Microsoft's next Lumia processor could edge Samsung's Galaxy S6

Rumors that Samsung's Galaxy S6 will launch without Qualcomm's powerful Snapdragon 810 chipset opens the door for Microsoft's first flagship Lumia to carry more sophisticated capabilities.

The Galaxy S5's successor could start out with a meeker chip, if rumors are right. 

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A new chip could be all it takes for Microsoft's next flagship Lumia smartphone to best the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S6.

Rumors that Samsung is dropping Qualcomm's most powerful processor from its flagship phone due to fears of overheating dovetail with a statement of support indicating that Microsoft Lumia phones will carry the contested chip.
If that Lumia flagship launches at Mobile World Congress in March, that means Microsoft could potentially have the more robust phone in terms of the processor's built-in features. Since so much of a phone's power comes directly from its processor -- like the rapid-charge capabilities -- drastically different processing capabilities can significantly change all that a handset can do.

The story so far

Earlier this week, Microsoft was one of six mobile phone makers to go on the record backing Qualcomm's latest processor, the Snapdragon 810 (LG and Motorola were two others). Conspicuously absent in the lineup is Samsung, a longtime Qualcomm partner.

Relations between the two companies seem rocky; in mid-January, Samsung dropped the 810 as its chipset for a variant of the Galaxy Note 4 with LTE-A support. The same day, rumors emerged that the Galaxy S6, would debut with Samsung's own Exynos chip rather than Qualcomm's.

On January 14, DigiTimes reported on this rumor: Samsung's fears that the Snapdragon 810 would overheat led to an internal decisions that Samsung would start selling the Galaxy S6 with the company's own chipset from its Exynos family instead. DigiTimes' story and others estimated that 80-to-90 percent of the first-production phones will use Exynos. Bloomberg corroborated at least part of the report using its own anonymous sources, noting the huge blow to Qualcomm to lose such a valuable partner.



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