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TL;DR
- Nothing has revealed that the upcoming Telephone 2 will use the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC.
- The agency hinted at cost-related causes for the choice to not use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Nothing confirmed again at MWC 2023 that the upcoming Nothing Telephone 1 could be powered by a Snapdragon 8 sequence processor. Now, firm founder Carl Pei has dished out particular particulars.
Pei tweeted that the Nothing Telephone 2 could be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC. This processor featured in loads of flagship telephones within the second half of 2022. So why did the corporate select this specific SoC? Pei outlined a number of causes.
Why the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 for Nothing Telephone 2?
For one, the Nothing founder says the processor delivered a significant (albeit unsurprising) energy enhance over the Nothing Telephone 1’s Snapdragon 778G Plus chipset. Extra particularly, Pei says app opening speeds have been twice as quick whereas total efficiency noticed an 80% enchancment. We observed this efficiency hole in our personal testing, with a large hole between the Nothing Telephone 1 and Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 telephones when it got here to GPU checks.
Pei additionally cited digicam capabilities as a cause to decide on this processor, saying that this enabled Nothing Telephone 2 options like RAW HDR and 4K/60fps help. He additionally pointed to the TSMC 4nm design, enabling improved energy consumption and diminished heating.
Why didn’t we see the present Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor inside this telephone, although? “Generally the newest know-how comes at a value which isn’t all the time justified from a person profit standpoint,” Pei tweeted, suggesting that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was too costly for what customers would get. So choosing the newest flagship processor would presumably result in a better Telephone 2 price ticket or a diminished revenue margin.
We’ve additionally seen the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 processor land in latest months, successfully being a downgraded model of the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1. However Pei claims that Nothing selected the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 over the Snapdragon 700 sequence on the whole resulting from “vital enhancements” in areas similar to battery life, connectivity, digicam capabilities, and extra.
This isn’t the primary time we’ve acquired affirmation of the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 contained in the Nothing Telephone 2, as a Qualcomm government unintentionally confirmed this information again in March. Nonetheless, the processor continues to be a strong, feature-packed proposition in 2023. So that you shouldn’t have any main efficiency points when the Telephone 2 launches later this yr.
