Android Community
December 28, 2020
Xiaomi has officially announced its latest flagship smartphone offering. The Mi 11 is now ready for public consumption as the Chinese OEM proudly introduced the device in its native country. It’s the first premium smartphone from Xiaomi for the new decade. It’s also the first commercially available product that runs on the newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile processor beating the unannounced Samsung Galaxy S21 series. After being a favorite topic the past few weeks, here is Xiaomi’s newest Android phone, ready to make an impression for the new year.
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Xiaomi Mi 11 comes equipped with a 2K AMOLED screen that can manage a 120Hz refresh rate. The advanced camera system is headlined by a 108MP 8K main shooter. For audio, the dual speakers with SOUND BY Harman Kardon offers topnotch listening experience.
Tech
3 months
Samsung will reveal its latest Exynos chipset on 12 January, 2021, the company has confirmed, teasing what’s likely to become the heart of at least some of the company’s new Galaxy S21 series.
Although Samsung hasn’t yet confirmed the unveil of the Galaxy S21 family of flagship phones, we have already been the subject of numerous leaks and know that the S21 family is expected to also debut in mid-January.
This new Exynos timing, then, would seem to be fairly precipitous for the chipset’s inclusion in the new phone, or at least some versions of it. Samsung has, typically, mixed things up when it comes to its SoC use, relying on Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon flagship for North American devices, while much of the rest of the world gets an Exynos-powered variant.
Android Community
December 18, 2020
Qualcomm has officially announced its latest premium flagship: the Snapdragon 888. The SoC offers 5G support which means any device that will use it will be able to offer 5G connectivity. With this development, we can say 2021 will be filled with really powerful 5G smartphones from a number of OEMs. At Qualcomm’s event, it was mentioned these companies will introduce Snapdragon 888-powered devices: Asus, LG, Black Shark, Lenovo, and Xiaomi amonth others. The Samsung Galaxy S21 888 will use it. The upcoming Motorola Nio may run on the same chipset as mentioned.
This Snapdragon 888 5G SoC will improve overall phone experience drastically. We somehow have an idea about its performance although we can’t confirm if the Samsung Galaxy S21 benchmarked recently and comapred with the iPhone 12 Pro was running on the new Snapdragon model or if its Exynos.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Performance Preview: Big Gains For Next-Gen Android Flagships
Just over two weeks ago, Qualcomm introduced us to the latest member of its extensive mobile platform SoC family: the Snapdragon 888. This high-end Snapdragon Mobile Platform is the successor to the Snapdragon 865/865+, and will be featured in next year s top tier flagship Android smartphones from the likes of Samsung, OnePlus, LG, and countless others.
At the time of its announcement, Qualcomm gave us some high level specs on the Snapdragon 888, including the fact that it has a single prime core based on the new Arm Cortex-X1 microarchitecture clocked at 2.84GHz, three performance cores cocked at 2.42GHz, and four efficiency cores clocked at 1.8GHz. Qualcomm claims its new Kryo 680 CPU architecture delivers a 25 percent uplift in performance over its predecessor, while its Adreno 660 GPU is dialed in for a 35 percent gain over the previous-gen Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU. In addition, Qualcomm made
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 benchmarks
Credit: Qualcomm
Qualcomm has run the Snapdragon 888 reference phone through a few familiar general performance benchmarks, such as AnTuTu, as well as AI-specific benchmarks to showcase the chipsets machine learning capabilities. What we can say right off the bat is that the Snapdragon 888 is fast very fast at least in this reference form factor device.
The CPU results from GeekBench 5 reveals a notable improvement over last year’s Snapdragon 865, and some further testing shows this score hits the 25% CPU improvement previously touted by Qualcomm. The Cortex-X1 CPU core is definitely capable of crunching some serious numbers and makes up the bulk of the gains. The multi-core score is quite impressive too. The graphics results via GFX Bench see the chip also easily meet Qualcomm’s 35% improvement estimate. Although results for real games may vary and we don’t yet know how well the Snapdragon 888 sustains its peak performance.