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Research and Markets: Chips and Salsa XX - When Iconic Meets Anechoic, Part IIResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6pzwck/signals_ahead) has announced the addition of the "Signals Ahead - Chips and Salsa XX - When Iconic Meets Anechoic, Part II" report to their offering. In our 20th Chips and Salsa, we collaborated closely with Spirent (News - Alert) Communications, PCTEST, and EMT Labs, to conduct arguably the industry's most extensive independent OTA MIMO performance testing of leading smartphones - from the Apple (News - Alert) iPhone to the ZTE Nubia. All testing took place within an ETS-Lindgren anechoic chamber. In total, we tested 15 different smartphones (3 bands per phone) that we procured from around the world, including LTE (News - Alert) chipsets from 4 different baseband suppliers. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STUDY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: - Two of the top performing smartphones, the Nokia (News - Alert) Lumia 930 and the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 are value-priced smartphones, indicating a disparity between priceand performance. - In general, there was a large variance in the results with the top performing smartphone in a particular band outperforming most of its peers by 50% or more with moderate SNR values. - Emphasis needs to be placed on validating the RF antenna design - although the selection of the chipset supplier is important, it is only the starting point when it comes to achieving excellent RF performance. - To varying degrees, all smartphones performed poorly in at least one frequency band - two smartphones performed poorly in all three frequency bands that we tested. Key Topics Covered: 1 Executive Summary 2 Key Conclusions and Observations 3 Detailed Results and Analysis by Frequency Band 3.1 Band 1 3.2 Band 2 3.3 Band 3 3.4 Band 4 3.5 Band 5 and Band 8 3.6 Band 7 3.7 Band 12 and Band 17 4 Detailed Results and Analysis by Smartphone 4.1 Alcatel Idol 3 4.2 Huawei Ascend Mate 7 4.3 Samsung Galaxy Alpha 4.4 Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Model A) 4.5 Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Model L) 4.6 Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Model U) 4.7 Samsung Galaxy S5 4.8 Samsung Galaxy S6 4.9 HTC One M9 4.10 Apple iPhone 6 Plus 4.11 LG G3 4.12 LG G4 4.13 Nokia Lumia 930 4.14 Motorola Nexus 6 4.15 ZTE (News - Alert) Nubia Z5S 4.16 Note 4 Sensitivity Study 5 Test Methodology 6 Final Thoughts For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6pzwck/signals_ahead
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