Contrary to what many would’ve hoped for, OnePlus’ first ever smartphone, the OnePlus One will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset at its heart.
OnePlus have been vocal about their upcoming venture for quite some time now, but it was the first time today that the company let out some first-hand info. While most enthusiasts hoped to see either a Snapdragon 801 or a Snapdragon 805, the company went ahead and announced that the OnePlus One will have neither, but the 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800.
We spent countless hours trying out the latest CPUs. Ultimately, it was clear that the Snapdragon 800 provided the best speed, battery consumption and heat management. It also allows us to get our product in your hand faster, with the highest optimization. We didn’t want to announce our product, only to be able to ship it six months later.
-Pete Lau, OnePlus CEO
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Sounds fair though, wethinks. While it might not sound as pretty as a Snapdragon 805, we’re pretty certain potential buyers would take faster availability than delayed shipments with the Snapdragon 805. Interestingly this is exaclty what our source had told us ahead of the announcement, we wonder if the rest of the details are true?
“We’re completely confident that this is the best choice to deliver a product with the best overall user experience and performance on time for Q2,” added Lau in a post on the OnePlus forums.
Would you prefer waiting a few months for the Snapdragon 805 chipset or are you willing to pull the trigger on a Snapdragon 800 powered chipset at this point in time?
Not to forget, the OnePlus One will feature the CyanogenMod OS, and come with 4G connectivity with a sub-$400 price tag which makes it all the more interesting.
[ OnePlus Forums]
That’s a little disappointing. After all the talk about OnePlus One having the best 2014 flagship specs, Snapdragon 800, while still amazingly fast, is last year’s flagship.
One may argue though that this one is the AB variant (MSM 8974-AB), similar in performance as MSM 8274-AB in Xiaomi Mi3 (which is still currently the phone with the fastest SoC on the market).
IMO though, 801 would still have been the better choice (Samsung can pull it off for their S5, to be released at about the same time as the One).
And the 801 is pin compatible with the 800, so it should be easy to drop it into their existing design…
I don’t understand their decision. They keep saying high-end but they aren’t making high end choices.
Qualcomm classifies the SoC in Xperia Z2 (which is MSM8974-AB) as Snapdragon 801. If OnePlus One in fact uses MSM8974-AB, then it is Snapdragon 801 rather than 800 (Carl may have gotten a bit confused in the naming). But then again, it’s just the matter of classification, and that would’ve made the Mi3 the first phone ever with Snapdragon 801.