Qualcomm vs everybody else: chipset/baseband discussion thread

[mikejeep]

Hey guys, not trying to be a pest, but all these CDMA chipset discussions are kind of off-topic in here, no? Seems like great discussion, but unrelated to the NV sites completed map. Perhaps all you mega-nerds can go play in your own thread

 

-Mike

[WiWavelength]

Hey guys, not trying to be a pest, but all these CDMA chipset discussions are kind of off-topic in here, no? Seems like great discussion, but unrelated to the NV sites completed map. Perhaps all you mega-nerds can go play in your own thread

 

Good idea.  Consider it done.

 

For anyone coming new to this discussion, FYI, it was extracted and moved from another thread, hence the posts about it being off topic.

 

AJ

[mm2kay]

i made a thread

[koiulpoi]

Good idea.  Consider it done.

 

For anyone coming new to this discussion, FYI, it was extracted and moved from another thread, hence the posts about it being off topic.

 

AJ

I thought this looked familiar...

 

So, realistically, what's stopping a manufacturer from combining NVidia's Tegra 3 or 4 with a Qualcomm modem? Or do the same thing with The Exynos Octo in the GS4? I had read that the reasons they went with the Snapdragon Dual in the USA GS3 instead of the Exynos 4 Quad was that the Exynos had some issues with LTE, which were later resolved (obviously, as we can see with the Note II). Is there some other issue? Some other hurdle or manufacturing issue? From my point of view, it's just Samsung using Qualcomm SoCs out of, well, laziness.

[tongboy]

 

 

 

I thought this looked familiar...

 

So, realistically, what's stopping a manufacturer from combining NVidia's Tegra 3 or 4 with a Qualcomm modem? Or do the same thing with The Exynos Octo in the GS4? I had read that the reasons they went with the Snapdragon Dual in the USA GS3 instead of the Exynos 4 Quad was that the Exynos had some issues with LTE, which were later resolved (obviously, as we can see with the Note II). Is there some other issue? Some other hurdle or manufacturing issue? From my point of view, it's just Samsung using Qualcomm SoCs out of, well, laziness.

 

That was what I understood also. Qualcomm was the only manufacturer with the last generation of phones to have figured out how to put LTE in their SoC. Att phones also have Qualcomm chips but they do not use CDMA2000.

 

Sent from my EVO LTE

 

 

[tongboy]

This isn't good if true...

 

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/05/30/samsung-processor-chaos-disappointments-and-their-current-soc-future/