With the release of Snapdragon 8 Gen1, mobile phone manufacturers have become "Dragon Trainers" and have successively launched flagship mobile phone products equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform. The strength of the hardware, after all, requires the complementarity of software technology to bring a more extreme experience and truly release the performance of this flagship processor. Among them, manufacturers strongly emphasize LTPO 2.0 technology, but the effect presented is different.
What is LTPO Technology? Before answering this question, let's first look at the refresh rate. Nowadays, most mobile phones have achieved a high refresh rate of 120Hz, which not only brings a smoother experience, but also a more stable game frame rate. But the high refresh rate also brings a more headache, that is, "battery life", which leads to the so-called "battery anxiety disorder". In this regard, Samsung, as a screen manufacturer, gave a solution - LTPO OLED screen.
Therefore, the screen using LTPO technology can achieve intelligent switching between 10Hz and 120Hz, and even between 1Hz and 120Hz. In simple terms, it is what we often call the adaptive smart switching screen display refresh rate. For example, when you swipe the screen, it will automatically switch to 120Hz, and when it is stationary, it will switch to the refresh rate of 10Hz, 24Hz, 60Hz and so on according to the content watched, thereby extending the battery life of the mobile phone.
Most of the mobile phones on the market today only have 60Hz and 120Hz gears, and the basic only flagship or high-end machines equipped with LTPO technology is the flagship machine. However, due to the different debugging capabilities of each mobile phone manufacturer, the effect presented may not be consistent, or even very different. Although some are equipped with LTPO technology, the effect is not ideal and cannot adapt to the overall situation, which is more common in the Camp of Android manufacturers.
The iPhone 13 Pro series released in September last year is also equipped with a similar ProMotion variable refresh rate technology, with 10Hz, 12Hz, 15Hz, 20Hz, 24Hz, 30Hz, 40Hz, 48Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 120Hz a total of 12 gears, which is also the best mobile phone with adaptive switching screen refresh rate capability. Similar to 12Hz, 15Hz, 24Hz, 48Hz, which are relatively rare refresh rates in the Android camp, Apple has a mount. The reason for expanding the gear to 12 gears is related to the battery life of the iPhone. I believe that many people know that the endurance of the iPhone has been criticized by users, but the endurance of the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max can also be ranked in the forefront of the market. In addition to the expansion of battery capacity, it is also closely related to the ProMotion technology it is equipped with.
However, in the layout strategy of Android manufacturers, such a high number of files will not be expanded. The author believes that the biggest possibility is that Android manufacturers focus more on the actual experience of users, and will choose to pull the refresh rate full in the scene. For example, when brushing a short video on Vibrato, the screen slide is 120Hz and the still playback is 60Hz, which can ensure a smooth experience when the user brushes the short video. However, for most video software, 24Hz may be sufficient when playing videos. And this leads to another big problem, the software ecology problem.
The iPhone can do a good job in terms of adaptive screen refresh rate, and its more perfect software ecology is indispensable. In the Android camp, the more open Android system, mainly relying on the major mobile phone manufacturers to debug themselves, is obviously a long way to form a consistency. At the same time, the iteration speed of hardware far exceeds the development of software, just like today's folding screen mobile phones, mobile phone manufacturers have basically achieved a relatively complete folding screen mobile phone form, but the internal software ecosystem and other aspects are not well adapted, and it is naturally difficult to get a good experience.
Therefore, in terms of the difference in the effect of LTPO, in addition to more excellent debugging, mobile phone manufacturers also need to continuously invest in research and development in the software ecology and gradually build a perfect ecosystem. Although this process will be relatively long, but the Android camp of developers is relatively large, what will happen in the future, it is worth looking forward to!