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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3: A powerhouse for mid-range smartphones
With the goal of enhancing immersive experiences and delivering top-notch performance to customers’ daily lives, Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Mobile Platform. All-around improvements are brought about by the redesigned platform, which also has a robust 5G connection, fan-favorite mobile gaming, an innovative camera, and on-device AI. The new Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is sure to establish itself as a new benchmark for the mid-range Android market. The Octa-Core Kyro CPU with three distinct clusters powers the Qualcomm SoC, which was produced using a 4 nm manufacturing process.
Features and Specifications: What’s new in the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 CPU?
- CPU: With a prime core clocked at 2.63 GHz, three performance cores capable of 2.4 GHz, and four efficiency cores running at 1.8 GHz, the chipset has a 1+3+4 design.
- GPU: With a 50% increase in GPU performance, Qualcomm promises to improve gaming and graphics quality for consumers.
- Enhanced AI: The goal of the on-device AI improvements is to achieve a 60% performance boost, which will increase the effectiveness and responsiveness of the AI-driven applications. Remosaic and AI video retouch imaging technologies are reportedly included, and it can handle three lenses being captured simultaneously.
- Power efficiency: With its 20% boost in power efficiency, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor may allow devices that use it to have longer battery life.
- Charging capability: With the integration of Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 technology, fast charging is possible, with the battery supposedly being filled from empty to 50% in five minutes.
- Display: Up to 4K resolution monitors at a 60Hz refresh rate or WFHD+ resolution at 168 Hz are supported by the chipset for display.
- Camera: The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is outfitted with a Qualcomm Spectra triple ISP, which provides support for 4K HDR video recording at 60 Hz and can handle primary camera modules with up to 200 MP resolution. Notable is also the inclusion of the Qualcomm Spectra Triple ISP, which supports the full range of Snapdragon Sound Technology and sensors up to 200 megapixels.
- Connectivity: The Snapdragon X63 5G Modem-RF system offers dual SIM, dual active (DSDA) 5G and 4G connections. Furthermore, compatible with Bluetooth v5.3 and Wi-Fi 6/6E is the Qualcomm FastConnect 6700.
- Memory: At 3200 MHz, the chipset can interface with the newest LPDDR5T RAM.
- Gaming: Equipped with Adreno HDR Fast Blend and Qualcomm Game Quick Touch, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC is branded SM7550-AB and comes with a few Snapdragon Elite Gaming capabilities.
The first smartphone using the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is anticipated to be unveiled this month, and major OEMs like Honor and Vivo will be among the first to use it. In the first quarter of 2024, we may anticipate the chip’s arrival in Europe.
The first quarter of 2024 is already over; during this interval, Samsung has introduced several Galaxy smartphones of particular belonging, such as the flagship Galaxy S24 series, the Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35, the mid-range ones, the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy F15, the budgetable ones, and many more. But the fact is, after being the latest smartphones, they have a lack of ‘charging speed.’
Undoubtedly, Samsung is leading the tech industry with its top-notch features, design, and larger batteries, as compared to other Android manufacturers, but despite all this, it has a massive lack of charging speed. Samsung usually attaches larger batteries to its Galaxy smartphones to enhance the users’ non-stop-using experience. But a larger battery isn’t worth it unless it has a good charging speed.
On the other hand, Chinese manufacturers are equipping their smartphones with charging speeds north of 100W, whereas 45W is the maximum speed you can get on Galaxy smartphones. However, even 45W charging is quite rare among Galaxy phones. Samsung has launched most of the Galaxy devices in the last couple of years, including the flagship with support for 25W.
Here we are making things easy for you if you are looking to buy a Galaxy smartphone that debuted in 2024 with the support of 45W charging speed by mentioning a list of devices:
- Galaxy S24 Ultra
- Galaxy S24+
- Galaxy F55
- Galaxy M55
- Galaxy C55
The list is quite short, even considering that the Galaxy F55, M55, and C55 are just rebranded variants of the same smartphone for different regions. Now Samsung is setting up to launch its next-generation foldable devices, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, in July, but it is yet to be confirmed whether these devices will get a boost in charging speeds from 25W or not.
The Korean brand – Samsung has recently announced its two mid-range Galaxy smartphones – Galaxy A55 5G and Galaxy A35 5G. A new benchmark listing has a spot for Samsung’s affordable smartphone, Galaxy35 5G.
Samsung is now gearing up for its next affordable Galaxy smartphone, the M35 5G, as the reports are unvunveilhey have found a new benchmark listing for Samsung the Galaxy M35 5G.
The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380.
The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine.
This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type.
Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35.
At the moment, no specs and features of the device have been revealed or leaked. Still, since Galaxy M series smartphones usually have a bit higher battery power of at least 6000mAh, the forthcoming Galaxy M35 5G smartphone also arrives with the same battery power.
Firmware
Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices
Verizon has rolled out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices. Earlier, these devices had received the same update outside the US, but now they are gradually expanding to the US.
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers.
For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.
If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.
Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.