And if you're traveling overseas with your laptop and can't tether to your phone due to roaming charges then a dongle for the laptop works perfectly well. Rather than buying a fleet of laptops with cellular it makes much more sense for a company to have a small number of dongles employees traveling overseas with their laptop can check out.
Yeah I agree it’s basically no big deal. The only reason anyone would care is battery life hits to the phone and inconvenience, but even in tablets we see this isn’t significant enough to make it a huge deal. I’d bet 90% of iPads sold are WiFi-only.
But like I said, Qualcomm is not going to listen to logic they are likely to build cellular into their SoC and try to claim it as an advantage over Intel/AMD laptops.
It’s not built into the SoCs as I explained.
And they don’t focus on this anymore, they barely mentioned it in the X Elite release as opposed to the CPU efficiency — even Adreno got more mentions and certainly Hexagon & AI did.
They will claim it as an advantage that they have the option, absolutely and some laptops will have it, but looking even at the brunt of the leaked laptops (or again their announcement) so far it’s a marked difference from their past.
Having 5G != pushing it as the one differentiator. They’re not doing that anymore because obviously no one cared, and if they were they wouldn’t have bought Nuvia.