14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung is expected to announce a new flagship smartphone later this year and information about the upcoming Galaxy Note 8 continues to pour in. The latest reveals that Samsung’s successor to last year’s discontinued Galaxy Note 7 could run the yet unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 836.
Details about the new processor surfaced a while ago and Qualcomm has yet to confirm that it’s working on such a SoC. Still, a new report shows that Samsung’s next flagship could run the Snapdragon 836 with improvements compared to the Snapdragon 835.
It would make sense that Samsung would feature a new Qualcomm processor inside an upcoming smartphone, considering that the Korean smartphone maker got dibs on the Snapdragon 835 earlier this year, which is why some premium phones, like the LG G6, came with last year’s Qualcomm processor.
The Galaxy Note 8 would be the first to run Snapdragon 836
Snapdragon 836 would bring some improvements to Snapdragon 835, found in the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, among other smartphones. The platform will feature an octa-core 2.5GHz processor, up from Snapdragon 835’s 2.45GHz. It will also have a 740MHz graphics processing unit.
The Galaxy Note 8 would be the first device to feature the upcoming SoC, followed by LG V30 and Google’s next Pixel devices.
Aside from an improved processor, the Galaxy Note 8 will also feature a dual-camera setup on the back, together with a 3,200mAh battery. A recent report revealed that the Note 8 might not feature a fingerprint scanner built-into the display, but perhaps Samsung will manage to fix any issues that it encountered when developing the new technology and incorporate a new sensor on the upcoming flagship.
Moreover, the phone will come with a 6.3-inch Infinity Display with 18:9 aspect ratio. The phone might be announced on September 8, as recent rumors suggested, but it’s a bit too early to say for sure. The Galaxy Note 8 will surely run the latest Android version and Samsung is expected to release the phone ahead of the iPhone 8 launch, to get a head start on Apple’s highly anticipated OLED iPhone.