Samsung Galaxy Note 8 May Be the First Smartphone to Run Snapdragon 836

Samsung is expected to announce a new flagship smartphone later this year and information about the upcoming Galaxy Note 8 continues to pour in. The latest reveals that Samsung’s successor to last year’s discontinued Galaxy Note 7 could run the yet unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 836.

Details about the new processor surfaced a while ago and Qualcomm has yet to confirm that it’s working on such a SoC. Still, a new report shows that Samsung’s next flagship could run the Snapdragon 836 with improvements compared to the Snapdragon 835.

It would make sense that Samsung would feature a new Qualcomm processor inside an upcoming smartphone, considering that the Korean smartphone maker got dibs on the Snapdragon 835 earlier this year, which is why some premium phones, like the LG G6, came with last year’s Qualcomm processor.

The Galaxy Note 8 would be the ...