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a shame, i own a zenfone 2 and it's a great device. i was looking for more from intel.
by shrewduser 10y ago
a shame, i own a zenfone 2 and it's a great device. i was looking for more from intel.
- nowprovision 10y agoMe too, had this device for 12 months now, and it just flys, always put it down to the intel cpu given how I only paid ~160usd for the device. New samsung devices at higher price points, j5, j7 are slow dogs in comparison. so does this mean a dead end for x86 android? Ill stick with Asus thougj given the frequency of firmware updates, and all round solid hardware.
- mtgx 10y agoIntel subsidized that chip. It was more like seeing Snapdragon 805 or whatever was the high-end ARM chip at the time, on a $200 device, when everyone else could only afford to put a Snapdragon 400 in such a device. It's anti-competitive (selling chips below cost - imagine if say the meat industry used its profits to sell milk under cost - it would take out the "pure" milk companies), and very costly to Intel. It was losing a $1 billion a quarter back then doing stuff like that. It's not going to do it anymore. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-16/intel-s-4-21-billion-mobile-loss-would-have-sunk-most-rivals http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-16/intel-s-4-...
- nowprovision 10y agoI thought that may of been the case, that could explain why the same phone is 50% higher in price now than 12 months ago, at least in BKK. I wont lose sleep over Intel selling chips below cost.. On the mention of diary.. milk these offers when they come along..
- kyriakos 10y agoGood phone for the price. Makes me wonder if the soc was subsidised though.
- mtgx 10y agoIt was.