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Thanks, Qualcomm: Mandatory 5G means phones now ship with disabled 5G modem
Pay for a 5G modem you can never use, thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 d
Auto extracted Text……Qualcomm is forcing 5G on everyone with the Snapdragon 865, increasing the size, cost, and complexity of smartphones, even if the world’s 5G networks are not ready yet.
This week, we’re seeing an absurd new wrinkle in the Mandatory 5G Saga: manufacturers are sticking to Qualcomm rules and shipping its 5G modems, but they are also disabling them because 5G just doesn’t work in some markets.
Meet the “iQoo 3.” As pointed out by XDA Developers, in India, this phone ships the Snapdragon 865 in a first-ever “4G” configuration.
Apparently, BBK subsidiary iQoo does all the work of paying for Qualcomm’s mandatory 5G modem, integrating it into the phone design, and then the company just, uh, disables the 5G functionality completely.
Turning off the 5G bands on a Snapdragon 865 phone is tough to come to terms with, though, because the SoC’s design and performance was compromised just to bring this 5G capability to market.
Qualcomm rolled back years of SoC progress by building the Snapdragon 865 without an onboard modem, and the only way to give this SoC cellular capabilities is to pair it with an external modem chip, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X55, which adds 4G and 5G connectivity.
One reason for the lack of enthusiasm for 5G from iQoo is easy to understand: despite being the world’s second-largest smartphone market, India does not have 5G networks.
Last year, Qualcomm had a more sensible, flexible design for its first-ever 5G compatible chip, the Snapdragon 855.
This year, Qualcomm “fixed” that power discrepancy by making 4G as bad as 5G and pulled both modems off the main chip
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