By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus features a cheaper LTE baseband chip, the better to secure rapid LTE migration throughout the world, according to a new teardown. A new teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus reveals a device with a new, cheaper Long-Term Evolution (LTE) baseband chip and a powerful 1.2GHz processor. “The new chip is estimated at nearly half the cost of the prior chip’s $23 price tag,” read the Feb. 6 note from ABI Research accompanying the teardown. “This type of cost reduction is an important milestone in securing the rapid migration to LTE throughout the world.” Other featured elements of the teardown included a [Texas Instruments] OMAP4460 1.2GHz processor, which matches the performance of Samsung’s 1.2GHz Exynos at the expense of consuming “significantly more power in computational intensive tests.”
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