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My understanding was that Samsung (Exynos) and Huawei (Kirin) do release global models of their phones based on their own SoC for GSM markets. But they can't o

My understanding was that Samsung (Exynos) and Huawei (Kirin) do release global models of their phones based on their own SoC for GSM markets. But they can't overlook the Nth American market where Snapdragon dominates the US with CDMA2000 support.

ksec 9y ago
That is assuming CDMA 2000 is still relevant. You can wonder if anyone using a Flagship Smartphone cares about dropping CDMA support. The world has moved to LTE, and only much more so in the future.
- ac29 9y ago
  CDMA matters less and less in the US, but for some reason Qualcomm is seemingly the only company making a modem with comprehensive US LTE band support.
  - rizwank 9y ago
    And Intel isn’t? Intel’s modems have substantially all LTE bands.
  - jsjohnst 9y ago
    Say what? Intel modems covers all US LTE bands that Qualcomm covers. Qualcomm has an edge on max bandwidth and supporting CDMA, but not LTE bands (for the US anyway).