Qualcomm, such as the ability to record motorcycle portrait videos in 4K HDR, in addition to the 3D Sonic Sensor technology, an ultrasonic fingerprint reader concealed under the screen

some features that should reach the smartphones of 2019.

The technology is not new, but remains little used. With the screens getting larger and the lack of boundaries, the digital sensor has moved from the bottom of the screen to the back and even to the side of the devices and, in some cases, is not it, Apple? – it was simply removed.

Qualcomm's 3D sonic sensor allows the sensor to return to the front of the smartphone without loss of screen when it is under the layer. Rumors say that the Galaxy S10 will have this technology, which should be followed by other manufacturers

The effect of bokeh, which blurs the bottom of the pictures, was the great fever of recent years and was the responsible for dual camera systems to produce the effect. But imagine that effect in the videos? Yes, wait on the following devices.

The Snapdragon 855 feature will be the first to integrate portrait mode with 4K HDR videos. It follows the object on the photo and makes the background blurry, allowing a uniform exchange of the background. And all these energy savings, because the phones using the Snapdragon 855 chip can capture 4K videos at 60 frames per second while saving energy (30%) compared to the previous 4K video captured at 30 frames per second.

This technology is already present on new iPhones. HEIF, or high-efficiency image format, reduces your images to half the size of an ordinary JPEG without losing quality.

This is a saving of storage space. In addition, it combines RAW images and burst mode in the same pattern. A photo taken with a triple camera system, for example, contains three recorded images.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 chip will enable phone makers to support multiple voice badistants without having to choose between them or download additional applications.

but we already know that he will support the badistants of Google, Alexa, Baidu Dueros and others.

Watching videos on a smartphone consumes a lot of energy. Worried about this, Qualcomm has developed the Cinema Core feature, which offers up to six times more energy savings by viewing videos on services such as Amazon Video.

In addition, it will also allow HDR10 + playback for the first time on mobile devices. The technology created by Samsung incorporates dynamic metadata that allows a high-bandwidth dynamic screen to adjust brightness levels from one scene to another or even frame-by-frame, thus improving the quality of the image.

] The new Adreno 640 Snapdragon 855 GPU offers 30% faster performance, which will enable HDR gaming. Just like watching videos, the HDR makes the images more realistic. Qualcomm claims that HDR games on smartphones will have more than a billion color shades

Games will also be easier thanks to Snapdragon 855 custom algorithms designed to reduce frames by more than 90%. And for virtual reality, the Snapdragon 855 allows immersive resolutions of 8,000 to 120 frames per second. That's right, 8K!

The 2019 high-end phones equipped with the Snapdragon 855 will all be 5G. However, the technology is not integrated into the chipset.

The Snapdragon 855 is built with the aid of a 7-nanometer processing technology, the most widely used technique in the industry. available. A key element of semiconductor fabrication is the shrinkage of components called transistors – extremely small electronic switches that process data for everything from microwave oven clocks to artificial intelligence algorithms running on our phones .

Apple's Bionic A12 chip, introduced on the iPhone XS and XS Max, became the world's first 7nm processor when released in September. Now, high-end Android phones will also have 7nm chips.

Another breakthrough in the Snapdragon 855 is the Kryo 485 processor, built with ARM's Cortex technology. This improves performance by 45% over Snapdragon 845 from last year. And the new Adreno 640 graphics processor provides graphics up to 20% faster.