Know your Droid under the skin.

 

The smartphones are rising at great pace globally. So there is fierce competition among the manufacturers to provide the best thing at the best price. Though most of the buyers are out in the market that dont know what they are paying for since there are so many options available to them. And they end up paying for something they don't need at all or sometimes they need more. So I am here to make you understand that what you actually need in your next smartphone. I will mainly focus on the hardware of the smartphones so that you have a better understanding of the hardware of your next device.
Starting off if you find any term in this ariticle unknown then please make sure you know what it is before continuing with the post. I am writing this article completely based on my knowledge so there might be small mistakes please let me know if something is wrong in the comment section below.

Manufacturers of Smartphones.
The major smartphone giants around the world now are:
1)Samsung
2)LG
3)Sony
4)Apple
5)The chinese manufacturers(Xiaomi,Gionee,etc)
6)The just drowning or just rising manufacturers(Nokia,Motorola resp.)
These companies use different kinds of market policies for different kinds of people, targeting all kinds of consumers,providing different kinds of user experiences with different kinds of UI and varing feedbacks, as well as different kinds of aesthetic makeups.
But beneath these aesthetic goodies lies the main power house the internal hardware(chipset, processors etc.)

Manufacturers of  Internal Hardware:
1)Qualcomm
2)Mediatech
3)Broadcomm
4)Intel
7)Nvidia
6)Home-Baked Hardwares
Now I assume you know what the above companies manufacture.
They are the chipset manufactureres. On the chipset there is processor,GPU,ports and all other components of your device.

Processors:
You might have come across names of many mobile processors such as:
1) Snapdragon Series (Qualcomm)

2) Brcm chipsets(Broadcomm)
3) Helio (Mediatech)
4 )Intel Atom(Intel)
5) Nvidia Tegra(Nvidia)
6 )Exonos 5/6/7(Home-Baked by Samsung)
7) Huawei also produces its own chips.

Processor Architecture:
1)Krait(Qualcomm)
2)Cortex(Arm)

GPU's:
1)Adreno Series(Qualcomm)

2)PowerVR Series (Mediatech)
3)Videocore Series (Broadcomm)

Architecture Types:
1)32 bits
2)64 bits
Now that you have heard about all the terms above so let me explain them to you with some examples.


Explanation:

Let us start from the basics.

• Processors are the heart of a smartphone. Among the many Processor manufacturers mentioned above the most popular is the Qualcomm Snapdragon Series. This is due to there vast lineup of processors and opensource nature of the company. By opensource we mean the tools codes files used to develop a paricular driver for a particular model of a processor of the company is available to all. That means anybody can use these and can cater a new driver for the chip altogether. Just like the Android OS is opensource.
• The other chip manufacturers are closed source. That is they do not reveal any information about their codes and tools to general public. Thus limits the 3rd party developers to cater any new drivers and this in turn restricts the possiblities of having a custom rom on those devices such as Cyanogen Mod.
• In smartphone chips there is no seperate GPU. The GPU is integrated in the processor itself. Due to lack of space in the motherboard. Such as Adreno 405 in the heart of Snapdragon 615 by Qualcomm.

Thats the basics lets dig deep now.

• The processors are build by using different architectures. These architectures are researched and developed by only one company in this world- ARM Technologies. The latest cortex A50 series is the most powerful of the lot. With a octacore CPU (2 quad core CPUs merged).
• These Architectures in turn are built by whats called a nano meter process. The most powerful cores till date ARM Cortex A57 is build by 21NM process. The lower the nano meter process goes the more processing units can be fit in a smaller place thus making the CPU faster.
• This technology however has a big disadvantage. The limit of this technology is 8NM process. After which the Processing unis will become so small that they will not be able to be seen even with the most powerful electron microscopes present at the moment. So further development of technology then will require a scientific breakthrough.
• Now lets discuss about bits of a architecture. That is either 32 bits or 64 bits. This sets the limit of the maximum data that can be transferred trough the chip in a moment. Now you can be mislead by people that then 64 bits will always be faster. But its not so in reality. As for the chip to function at full 64 bits throttle it requires other system resources in ample as well such as RAM. In order for 64 bit chip to work at its full it needs at least 4 gigs of RAM on board. However even with 2 gigs a 64 bit chip will work faster than a same 32 bit chip somewhat but if its 1 gig or so there wont be any difference.And also the system must be 64 bit enabled else it will be the same. Android is 64 bit enabled from Android Lollipop v5.0.2 and later before that it was 32 bits.

So this is all about processors to know. Specifically mobile processors. The computer processors though are similar and dissimilar to mobile processors in many ways. We will talk about that another day.

Hope you liked my first post. Please comment your thoughts on the post and correct me at any point if you think i am wrong at some points.

Thank you , Have a great day folks. ^-^