Qualcomm’s Sr. Director of Product Management, Judd Heape, released a new interview to Android Authority in which she explained the most important upcoming implementations on Snapdragon chipsets. According to Judd, the upcoming Snapdragon 865 which will be the next flagship-grade SoC by the San Diego-based giant, will support Qualcomm’s own HDR10+ standard. In case you do not know, HDR10 was initially produced by Samsung and Amazon in 2017 and after that, Samsung developed HDR10+ for even better image reproduction.
Now, Qualcomm is working on its own take on HDR10+ which will debut with its next flagship chipset. Judd Heape referred to the new processor by calling it the Snapdragon 865, but she did not confirm that Snapdragon 865 will be the final name of the chipset. It is the natural successor of the Snapdragon 855, but its name may still be subject to changes. Note that the Snapdragon 855 found on the latest flagships unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona already supports HDR10+, but we are talking about Samsung’s one and not about the technology which is being personally developed by Qualcomm.
So, the new standard from the San Diego giant will most likely compete with Samsung’s technology. Besides Snapdragon 865 and its support to HDR10+, Judd Heape also talked about camera resolutions support of its existing Snapdragon chipsets in the same interview. As you probably know if you are a mobile tech-addicted, Qualcomm recently updated the specs sheet of several existing Snapdragon chipsets by adding the support to cameras up to 192 Megapixels.
Judd explained that this entry in the specs sheet was not added before because the highest resolution mode does not support 30 fps and 60 fps, as well as multi-frame noise reduction and zero shutter lag technology (also known as ZSL). But since several manufacturers started equipping their devices with sensors boasting very high resolution, Qualcomm decided to let users, manufacturers, and developers know about the support to cameras with higher resolutions.
