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if the nexus prime is made by sammy, will you buy it?

I'm near my trusty laptop most of the day, so it can stay on the USB charger there. I don't think battery life will be an issue for me at all. With all the features and benefits Prime offers, there will have to be a trade-off and battery life will be it. If that's the only downside to the phone... I can live with that :)
 
Sandroidfan said:
Following the Bionic forums, it seems like 15+ hours in 4G claim by Yoda was totally fake. He claimed Moto has refined firmwares, LTE radio chip over and over and finally it's getting superior 4G battery life than other LTE phones. Realistically it's more like 8 hours under moderate usage and nearly half of that under heavy use. I hope Samsung does better job than that in Prime.
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Its no better than any of the other LTE phones on verizon.. the only upside is that it does it with a faster SoC. Although, I think that's little consolation.


HanSolo said:
I hope Samsung will have better battery life, but we also have to remember that running a full HD screen will eat up some life. Also, we probably won't see any huge leaps in battery life improvement until the Krait 28nm chipsets come out next year.

If I can get 12 hours under moderate use with the Prime, I'll be one happy camper. If it's less than that, I think the HD screen and ICS will more than make up for it. Extended batteries will be my friend.
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If Prime is OMAP4460 as is strongly rumored, the LTE chip will still be 45nm discrete (whether it be Qualcomm or Motorola) and probably draw a lot of power.. barring a huge battery (we're closing on 2000 mAh at this point) or major battery life improvements in ICS (unlikely).. Prime will not be much better than the current crop of LTE, in my opinion.
 
gapi said:
I'm thinking if the battery life is the same on the Bionic and Prime the Sammy will still be the one to get eh?

As I laugh like But-head and Beavis.
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Even if battery life is close to Bionic, I will choose Prime for several other reasons. I think ICS will bring some improvement in power management if not major. Realistically we can't expect major power efficiency improvement in current LTE radios until next generation integrated SoC LTE radios come. I will probably keep 4G radio off most of time and use it only for big downloads, streaming, etc.
 
The_Chief said:
I'm near my trusty laptop most of the day, so it can stay on the USB charger there. I don't think battery life will be an issue for me at all. With all the features and benefits Prime offers, there will have to be a trade-off and battery life will be it. If that's the only downside to the phone... I can live with that :)
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I have the same application usage as you in I have a Proclips power cradle in the vehicle and hope they will make one for the Prime too, but do have a Pioneer receiver with a USB port also.
I rarely tax the battery. But I still have best wishes.
 
Until the next Gen LTE radios come out next year we are looking at less than favorable battery life on handsets across the board. This time next year we will start to see much better LTE handsets but until then it is what it is......
 
If it's pure vanilla, almost definitely. If it's bloated and has LTE, probably not, because we haven't seen any LTE phone on current generation LTE hardware have decent battery life.

Wish the soc was dual core Exynos and ram 2 gb.
 
Bearly said:
If it's pure vanilla, almost definitely. If it's bloated and has LTE, probably not, because we haven't seen any LTE phone on current generation LTE hardware have decent battery life.

Wish the soc was dual core Exynos and ram 2 gb.
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Like others mentioned, we won't see any major improvement in battery life of LTE phone until middle of next year when 2nd gen SoC LTE arrives. But Samsung Charge does better than other LTE phones in battery from what I saw. And if you see recent Sprint SGS2 review videos, its screen is moving super smooth with touchwiz 4.0. So I don't mind Prime getting TW either. If you still don't like it, just get rid of it.
 
Id like a vanilla experience on the Prime but I'm still on board with TW. Samsung will get my money on this handset regardless of a manufacturers UI or not.

I haven't seen any other vanilla device flying by on Verizon. Prime it is.
 
cereal killer said:
Id like a vanilla experience on the Prime but I'm still on board with TW. Samsung will get my money on this handset regardless of a manufacturers UI or not.

