First week extravaganza - Various new Snapdragon 8G1 phones available now

[williamcll]

 

This week has a quartet of android phones running the snapdragon 8Gen1 now available on the market, the results have varied.

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iQOO announced its latest pair of flagship phones in China that succeed the iQOO 7 series from last year. Both the iQOO 9 and iQOO 9 Pro come with Qualcomm’s latest mobile platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. There are a few differences between the two phones though in the rest of the specifications and features. The standard iQOO 9 features a 6.78-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz. One of the unique aspects of this panel is that it can achieve a peak brightness of 1500 nits. You can choose between 8/12GB of RAM coupled with 256/512GB of onboard storage.

The rear of the phone houses a 50MP f/1.75 primary camera with OIS accompanied by a 13MP ultra-wide lens and a 12MP telephoto lens with 2X optical zoom capabilities. One of the major highlights of the iQOO 9 is the 120W fast charging onboard that can reportedly juice up the 4,700mAh cell in under 19 minutes. The iQOO 9 uses Vivo’s OriginOS based on top of Android 12.

 

My thoughts

 

It feels rushed, some of the Mi 12Pro have been reported to be buggy and it seems to have thermal issues too. I'll see what other brands like asus oneplus and samsung have to offer first.

 

 

Sources

https://www.xda-developers.com/iqoo-9-pro-launch/

[FloRolf]

I have honestly no idea why people get excited for phone CPU releases.

Unless the thing lags I couldn't care less. 

[Doobeedoo]

Cool.

Let's see how Oneplus 10 Pro is, I mean we have pictures, sucks they still haven't switched to under display camera. Same for Samsung 22 series, but oh well. I'm sure both will be very good phones. I'm excited to see Sony Xperia 1 IV though. 

[RejZoR]

2 hours ago, FloRolf said:

I have honestly no idea why people get excited for phone CPU releases.

Unless the thing lags I couldn't care less. 

If it's Apple. And in a way Samsung. Because they make their own shit that's actually amazing sometimes. Everyone else just uses off the shelf shit that's exciting "this moment" because everyone is throwing new phones with "fastest CPU yet" (it's funny when all Android phone makers do that well knowing they are using exact same CPU).

[LAwLz]

7 hours ago, FloRolf said:

I have honestly no idea why people get excited for phone CPU releases.

Unless the thing lags I couldn't care less. 

Different strokes for different folks. I think a lot of people share your sentiment when it comes to PC CPUs and GPUs as well. 

 

I think smartphone CPUs are exciting because we need constant improvements. I still remember people saying that dual core CPUs in phones were ridiculous because "who needs a dual core phone", and this was a dual core Cortex A9 at 1GHz mind you.

If you tried to use one of those "ridiculously over specced" phones today you'd not have a good time. The software is tailored towards much higher end hardware, and it would lag like crazy. 

 

Better hardware enables developers to make more powerful programs. If we stopped making progress on hardware we'd also make less progress on software. 

 

I also like seeing what hardware engineers are capable of doing within size and power constraints. Building a powerful CPU that uses 200 watts might be impressive, but building a powerful CPU that has to be the size of a grain of rice and use less power than my old casset player is a more exciting feat of engineering. 

[AnonymousGuy]

Apple has shit on Snapdragon so hard that they probably should retire the branding.   "it's our newest latest greatest 16 core cortex whatever the fuck _{still slower than a 2 gen old iPhone with 2 cores and 1/8th the ram}"

[Arika]

8 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Apple has shit on Snapdragon so hard that they probably should retire the branding.

except there is no reason to retire the branding....the branding has literally nothing to do with it's performance.

[RejZoR]

Qualcomm has established a name within Android space where it competes with Exynos and Dimensity. They are still highly praised, especially in low and mid segment where other chipsets really suck. A Series Bionic chips from Apple are entirely in its own segment. There is no "low end" Bionic chips. You don't even see them in SE models that are bottom of the barrel iPhones because they take the old phone design (iPhone 8) and smack a brand new top of the line Bionic chip in it. Which is the exact opposite of what everyone else does by using crappy mediocre low end chipsets that can barely run Facebook app or play Youtube video without dropping frames. And at the end of the day, despite of dated looks with tall chin and forehead and single camera, the SE phones outperform all the budget and mid end entries easily. People like to mock Retina displays because they are "just" 720p LCD, but these LCD's are one of the best there is. That single camera on SE probably outperforms all the budget and mid end phones released this moment. And chipset, well do we even need to explain that?

[dizmo]

And not a single one I'd buy. 

[GhostRoadieBL]

On 1/6/2022 at 6:34 AM, FloRolf said:

Unless the thing lags I couldn't care less. 

totally agree!

I'm still running an S9, should keep going until the battery finally kicks the bucket but there's literally nothing that won't run just as well as the latest and greatest.