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

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HanSolo said:
And it's very doubtful that we'll see the Note in the States any time soon. And it doesn't appear to support LTE.

If it ever did come, though, I doubt I'd get it. Prime seems to be a killer phone, and if I need anything over 5", I'll just get another iPad or something.
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I agree that it won't come to US this year. But it has LTE and that thing is surely super fast despite moving HD pixels. If both Prime and Note is here, it would be very tough for me to pick.

Samsung Galaxy Note versus Samsung Galaxy S II: spec comparison

Samsung Galaxy Note hits an impressive Quadrant score of 3,624, pricing revealed
 
Sandroidfan said:
I agree that it won't come to US this year. But it has LTE and that thing is surely super fast despite moving HD pixels. If both Prime and Note is here, it would be very tough for me to pick.

Samsung Galaxy Note versus Samsung Galaxy S II: spec comparison

Samsung Galaxy Note hits an impressive Quadrant score of 3,624, pricing revealed
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Wow. I stand corrected. If that thing hits next summer or fall in the States, I'd be pretty tempted to pay full retail, especially if has ICS onboard. But I think that might be just too big. . . .
 
The_Chief said:
Oh good heavens... just when you thought it was safe to jump in:

Qualcomm Reveals Plans For Next-Gen 2.5GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon Processors - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

2.5GHz quad-cores??? Good thing I'm holding back an upgrade! :D
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I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
 
HanSolo said:
I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
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The only reason that you would need a quad core cell phone for, is if you wanted to plug a blue ray player into it.:rolleyes:
 
You got core envy there, HanSolo? :p

We already have more technology in our hands than the Apollo spacecraft could dream of. And look what THEY did with the right people behind them!

I give it a year. Jellybean (or whatever they're gonna name "K") will make full use of multi-cores. Betcha. And what bragging rights - yeah, quad-core phone, baby! Running CyanogenMod 9! And OC'd to 3.2 GHZ!

Suddenly, my poor OG Droid is feeling very depressed...
 
HanSolo said:
I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
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I Do and love it. I build my PC's from scratch and love em.

But on phones? Gosh. I believe there are no apps to take advantage but they will run on them none the less until the developers upgrade them to utilize 4 cores but unless they save on power I do not have an application for them. Mercy.
 
HanSolo said:
I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
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We don't NEED anything...but it sure is nice to have it :)

In all seriousness though. I think you are essentially correct. There comes a point of diminishing returns. Unless the OS and/or applications push the envelope and utilize the Quad Core I see no reason for them other than marketing. It's sort of like driving a Top Fuel Dragster around the city during rush hour.

I think a nice Dual Core will perform much better overall in a handset.
 
HanSolo said:
I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
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I remember thinking I'd never need 8 MB (yes, megabytes) of RAM on my PC! But I upgraded from 4 to 8 at $100/Meg. Ahhhh, the late 80's....
 
dr01d3tte said:
I remember thinking I'd never need 8 MB (yes, megabytes) of RAM on my PC! But I upgraded from 4 to 8 at $100/Meg. Ahhhh, the late 80's....
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How excited was I at 10 years old when we bought the 128k upgrade to bring our 8MHz PC XT clone from 512k to the fully supported 640k RAM. Gawd, I still remember us installing the 16 individual 8k chips on the daughterboard. Speaking of needs, we had a 20MB hard drive...and never filled it.
 
I think Qualcomm is lagging behind others in performance race as they are sticking with Cortex A8 ARM design while others like Nvidia, Samsung, TI are moving ahead with A9 and soon A15 next year. They will all push for higher clock, quad core too.

Regardless, Prime will be good for one year at least until future apps will be able to fully use quad cores.
 
Sandroidfan said:
Another rumor popped up today.

Samsung Prime Headed to Verizon First in Late October, Looks Like a Bigger Nexus S? - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog
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As much as I want this to be true, I just don't understand why they would even bother building this device, not to mention having it out in the wild, if it's not running ICS. Maybe someone here that knows more about the development of new phones can explain it to me, but it doesn't make sense to me. It's supposed to be the Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus device, so why would it ever have anything else(i.e. Gingerbread)?
 
GoogleFanBoy said:
As much as I want this to be true, I just don't understand why they would even bother building this device, not to mention having it out in the wild, if it's not running ICS. Maybe someone here that knows more about the development of new phones can explain it to me, but it doesn't make sense to me. It's supposed to be the Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus device, so why would it ever have anything else(i.e. Gingerbread)?
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I wouldn
 
I agree cell raven. A Samsung employee divulges all kinds of info to a stranger in some "private area" ?

I like how the Samsung guy asks him to remove bags, hats etc etc then shows him everything lol...........uhhhh NO.
 
HanSolo said:
I'm starting to think that this "core race" is all about marketing and less about actual performance. There is no frakking way we'd need quad-core phones for at the very least another 2 years. I don't even have that on my PC!
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From what I've seen, the APQ8064, Qualcomm's 2.5GHz quad-core processor, is planned for Q3/Q4 2012.

I personally feel that the biggest advantage a quad-core processor can give is battery life. As long as things are threaded well enough to take advantage of each core relatively equally, it'll let you run things in lower power states. The most power draw comes when you're pushing the processor closer to it's upper limit in clock speed. Take a 1GHz single core processor for example. Running it at 500MHz might use about a quarter of the power needed to run it at the full 1GHz. On a 1GHz quad-core processor, you could potentially run each core at about 300MHz (using even less power than the 500MHz mode) and still achieve a combined performance similar to that 1GHz single core chip.

Now, this all hinges on just how well the processor is optimized and, more importantly, how threaded your applications are. As things stand now, very few non-performance apps bother with multithreading whatsoever; however, Android itself can run each app in its own thread, which when multitasking or running background services can make load balancing across 4 cores fairly effective.

Going beyond 4 cores, at least for the time being, would be pretty fruitless in my opinion, but quad-core processors are definitely useful today. Now, the need to run a quad-core processor at 2.5GHz on the other hand?
 
at the rate that things are going right now, we have pretty much heard EVERY SINGLE THING that can be made up about a phone. . .This will REALLY be up in the air for me. .This thing could pretty much be anything.

At one point I even thought that when the SGSII was revealing in NY was a possibility of having an announcement about the prime, but no. . .Than I thought WHY wouldn't t-mobile let anybody play with their version of the SGSII, but kept it in a locked up box, you'd think you were at a museum, or this thing was kryptonium. .lol anyway I started thinking that this might actually be the Nexus 3 on t-mobile, but it wasn't finished all the way, so they were simply displaying it, but afterwards take it back to the lab and do what they had to do to it. . .I guess I should have posted all of this on my blog and have this rummer spread like I can't believe it's not butter. .than I'm sure I would have found that reposted and reposted, and reposted with the information totally changed by the time it made it all around the net.
 
cereal killer said:
I agree cell raven. A Samsung employee divulges all kinds of info to a stranger in some "private area" ?

I like how the Samsung guy asks him to remove bags, hats etc etc then shows him everything lol...........uhhhh NO.
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This sounds like a sad story form an Oprah episode on kidnapped and raped people. . .than the door closed behind them, and clothes started coming off.

lol but you never know, what if it really is true. .oh well sure as hell doesn't sound like it
 
I believe there's truth in it. Especially the 2.3.3 part and Ice Cream Sammich not being ready, etc.
 
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