A nice thing about the quad cores is they're supposedly going to improve battery life greatly, with 1 or 2 processors being very low power consuming ones and the others being normal. So I'll be curious to see how well they perform and what battery life is on them. And who knows if displays will be better in a couple months... but this can be said for all technology since something newer is ALWAYS on the horizon.
The nice thing about getting the Galaxy Nexus is we know it'll be supported with quick updates from Google and we KNOW it has an unlocked bootloader (which for us who have rooted our phones is needed).
Bingo. Plus One. Nailed it. On
all counts.
It seems like only yesterday that we were assuring people that dual cores would save battery life, not eat into it - remember that one, muchachas and muchachos? That dual cores would eat battery life?
The new quad core schemes are really starting to show some wonderful vendor (or rather, inventor) differentiation for us users. One plan is the big.LITTLE, with two lower power cores, another is the Tegra 3, a "quad" core but actually with a 5th low power core, and certainly other schemes will quickly follow. (Just repeating what you already said - the new beasties will have 1 or 2 low power cores.)
You've all heard me say that I won't surrender my dual core Evo 3D and you've heard others say to heck with it, the Rezound or the RAZR is the phone for them.
What does that tell you? It tells you that once you stand back from brink of synthetic benchmarks and find that your phone is already as fast or faster than you are, the differences come down to just personal preferences.
And that puts into the Second Golden Age of Android, in my opinion - where each of the available superphones displays superiority to, but simultaneous equality with, the other Android superphones.
And the Galactasaurus Nex will be the fitting pinnacle of this class.
So what's next?
Battery life.
Say it with me - we want the power of 2 core or better Android with the battery life of a StarTac (or feature phone of your choice) or better.
There will always be a vocal niche for various things like GPU performance. Face it - the gamers can never get enough GPU and they're an important smart phone segment - but they are not the largest segment, simply the most demanding of performance in that area and possibly the most vocal.
Me? I want longer battery life - no, wait - even longer than that.
I want some sort of FAST transreflective display, because up here this close to the sun where I live, nothing satisfies in outdoor light in the summer. (Pixel Qi or Mirasol display, I don't care which, so long as it's fast and color correct.)
But until that day comes and we enter the Third Golden Age of Android, I want unconditional control of my phone and fast updates.
Mark my words, my friends - with Verizon and others catching up with the world in dual core variety for all consumers, we are truly crossing the threshold into the Second Golden Age of Android.
I know of no other way to express it.
