Earlier today (3rd December 2021), Motorola and one of its official teased their upcoming flagship smartphone with Qualcomm’s newly announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The teaser highlighted the device’s performance, with the Edge X30 being the first to achieve a 1 million score on AnTuTu.

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The Lenovo owned brand shared the news on its official Weibo account (a Chinese microblogging website). This was even shared by Lenovo smartphone department’s General Manager, Chen Jin. Looking at the teaser poster, the company showcased the impressive feat of the Edge X30 series’ score hitting 1 million score on AnTuTu, which is a known smartphone benchmarking platform. Chen Jin stated that improvements in performance arrives at a time where VR technology is becoming more popular and the world is shifting towards the metaverse.

In other words, the additional horsepower is more than welcomed. Talking about the chip that offers this great score, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was just announced earlier this week and arrives with a sizeable 20 percent increase in CPU performance and 30 percent increase in GPU performance over the last gen’s Snapdragon 888 SoC. Furthermore, even its energy efficiency is raised by 25 percent over its predecessor. Just now, AnTuTu had released the November 2021 list of best performing flagship phones, which revealed some interesting details. Even with the refreshed Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ chipset, the highest score recorded didn’t even cross the 900,000 mark.

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Notably, with the launch being just under a week away, Motorola has also announced that it will be giving out 100 Edge X30 series smartphone to Weibo users in China. The company will be giving out 10 units of the upcoming model everyday up till the December 9 launch event. During this event, the brand will be giving out the remaining 30 units altogether. To enter the giveaway, Weibo users had to report or share the new teasers that have been surfacing on the platform.

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