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According to Wikipedia: The first 64-bit SoCs, the Snapdragon 808 and 810, were rushed to market using generic Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores and suffered from overheating problems and throttling, particularly the 810, which led to Samsung ditching Snapdragon for its Galaxy S6 flagship phone.
I didn't really follow this situation back then (only heard some Snapdragon problems from the sidelines), but now it came to my attention because I became interested in getting some not-the-latest, but good value Android phones for hacking.
The LG Nexus 5X is equipped with the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 CPU, while the Huawei Nexus 6P is equipped with the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 CPU. Both phones came out in the fall of 2015, both are still available.
What to think of these phones now, knowing the fiasco? I have no idea, but perhaps Qualcomm came out improved versions of these same chips (perhaps, under specific model numbers), and some of these phones on the market are OK to buy, or these two are better to avoid, or the whole fiasco really wasn't that big of a deal? These are not insignificant phones, by the way, these are the Nexus phones from the year 2015.
I didn't really follow this situation back then (only heard some Snapdragon problems from the sidelines), but now it came to my attention because I became interested in getting some not-the-latest, but good value Android phones for hacking.
The LG Nexus 5X is equipped with the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 CPU, while the Huawei Nexus 6P is equipped with the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 CPU. Both phones came out in the fall of 2015, both are still available.
What to think of these phones now, knowing the fiasco? I have no idea, but perhaps Qualcomm came out improved versions of these same chips (perhaps, under specific model numbers), and some of these phones on the market are OK to buy, or these two are better to avoid, or the whole fiasco really wasn't that big of a deal? These are not insignificant phones, by the way, these are the Nexus phones from the year 2015.