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The real reason is that they went with the Qualcomm S4 SoC, which has an LTE modem on-die. It's likely that it would be too expensive to have Qualcomm manufactu
by tadfisher 14y ago
The real reason is that they went with the Qualcomm S4 SoC, which has an LTE modem on-die. It's likely that it would be too expensive to have Qualcomm manufacturer an LTE-less chip for one device.
- marshray 14y agoAccording to http://www.qualcomm.com/chipsets/snapdragon http://www.qualcomm.com/chipsets/snapdragon the Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 has LTE "on select processors". But it's still a separate chip from from the WTR1605L LTE chip. So the Nexus 4 may actually have two unused LTE implementations ?!
- tadfisher 14y agoNow this boggles the mind. This could be explained by the Nexus 4 sharing the internals of the Optimus G, but why opt for the off-die LTE modem in the first place?
- marshray 14y agohttp://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte-on-band-4-aws http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-... Looks like the LTE does, in fact, work for "band 4 AWS". This is said to be the band T-Mobile will be deploying LTE in next year.