Qualcomm streamlines Snapdragon processor classes, joins Nokia in hatred of letters and numbers

Looks like Qualcomm and Nokia have become such good BFFs with their co-relationship with Microsoft, they've started planning things together too. Earlier this week Nokia officially ditched their Letter-Number naming conventions for their mobile phones, and now Qualcomm has done its own belated Spring cleaning to its Snapdragon line of processors.

From this point onward, the San Diego-based company will be organizing their precious silicon into four classes based on their intended market. Therefore, Snapdragons can be organized with S1 for mass market phones, S2 for high-performance tablets and smartphones, S3 for advanced multitasking and gaming, and finally S4 for the next-generation devices.

Where does Windows Phone fit into this? Current devices are running the QSD8250 and therefore would fall under the lowest S1 class. That's not surprising considering the SoC is more than a year and a half old. However, new Mango hardware is said to be running either the high-end MSM8x55 or the mid-range MSM7x30 processors and so would fall under the better S2 class. We suppose Qualcomm is just doing this to make journalists' lives a bit easier (thank you!) and it shouldn't drastically affect the way you think about the fairy dust that powers your smartphone.

Via: AnandTech, MobileTechWorld