OnePlus 6 arrives in June with Snapdragon 845, CEO reveals
Late last year a
purported list of smartphones arriving in 2018 with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845
chipset on board got leaked, and it mentioned the OnePlus 6 would be launching
in June. Now in an interview with CNET, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has confirmed both
of those details.
"There's no
other choice" for his company than the Snapdragon 845, Lau said. The
handset is scheduled to launch late in the second quarter, which ends on June
30. The CEO hasn't actually confirmed the OnePlus 6's name, but logic dictates
that's what it will end up being called.
Lau apparently isn't 100% sure if OnePlus
will out a second device in 2018 (a 6T), but given what's happened in the past
two years we'd say that's obviously a possibility.
Finally, the Chinese company is open to
partnering up with US carriers for sales of its handsets. "If the right
opportunity and right timing come along, we'll be very happy to
experiment", Lau said, but declined to give any details as to when a deal
might be struck. It will be interesting to see if OnePlus actually manages to
persuade US carriers to go this route, especially in the light of Huawei's
recent failure to do so.
Source: gsmarena