Thread: Nokia is looking for a partner to help it enter the smartphone business
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switch-hitter is offline switch-hitter
2015-07-15 , 07:09
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Huh? Apple have already released the A8. It's in the iPhone 6. Apple claims it's 25% faster than the A7 and 50% faster at graphics.

They've also released the A8X. 40% faster than the A7 and 2.5 times quicker at graphics. It's in the iPad Air 2.
So looking at these charts from the article you linked to:







are we agreed there are a fair number of SOCs available comparable to the one in the current iteration of the iPhone?

So we know subcontracting manufacturing shouldn't be a problem for NOKIA, Apple already do that very successfully, and we know there are plenty of high performing SOCs available in the market place.

In my opinion whether NOKIA's re-entry into the smartphone market will succeed or not is unlikely to be about any of that, those are non-issues (unless they pick components that are absolutely dreadful - and they're getting increasingly rare), it's going to be about the aesthetics, the UI and the QA.