Tis the season of the Android flagship. With the Galaxy S8 set to fight off the LG G6 and HTC U Ultra for contention, the market for high-end, high-priced handsets is getting awfully crowded. And it looks like you can add one more to the mix, which might be the toughest competitor yet.
According to PCPop, the OnePlus 5 is shaping up to be a beast of a mid-range handset (yes, OnePlus is skipping the number four since it’s bad luck in China, kind of like how U.S. hotels sometimes go from the 12th-floor to the 14th). OnePlus has always been on the cutting-edge with the chips its uses in its phones, with the 3T bringing a mid-cycle update to include the Snapdragon 821, so it’s not very surprising that it will reportedly use the 835 in its next phone. Additionally, the phone may come with a whopping 8GB of RAM, an increase over last year’s 6GB, and topping even the Asia-exclusive S8+.
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