A couple of months back, President and CEO of Sharp Jeng-Wu Tai
confirmed that his company’s first Europe bond smartphones would appear at the
Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona. While the company hasn’t given any
hint on what to possibly expect at the MWC 201, a new Sharp branded smartphone
dubbed Sharp FS8018 has been spotted on benchmarking site, Geekbench. The
limited specs sheet available reveals the device could be a budget phone that
could drop later in 2018.
The Benchmark listing reveals the
device will come with the mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 (SDM630) with
octa-core SoC with up to 2.2 GHz, paired with 6GB of RAM. The device is listed
as running Android Nougat, which is quite questionable, considering that the
device could be slated for 2018 release. However, It’s likely the company may
finally implement the latest version of Android before release, still may
release the device with Nougat and thereafter push out Oreo as an update, so
whichever way it plays out, we’ll have our thoughts for now.
Benchmark results show the device amassing 961 and
5215 points in the single and multi-core test respectively. That is about all
we know about the Sharp FS8018 for now. We should get to know more about the
device in the days to come.
