While we are waiting for Snapdragon 820 to launch, Qualcomm has officially confirmed some of the chipset's specifications during a presentation in Hong Kong. The Snapdragon 820 is a flagship chipset that is expected to launch in various flagship phones in the first half of 2016.

While there are some rumours about it, we now know for sure it will offer premium 4G LTE and Wi-Fi technologies. It supports LTE Category 12 in the downlink and Category 13 in the uplink, which is up to 33% and 200$ improvement over its predecessor.

There is also an Advanced Closed Loop Antenna Tuning when paired with the QFE2550 Antenna Tuner, which optimizes RF performance in real network conditions and reduce dropped calls.

Snapdragon 820 X12 LTE modem features:

LTE Advanced speeds

Cat 12 (up to 600 Mbps) in the downlink

Cat 13 (up to 150 Mbps) in the uplink

Up to 4×4 MIMO on one downlink LTE carrier

Breakthrough connectivity support in unlicensed spectrum:

2×2 MU-MIMO (802.11ac)

Multi-gigabit 802.11ad

LTE-U and LTE+Wi-Fi Link Aggregation (LWA)

Comprehensive service across connection types

Next Gen HD Voice and Video calling over LTE and Wi-Fi

Call Continuity across Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G, and 2G

RF front end innovations

Advanced Closed Loop Antenna Tuner

Qualcomm RF360front end solution with CA

Wi-Fi/LTE antenna sharing