MSM8930's frist release was a SoC in Snapdragon S4 Plus series (end of 2012),which clock speed is blocked in 1.2GHz.

In that time, Qualcomm has an official doc showing that SoC only support qHD.



Here you can see: http://www.qualcomm.cn/sites/default...specs_9-12.pdf

after Snapdragon 2013 new series announced,
Qualcomm upgrade it‘s clock speed level to 1.4GHz and 1.7GHz(this speed level is my opinion ).

Here, I just don't think that upgrading the clock speed level will get a SoC to support better display resolution.

With a better version MSM8930AB (support HD display),Qualcomm put them all in to the Snapdragon 400 series.