Android OEMs pledge allegiance to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series

23 September 2026
A whole lot of Android flagships will feature Qualcomm's newest chips.


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  • Anonymous
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  • 24 Sep 2026

Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026These chips are only good at benchmarks , they overheat and... moreIt’s GSMArena, hello?

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    • Anonymous
    • Ibx
    • 24 Sep 2026

    Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026These chips are only good at benchmarks , they overheat and... moreThey’re suckers for numbers.

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      • Anonymous
      • Dka
      • 24 Sep 2026

      pl2rts, 23 Sep 2026Explain more in detail what is this mythical quality and re... moreDon't reply to these apple loyalists. They compare $1200 iPhone with $200 entry level android phone and convince themselves apple good, android bad. Both devices have their own quirks but these fools won't understand it.

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        • Anonymous
        • 70d
        • 23 Sep 2026

        The words you use are so weird.

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          • 23 Sep 2026

          Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026Quality and reliability of a device is something that Andro... morewhat a lie. Samsung, Huawei, Honor, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi all make much higher quality devices than apple, in ALL hardware aspects, and it isn't even close.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 23 Sep 2026

            Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026These chips are only good at benchmarks , they overheat and... moreYou may be right. But that doesn't mean to buy a low end phone. Will be much worse.

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              • Anonymous
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              • 23 Sep 2026

              Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026These chips are only good at benchmarks , they overheat and... moreMost people don't run their CPU at 100% usage over a long period of time.

                Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026Quality and reliability of a device is something that Andro... moreExplain more in detail what is this mythical quality and reliability you are talking about that the Android users never understand ? If you start to talk about some low end Chinese brands then you expect anyone to take you seriously ? What about Google that is American brand and owner of Android ? How is it any different to Apple iOS as just another American software brand ?

                Everyone can give quality but not everyone can give Placebo effect like Apple can. That is the difference. Quality and reliability what does that even mean ? What is reliable what you get with Apple you don't with other brands ? Same on the quality ?

                Sonly, Samsung and LG are old as heck well known brands with long history of quality and reliability while they all took Android as operation system. Each brand of these 3 have different classes of quality as budget class quality, middle class quality and top end class quality. While each brand have done all sorts of devices and build their reputation all over the world way before Apple enter the mobile market.

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 23 Sep 2026

                  These chips are only good at benchmarks , they overheat and slow down to 40% of their performance. Why do people fall for these paper specs ?

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                    • 23 Sep 2026

                    I will wait for 8 peasant gen6

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                      • Anonymous
                      • raP
                      • 23 Sep 2026

                      pl2rts, 23 Sep 2026And what is all of you talking about got to do with my comm... moreQuality and reliability of a device is something that Android users never understood.

                        thenamelessone7, 23 Sep 2026Yet, Apple has a 60% market share for mobile phones in the ... moreAnd what is all of you talking about got to do with my comment and this article topic ?

                        iOS in world market share is only 27% to 32% as the rest 68% to 73% is owned by Android
                        You think that you are cleaver when you use the Apple as a brand and then US market only cause that favors your statistics point what you try to make.

                        Also US have 330-340 million population and that 60% calculated to numbers isn't even a big number in world scale of 9 billion people. While in reality also Apple don't have any competition cause they are the only brand that have their own specific iOS operation system that no other brand can use.

                        And don't even talk about quality. It's just the loyal fan base that is easy to fool. Apple have done the tactics on going lower quality material on phones and cables while the price goes up and people still think it's high quality even tough it's not. The thing is that even on lower quality parts the phones last long cause of the 5 years OS update support Apple have always had.

                        My last phone last me 5 years and would of lasted me more as it had no issues when i changed to new phone. It was just time to change for me and that phone only cost 170 euro while had full HD screen and aluminum body and by build quality it was no different to iPhone. When people talk about build quality is the build materials even tough my phone was solid not easy to bend and all that stuff too.

                        Brands that have operation system as Android have massive competition with other brands that are on Android. Apple dont have any of that. If apple would compete with same operation system as other brands then Apple would not even have 10% of any market share

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                          • 23 Sep 2026

                          yjfoeg, 23 Sep 2026MTK has to find out why the makers always use Qualcomm for ... moreJust had a look at last years phones REVIEW for the supporters listed, with the exception of one who didn't use the the flagship SoC, they all performed poorly on the stress test
                          What will a 400 megahertz increase do to thermals ?

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                            • 23 Sep 2026

                            New leaks said Qualcomm will provide their own drivers and directx12 for pc emulators. This is another nail in the coffin for dimensity users. They can enjoy their microtransaction gacha garbage on the play store.

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                              • 23 Sep 2026

                              yjfoeg, 23 Sep 2026MTK has to find out why the makers always use Qualcomm for ... moreBecause their driver support sucks; and they don't forcefully ship bcn texture decompression into the hardware, leaving it for phone manufacturers to decide.
                              Why does this matter? It's because Windows translation on android and emulation is the best way to harness power on these chips, and mediatek is not doing a good enough job, which is why gamers prefer snapdragon much more. Even more so with 8 elite gen 6, as they've already said they will start supporting the GPU on mesa driver

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 23 Sep 2026

                                Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Signature was €1000 within first week. Then they c... moreRIP to me I guess

                                  pl2rts, 23 Sep 20268Egen5 is enough for next 5 to 10 years. SD7+ gen 2 is sti... moreYet, Apple has a 60% market share for mobile phones in the USA. Apple has never produced a cheap phone. Seems like people are still willing to spend money they don't have when veiled by carrier subsidies.

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                                    • 23 Sep 2026

                                    They're really going all in on the Extreme variant over the vanilla version.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 23 Sep 2026

                                      Anonymous, 23 Sep 2026I had hoped signature 27 would start at $900 but I guess th... more🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

                                      Signature was €1000 within first week. Then they changed price to €1300.
                                      The 27 is miles better.
                                      I highly doubt price below €1450 for 512gb, I guess the previous doesn't have 256 option.

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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 23 Sep 2026

                                        yjfoeg, 23 Sep 2026MTK has to find out why the makers always use Qualcomm for ... moreBecause they all consider it better than dimensity 9xxx.