I haven't seen any other vanilla device flying by on Verizon. Prime it is.
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I agree. As long as it ships with ICS I can deal with bloat and Touchwiz. LauncherPro will replace TouchWiz and I'm hoping CM will be on the ball in terms of CM8.
 
cereal killer said:
Id like a vanilla experience on the Prime but I'm still on board with TW. Samsung will get my money on this handset regardless of a manufacturers UI or not.

I haven't seen any other vanilla device flying by on Verizon. Prime it is.
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I am with you. I actually prefer some of Samsung's UI tweaks anyway (status bar widgets, etc). I will likely also purchase either way...
 
What's going to happen is it will release with ICS then the JellyBean rumors will start. Shortly after people will begin to throw fits wondering if they are going to get the update. Flooding Verizons and Samsungs FB pages asking "are we getting jellybean?" It will be met with silence of course and that will trigger page long rants by customers who demand answers and how they should never have bought a Samsung.

It truly never ends...
 
cereal killer said:
What's going to happen is it will release with ICS then the JellyBean rumors will start. Shortly after people will begin to throw fits wondering if they are going to get the update. Flooding Verizons and Samsungs FB pages asking "are we getting jellybean?" It will be met with silence of course and that will trigger page long rants by customers who demand answers and how they should never have bought a Samsung.

It truly never ends...
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Jelly bean is so next year. I heard Key Lime Pie is going to be touch-less. All you have to do is focus your eyes on the button and squint!
 
I will be on board also. I must say I feel battle hardened after waiting for the Bionic and then resisting.

I will however wait to read what you guys have to report on it. Call me chicken, but you guys are one hell of a resource to not take advantage of.
Unless you guys get ambushed by some anomaly I don't think I can wait out a price drop.

Who sponsored the Costco bundle deal on the Bionic anyway? Verizon, Motorola? :confused:
 
Gapi I'm on this handset on release day.....I will have waited over 410 days to use an upgrade. I'm way past Battle hardened, I have the 1000 yard stare :)
 
There's no way a coveted phone like the Nexus is released "exclusively" on a carrier that's been pushing its LTE network and the phone is offered without LTE.

There's too much to gain by having the first ICS phone run on the only LTE network...and thus too much to lose by not having lte on the phone.
 
Well I have not upgraded my phone since my Verizon Razr V3c when it first came out. I had to buy a droid A855 to get grandfathered in. Still waiting for the Nexus. I was going to buy the Bionic then I heard the Nexus will be out. Ince that comes out I will be mad that quad core 2.5 cell phones will be coming out. Decisions Decisions :)

I have been eligible since "Upgrade at Discounted Price + $100 Credit.
Eligible for New Every Two on 08/29/2007.



cereal killer said:
......and the "Longest wait for a new phone" trophy goes to?.....



VANDYMAN!!!!

**crowd erupts into a thunderous applause**
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gigabyte772 said:
Well I have not upgraded my phone since my Verizon Razr V3c when it first came out. I had to buy a droid A855 to get grandfathered in. Still waiting for the Nexus. I was going to buy the Bionic then I heard the Nexus will be out. Ince that comes out I will be mad that quad core 2.5 cell phones will be coming out. Decisions Decisions :)

I have been eligible since "Upgrade at Discounted Price + $100 Credit.
Eligible for New Every Two on 08/29/2007.
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Wow..loooong time :)

I personally think a good dual core with a nice gpu will be a better choice for overall performance until the software and applications can take advantage of a quad core. Its a little over kill. Not to say that a quad core doesn't have a place in a phone but I think it will be some time before hardware, software and apps become cohesive.
 
Bearly said:
There's no way a coveted phone like the Nexus is released "exclusively" on a carrier that's been pushing its LTE network and the phone is offered without LTE.

There's too much to gain by having the first ICS phone run on the only LTE network...and thus too much to lose by not having lte on the phone.
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The rumor is;
There will be two phones. The GT-i9250 is for European release and the SCH-i515 is for Verizon with LTE. There has not been much chatter for the other US carriers.
 
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