Battery life on many of the top Android phones is very good, especially on the Pixel 2 phones. That's partly due to the current power-efficient Snapdragon 835 processor running many top Android phones today.
We can expect even better battery life, with 2018-2019 Android phones as Qualcomm claims the Snapdragon 845 will be 30% more power efficient than the 835.
The Snapdragon 845 chip will let Android phones take advantage of a photography technology called "multi-frame noise reduction" for images up to 16 megapixels. It'll allow 2018-2019 Android phones to take up to 60 photos per second and combine them into one photo to reduce "noise," which is that grainy look you most often see in low-light photos.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 845 chip will allow Android phones to record 4K video in HDR (high dynamic range) at a smooth 60 frames per second (fps). Videos recorded in 4K HDR from smartphones will look fantastic on 4K HDR TVs.
HDR is a feature that enhances contrast ratio. That's to say it enhances colors, especially those the brighter and darker ends of the spectrum. As my former colleague Jeff Dunn put it: "The result is a picture that is more vivid, and more importantly, noticeably more life-like. Colors are less muted, and objects appear to have more depth. It’s not a gimmick so much as a straight improvement."
It'll also allow 2018-2019 Android phone cameras to take videos with a wider color gamut, which could bring even more fine color shades to videos.
So far, no smartphone can record video in HDR, despite the fact that several phones from 2017 have HDR-capable displays.
The Snapdragon 845 will also let Android phones record 720p video at a whopping 480 fps, which is twice as many frames per second as current smartphones that can record in 240 fps for slow-motion. It should make for ultra-smooth slow-motion that can slow down extremely fast movement.
Qualcomm claims the new Snapdragon 845 will be 25% more powerful than the current Snapdragon 835, and 30% more powerful for games.
The Snapdragon 845 will allow you to physically move in AR, VR, and mixed-reality applications, much like you can with HTC/Valve's Vive VR headset. When you physically move forward, you'll move forwards in a VR game, for example. The feature is called "6DoF," which stands for 6 degrees of freedom.
Qualcomm's new chip will also come with features that help VR, AR, and mixed-reality apps prevent you from colliding into walls and objects while you move around.
We'll also see an overall improvement in AR, VR, and mixed reality visual quality, performance, and power consumption.
AI performance on 2018-2019 Android phones running on the Snapdragon 845 will be tripled, which will help voice assistants better understand more natural ways of speaking.
Better AI will also make it easier to take good photos and videos, according to Qualcomm. Camera features like Portrait Mode, which use AI to identify the subject in the frame, will also get performance boosts.
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