HTC Rezound Constantly Rebooting when Cover is On

[kulkaholic]

Dplane.....are you inside my head?....lol. I am expecting a bit of a slow down in major hardware changes as well, but I am expecting a lot of tweak improvements after quad core becomes the standard or they change direction in hardware adjustments. More memory, better batteries, better heat management, etc.

 

[MrSmith317]

To build on that; I agree that the pace at which phones are being moved in the Android world is slightly problematic, albeit slightly relieved by the tremendous dev community. I don't like what Apple stands for as a company and because of that will not buy their products, I do however credit them for being a large reason why we continue to see such a hardware push. Seeing the One X and now the SG3 however I am secretly smiling knowing that it appears as if the hardware reached a bit of a plateau. Our Rezound can still very easily match up with the latest and greatest. Highest pixel density 720p display on the market: check, amazing camera: check (probably only beaten by the One X camera), overall very decent to good battery life: check, removable battery and microsd: check, gsm ability: check (aye I know it's not officially supported), 1gb of ram: check...and I could probably go on. Sure it is not the thinnest or the lightest and yes on paper (aka benchmarks) it is not the fastest but especially the latter will mean very little in the real world. They can keep their new "super phones"...by the time I'm due for an upgrade again there will probably be some truly noteworthy hardware advances...and in all likeliness because Apple will be pushing the envelope with the Iphone 5.

I agree with most of your argument except that Apple is pushing hardware innovation. Apple has been more or less stagnant with hardware. The Android manufacturing community is battling internally for the best hardware and more or less ignoring Apple. The iPhone 4S was the first dual core iPhone if memory serves correctly. Android beat them to that market by a full 6 months. Stand-alone DSP/GPUs were also an Android first.

So if you follow me there I believe that Apple has been pushing software "innovation" in Android much more than they ever have or will with hardware.

 

[dplane]

I agree with most of your argument except that Apple is pushing hardware innovation. Apple has been more or less stagnant with hardware. The Android manufacturing community is battling internally for the best hardware and more or less ignoring Apple. The iPhone 4S was the first dual core iPhone if memory serves correctly. Android beat them to that market by a full 6 months. Stand-alone DSP/GPUs were also an Android first.

So if you follow me there I believe that Apple has been pushing software "innovation" in Android much more than they ever have or will with hardware.

I see your point, and I agree. Though as you more or less imply; it seems to be a combination of software efficiently using the hardware it is given, which frankly..google just now seems to be very slowly moving towards. The ICS rollout being so tremendously slow is bad business, although I am sure it works just fine for the marketing and product development folks at HTC, Motorola, Samsung, etc who have a good excuse to release "new " hardware to go with ICS, rather than bringing previously released devices up to par. The big benefit of the hardware push on the Android side is..or should be..that new OS rollouts should not be limited by the phones capabilities as much as it seems to do on the Apple side of the house.

 

[ChelleTheBelle]

Thanks so much you guys, this was very helpful