Your thinking in a bubble there sir. The GN will be an after-thought by mid next year for most not in this "hardcore" community. ICS will see implementation on dozens of new phones first half 2012. And there is already talk of HTC and a quad core handset for 2012. GeWiz
Also, someone should share the knowledge of how an initial rollout of LTE will be > than a 4 year old sprint-wimax marriage. YES YES YES, Wimax sucks sure, but we are talking coverage. Will Sprint go down that road again of selling you a phone touted for features (LTE 4G) that isn't even ready in your town until x months away?
OK, there are obviously 2 camps here. But I cant imagine that there will be no new "Nexus" phone LTE ready on sprint by the end of 2012 (just in time for the end of the world) anyway.
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All good points.. .. Well I would like to think that Sprint has to know what they are up against with the change over to LTE from Wimax.. They are going to have to do it fast and efficiently... I know thats not in Sprint dictionary but if they plan on surviving a change over of that type going up against established big red and now AT & T, others turning on LTE its gonna have to go down fast and across the board...
The mention of quad cores and stuff doesn't impress me.... Name some real things taking advantage of even dual cores and their capabilities... Really there isn't.... They can make quad cores hitting 5 ghz... Not going to change the playing field until the devs behind the apps and OS design and put code into place or play that takes advantage of the new speeds and capabilities... That is still some distance away.... Heck the devs today are just getting used to pushing single cores to their real limits...
ICS will be on many devices and I don't believe the Nexus in any form will be a forgotten memory by mid 2012 or later... Remember its the development phone, its the one that gets the direct updates from Google first and things are optimized for the most.... Until Google decides to support a different device/model as its developer device the Nexus will always been at the front of the line regardless of what OS or UI's and carrier branding devices sporting the latest and greatest have to put up against it....
Right now I can turn up the juice on my NS4G and peg over 4500 benchmark score on a single core... That is what the average dual cores are getting so even on a device as old and outdated now as the Nexus S or NS4G they aren't as left in the dust as you would think...
ICS for everyone, but Galaxy Nexus/ICS/LTE... Now thats what I'm talking about
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