Whats the Next Big Phone after the GNex?

dubya.t

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I am new to this.....but ever since I have been religiously following the Gnex I have been curious what the next big phone in the works is? I have heard a few names, but nothing too serious. Whats on the horizon? What do we have to look forward to?
 
Oh and for those of you who plan on posting something along the lines of "we havent even gotten the gnex yet" bla bla bla..., please don't even bother
 
Quad-core, integrated LTE/CDMA, VoLTE, 720p displays on more devices, etc. No concrete phones on the horizon, AFAIK. Rest assured they'll be coming to light right after you turn your Nexus on.
 
I am new to this.....but ever since I have been religiously following the Gnex I have been curious what the next big phone in the works is? I have heard a few names, but nothing too serious. Whats on the horizon? What do we have to look forward to?

Well it seems like motorola is back into their bad habits that almost killed them before the og droid of releasing a ton of small iterative updates in rapid fire mode so I am not expecting anything "big" from them any time soon, who knows what will happen after the google takeover though.

Samsung is pretty clear cut we've got the galaxy s III which if the release is anything like the galaxy s I & II, it will release internationally at the beginning of the summer and make its way stateside next autumn.

HTC has that quad-core ville, that's all I really know about that.

We won't really have a good handle on what next year will be like until CES in january and MWC in march(?),
 
For the geeks it will be the next Nexus.

Verizon will tell everyone else it's the RazrMAX or RazrHD or what ever they are gonna call the dang thing.
 
Quad-core phones. The only thing I'm certain that they'll do is extend your battery life.

I could go off on a tangent and say things like they'll allow your phone to go faster and the more cores you have the less strain so blah blah, but I'm really not so sure about those things. Just a small reflection here but slightly more than two years ago I bought my OG Droid, clocked at 550MHz with 256MB of RAM. Now, two years later, we have phones with 720p HD screens, 4G LTE technology, dual-core 1.2GHz processors, and 1GB of RAM. In two years, the specs of the most high-tech phones more than doubled. And I find that to be fascinating.
 
Well it seems like motorola is back into their bad habits that almost killed them before the og droid of releasing a ton of small iterative updates in rapid fire mode so I am not expecting anything "big" from them any time soon, who knows what will happen after the google takeover though.

Samsung is pretty clear cut we've got the galaxy s III which if the release is anything like the galaxy s I & II, it will release internationally at the beginning of the summer and make its way stateside next autumn.

HTC has that quad-core ville, that's all I really know about that.

We won't really have a good handle on what next year will be like until CES in january and MWC in march(?),

Moto is gonna screw themselves big time if they keep on the same release schedule. You can only make the same parts into so many things. Not to mention alienating customers. If Google chooses to really dig their hands in, we can safely expect the Nextus to be a Moto phone.
 
Moto is gonna screw themselves big time if they keep on the same release schedule. You can only make the same parts into so many things. Not to mention alienating customers. If Google chooses to really dig their hands in, we can safely expect the Nextus to be a Moto phone.

The pace they're at is definitely unsustainable, hopefully they realize that before it bites them in the ass
 
the next big phone will probably be the next nexus for me. Been wanting one ever since the 1st came out but never to VZW till now!!
 
Quad-core phones. The only thing I'm certain that they'll do is extend your battery life.

I could go off on a tangent and say things like they'll allow your phone to go faster and the more cores you have the less strain so blah blah, but I'm really not so sure about those things. Just a small reflection here but slightly more than two years ago I bought my OG Droid, clocked at 550MHz with 256MB of RAM. Now, two years later, we have phones with 720p HD screens, 4G LTE technology, dual-core 1.2GHz processors, and 1GB of RAM. In two years, the specs of the most high-tech phones more than doubled. And I find that to be fascinating.

They won't, the real next "big" thing in mobile is 28nm: 28nm ARM a15 cpus that provide a real world performance boost while using less power and 28nm radios that just sip juice compared to current radios.
 
Quad-core phones. The only thing I'm certain that they'll do is extend your battery life.

I could go off on a tangent and say things like they'll allow your phone to go faster and the more cores you have the less strain so blah blah, but I'm really not so sure about those things. Just a small reflection here but slightly more than two years ago I bought my OG Droid, clocked at 550MHz with 256MB of RAM. Now, two years later, we have phones with 720p HD screens, 4G LTE technology, dual-core 1.2GHz processors, and 1GB of RAM. In two years, the specs of the most high-tech phones more than doubled. And I find that to be fascinating.

Moore's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
The next big thing for me is the Verizon version of the Galaxy note. Im keeping my Nexus until Verizon gives me a bigger phone. 4.3 is getting a bit small.
 
Quad-core phones. The only thing I'm certain that they'll do is extend your battery life.

I could go off on a tangent and say things like they'll allow your phone to go faster and the more cores you have the less strain so blah blah, but I'm really not so sure about those things. Just a small reflection here but slightly more than two years ago I bought my OG Droid, clocked at 550MHz with 256MB of RAM. Now, two years later, we have phones with 720p HD screens, 4G LTE technology, dual-core 1.2GHz processors, and 1GB of RAM. In two years, the specs of the most high-tech phones more than doubled. And I find that to be fascinating.

Have ever heard for Moore's Law? A law made by one of the co-founders of Intel.

"Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware: the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years."
 
If you're a Nexus fan, the next big phone is coming December 2012 - Nexus 4.

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Probably the first Krait, Exynos 5xxx, Tegra 3 and OMAP 5 devices running ICS. Seriously, worthless is running 2.3 at this point.

But im getting sick of Android and the carriers. Such poorly polished and thought out software compared to iOS. It even shows on my Kindle Fire.

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