{"id":6546,"date":"2022-05-21T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/asus-rog-phone-6-and-realme-gt-2-master-explorer-edition-will-be-powered-by-snapdragon-8-gen-1\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:20:25","slug":"asus-rog-phone-6-and-realme-gt-2-master-explorer-edition-will-be-powered-by-snapdragon-8-gen-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/asus-rog-phone-6-and-realme-gt-2-master-explorer-edition-will-be-powered-by-snapdragon-8-gen-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus ROG Phone 6 and Realme GT 2 Master Explorer Edition will be powered by Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">Asus ROG Phone 6 and Realme GT 2 Master Explorer Edition will be powered by Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC yesterday with some performance and power efficiency improvements over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and 16 companies have confirmed to launch smartphones with this new chip at the helm, starting Q3 2022. While we don&#8217;t have an exact date for the launch of the first Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1-powered smartphone yet, Asus has announced that the ROG Phone 6 will be the first gaming phone to come with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC under the hood.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready! <br \/>The 1st gaming phone with Qualcomm\u00ae Snapdragon\u00ae 8+ Gen 1 is coming SOON<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROGPHONE6?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ROGPHONE6<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForThoseWhoDare?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForThoseWhoDare<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jax1XbDcA5\">pic.twitter.com\/jax1XbDcA5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ROG Global (@ASUS_ROG) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASUS_ROG\/status\/1527635263526010880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Realme&#8217;s founder and CEO, Mr. Sky Li, announced that the Realme GT 2 Master Explorer Edition will be one of the first Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1-powered smartphones to come to the market.<\/p>\n<p>The Realme GT 2 Master Explorer Edition will be introduced in China, but it&#8217;s unclear if it will make it to the global markets. Last year&#8217;s GT Master Explorer Edition powered by the Snapdragon 870 was China-exclusive, so we aren&#8217;t betting on its successor to launch globally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/realmeGT2MasterExplorerEdition?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#realmeGT2MasterExplorerEdition<\/a> in China, its one of the first smartphones to feature the most advanced Snapdragon\u00ae 8+ Gen 1 Mobile Platform. A perfect match! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tu5n79Nlcv\">pic.twitter.com\/Tu5n79Nlcv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Li (@skyli_realme) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skyli_realme\/status\/1527633398147256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we await more details about the ROG Phone 6 and GT 2 Master Explorer Edition, you can head this way to check our announcement coverage of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 to know more about it, and here to find out how the chip performed in benchmark tests on an engineering device sent to us by Asus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/05\/asus-rog-phone-6-sd-8-plus-gen-1\/-952x498w6\/gsmarena_001.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/asus_rog_phone_6_first_snapdragon_8_plus_gen_1_smartphone-news-54385.php?rand=119<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asus ROG Phone 6 and Realme GT 2 Master Explorer Edition will be powered by Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC yesterday with some performance and power efficiency improvements over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and 16 companies have confirmed to launch smartphones with this new chip at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}