Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip promises multi-day battery life and better VR

lmfy2k said:
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip promises multi-day battery life
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So did the 820 & 810 & 805 & 800 :D

Does look good though I and thought VR was a bit of a gimmick until I stuck my S7 into the Gear VR headset for the 1st time last week, was blown away by it so am genuinely interested in the tech now.

On battery life, most of us could already have multi day battery if the manufacturers stopped insisting on wafer thing handsets and gave us decent sized batteries. Any efficiency from the SoC's is very welcome though of course.
 
I get 2-2.5 days out of my Huawei P9, I can't see why a current qualcomm based device would be much different to the kirin?
 
Heard it all before tbh. Agree though the transition to 10nm will be a massive help in power efficiency. Sadly for Qualcomm, the A10x or whatever Apple throw out next in 2017 will make them look hilariously outmatched.
 
Kainz said:
Heard it all before tbh. Agree though the transition to 10nm will be a massive help in power efficiency. Sadly for Qualcomm, the A10x or whatever Apple throw out next in 2017 will make them look hilariously outmatched.
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Only in benchmarks - in real use there's no difference that i could see. I used my dad's 7+ and it didn't feel any quicker than the wife's Pixel or my OP3.
 
My old Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 used to last at least 2 full days, could push to 3 days if it wasn't used much.

I don't know how long my OP3 last now, but expect it'll be upto 2 days normal usage. As it charges so quick using the dash charger, I just plug it in when it needs it for 10-45 minutes.

As already said, they need to stop using small batteries and decreasing the battery sizes with new tech each year.
 
My Moto X Force can easily last a couple of days because it's got a sensible battery in.
Like Columbo says no amount of work on the SoC is going to make a noticeable amount of real world difference to battery life while manufacturers keep chasing the dream of razor thin phones.
 
Samsung did something right last year with the A9 Pro, while its screen was too big at 6" they planted a 5000mah battery inside, I want that battery in a 5.2"-5.5" phone I dont care if its 5mm thicker.

A bigger battery mixed with the efficiency gains of newer SoC's should see some awesome longevity possible but as Glen states I fear that the fabrication process will just drive thinner handsets as manufacturers seem happy enough to allow the punters to just about get through a day.
 
I could get multi day battery life if I never used my phone. What we need is improvement in battery life and battery technology.
 
So the Kryo 280 cores apparently are slightly modified ARM Cortex cores: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10948/qualcomm-snapdragon-835-kryo-280-adreno-540/2

For the Kryo 280, Qualcomm uses an octa-core, big.LITTLE configuration with four “performance” cores and four lower-power “efficiency” cores, with semi-custom designs for both clusters. Qualcomm did not disclose which ARM cores serve as the foundation for Kryo 280, but the Cortex-A53 is the obvious choice for the efficiency cores, while the performance cores are likely based on the A72 or A73. As expected, Qualcomm did not go into great detail about what modifications it made, but it did confirm that the memory controllers are a custom Qualcomm design. It’s not clear if it uses ARM’s CCI-550 Cache Coherent Interconnect or its own internal solution, though. The performance cores also get a larger instruction window, which determines the number of instructions that can be executed out of order. This potential performance booster requires modifications to several features, including the reorder buffer and issue queues.
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I guess their home grown Kryo design wasn't enough to match the A72/73.
 
looking forward to this chip, mainly or windows tablet, which will run x86 applications.

phone companies could already fit massive batteries in, yet they would rather shave 1mm off the thickness instead.
 
Columbo said:
Samsung did something right last year with the A9 Pro, while its screen was too big at 6" they planted a 5000mah battery inside, I want that battery in a 5.2"-5.5" phone I dont care if its 5mm thicker.

A bigger battery mixed with the efficiency gains of newer SoC's should see some awesome longevity possible but as Glen states I fear that the fabrication process will just drive thinner handsets as manufacturers seem happy enough to allow the punters to just about get through a day.
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I have a note 4 nothing the note 7 offered interested me.. (even the exploding) if the note 8 offered same spec as note 4 with 2x battery life I'd be very tempted.. 3x and I'd buy it tomorrow
 
We won't get the 835 in Samsung devices of course, we'll have the Exynos equivalent which should be equally good, if not better in most cases as seen previously.

Some OEMs are releasing phones with 4000mAh+ battteries now too, Asus Zenfone 2017 has a 5000mAh one, the new Blackberry Mercury has a 4000mAh one iirc and both handsets look excellent.

I'm confident the S8 and Note 8 will carry at least a 4000mAh battery, perhaps 4400mAh most likely.

Couple that with the new Exynos SoC, and we could see an additional day or so over current battery life in real world usage.

Realistically I don't mind if the battery isn't huge as long as it charges quickly so top ups can be done on the fly. Qualcomm say QC4.0 delivers 5hrs of use from 5mins of charging, that's a boost over previous fast charging tech.
 
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