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Motorola confirms the Edge 50 Ultra with a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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By Arthur Brown
April 11, 2024
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In between Galaxy Fever and Pixel Fever, Motorola has carved out its own spot in the year to build hype for its devices. We’ve been following news of the incredible-looking Motorola Edge 50 Ultra. In fact, we exclusively leaked this phone last month. Well, Motorola just confirmed that the Edge 50 Ultra will use the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3.

We’ve been leaking information about this upcoming phone, and so far, it looks like it’ll be one of the prettiest devices of the year. Last year, Motorola launched its Edge series phones (in the US, they were called the Edge 2023 and Edge+ 2023). Those were great devices, and it looks like Motorola is looking to one-up itself this year.

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Motorola confirms the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 for the Edge 50 Ultra

Whenever we’re talking about a new phone, the processor it uses is very important. So far, there’s been a lot of news about the next Snapdragon chip. Named the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, this SoC will be a stripped-down version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. So, we don’t expect it to be quite as powerful. However, we still expect it to pack some punch.

Motorola just released a new video on X showing off a deconstructed version of The Edge 50 Ultra. In the video, several parts pop into view gradually. However, at the end of the video, we see the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip subtly easing toward the camera before disappearing along with all the other parts.

This is good news, as we got the news that the Motorola Edge 50 Pro will be using a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor. That’s an upper-tier mid-range processor so that phone will still be decently powerful. However, with a “Pro” moniker, you’d expect flagship-level power.

Right now, we don’t know too much about this phone. Based on leaked Geekbench scores, we know that it scored a single-core score of 1,947 and a multi-core score of 5,149. Also, at least one of the models will come with 12GB of RAM. Some rumors also point to this phone coming with a 50-megapixel main camera.