Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 855 Plus is a Natural Fit For Tomorrow's Gaming Phones (theverge.com) 52
Qualcomm has announced a mid-year refresh of its flagship Snapdragon 855 chipset. The new Snapdragon 855 Plus is further optimized for gaming, VR, AI, and 5G connectivity. From a report: It sticks to the same overall design and chip layout as the 855, but Qualcomm says the Plus's eight-core Kryo CPU runs at higher peak clock speeds of up to 2.96GHz. But more important to gamers is a 15 percent performance improvement from the Adreno 640 GPU. That will likely result in the 855 Plus making its way into the next wave of gaming-focused smartphones like those we've seen from Asus, Razer, and other companies. As for AI and VR improvements, Qualcomm is continuing to talk up its fourth-generation AI Engine that's capable of "more than 7 trillion operations per second." The Snapdragon 855 Plus will deliver "best-in-class cellular performance, superior coverage and all-day battery life in premium 5G devices," according to the company. It's still using two separate modems to get there, however, with both a Snapdragon X24 LTE 4G modem and Qualcomm's X50 5G modem on board. I guess we won't see a more efficient approach until the inevitable Snapdragon 865.
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The x86-64 processors boot into 16-bit real mode. But once switched into long (64-bit) mode, they can't be switched back into real mode (or the virtual mode used by 32-bit Windows to run 16-bit software).
Input for gaming phones (Score:2)
I haven't even seen any certainty about how many people even own a physical controller for a phone. For any game that isn't point-and-click, on-screen buttons at the bottom corners of the screen are too easy to miss when looking at the action in the middle.
Wow, a whole days battery power! (Score:1)
.. I didn't thought we'd see the day!
I think my T28 had just ~two days of battery life (possibly 60 hours, one google hit even say 85) and one friend had got the Nokia 8210 because of it's much better battery life (one week or so), anyway then things improved and ~two weeks become typical and now they are bragging about how it CAN LAST THE WHOLE DAY?!
Then again that's one day of usage I assume.
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Have you ever considered not being a shit? You know very well that a dumbphone from 15 years ago has almost nothing in common with a modern smartphone.
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Biggest drain on a battery is an LCD screen and distant second - GPU. So if you use your phone for sparse calling and occasional texting - as you'd have used T28 back then - it'll last ages since battery tech progressed so much.
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No such thing (Score:1)
There is no such thing as a gaming phone, and this is by design. Games that run decently on smartphones are of the two-peas-in-a-pod kind. There are mobile gaming consoles, although they too have serious limitations, also by design.
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Guess you've never used an iPhone.
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Title IV [access-board.gov] only requires relay services and captioning of public television broadcasts. How exactly do you plan to charge phonemakers with ADA violations when they don't even provide the services ("any common carrier engaged in interstate communication by wire or radio as defined in section 3(h) and any common carrier engaged in intrastate communication by wire or radio,"), and their phones don't display public televis
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How exactly do you plan to charge phonemakers with ADA violations when they don't even provide the services ("any common carrier engaged in interstate communication by wire or radio as defined in section 3(h) and any common carrier engaged in intrastate communication by wire or radio,")
Then don't sue the manufacturers. Instead sue the carriers that resell the phones under a financing arrangement.
and their phones don't display public television broadcasts?
There's a PBS Video App [pbs.org]. Have you had problems installing it on your device?
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Those carriers provide Telecommunications Relay Services, and smartphones are not TDDs. Do you even know anything about this area, or are you merely operating on the theory that a pre-smartphone era law (enacted in 1990) simply must cover smartphone usage because you wish it to do so?
And you propose to sue smartphone manufacturers in connection with the P
Great until it goes up in flames. (Score:2)
It's impressive to do almost 3 Ghz in a cellphone processor... Granted that's probably a version of "turbo" which means it can't maintain that for very long. Of course this means cellphones will likely overheat even faster since there isn't much area or space to provide proper heat-sinking.
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Of course this means cellphones will likely overheat even faster since there isn't much area or space to provide proper heat-sinking.
Oh that's ok, I've put mine in a half inch thick rubber bubble with three layers of glass and plastic over the screen to stop every little thing from wrecking it. Now excuse me while I use it in direct sunlight outside on a very hot day.
Xperia Play (Score:2)
The only gaming phone I can think of is Sony's Xperia Play [wikipedia.org]. Its gimmick was a slide-out panel with a digital directional pad, a touchpad for analog directional control, and discrete buttons. But that was eight years ago.
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There is the phone from Razer (the company known for mice, keyboards etc.)
How many people with the Razer phone also bought the Razer controller?
You can get your mobile games from F-droid!
I thought most major games had non-free engines, and even those with free engines relied on non-free assets [f-droid.org]. If not, then are these games developed as a hobby, as opposed to for a living?