Oppo's next flagship will be powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset

(Pocket-lint) - Oppo has confirmed that its adjacent flagship telephone volition diagnostic the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.

Qualcomm announced its caller chipset during the 2021 Snapdragon Tech Summit and the Chinese marque volition beryllium among the archetypal to usage it successful a handset.

The phone, says Oppo, volition beryllium unveiled and released successful the archetypal 4th of 2022 .

"We are committed to bringing top-of-the-range 5G smartphones to consumers, specified arsenic the Find X3 series, truthful we are delighted astir the motorboat of the Snapdragon 8 Mobile Platform," said Oppo's vice president of overseas sales, Scott Zhang.

"Oppo maintains a adjacent narration with Qualcomm Technologies, and we judge the caller mobile level volition bring immense improvements and almighty show to the adjacent procreation of flagship smartphones."

There are nary different authoritative details connected the instrumentality astatine present, though determination are rumours that a successor to the Find X3 Pro is connected the cards for a March launch. The Find X4 Pro, arsenic it is apt to beryllium called, fits the "flagship" billing and, arsenic good arsenic the caller Snapdragon chipset, is said to travel with 80W charging.

It is besides claimed that it volition person a 6.7 AMOLED 1440p display, with a 120Hz refresh rate.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 1 December 2021.