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I've been kinda playing the "hopeful" card until now but I'm going to take a step forward and say I think it will absolutely ship with a Snapdragon 805 and here's my reasoning...
LG intentionally moved the release forward from Q4 to most likely Q2 (June) listing market timing as the reason. If they could have included the 805 with the previous plans, why release it sooner with a lesser SoC, especially one that isn't much different than the 800 from their last flagship? That doesn't make sense to me.
There's 2 things at play here. The first is that Samsung supposedly plans to release a 2k resolution phone (purportedly the S5 Prime which it won't end up being called btw, it never is). The second, I believe, is that LG was able to get that done while also being the first to include the SoC and GPU (Adreno 420) that would best fit with that display.
Ace in the hole:
They don't have to release it on May 27. We all recognize that late May is potentially pushing it a little as it pertains to 805 availability. Even with the statement from Qualcomm about first seeing the 805 in May, LG has the option to set a firm release date even as this is typed. If it takes until mid to late June...they still win. I really don't think anyone else is far enough into a release cycle right now to beat them. I think what they've done with this approach is to buy themselves some time, perhaps up to a month, to firm up the availability of the 805 and ensure it makes it into the G3 as the final piece of the puzzle.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it until May 27 until we know for sure. But I'm going into this thing confident. I like using Occam's Razor to play things forward and with all things considered, that scenario makes the most sense to me. They're either going to be among the last flagships released that DOESN'T include the 805 (keeping in mind they intentionally bumped up the release), or they're going to be the FIRST flagship released that includes it. Just seems so much more likely that they have a greater plan here.
LG intentionally moved the release forward from Q4 to most likely Q2 (June) listing market timing as the reason. If they could have included the 805 with the previous plans, why release it sooner with a lesser SoC, especially one that isn't much different than the 800 from their last flagship? That doesn't make sense to me.
There's 2 things at play here. The first is that Samsung supposedly plans to release a 2k resolution phone (purportedly the S5 Prime which it won't end up being called btw, it never is). The second, I believe, is that LG was able to get that done while also being the first to include the SoC and GPU (Adreno 420) that would best fit with that display.
Ace in the hole:
They don't have to release it on May 27. We all recognize that late May is potentially pushing it a little as it pertains to 805 availability. Even with the statement from Qualcomm about first seeing the 805 in May, LG has the option to set a firm release date even as this is typed. If it takes until mid to late June...they still win. I really don't think anyone else is far enough into a release cycle right now to beat them. I think what they've done with this approach is to buy themselves some time, perhaps up to a month, to firm up the availability of the 805 and ensure it makes it into the G3 as the final piece of the puzzle.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it until May 27 until we know for sure. But I'm going into this thing confident. I like using Occam's Razor to play things forward and with all things considered, that scenario makes the most sense to me. They're either going to be among the last flagships released that DOESN'T include the 805 (keeping in mind they intentionally bumped up the release), or they're going to be the FIRST flagship released that includes it. Just seems so much more likely that they have a greater plan here.
I remember the dinc and Gnex threads
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