There’s no doubt the Pixel 2 will be a powerful phone, but it could be more powerful than any other handset at launch, at least when it comes to chipset, as it’s rumored to be the first phone to use the Snapdragon 836.
That’s according to ‘industry friends’ of Fudzilla and would make for a slight improvement on the Snapdragon 835 used by many of this year’s flagships, such as the Sony Xperia XZ Premium and HTC U11.
This isn’t likely to make a huge difference, but should lead to a slight boost to the maximum clock speeds of both CPU and GPU, over what’s already a very fast chip, making for a performance increase of around 10%.
