Successor to Original G Series to Feature Qualcomm
KARACHI, June 20,
2013
— Expanding on a collaboration
with a proven track record of success, LG Electronics, Inc. (LG),Qualcomm
Incorporated, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc.,today announced that the successor tothe award-winning LG Optimus will
utilize Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 800 processor, the industry’s most
advanced mobile chipset.
LG’s G series device
powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors will redefine the smartphone
experience through stunning performance, rich graphics and outstanding battery
efficiency. Capable of carrier aggregation, the Snapdragon 800 processoris
designed to allow LTE to be even faster by maximizing spectrum bandwidth to
increase data speeds and reduce latency.
“With a powerful
combination of LG’s core smartphone technologies and the Qualcomm Snapdragon
800 processor, we are taking a significant step forward in the mobile
experience,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics
Mobile Communications Company. “The result of this collaboration will in many
ways be the industry’s best smartphone by which all other devices will be
measured.”
“We are pleased with
continued collaboration with LG,” said Murthy Renduchintala, executive vice
president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and co-president,Qualcommmobile and computing.
“Fully tailored and tightly integrated with the entire next G series platform,
the new, best-in-class Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor will help deliver
blazing fast web browsing, eye-popping graphics, seamless connectivity as well
as an unmatched multimedia experience.”
Delivering up to 75
percent better performance than the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the
Snapdragon 800 processor will feature many of the industry’s leading technologies
for the ultimate mobile experience, including:
• Higher speedswith
Krait 400 CPUs in quad configuration to deliver greater processing and
communication performance;
• Enhanced aSMP
(asynchronous Symmetric Multiprocessing) architecture for
dynamic power sensing and control for peak performance per core and improved
battery life without the use of specialized cores;
• Fully integrated
connectivity with a wide variety of communication options including 4G LTE
Advanced Carrier Aggregation;
• New Adreno™
330 GPU delivering more than
two times better performance for compute applications over the current Adreno 320 GPU;
• Video capture,
playback and display in Ultra HD format, four times higher density than 1080p
HD;
• HD multichannel audio
with DTS-HD and Dolby Digital Plus, supporting higher display resolutions up to
2560 x 2048 pixels and Miracast 1080p HD; and
• Qualcomm
IZat Location technology, featuring GNSS for more accurate navigation and
location services.
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