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***Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release speculation thread**

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HanSolo said:
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I love when they began the thaw and he was playing the butt tuba :D
 
mangopositive said:
I was expecting a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, a competitive GPU (especially given the screen), and a battery big enough to get through more than half a day of moderate use.
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Welcome! And the CPU should be easily overclocked, GPU according to a spec I saw the other day, while the same as a bunch of others, is overclocked to run faster. And battery, lets see what it can do before bashing it based on the fact it has only 1750. Maybe that is all the phone needed to go a full day.
 
Another little tidbit. The benchmarks are actually really good if done at 720p. Lotta people obsess over this higher resolution, but to run 3D benchmarks at these higher resolutions WILL result in inferior numbers to similar speced phones that don't have such a high resolution.

One more reason I am not a huge fan of pentile.
 
jasaero said:
Another little tidbit. The benchmarks are actually really good if done at 720p. Lotta people obsess over this higher resolution, but to run 3D benchmarks at these higher resolutions WILL result in inferior numbers to similar speced phones that don't have such a high resolution.
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Good point.
 
ZachMob said:
I wish you are right, but don't get your hopes up.

Using Occam's razor, it is simpler to assume that those are the leaked specs, not some conspiracy to manage expectations.
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By that reasoning we could assume the first specs we saw were right. That would be the most simple answer right? If that was the case then this thing should be a time machine....which also makes espresso...

I think Google is playing this very intelligently by throwing out different test phones along the way. They held off the release for SJ which was brilliant. Building even more of a feverish desire for the GNex and showing class at the same time. Then they put out a video showing "The Next Big Thing" and just a peek at a curved device. Now drooling over the possabilities..... Followed by even more specs and get this, a touch capacitive area on the bezel??? Hell yeah! At this point people are ready to rob the nearest VZW store just to get a spec sheet or release date flyer.

We're witnessing a brilliant marketing campaign here folks. These companies have more money than most nations combined between them. Samoogle isn't going to screw this up. Trust in the oogle.
 
I think it is interesting that Eric Schmidt is at the Motorola event. I don't know where this event is, but I am guessing that means he won't be at the Nexus event.

EDIT: and I just realized that this was already posted. that is what I get for not reading every post.
 
Also keep in mind that 3-D games don't "have" to run at the native resolution, they can run at a lower resolution and be scaled up to full screen size.

I'm sure if dev's do a lot of testing on nexus devices, and they cook up some 3-D game in the next two years that does actually tax the powervr gpu on the nexus, they'll likely compromise on a lower res that it can handle and still look good.
 
VTarantino said:
Well, I'm both excited and ready to be disappointed.

I'm especially concerned after Kellex says:

I know benchmarks aren't everything, but it's an early warning sign.

And, in all honesty, I AM disappointed with a OMAP4460 running at 1.2GHz. This is underclocked, so hopefully it gives room for overclocking, but if TI sold them to Samsung as 1.2GHz processors, that's probably all they'll guarantee.
In addition, I'm not sure how the system-on-a-chip things work, but will this also affect the clock speed of the GPU? The SAME GPU as in the Nexus S, which was released nearly a YEAR ago? Which, by the way, will get TROUNCED by the GPU in the iPhone 4S.

I really don't know what to think anymore. I'm sure that ICS will be spectacular, but I'm starting to worry that the hardware they're going to pair it with is going to be pretty average by current "high end" standards except for the screen.

I mean, sure, it will be "enough", but I don't want "enough". For a "BIG" new phone, I was THE BEST so that I know it will easily last through my 2-year contract. I don't want to get this phone, see games come out for the iPhone 4S that look spectacular, then hear the developer say "We can't put this on the Galaxy Nexus because it doesn't have the graphics capabilities."

I really hope I'm getting worried about nothing, but today's leaks are not giving me a whole lot of confidence.
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I have a Droid 3 (4430) and it gets hot at a sustained load of 1ghz and the battery starts going down quicker. I think that the 1.5ghz clock may be intended for tablets, since more space to apply a heat solution (bigger battery too). Both chips are 45nm, so not like one will be much cooler than the other when increasing clock in a small form factor.

These device get warm as it is. Probably a reason why Moto went with the carbon fiber back, rather than metal (hot!) or thin plastic (flimsy) fro their 1.2ghz OMAP Razr.
 
Jon Nale said:
I think it is interesting that Eric Schmidt is at the Motorola event. I don't know where this event is, but I am guessing that means he won't be at the Nexus event.

EDIT: and I just realized that this was already posted. that is what I get for not reading every post.
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A Gulfstream can get from there to Hong Kong before 10pm tonight. -- OK no it can't
 
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