Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority
TL;DR
- OnePlus has confirmed that it’ll launch the world’s first phone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor.
- The new chipset is one rung below the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.
- A OnePlus executive added that this phone will launch “globally.”
Qualcomm has just launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, which is expected to power a host of flagship Android phones. However, the company also revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which sits below the Elite chip. Now, we know who will be first to use this processor.
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OnePlus confirmed on Weibo that it’ll launch the world’s first phone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor. Furthermore, OnePlus executive Li Jie Louis said that it would be launched “globally.” The exec added that the chipset has a 3nm design and Oryon CPU cores.
The company didn’t reveal more details about the phone, but the mention of a global launch suggests this isn’t just a OnePlus Ace phone. The company’s Ace phones are China-only affairs, but we’ve seen some of these phones released outside China with a new name.
I’m guessing the OnePlus 15R will pack the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip. After all, OnePlus has traditionally used previous-generation flagship silicon for these R-series phones, such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the OnePlus 13R. So the switch to a more current but (presumably) similarly powerful processor makes sense. But this is just speculation on my part, and we’ll need to wait for more info.
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