Reply With QuoteI don't work for Samsung or any provider but if I was a betting man I would go with profit margin, portability, timeline projections and oh yeah profit margins.
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just curious...
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I don't work for Samsung or any provider but if I was a betting man I would go with profit margin, portability, timeline projections and oh yeah profit margins.
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In the US, they went with the S4 because of better compatibility with US 4G networks. The quad core chip that is used in the European and Asian models does not play nice with the US 4G Radio Chip.
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When you mean 4g, you mean lte right? Not the hspa that they keep masking as 4g beside the signal bar...
T-mo doesn't have lte yet. So why did it got s4 too?
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They did it because Qualcomm makes the most power efficient LTE modems and the S4 has the LTE modem on the same die as the processor. The quad core Exynos (and Tegra 3) would require a separate LTE modem that would result in poor battery life. The reason T-Mobile got the S4 version is because Samsung wanted to sell/support one phone that would work on all North American carriers. Europe doesn't have LTE yet so they get the quad core GSM-only version.
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Funny how Dunbar's answer makes more sense to me. That's just me but you may want to reconsider that bet; at least without considering other factors as well.Originally Posted by rackness
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I don't think it hurts that the Krait core in the MDM8960 S4 is almost twice the core of the A9's used in quadcore alternatives and is more comparable to the A15 core. Add in the fact it's all fabbed at 28nm for smaller chip and lower power and it's really kinda a no brainer. Sure there is a benchmark here and there where these devices with S4 suffer due to lack of cores, but overall I think they are far better products than you would get with some quadcore and a separate baseband.
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