The imminent arrival of the great flagship phones of the brands will bring us a series of new terms and features that will land to try to be the new standard among consumers. Do you want to know what novelty will try to lure you through a new phone? Yes, you are right, they are more megapixels: the 8K video.
Recording at 8K with a phone will be possible in the coming months
Television resolutions continue to grow out of control, so with the intention of quickly overturning the question “and what are you going to watch on your new 8K TV if there is no content at that resolution?” (read with a whistle voice), Qualcomm is already showing the benefits of its new processor Snapdragon 865.
The company's new brain will give life to the next high-end terminals on the market, so you better get ready for the turra, because more than one will boast that you can record in 8K. And it is that this will be one of the star functions of the CPU, which together with the ISP Spectra 480 and the Sony IMX586 sensor, Qualcomm wanted to demonstrate with a nice example video recorded with one of its reference terminals of its new platform.
This is a recording made last November in Arizona, and in which we can see a beautiful perspective of the petroglyphs of the Antelope Canyon or the Grand Canyon. The images have been able to be taken thanks to the 48 megapixel sensor of Sony, since individual images of 33 megapixels to be able to capture a video in 8K. Taking into account the weight of the images, you can get an idea of the bandwidth and processing power that is needed to bring such a video to life, so you can already imagine that the Snapdragon 865 offers an interesting level processing.
Last November, we took a trip to capture Arizona in all its splendor. Take a look at the first 8K video shot on a #Snapdragon 865 #5G-powered phone. ?️ https://t.co/Fl4EYYh9YP
- Qualcomm @Qualcomm February 4, 2020
What brands and phones will record in 8K?
The answer could be quite simple, since we would only have to think about those high-end phones that mount the new Qualcomm processor. However, in the last few months we have had some clues that indicated it, since both Samsung and Xiaomi seem to be prepared to offer 8K recording in their respective launches.