OnePlus, Realme, and Asus have announced the release of smartphones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoCs, just one day after Qualcomm announced the flagship chipset. Asus will release the ROG Phone 6 gaming smartphone, which will be powered by Qualcomm’s latest chipset, while the OnePlus handset, which will feature the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, is expected to hit the market in the third quarter of this year. Realme has also revealed that its GT2 Master Explorer Edition will be the first device to feature the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. Several other manufacturers have announced plans to use the new Qualcomm SoCs, but these are the first few to reveal concrete plans.
On its official Weibo page, OnePlus teased an upcoming smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. OnePlus has not revealed the name of the device, but the company has stated that it will be available in the third quarter of 2022.
The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC will also be found in the Realme GT2 Master Explorer Edition. In fact, Realme stated on Weibo that the flagship smartphone will be the first Android device to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ processor. The handset’s official release date has yet to be announced.
Finally, Taiwanese electronics behemoth Asus has confirmed that the ROG Phone 6 series, which will be released as the Tencent variant in China, will feature the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC in both the Chinese and global variants. The ROG brand also announced on its official Instagram page that the ROG Phone 6 will be the first gaming smartphone to feature the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. Earlier this year, 2D renders of the ROG Phone 6 series were leaked. The upcoming Asus ROG Phone 6 series was shown to have a design similar to the Asus ROG Phone 5 series.
Qualcomm’s latest mobile platforms are the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoCs. Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 can deliver up to 10% faster CPU performance and 30% better power efficiency than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Apart from OnePlus, Realme, and Asus, several other manufacturers, including Black Shark, Honor, iQoo, Lenovo, Motorola, Nubia, Oppo, Redmi, Vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE, announced that they would launch smartphones with the latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC.
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