A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

Ice burn!

> All the Polestar cars in the Google Play Developer console (which lists all Android devices in the world) are built around an Intel Atom A3960 SoC. This is an absolutely ancient, bottom-of-the-barrel 14 nm x86 desktop CPU released around 2016. This chip was bad eight years ago when it came out, yet is still shipping today. The cars all have 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and the Polestar 2 I looked at had 128GB of storage, all clear wins for the phone spec sheet.

I wonder which car makers have vaguely modern entertainment chipsets. Tesla switched from a similar crap Atom to embedded Ryzen chips a while back, 2021, with a full blown dGPU in the S/X, and then latter an APU in 3/Y. Hard to track down the exact models though, alas (Ryzen YE180FC3T4MFG was the first CPU, but unknown GPU except RDNA2).

Has lead to some situations. Mildly reduced range was reported. There were bad cooling issues, with the water cooling preferring the battery & then the CPU overheating, and evidently it runs critical not just infotainment systems!!

Also surprising to see so much x86. I assume a bunch of cars so use arm?