The first smartphone with Snapdragon 820 is not from Samsung

We now have the first smartphone running the hot-out-of-the-oven Snapdragon 820 SoC, and no its not the Samsung Galaxy S7. Announced at CES 2016, the LeTV Le Max Pro is first to host the latest and greatest from Qualcomm.

Although LeTV is a new comer to the smartphone space, it is gearing up to the challenge pretty quickly. They are to begin operations soon in India as well and have recently concluded several product showcases in the country.

Coming back to the Le Max Pro running on the Snapdragon 820, it features some new tech that the SoC provides including an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor which can detect your fingerprint even with a sheet of plastic in between as opposed to the optical fingerprint sensors that are currently used, which fail even if the fingerprint sensor is a bit dirty. Next up is the new WiFi ad standard which would allow for 4K streaming over WiFi with faster throughput.

The Snapdragon 820 is the result of back to basics approach for the company. After the failure of the Snapdragon 810 SoC, Qualcomm needs a big hit with the 820 and things look promising. The new chipset features the company's own custom-designed Kryo cores with four cores clocked at 2.2 GHz, improved Adreno 530 GPU, Quick Charge 3.0 support, tri-band WiFi ad, LTE Cat.12 among several improvements in media decoding, video recording and image processing.

Source: Android Police