I have been following the rumors of the nexus Prime, or Galaxy Nexus for many months now, and was excited to see what Samsung would do with their awesome screen and chipset technology in such a device.
With all the rumors pointing towards an OMAP chipset, presumably the 4460 (basically the same thing as the Bionic's 4430) it makes me wonder what a lost opportunity we had here. Samsung's Exynos chipset is an amazing setup, and the Mali 400 GPU makes the OMAP's ancient overclocked SGX540 look silly. But, even the Mali 400 gets shown the door by Apple's iPad 2, and iPhone 4s chips.
from what I can tell, (which granted is limited being we are still a few hours off) this phone could be a downgrade on almost every bullet point from the current SGS II. The CPU & GPU should be slower, and even the HD screen could be an argued downgrade considering it's a step back to pentile (which is important for some people)
The last year has jsut seemed to be a funky year for smartphone tech. Things have slowed down due to LTE and how picky it is with compatibility. I think we are due for a bigger jump than usual in the next 6-8 months as CPU & LTE techs merge in a more harmonious relationship. .
With all the rumors pointing towards an OMAP chipset, presumably the 4460 (basically the same thing as the Bionic's 4430) it makes me wonder what a lost opportunity we had here. Samsung's Exynos chipset is an amazing setup, and the Mali 400 GPU makes the OMAP's ancient overclocked SGX540 look silly. But, even the Mali 400 gets shown the door by Apple's iPad 2, and iPhone 4s chips.
from what I can tell, (which granted is limited being we are still a few hours off) this phone could be a downgrade on almost every bullet point from the current SGS II. The CPU & GPU should be slower, and even the HD screen could be an argued downgrade considering it's a step back to pentile (which is important for some people)
The last year has jsut seemed to be a funky year for smartphone tech. Things have slowed down due to LTE and how picky it is with compatibility. I think we are due for a bigger jump than usual in the next 6-8 months as CPU & LTE techs merge in a more harmonious relationship. .