I read that the new snapdragon S4 has the LTE radio built in, unlike the old LTE phones.
Is this true? If so, the battery life will be much better, no?
Is this true? If so, the battery life will be much better, no?
Snapdragon S4 is also going to support a wide array of hardware on the chip itself. It has always been Qualcomm?s policy to integrate the cellular modem with the SoC, whereas other manufacturers rely on external components for that. The S4 will support on-die LTE, HSPA+, and CDMA radios ? making it the first ever SoC to integrate LTE radio, and also the first 28nm LTE part. That means longer lasting, thinner, lighter devices.
Yes, it's true. It's widely believed to be the reason why the US version of the One X is using the dual-core Snapdragon S4 chip, instead of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 seen in the international version.
No, the reason why the LTE version uses the S4 is because tegra 3 is not compatible with LTE basebands yet. If it was, they would have gone with the quad core.
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No one knows at this point if the LTE radio will be turned on at launch for the Evo right? It's disabled by default on the Galaxy Nexus I believe until the update comes out to enable it.
It doesn't matter. No one is going to get lte anyways. Its sprint after all.
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Those are just cpu benchmarks. No one knows what the power draw and battery profile will be like with an actual LTE signal, and no one has done tests that show real world battery life.
Well, Sprint knows for sure, but they aren't going to release that info
It will probably still eat the heck out the battery at first. That is how all new 4G tech works... Remember how bad things were when the OG Evo and Thunderbolt came out? There will probably be updates soon after that will improve the battery life. That's how these things usually works. That being said, I do believe that HTC has learned from past mistakes and have more experience in this area, so the battery drain won't be as severe. I'm willing to bet though, that you still will not be able to make through a full day, with moderate use, with the LTE radio TURNED ON.
Wrong. Not all 4G tech eats battery life like crazy. GSM phones using HSPA+ dont and the speeds can be just as fast as LTE. I think the only reason everyone is jumping on the LTE bandwagon is because it uses a different bandwidth than traditional 3G signals.