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How to train your dragonhttp://www.greenbot.com/article/3030317/phones/7-smartphone-trends-to-watch-this-year.html?google_editors_picks=true Faster wireless speeds Maps and movies will load much faster as LTE and other wireless connections on smartphones reach higher speeds. Many top-line smartphones being announced at Mobile World Congress this month will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip, which as an LTE modem that can reach download speeds of 600Mbps (bits per second) and upload speeds of 150Mbps. For the first time, smartphones will support LTE-U, in which faster data transfers can take place over both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. The Snapdragon 820 also has WiGig technology, which can connect handsets wirelessly to monitors, peripherals and docks. Qualcomm says WiGig is up to three times faster than 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Not all processors will have these wireless features, particularly WiGig, so be sure to check phone specifications. Cognitive computing Qualcomm also wants to put machine learning in smartphones, which could help in image recognition and location-based applications. Qualcomm claims smartphones with the Snapdragon 820 can be trained to understand use patterns by analyzing and classifying sound, location, image and other data. The cognitive computing capabilities come from algorithms and circuitry from the company's Zeroth neural chip. Qualcomm showed IDG News Service a smartphone that immediately identified people and tagged their names after a picture was taken, much like tagging pictures in Facebook. In this case, the processing happened locally and didn't rely on remote deep-learning servers. Qualcomm claims it has about 30 applications in mind for this technology, though it might make some users nervous. |
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