The new Snapdragon 660 and 630 chips have faster LTE and offer better battery life
May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
While flagships like the Galaxy S8 and Google’s Pixel are great, cheaper phones are just as important to the Android ecosystem. Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 660 and 630 systems on a chip are upgrades to last year’s mid-range Snapdragon 652 and 625, respectively, and offer more power, more features, faster connectivity, and perhaps most importantly, more battery life.
The chipsets feature the X12 LTE modem — the same 600 Mbps modem that’s in Verizon and Sprint iPhones, as well as in the Snapdragon 820. Bluetooth 5 is now default, and the 660 has 2 x 2 MIMO Wi-Fi as well.
Both platforms have Qualcomm Quick Charge 4, specialized chips for machine learning, and improved camera processing. Of course, processor and GPU speeds have been bumped as…
