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Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are expected to be two of the fastest Android handsets when they are revealed early next year. Not only that, but the South Korean manufacturer’s agreement with Qualcomm will protect that position from competing smartphones. The S9 family will have access to Qualcomm’s to-be-announced SnapDragon 845 processor (potentially alongside the Adreno 630 GPU). The 845 is expected to deliver performance gains of up to twenty-five percent over the current 835. DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, introduces the new Samsung Galaxy S8 (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) If you fast forward twelve months to Q4 2018, I have no doubt that there will be an army of Android-powered devices that will have the SnapDragon 845 hiding inside. Qualcomm will, once more, set the benchmark for another iteration of smartphones. But the increased capability of the 845 will not be available to everyone in the first half of the ye...

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are expected to be two of the fastest Android handsets when they are revealed early next year. Not only that, but the South Korean manufacturer’s agreement with Qualcomm will protect that position from competing smartphones. The S9 family will have access to Qualcomm’s to-be-announced SnapDragon 845 processor (potentially alongside the Adreno 630 GPU). The 845 is expected to deliver performance gains of up to twenty-five percent over the current 835. DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, introduces the new Samsung Galaxy S8 (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) If you fast forward twelve months to Q4 2018, I have no doubt that there will be an army of Android-powered devices that will have the SnapDragon 845 hiding inside. Qualcomm will, once more, set the benchmark for another iteration of smartphones. But the increased capability of the 845 will not be available to everyone in the first half of the ye...