Not all HTC 10s will have the Snapdragon 820

[D13H4RD2L1V3]

By now, the HTC 10 seems to be making a lot of positive waves. Lots of people love the phone and many find it hard to find a flaw with it.

It's quite possibly HTC's best phone to date, especially since it finally addresses the mediocre camera that has plagued their previous flagships by going with the same general hardware as the Nexus 6P but with some significant improvements in the optics.

However, there is a caveat.

The United States, Canada, Europe and other "developed" nations feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 with 4GB of memory while other nations, like China, Indonesia and India have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 with 3GB of memory instead.

What do you think of this? I think this might have to do with cost, as in attempting to make the phone slightly cheaper to make it more appealing price-wise to more "developing" markets, kinda like the LG G5 in Latin America.

Not really a big deal TBH, since the 652 is still very capable, but I'm just curious to what you guys think.

 

[TwitchyPuppy]

Asia will have the pink Xperia Z5 Premium, so it's fair that they don't get the Snapdragon 820 and 4GB of RAM =P

 

[AllenRulz]

As being in the United States and getting the SD 820, I don't honestly care what other countries get BUT I would like to know why they change the phone specs for different countries?!

Sorry if this sounds rude lol, just being honest.

 

[momo662]

It's like this with every flagship. I personally think it is because of supply more than price.
The demand in those other "developed" nations, as you put it, would far outpace supply.

 

[LeoRex]

The SD652 is not a bad chipset. People see that '6' and think it'll be slow, but the SD652 is basically what people thought of as the SD815... they replaced the high speed A57 cores in the 810 with the more efficient A72s. So depending on how they clock it, it'll still be a very capable chip.

 

[D13H4RD2L1V3]

It's like this with every flagship. I personally think it is because of supply more than price.
The demand in those other "developed" nations, as you put it, would far outpace supply.

Supply might be a factor too.

To be frank, unless you want the very best hardware, I don't see this as a serious con to the phone's performance. The SD652 does perform quite nicely, especially for an "upper-midrange" processor (it seems to be better than the Snapdragon 808 and 810 in many cases, especially in terms of CPU performance) and given HTC's optimizations, it should perform roughly as well as its more-powerful SD820 counterpart in daily routines.

Yeah, it kinda sucks to know that you're not getting the very best hardware, but the Snapdragon 652 is still very capable. Think of it as a better version of the SD810 that doesn't kick out a ton of heat and is more efficient.

 

[SZQnl]

They should have paired the SD652 with the best 1080p display. Battery life would be even better and would be slightly cheaper I imagine. Still not sure of the benefit of 2K phone displays other than VR.

I don't do any gaming on my phone so if everything else performs the same then the SD652 would be fine. Although, comparing the specs on Qualcomm's website, there are a lot of underlying differences. Depends how noticable these are on day-to-day usage:
- LTE Cat 12/13 vs LTE Cat 7 (slower speeds and less bands supported?)
- USB 3.0/USB3.1 vs USB 2.0
- slower memory support
- 14nm vs 28nm (less efficient)
- Spectra Image Sensor Processor vs Dual Image Sensor Processor (will photo quality differ? Must do)

A lot of little differences can change the overall package I guess so I would happily pay extra for the SD 820 version!

 

[lindseybp]

The price of the sd820 version in those countries would probably impact sales do they are going with the sd652 and a lower price. Probably a smart move overall.

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