Re: Rezound vs Galaxy Nexus: My Take
Screen: The super AMOLED has a greater dynamic range and more contrast. However, moving the buttons to the screen also steals some of that real estate. Won't the Rezound have more pixels displaying books, newspapers, etc., anything that doesn't hide the buttons?
Speed: Benchmarks don't show impressive results for the TI chipset. Actually, all seem slower than the Exynos in the Galaxy SII. Benchmarks published by Engaget listed on page 4 or so of this thread show the Rezound quicker in single threaded applications. The multi-thread advantage of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus may be due to Ice Cream Sandwich, which the Rezound will have soon.
Ice Cream Sandwich. Various benchmarks fail. The Rezound will have it in just a few months, it probably won't be stable for long before that. Beyond that Samsung is notorious for not having upgrades while HTC is usually pretty good about it. Will the Galaxy Nexus still be running Android 4.0 in two years?
Swype Keyboard: My favorite by far. Samsung licenses it, HTC doesn't. However, you can't download the betas to Samsung, you can to HTC. My wife's Incredible has 3.26, my Fascinate has 2.0. So the advantage may be to the Rezound; however, can you be sure that HTC will continuen to make the "betas" available?
Camera: Initial Galaxy Nexus results have been mixed at best. That isn't good; a good camera usually shows its stuff right away.
Near Field Communications: Its been in Japan for over 5 years with minimal impact. Doubt if it will be that much ahead in the US in 2 years.
Beats Audio: if you listen to music on your phone. Not an issue for me, I'm not running a wire to my phone.
Size/weight: Size so close not an issue. Weight gives a little advantage to the Samsung.
Net: my heart says Samsung, my head says Rezound.