> Google has been using Samsung modems since the Pixel 6. "This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." (with apologies to

> Google has been using Samsung modems since the Pixel 6. "This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." (with apologies to Douglas Adams!) The various google/android/pixel discussion forums are _full_ of "the p6/7 is a regression compared to p4/5" threads. I can confirm that I get much more reliable connectivity with my p4 compared to my p6 and my p7 is only marginally better than the 6. Regardless, my *whole point* is that it's not a coincidence that we start getting "extended support periods" when QCM isn't supplying the CPU. Up until ~2020 (when the p6 would have been under development) there was no serious competition in this space and that's why google and pretty much every other android device used QCM. Now that there's a second option that's even remotely close to QCM in performance, the OEMs are taking it ... and we're getting extended support as a result. Samsung will have "won" when even QCM has to capitulate and starts offering extended support.