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Yes, they had to pay Qualcomm for their LTE patents, but that didn't mean they had to use Qualcomm SoCs. Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC On
by fpgeek 11y ago
Yes, they had to pay Qualcomm for their LTE patents, but that didn't mean they had to use Qualcomm SoCs.
Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC One X+) married Qualcomm LTE radios with non-Qualcomm SoCs. Even Samsung did this for a few devices (e.g. Galaxy Note and Note 2 LTE, a few S2 and S3 variants), but, until this year, that was a small and shrinking portion of their lineup.
Qualcomm's past engineering success was a big part of the reason why. Samsung/ARM's engineering failures (e.g. big.LITTLE and cache coherency issues with the original Exynos Octa) were the another part of the reason, but I don't think that changes the overall picture.
- honest_joe 11y agoI call this BS sorry. I do not know the exact reason why samsung had to release the previous phones using qualcomm's cpus but it was not because snapdragon 805 was a better chip. Quite the opposite if you check the benchmarks for snapdragon vs exynos. Exynos wins not by a higher margin but still wins.
- rayiner 11y agoSnapdragon 800 was a better chip than the A15-based Exynos: http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/159152-qualcomm-snapdragon-800-benchmarked-beats-exynos-5-octa-and-a6x http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/159152-qualcomm-snapdragon....
- mrpippy 11y ago> Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC One X+) married Qualcomm LTE radios with non-Qualcomm SoCs The Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Droid Charge (both made by Samsung) actually didn't use any Qualcomm chips. Samsung baseband for LTE and VIA Telecom for 3GPP2 (1XRTT/EVDO). http://www.anandtech.com/show/4465/samsung-droid-charge-review-droid-goes-lte/5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4465/samsung-droid-charge-revi...