6 reasons you may want to buy a new smartphone in 2016

Should you buy a new smartphone next year? That depends on what it can do better than the one in your pocket now. And if Qualcomm has anything to say about it, that will be quite a bit.

Qualcomm chips power many of today’s high-end smartphones, including models from HTC, LG and OnePlus. The company’s latest flagship processor is the Snapdragon 820, which will start appearing in phones early next year. Of course, the new chip (technically a system on a chip, or SoC) is faster and more feature-rich, but, for 2016, the top-of-the-line Snapdragon needs to do more than just iterate.