Motorola confirms Edge S is coming January 26 with new Snapdragon 870

 Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 870 chipset, Motorola has confirmed that its Moto Edge S will premiere with the new chip on January 26.

Motorola had already teased the new smartphone on Weibo and gave us hints about the new chipset.

The Snapdragon 870 has the fastest closck speed of any chipset at the moment with the Kryo 585 (a reworked Cortex-A77), running up to 3.2GHz. The chipset is built on TSMC's 7nm process and has 8 cores - the aforementioned super-fast Cortex-A77, three Cortex-A77 running at a lower speed and 4 Cortex-A55 for efficiency.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Motorola Edge S will be launched on January 26th in China
• It will be the world's first smartphone to run the new Snapdragon 870 chipset
• Expected Motorola Edge specifications include four rear and two selfie cameras, a 6.7-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with 105Hz refresh rate, and a 5,000mAh battery

Motorola Edge S specifications

The only Motorola phone that fits the description is the one codenamed Motorola Nio. We have stumbled across that smartphone on several occasions thanks to a slew of leaks. Initial speculations suggested that the Motorola Edge S specifications would include the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset. Its Geekbench score seemed to confirm said information too. However, given the similarities between both chipsets, one can understand why the Snapdragon 870 was mistaken for a Snapdragon 865.

Other Motorola Edge S specifications include four rear cameras with a 64MP sensor at the helm, along with two selfie cameras. It is tipped to feature a 6.7-inch FHD+ 105Hz refresh rate display, something we don't get to see every day. Memory and storage configurations will likely max out at 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Lastly, the Motorola Edge S will be powered by a 5,000mAh battery and come with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner.