Get ready for top-end smartphones with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip

Smartphones will get 4K video playback and unprecedented wireless speeds with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820, and users who want these high-end features should get ready for flagship handsets with that chip to be announced soon.

Many such smartphones with Snapdragon 820 will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress trade show in early March, said Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, on an earnings call on late Wednesday.

One of the highest-profile smartphones with the Snapdragon 820 could be Samsung's Galaxy S7, which will carry the chip in some models. In January at CES, LeTV -- which has undergone a name change to LeEco -- announced the LeTV LeMax Pro, which was the first phone with Snapdragon 820.

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