The OPPO R11 and R11 Plus smartphones that were
introduced in June last year are the first smartphones to be driven by
Snapdragon 660. Rumors are rife that Qualcomm will soon announce the Snapdragon
670 as the successor edition of Snapdragon 660. Since two new OPPO phones
rumored as OPPO R13 and R13 Plus have received 3C certification in China, it is
speculated that the OPPO R13 duo could be the first Snapdragon 670 chipset
driven smartphones.
OPPO phones with model numbers PAAT00 and PAAM00
have recently appeared on China’s 3C certification website. Apart from support
for 20W fast charging, nothing else have been disclosed about these OPPO phones
through their 3C listing.
VOOC is a fast charging technology by OPPO that
offers 20W fast charging. Currently, only the R-series of smartphones from OPPO
are available with 20W VOOC charging feature. Hence, it is speculated that the
PAAT00 and PAAM00 could be the upcoming OPPO R13 and OPPO R13 Plus smartphones.
Since the Snapdragon 660 chipset had powered the OPPO R11 duo, the Snapdragon
670 may fuel the upcoming OPPO R13 and R13 Plus smartphones.
Plenty of information of the unannounced Snapdragon
670 chipset have already surfaced. Rumors have revealed that the SD670 is a
chipset that is designed to power upper mid-range smartphones. It is built with
10nm FinFET process like the Snapdragon 845 and Exynos 9810 SoCs that are
designed to power flagship phones.
The Snapdragon 670 includes six cores of Kryo 300
Silver and two cores of Kryo 300 Gold along with Adreno 615 graphics. It has
been spotted on Geekbench 1863 single-core and 5256 multi-core benchmark
scores.
Previous leaks have revealed that the OPPO R13 and
OPPO R13 phones will be sporting a notch design like the iPhone X. The R13 and
R13 Plus are expected to come with advanced facial recognition feature. Like
the iPhone X, the R13 duo are rumored to feature gesture-enabled virtual home
bar and vertically stacked dual rear cameras. The OPPO R13 and R13 are expected
to come preloaded with Color OS 4.0 flavored Android 8.1 Oreo. The OPPO R13 may
arrive with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage whereas the R13 Plus may feature 6
GB of RAM and 64 GB or 128 GB of storage.
