Snapdragon 898 found running on mysterious phone, key details emerge

Qualcomm is likely to announce the next flagship chipset for mobile devices through the Tech Summit event in December. The SoC that will be succeeding the Snapdragon 888 that powered many Android flagship phones this year is being tentatively called the Snapdragon 898. Tipster Digital Chat Station shared an image of a mysterious phone powered by the SD898 chip. The image shows the phone running a benchmarking app named Device Info HW that confirms some of the key details of Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship chip.

As can be seen in the image, the model number of Qualcomm’s next flagship chip is sm8450. The SoC has a tri-cluster architecture featuring Cortex X2 prime core working at 3.0GHz. It is accompanied by three Cortex-A710 cores working at 2.5Ghz, and four Cortex-A510 power-efficient cores clocking at 1.79GHz.

For graphics, the SoC is equipped with Adreno 730 GPU. While it is not mentioned in the screenshots, reports have claimed that the chipset will include the Snapdragon X65 5G modem that is said to offer 10Gbps of downlink speeds.

There is no word on the name of the device that can be seen in the screenshot. It is equipped with slim bezels, but its top design is not clearly visible. Probably, it features a punch-hole at the top-center position.

Xiaomi and Vivo are the two brands that are expected to announce a Snapdragon 898 SoC powered flagship phone as early as next month. Last year, Xiaomi had announced the Xiaomi Mi 11 5G with Snapdragon 888 in December 2020. Hence it is likely that it could be succeeded by the Xiaomi 12 in the coming month.

Vivo’s Snapdragon 898 powered flagship was spotted at Geekbench back in September. It is unclear whether it will be an X-series or a NEX branded model.

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