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With Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 and Samsung's Exynos 5 powered phones ruling the market, we now have information on the latest Snapdragon 810 powered device.

Pan Jiutang, a tech analyst from China pointed out in his Weibo account that the Snapdragon 810 SoC will debut in one of the following devices - Vivo Xplay 5, Oppo Find 9 or Xiaomi Mi5. However, the report also says that Vivo Xplay 5 will likely be the first device to get the aforementioned chipset under the hood, followed by the Oppo device and then the Xiaomi handset, according to GSM Arena.

For those unfamiliar, the predecessor Vivo Xplay 3S released in 2013 is the world's first smartphone with 2,560 x 1,440 pixels screen resolution on a killer 6-inch display. Apparently, the Vivo Xplay 5 will likely come with Qualcomm's latest 64-bit chipset towards the end of 2014 or during the beginning of 2015. In specific, the release date could be Dec. 2014 or Jan. 2015 alongside the Chinese spring festival.

The octa-core Snapdragon 810 chipset uses ARM's big.LITTLE architecture and it is clocked at a combination of four Cortex-A57 cores, in addition to four Cortex-A53 cores, similar to Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC. This combination provides the ability to switch between the two cores as required to maintain the symmetry between power and stability. In the process, it helps in boosting the battery life of the Snapdragon 810 SoC housed device.

Additionally, this chipset will reportedly be able to record 4K videos and features an Adreno 430 GPU for graphics. When it comes to connectivity, Snapdragon 810 will come equipped with LTE capabilities.

It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm once banked on the theory that efficient/quality cores will be given preference over the quantity of the cores. However, this is clearly not the case with Snapdragon 810, opines the same publication. In the past, the company apparently ridiculed Mediatek for using octa-core SoCs, however Qualcomm doesn't mind following suit at this point, says GizChina.

In order to see the differentiating factors in the form of tabular column between Snapdragon 810, Snapdragon 808, Snapdragon 615, Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 410 processors, head to iGeek.

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