Numerous reports have suggested Google is working with LG and Huawei to produce two Nexus smartphones this year. Now it looks like both the LG Nexus 5 and the Huawei Nexus 6 smartphones might be powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 processor.
This week scores for the upcoming LG Nexus 5 (2015) showed up in the AnTuTu benchmark, and those scores are higher than anything else on the market today, suggesting the phone has a shiny new CPU that could be more than 20 percent faster than the Exynos 7420 chip used in the Samsung Galaxy S6.
While it’s not entirely clear if that new chip is a Snapdragon 820, it seems likely… especially since @evleaks (Evan Blass) reports that the Huawei Nexus 6 will use that processor.
According to Blass, the larger Nexus will have a 5.7 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel display, a Snapdragon 820 chip, and a fingerprint reader. It’s expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2015. While Blass doesn’t have a perfect track record with leaks, he has a pretty good record, and since he’s stopped leaking for a living, most of the items he’s posted to his Twitter account have come true.
Earlier this year we’d heard that the 5.2 inch Nexus would have a Snapdragon 808 chip, while the new Nexus 6 would have a Snapdragon 810 processor. But Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip has taken a lot of heat in the past few months… for generating a lot of heat. When the processor gets hot it slows down in order to cool off, which can make a phone with this octa-core chip feel slower than one with the 6-core Snapdragon 808 in some situations.
So it wouldn’t be a huge surprise for Google and its hardware partners to wait for Qualcomm’s next state-of-the-art chip.
The Snapdragon 820 will be an ARMv8 chip based on Qualcomm’s new Kryo architecture. It’ll be the first 64-bit chip from Qualcomm to feature the company’s own design rather one simply licensed from ARM.
I wish Moto would update the current Nexus 6. Best phone I ever owned.
I agree
You got that right!
I hope they use Qualcomm’s Sonic fingerprint reader.
Google, please, the new Nexus 5 2015 (LG) with Snapdragon 820.
And dual front facing speakers…
And an actual battery, screw the processor I love fancy tech as much as the next guy, but my nexus 5 is at the perfect place concerning performance it can’t get noticeably better, just but 4000mAh battery in there and all will be great
A new Nexus 5? I’m in!!!
“Snapdragon 820 will be an ARMv8 chip based on Qualcomm’s new Kryo architecture. It’ll be the first 64-bit chip from Qualcomm to feature the company’s own design rather one simply licensed from ARM”
How can this be?… If the 820 is using ARMV8 I.P., then it MUST be licensed by ARM. Right? I mean QCom (and/or someone they hire) may be the SoC architect this time, but if there is an ARM core on it, then it must be licensed by ARM (to be legal anyway).
I think arm v8 is the instruction set and yes Qualcomm would license that. The soc architecture is there own though and is just compatible with the arm instruction set..same as always with Qualcomm when they used their own designs with their 32bit chips. Same case for Apple and anyone with arm compatible chips.
You wrote “The Snapdragon 810 will be an ARMv8 chip based on Qualcomm’s new Kryo architecture: I think you meant to write 820, typo?
Whoops
Hopefully Google actually sells this, rather than putting it up on play.google.com for 6 months and not let anyone order it like with the Nexus 6.
Well, it looks like you’ll get your wish and it won’t be on play.google.com at all.
Because they moved the devices to The Google Store (https://store.google.com/)
Way to miss the relevant content of the comment.
Way to miss the joke.
Way to miss the joke. It was funy guy.
Hope Google gets more aggressive with pricing with these things.
I think they will. Unless the Nexus 6 was more successful on carriers than we know.
Get on with it already! Let me buy the damn thing(s)! I want one now!