We won't know exactly how the S8's performance measures up until we get a chance to run the phone through a battery of tests, but we have had a chance to benchmark the Snapdragon 835 using
a Qualcomm reference design phone.
Spotted outside the auditorium at Qualcomm's China QRD (
Qualcomm Reference Design) Summit earlier...
We also are working closely with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to help manufacturers anywhere in the world quickly and easily broaden their portfolio by building Windows Phone devices through the well - established
Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) program.
Not exact matches
Of course,
Qualcomm would tell you this isn't really a typical consumer product: it's more of a demonstration and
reference design for Mirasol, the company's long - running pet project, a promising display technology with extremely low power draw that has been held back for years by cost and a tricky manufacturing process.
Qualcomm is planning to showcase a number of
reference designs for its partners in the first half of 2018, and states that it already has some customers for its new chip.
Google has worked with
Qualcomm to develop a
reference design for its Daydream headsets.
Despite the Vive Focus hitting the international market later this year, the headset is seemingly already outdated thanks to
Qualcomm's latest stand - alone VR headset
reference design.
Meanwhile,
Qualcomm attributes industry firsts in using depth sensing via structured light and placing a fingerprint scanner under the display — which Apple reportedly was unable to achieve — to two
Qualcomm «
reference design» handsets.
The ink is only just dry on the Snapdragon 845 but, among the smartphone form - factor
reference designs,
Qualcomm has cooked up an Amazon Echo and Google Home alternative.
Qualcomm does nt have the architectural arm64 license so they cant modify the
reference design as much as apple which isn't really fair but whatever.
Qualcomm has worked with Google to produce a
reference design for Daydream standalone headsets, based on
Qualcomm's own Snapdragon 835 VR platform.
Utilizing
Qualcomm Technologies» expertise in connectivity and compute, the Snapdragon Wear platform consists of a full suite of silicon, software, support tools, and
reference designs to allow mobile, fashion, and sports customers to bring a diverse range of full - featured wearables to customers quickly.
The first partners are HTC and Lenovo, and they'll build a headset based on a Google
reference design built in partnership with
Qualcomm.
With a market expected to worth $ 10 billion in revenue by 2020,
Qualcomm intends to create a
reference design for developers that may lack the necessary research time, financial backing, or expertise in certain areas, and help them bring their ideas and products to the market faster and at a variety of price points.
Qualcomm's full
reference design for the router also includes a six - microphone array, for using it as an Alexa, Google Assistant, or other virtual agent.
«We are excited to team up with
Qualcomm Technologies as a Snapdragon Wear platform ecosystem provider, delivering
reference designs that will give our customers a head start on their product development,» said Eric Bauswell, founder and chief executive officer, SurfaceInk.
«We are pleased that our close collaboration with
Qualcomm Technologies as a Snapdragon Wear platform ecosystem provider has resulted in ready to commercialize innovative
reference designs exploiting the leadership features of
Qualcomm Technologies» SoCs.
We used a
reference design phone supplied by
Qualcomm to run a series of benchmark tests with an eight - core 1.90 GHz CPU and 6 GB of RAM.
Qualcomm is currently working on a
reference design, with HTC and Lenovo expected to produce the first consumer sets sometime this year.
Before we started our demos, Bavor cautioned that we were trying a year - old prototype using a previous - generation chipset, with higher latency than we'd see on the upcoming
reference design from
Qualcomm or the final headsets from Lenovo and HTC.
(The
reference design will use
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 chipset.)
The hardware will be based on a
reference design made by Google and chipset
Qualcomm.
Snapdragon 845 (Credit:
Qualcomm) We've had a chance to benchmark the Snapdragon 845, first using a
reference design device and then with the Galaxy S9 +, and it's certainly a faster performer than last year's Snapdragon 835 (though it still lags behind the A11 Bionic chip powering Apple's latest iPhones in some aspects).
Qualcomm thinks standalone virtual reality (VR) is the way of the future, and to help move that future along the chip maker is out with its second
reference design headset on which partners like Google Daydream, HTC and Oculus will base their own devices.
«Fly IQ400W ERA Windows «comes with a strange name and typical specs in accordance with
Qualcomm's low - end
reference design.