Engadget: CPU not so fast, battery life poor, display great.
TheVerge: CPU very fast, battery life great, display looks washed out.
Hmm...
TheVerge: CPU very fast, battery life great, display looks washed out.
Hmm...
engadget is and always will be an isheep site.
Topolsky is quite possibly, the quintessential fanboy. T's review is clown shoes.
I've never read his reviews before, but I'll be keeping in mind that he's someone who knocks off a point for anything lacking a logo depicting gnawed fruit. That he's a hipster living in Brooklyn (Billyburg and DUMBO represent!) comes screaming through.Topolsky is quite possibly, the quintessential fanboy. I have no problem with objective reviews, but things like "the glass back is a negative" whenever he praised the beauty of the iPhone 4/4s in back to back reviews isn't even coy enough to get angry about. I can't take that guy seriously.
kind of concerned with the mixed reviews as well. I think it is just showing the bias and styles of the various reviewers. I expect the following
Screen - awesome and crisp, better than the g nex is every way.
Battery - not razr maxx status but substantially better than the g nex. Expecting a full day of use dude to s4 efficiency and lack of 4G LTE
CPU / Speed - the ram and cpu are top notch but I am concerned that google did not optimize them properly. the optimus g with nearly identical specs is benchmarking WAY better. It seems practical use is not affected in the reviews.
Topolsky has been a big android guy since ICS and the Galaxy Nexus. He has pretty much said that android is the new webos in his eyes and if the android had more applications and the nexus 4 had lte he could move to android only.
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Benchmarks don't mean **** I can tweak that and make my N1 outperform anything.
The nexus has the same CPU as the Optimus G, but it scores lower on the benchmarks, which I was excepting it to score better than the Optimus G since it has no bloat ware and the newest version of JB. The Optimus G has carrier bloat ware, and is still running ICS.
The nexus has the same CPU as the Optimus G, but it scores lower on the benchmarks, which I was excepting it to score better than the Optimus G since it has no bloat ware and the newest version of JB. The Optimus G has carrier bloat ware, and is still running ICS.
I noticed this too. Now I'm going "wtf, do I want the phone still or not?" I'm inclined to think the final software will improve performance.
Anyone else notice how HORRID the Photosphere is looking in these review photos? I will say that my wife's panorama mode on the iPhone is awesome! Hopefully Photosphere will improve with time.