Breaking Qualcomm Snapdragon 215 Launched

[Abhinav]

Qualcomm has launched Snapdragon 215 SoC for smartphones between $60 and $130 (~ Rs. 5,100-8,200) price range. This 64-bit chip is among firsts for the 200-series chipset. It has four ARM Cortex-A53 cores at a maximum clock speed of 1.3GHz and Adreno 308 GPU to boost the gaming performance by up to 25 percent.

The Snapdragon 215 is 50 percent faster than its predecessor. It supports 19.9:9 aspect ratio HD+ (1,560 x 720) display, NFC, dual camera and dual VoLTE.

Qualcomm Launches Quad-Core Snapdragon 215 SoC for Budget Smartphones

 

[iDJ]

Now that's a downgrade. Why are they still making 200 series? It should have shut down 4 years ago. Even a basic decent phone requires Snapdragon 400 series processor. Talking about pricing $60 (₹8,500). Don't we get Redmi phone with Snapdragon 430 processor under 6k.