4K Resolution Smartphones to Come in 2015 Says Qualcomm

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has been hailed as the smartphone with the best display in the world offering the most realistic colors of all, that’s thanks to its Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440 resolution, that could quite literally tear your eyes) screen. And having seen it first hand, I can say for sure it truly is amazing.
But before the Note 4 came along, Apple were the ones that had set the bar introducing “Retina” displays (resolution so clear that your naked eye cannot see the pixels like you would on normal screens) on the iPhone 4 back in 2010.

Now seems Qualcomm, manufacturer of many of today’s key mobile technologies, want to further break the boundaries even further with the introduction of 4K resolution smartphones next year.
If you are yet to see a 4K resolution video, take it from me, this is a huge deal. It’s like watching a video in real life clarity, in fact even better. Once you go 4K you will never want to go back.
Most standard flagships this year came with FullHD or 1080p displays safe for the Note 4 and a few others, mid-range smartphones only had a meager 720p resolution. Basically this year watching a video from the small screen of your Galaxy S5 or HTC One M8 among and all top flagships is the same as watching it in your 48 inch FullHD screen at home.
But next year, the game is poised to change with 4K screens, smartphone screens will have the same resolution as the most advanced televisions (the same ones that would cost you close to Sh1million to buy).
However Qualcomm say a lot will need to be changed with the hardware of the current smartphones so they can handle all that resolution. Many phones still have just 16GB (or even 8GB) of storage — perilously little when the resolution is 3,840 x 2,160 for every frame.
“Where 4K will really take off is when you think of it being enabled by an ecosystem," says Qualcomm Technologies Co-President Murthy Renduchintala. "Concepts are going to drive it. It's not going to be the phone screen that's going to be the promoting factor in 4K. It's going to be what you want to do with data that's captured on your phone in 4K, and what you want to do with distributing data."