Snapdragon 480 is the first 4-series 5G chipset from Qualcomm
- Andreidinutu
- mEA
- 04 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 04 Jan 2021Even 4G is still poor in many countries. In my location... moreYes they say 150-200 because thats what 4g can offer. If the servers from which you download dont offer you that much speed, it's not the carrier's fault
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- Anonymous
- Lj$
- 04 Jan 2021
Uesera, 04 Jan 2021-More and cheaper 5G phones : Alright.
-5G coverage and sp... moreEven 4G is still poor in many countries.
In my location, if you live in any state capital, you may have decent 4G (above 50Mbps).
If you live in smaller cities (like 200.000 citizens or below), do not expect more than 15Mbps.
But still the carriers advertise speeds of 200-400 Mbps.
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- Tom
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- 04 Jan 2021
Zozika, 04 Jan 2021Support for 120Hz refresh rate displays WITH FHD resolution... moreReally? On a dirt cheap phone?
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- LGMasterRace
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- 04 Jan 2021
Pabliell, 04 Jan 2021Soooo... This chip is almost on the level of the 720G while... moreIt probably signals that Qualcomm fears it might lose out to Mediatek and other competitors if they do not step their game up. That amount of performance on a 4-series implies that the rumors of the upcoming 7-series chip will is supposed to perform as good as 865 are probably true. The difference between current 8-series and 7-series chips is too massive and not sustainable. Companies putting older 8-series chipsets on their new devices highlighted that last year.
Well, I guess I might finally be able to buy myself a decent performing tablet again. None of those dogshit A22 and S450 tablets.
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- BrickBroke
- pXC
- 04 Jan 2021
People are forgetting one thing: Brands need to have some profit, and people are dreaming about 150 bucks phone with this SoC!!!!
JUst think: since is a low low tier SoC, brand will give you a 720p screen, maybe microUSB, not so good audio speaker or camera.
i know, i know is low tier, and we dont expect more but, c'mon...we are in 2021, give us 1080p screen even in low tier is time already!!! and since its all about budget, and all i see is budget phones with big battery, maybe we see phones with this and a 5000mah battery...thats good, the only good i can trhink about beign a low tier SoC.
Other than that dont expect much, i have use SD400, 410 and 430 and...pretty much they suffer a lot with games, even in basic tasks...in a short time you will regret the buying even tho is cheap!
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- rob
- B1H
- 04 Jan 2021
Uesera, 04 Jan 2021-More and cheaper 5G phones : Alright.
-5G coverage and sp... moreWell in certain countries where internet isn't a ripoff, like most of Europe and some countries in Asia here 5G plans won't be that much more expensive, so even budget phone folks will be able to enjoy it.
While if we check the ripoff countries like US, South America, Africa, rest of Asia, yeah your two kidneys are up for sale.
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- wersy2
- 8XA
- 04 Jan 2021
Seems that we've reached the point when even "budget" phones are fast enough.
I wonder, what the excuse would be to expect the average Joe to shell out for the flagships?
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- Hemedans
- XKW
- 04 Jan 2021
Matt, 04 Jan 2021Snapdragon 675 and 678 should offer equal or slightly bette... moresuprise it use same cpu as sd 675, kryo 460, and because it has better manufacturing process (8nm) this soc would be better than 675 in both cpu and gpu.
too good to be true, lets see price of devices first.
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 04 Jan 2021
Cheap phones are getting good
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- Anonymous
- 6wN
- 04 Jan 2021
Snapdragon is a bit expensive but more stable more durable. No MediaTek for me.
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- Pabliell
- mNI
- 04 Jan 2021
Soooo... This chip is almost on the level of the 720G while having a better GPU and 5G, but with a bit worse ISP.
It seems that soon even the mid-range won't be worth buying anymore.
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- PaintNinja
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- 04 Jan 2021
Uesera, 04 Jan 2021-More and cheaper 5G phones : Alright. -5G coverage and sp... moreI guess the more 5G phones out there the more incentive there is for carriers to increase their 5G capacity and coverage, which in turn benefits everyone. Not all carriers charge extra for 5G speeds either, so for those users they get the benefits of 5G overtime without any additional cost to their data plans.
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- Zozika
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- 04 Jan 2021
Support for 120Hz refresh rate displays WITH FHD resolution, or support 120Hz OR FHD resolution?
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- Anonymous
- 60$
- 04 Jan 2021
Looks like it will be against mediatek u800? Hopefully not more expensive since won't be faster think.
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- Uesera
- Bw5
- 04 Jan 2021
-More and cheaper 5G phones : Alright.
-5G coverage and speed : Nope.
-5G plan prices : Nope.
Still don't see the point yet expecially 5G entry level devices for people with limited budget :/
Good to see the cheaper SoCs getting advanced fast though.
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- Anonymous
- Lj$
- 04 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 04 Jan 2021Snapdragon 4xx series is for entry level devices. 2xx ...
4xx = low midranges
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- Anonymous
- Lj$
- 04 Jan 2021
IpsDisplay, 04 Jan 2021Actually Qualcomm is not so great for budget chipsets
Me... moreBecause it is way cheaper to buy Mediatek P series (mainly P22) than buying SD450/460.
Sub-$200 brings very low money to the OEMs.
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- Shadocx
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- 04 Jan 2021
pesches132, 04 Jan 2021Sure, on paper it's all improvement and stuff but that... moreIt's made on 8 nm process, and the Cortex-A76 aren't clocked that high compared to something like SD 855, also it doesn't have as much cores, so it should produce less heat.
SD 480(2 cores Cortex-A76 clocked @2.0Ghz) vs SD 855(1 core Cortex-A76 @2.84Ghz+3 cores Cortex-A76@2.42Ghz).
The SD 765/765G is a good exemple of this configuration and I haven't heard stories about it overheating, so SD 480 should be fine.
If you're talking about the 5G modem, I think it should produce less heat since it's an internal modem and you can also use 4G.
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- Anonymous
- Myf
- 04 Jan 2021
Snapdragon 4xx series is for entry level devices.