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[ARon]

I read you get landscape mode!!!! lol

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I think there are clearer images of that LG Nexus phone. They leaked today...

 

[masta247]

Yup, here:

http://www.gsmarena.com/the_best_pi...one_so_far_show_all_the_details-news-4931.php


It doesn't look bad (in real life I couldn't tell it apart from Galaxy Nexus) but it's made by LG and the camera sensor looks ridiculously small so according to all laws of physics the picture quality is going to suck.

Also, the display is most probably LG's IPS LCD but the application appears to be poor.

Overall I was looking forward to a new Nexus device and we still don't know how it's going to turn out but.. from all I know so far it looks mediocre.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Any thoughts on a possible Samsung Galaxy Nexus 2? I remember there were some rumoured specs that had leaked about a month or two ago.

 

[ARon]

I can't lie. Nexus phones have always been sort of mediocore

 

[masta247]

^ I think Nexus One was freaking awesome for its time - it was the best phone at that point (for a short period of time, because it came in the middle of Android's period of super-fast evolution). Nexus S was a bit better than the first Galaxy S.
I think Galaxy Nexus started the downhill ride but this LG Nexus looks like the most mediocre one.

 

[ARon]

I'd rather have the original LG Optimus G. Sd card, battery, 13mp cam, etc

 

[ARon]

With all that being said, I think I'm going to get one a month or two after the initial release. Barring anything down the line that I want. I may hold out for the galaxy s 4 but who knows. I fucking hate the rate of new tech. At least at this moment chipsets can't make that giant of a leap.​

 

[S O F I]

so, should I get the iPhone 5 on AT&T or Verizon? Both are a bit more expensive. I'm paying for my mom's phone but I gotta keep her with a phone that doesn't require a data plan.

 

[Pittsey]

so, should I get the iPhone 5 on AT&T or Verizon? Both are a bit more expensive. I'm paying for my mom's phone but I gotta keep her with a phone that doesn't require a data plan.

Take your iphone talk to the apple thread.

 

[masta247]

Yeah! Gtfo, traitor

Seriously though. I'd get the SGS3 at the moment, or one of the HTC One phones though they seem to get old quicker.
MAYBE the LG phones turn out to be ok, but who knows. I didn't like the 4X.

Sofi, are you still rocking the Nexus S?

 

[S O F I]

Yeah, still with the Nexus S. I'm a strong proponent of buying a phone every 2 years and sticking with it.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

According to this, the camera is pretty good on the LG Nexus.

http://androidcommunity.com/lg-nexus-4-leaked-prototype-gets-benchmarked-and-shown-off-20121012/

I just don't know what phone to get any more, so this waiting game can take longer than i originally thought. i may just hang onto my G2 a little longer. I hope there will be more than one Nexus phone this year though.

 

[masta247]

It's a funny moment for Android I'd say. Almost as if manufacturers didn't know what to do anymore:
- The race used to be about bigger screen and now they can make them as big as they want. Bigger one = phoneblet, smaller one = mid end.
- We have quad core CPUs that run everything smoothly and could navigate space shuttles in real time. Krait is over twice as fast as A9..! And the difference is like a few miliseconds gained compared to things like Tegra 3 in most apps. Android games are still immature after all those years and GPUs almost didn't evolve since last year.

I'd say they should innovate design but.. Samsung and Apple went wrong way and others did not innovate much. I'm curious to see what's next because something has to happen to push things forward.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I'm also waiting to hear more on the Nexus 7 variants. The £99 one could be a good christmas present to give to people.

 

[masta247]

Yeah, a 99$ Nexus 7 sounds too good to be true but again, that's how the 199$ one sounded like too.

There are rumors about a 32gb version but I'm perfectly satisfied with my 8GB Nexus 7 though. The only time you might want more storage is if you tend to store movies ON your device instead of streaming them (online or from Dropbox for example).

 

[ARon]

It's being said the 32gb one is replacing the 16gb one at the same price. I bet if they do have one for that low low price point it will be the 8gb one, maybe

 

[THEV1LL4N]

It's being said the 32gb one is replacing the 16gb one at the same price. I bet if they do have one for that low low price point it will be the 8gb one, maybe

I hope so. Maybe they could've kept the 16GB model and pushed the price of that down as well, to say maybe something like £129.

 

[masta247]

Now with the leaked Sony quad Krait core phone it's clear that at the very beginning of 2013 we will get a lot of Snapdragon S4 pro devices from all manufacturers except Samsung, which means twice the raw performance of SGS3. I wonder if at least one of them will be as great and complete smartphone, because otherwise Samsung might still have a better seller despite the older CPU.
LG/Samsung/Motorola/HTC and others will have to come up with devices with better design, camera and decent software to overtake the SGS3. Also soon after there's probably going to be the SGS4 which would probably have a CPU based on ARM A15 or the A15/A7 big.little architecture which would again murder the competition and potentially make HTCs situation even worse potentially killing the company in the upcoming years if they don't come up with a solution to their problems.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

So... will the A15 or A7 be better than Krait?

I'm not too familiar with CPUs.