A new Nubia smartphone suspected to be the Nubia Z17 has appeared on. the pages of benchmarking website, GeekBench. The device came with the model number NX563J  and is surprisingly packing Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 chipset inside it.

The listed device may not have been categorically named as Nubia Z17 but since Nubia just released the Z17 Mini, the next model that is expected is the Z17. Besides, the Z17 Mini did appear on TENAA with a similar NX569J model number. As you would have known by now, the MSM8998 is the Snapdragon 835 which is with an Octa-core CPU clocked at 1.90GHz in this case.

The processor is backed by 4GB of RAM which could possibly be the base variant considering the Z17 Mini had a higher variant with 6GB of RAM. The Nuba NX563J is also listed as running Android 7 Nougat out of the box. On the benchmark score, the device’s score is consistent with that of the Galaxy S8+ benchmark score. On the single core test, it had a score of 1853 points, while it scores 6379 points on the multi-core test.

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Quite curiously, Nubia had teased the Nubia Z17 sometime back with a massive 5,000mAh battery, and a somewhat unlikely Helio P10 chip. The processor looks unlikely now that the Z17 Mini came out with a Snapdragon 652 and SD 653 chips. The Z17 can not feature a chip inferior to that of the Z17 Mini.

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The Moto Z can be said to be the first smartphone that got the modularity thing correctly although with some shortcomings such as the high price of the Moto Mods. The phone will be getting a new model this year and while we don’t know anything yet about it’s design we already know a few specs thanks to a Geekbench listing.

A device with model name “motorola XT1650” presumed to be the Moto Z (2017) was benchmarked in the early hours of today. Seeing as it is sporting a msm8998 a.k.a. Snapdragon 835, chances are that it is Motorola’s (Lenovo) flagship for the year.

The device is running the latest version of android (Android 7.1.1) and has a Qualcomm 8-core chip clocked at 1.9GHz. There is also 4GB of RAM on board. It appears Motorola is not joining the 6GB bandwagon this year. How that will help them in the face of several 6GB RAM phones remains unknown.

The test scores for the Moto Z (2017) are quite impressive. In the single-core test, it scores 1930 points and goes on to score a total of 6207 points in the multi-core test. Both scores are higher than what we saw on the Essential FIH-PM1 weeks ago.

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There is no launch date yet for the Moto Z (2017) but since last year’s model was released in September, it will be unusual to have this year’s model launch in the first quarter. The design is still pretty much unknown but chances are that it should be able to work with the Moto Mods from last year.

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Qualcomm’s next generation Snapdragon 830 chipset has been in the news quite frequently lately, with recent rumors alleging that Samsung would manufacture the chip on Qualcomm’s behalf. Seems, though the chip has gone up into production because it has been listed on India’s import/export tracking website, Zauba with model number MSM8998.

The Zauba listing for the Snapdragon 830 showed the device, listed as MSM8998, made several entries into India from September 12 to October 6 with a total of 80 units delivered to the Asian country, apparently for testing. The devices were listed to have originated from the US.

Zauba is notorious for sparing very little detail about the shipments but this one is generous enough to give us the idea that the prototype device with which the chip ships features 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM as well as 64GB of built-in storage. The value of each chip and prototype device shipped into India by Qualcomm was put at 102,641 Rupees (around $1,541).

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Earlier rumors had speculated that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor will use the 10nm FinFET process and Kyro 200 architecture, sporting an Adreno 540 GPU, X16 baseband which is allegedly capable of download speed of up to 980Mbps and has LPDDR4X memory and 4K × 2K / 60fps video recording, dual lifting performance and functionality. There are also rumors that the next gen chip may not be called Snapdragon 830 but SD 835 instead and would feature first onboard some versions of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Edge billed for release in February 2017.

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This could be mainly because of the company’s decision to go back to custom cores. Four custom Kryo cores power the Snapdragon 820 and when it comes to performance, there are hardly any competitors who are as powerful as this chip.

Now, analyst Pan Jiutang from China has revealed a few details about the next-gen Snapdragon flagship chipset. While he doesn’t mention the name of the chipset, he did reveal the code, MSM8998. According to him, the next gen Qualcomm chip will continue to use Kryo cores and will be manufactured on the much more efficient 10nm process. The chip will also come with the new X16 LTE modem.

Along with this information, he further revealed that many of the flagships of 2016 will be based on Snapdragon 652 (MSM8976) chipset and not on the top-end Snapdragon 820. He adds that this is mainly because of the high cost of the latter and that Snapdragon 652 with its octa-core architecture is strong enough.

To recap, the Snapdragon 652 chipset is quite powerful, thanks to its four Cortex A72 cores. Further, the chipset is efficient with the other four cores based on Cortex A53. In the GPU department as well, the SD652 is quite powerful thanks to Qualcomm’s Adreno 510. Other features include X8 LTE with support for Cat. 7 (up to 300Mbps download), quad HD display support and Hexagon DSP.

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