Next-generation flagship phones equipped with the upcoming Snapdragon 898 (Snapdragon 8 Gen1) processor may come with a battery capacity starting with 4,500mAh and have at least 65W flash charging as standard.
The info comes from reliable leakster Digital Chat Station through a post on Weibo. A similar post on the platform had also revealed earlier that Qualcomm will be ditching its typical Snapdragon xxx moniker for the upcoming flagship chip in favor of ‘Snapdragon 8 Gen1’. MediaTek has already pulled something similar, renaming its Dimensity 2000 chip to Dimensity 9000.
Chinese phones, particularly those from BBK Electronics subsidiaries (OPPO, realme, OnePlus), have already started arriving with 65W charging support even in the mid-range, so it doesn’t really come as a surprise. And on top of that, companies like OPPO and Xiaomi have even begun working on tech to cross the 125W mark.
And as for 4,500mAh batteries, it comes as a necessity really, given the power-hungry processors and displays that have grown larger and smoother than ever. 120Hz displays have already become standardized in flagship phones and are known to consume much more power than 60Hz, hence the push for larger batteries.
Coming to the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 itself, or whatever you want to call it ahead of its launch, it is said to offer a 20 percent performance improvement over its predecessor. It will be featuring a prime ARM Cortex-X2 CPU core running at 3.0GHz, three Cortex-A710 based mid-cores clocked at 2.5GHz and four efficient Cortex-A510 derived cores running at 1.79GHz. Samsung’s 4nm process will be used in manufacturing it.
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