Manufacturers began releasing Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 flagship phones, such as the Xiaomi 12S series, realme True GT2 Master Explorer Edition, Red Devil 7S /7S Pro series, iQOO 10 / Pro series, Nubia Z40S Pro, and so on. In addition to flagship phones, mid-range Android phones will also see some changes.
According to microblogger @DigitalChit Chat Station, “next year the mid-range market is going to be more voluminous, some brands used to do the return of the main thousand dollar product line; in addition there is the Tiangui 8 series iteration and Snapdragon 8 + Gen 1 support performance, to itself is a red sea of cost-effective market and then add some material.”
The blogger also previously said, “once the standard mid-range machine under-screen fingerprint and metal frame gradually return, but the telephoto is still rank. Mid-range phones are also going to be on big bottom and mega bottom cameras, with a new image architecture of main camera fusion technology going for pixel crop, with effects comparable to ordinary small bottom low pixel medium telephoto.”
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 as the first flagship core is not a long life cycle, and is expected to come down to the mid-range next year, with new machines already opening cases. The market strategy at that time is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 of TSMC’s N4 node, similar to the operation of Snapdragon 870.
