drbugsmn

This article is mostly about samsung taking steps to increase per phone margins. One of the steps they have done is create a new integrated modem for their verizon phones, which the gnex has.

Samsung takes another page from Apple's playbook: increase margins

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ABI recently performed a teardown on Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Galaxy Nexus, and the firm analyzed the components found within the handset. Among them was a new version of Samsung’s LTE chipset that is estimated to cost half as much as the chip it replaces.

“The Samsung Galaxy Nexus modem is constructed with the combination of a Via Telecom CDMA/EVDO Rev. A integrated circuit and a Samsung LTE baseband integrated circuit,” the firm wrote in its report. “This combination is now common for Samsung’s Verizon phones, but the Galaxy Nexus sports a new version of the LTE baseband chip. The new chip is estimated at nearly half the cost of the prior chip’s $23 price tag.”

syntrix

Natural progression of increasing margins is business 101. Since when did Apple invent this? Maybe they just filed a patent on this magical way of doing business so they can claim it as their own!

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Turdbogls

for having a few things going against this phone (first ICS LTE device, and a new LTE chip) it is bar far the best phone i have ever used.

sure it has it issues (mostly signal related) but honestly, it is still 10X the phone my perfect thunderbolt ever was

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drbugsmn

I Lol'd. Doesn't apple create everything first, the rest just steal it?

Agreed! It's been a really good phone for my wife and I, worth the wait. My thought/hope is that since this radio set will be used on all of the new samsung vzw devices, we should see a lot of effort on getting it to work.