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[Puddle Jumper]

That wouldn't preclude Samsung supporting it with their Exynos SOCs.

Edit: and regardless, HTC is basically an all-Qualcomm shop anyway. The dual-core Snapdragon is damn good, and rumor has it that Krait is going to blow Cortex A9 competition away. So I don't see it being a huge problem even if all the device manufacturers stick with Qualcomm.

Dual core Snapdragon is compettitive however we have yet to see a single WP7 device make use of it. They are just now announcing 45nm snapdragon devices which Android has had for some time so by the time the dual cores are in use there will likely be quad core Android phones on the market.

By the time Krait is out Kal-El will be as well and I don't see it being blown away. Also Qualcomm hasn't been terribly strong on the gpu front and Nvidia seems to be delivering a much more potent gpu this time around.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Also Qualcomm hasn't been terribly strong on the gpu front

The Adreno 220 GPU is pretty good. It is that Adreno 200 that is the WM7 baseline that is garbage.