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Well, I have the TP overclocked. Android will probably still lag, but I'm hoping ICS, which is supposedly more "optimized" for tablets, will let it be more usable. I really liked how Honeycomb was, and if ICS is similar but better than that, then I could put up with a little lag. I think will be using it all for reading powerpoints and books and so the only thing I will be worried about will be its ability to switch between windows of different documents. Documents opened in one of two programs, Adobe Reader (for PDFs) and PowerPoints in QuickOffice.
Running games or resource-heavy apps is not a priority.
Running games or resource-heavy apps is not a priority.
There really is a lot to improve. I'm not talking specs on paper. Of course they could put a 12mpx camera, 2gb of ram, a hi-res screen and a quad core chip (which is exactly what they might do).
What I would like to get is a cooler device, even with similar tech specs. So a slimmer, lighter body with a smaller bezel around the screen (perhaps the screen taking almost the whole front panel) would be what I'd love to get. I'm fed up with the "specs" war already. If you have a single core 1ghz cpu in your phone chances are it does everything you want it to do with ease. Now 1ghz single core cpus are getting better and better too and new "low end" qualcomm processors are twice as fast as their first gen 1ghz processors. I'd really like if they started to improve the coolness factor, usability and became more innovative. Raising specs isn't innovative anymore, even if it's an 8core arm cpu. It won't even give you an advantage other than a cooler benchmark score and lazy programmers a reason to screw up the optimization of their apps, which is what Android developers already do to some extent.
What I would like to get is a cooler device, even with similar tech specs. So a slimmer, lighter body with a smaller bezel around the screen (perhaps the screen taking almost the whole front panel) would be what I'd love to get. I'm fed up with the "specs" war already. If you have a single core 1ghz cpu in your phone chances are it does everything you want it to do with ease. Now 1ghz single core cpus are getting better and better too and new "low end" qualcomm processors are twice as fast as their first gen 1ghz processors. I'd really like if they started to improve the coolness factor, usability and became more innovative. Raising specs isn't innovative anymore, even if it's an 8core arm cpu. It won't even give you an advantage other than a cooler benchmark score and lazy programmers a reason to screw up the optimization of their apps, which is what Android developers already do to some extent.
A pretty random comparison. Galaxy Nexus has an old camera module, Senstaion XL has a shitty one (which you can only tell from extremely huge visible noise).
Xperia Arc S and Galaxy S2/Note have very good ones but they don't look much better than Nexus on this comparison.. Actually the Galaxy S2 and Note have the same one, which isn't obvious from the picture - because camera settings make a bigger difference here. As a matter of fact it's very hard to tell the camera quality from this picture.
Gsm arena made a very detailed camera shootout recently, with best 8mpx shooters. Galaxy S2 and Iphone 4S won. Xperia Arc has the same module as the Iphone 4S but due to higher image compression it received inferior scores.
Xperia Arc S and Galaxy S2/Note have very good ones but they don't look much better than Nexus on this comparison.. Actually the Galaxy S2 and Note have the same one, which isn't obvious from the picture - because camera settings make a bigger difference here. As a matter of fact it's very hard to tell the camera quality from this picture.
Gsm arena made a very detailed camera shootout recently, with best 8mpx shooters. Galaxy S2 and Iphone 4S won. Xperia Arc has the same module as the Iphone 4S but due to higher image compression it received inferior scores.
So either get one now, and I'd go either for the SGS2 or Galaxy Nexus and then get a new phone Q2 2012 or.. wait at least till the CES, so 2 more weeks. After that event getting a SGS2 might seem.. less appealing ;-)
But to be fair it'll be mainly about new Windows Phones and 2012 Sony Ericsson droids.
But to be fair it'll be mainly about new Windows Phones and 2012 Sony Ericsson droids.
By Ian Hardy on December 28, 2011 at 2:24pm in Mobile News
Let the rumours start for the next high-end Samsung device to be welcomed into the growing Galaxy family. The Galaxy S and the Galaxy SII have sold well over 30 million units worldwide, but latest unconfirmed word around the web has Samsung set to unveil the Galaxy S III, possibly having the model number of GT-I9500. According to Korean website ETNews, the GSIII might come packed with some impressive specs: Quad-core processor, Super AMOLED Plus 720p display (no word on the screen size), Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with TouchWiz, LTE-enabled, 2GB of RAM. Probably the most unique feature is that it might incorporate 3D into the device, something we’ve seen HTC and LG already do with the HTC EVO 3D and the LG Optimus 3D. Mobile World Congress in February, hopefully the GSIII will be leaked before.
Source: ETNews
Via: Phandroid
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I hope they leave out the 3D. Fuck 3D already, gimmicky shit.
First photo from the Samsung Galaxy S III shows up, potted plants never looked so good
By Daniel Bader on December 29, 2011 at 12:43pm in Mobile News
We brought you word of the inevitable Samsung Galaxy S III (though we dispute some of the specs, as you’ll see in an upcoming post), but now there is the first photo evidence of the device. No, not a screenshot of the hardware, but of a potted plant in a Korean office from behind the hardware.
Purportedly taken with a Samsung GT-I9500, the next step above the Galaxy S II I9100 and Galaxy Nexus I9250, the 5MP photo is likely compressed and not indicative of the true size of the sensor which, according to rumours, could be as high as 12MP (but is most likely 8MP).
In terms of aperture size, the sensor looks to be f/2.65 with a 4mm focal length, standard for camera phones of this size. The photo was apparently taken in Suwon, South Korean, home to a large Samsung factory.
Source: Pocketnow
Do they still make phones with kickstands?
On a side note that picture "from the SGS3" doesn't really look impressive, even if it's downsized and slightly more compressed. Like they pointed out, looks like a typical modern cell phone sensor, not any bigger or much better than the one of the Galaxy S2.
A downsized picture taken in similar conditions with any 8mpx camera phone would look similar or even better.
Compression noise is apparent (though it's hard to tell whether its caused by image compression software or camera drivers + noise generated by the sensor itself) but also contrast is unimpressive and details are lost. There are visible distortions on the right side of the picture too.
On a side note that picture "from the SGS3" doesn't really look impressive, even if it's downsized and slightly more compressed. Like they pointed out, looks like a typical modern cell phone sensor, not any bigger or much better than the one of the Galaxy S2.
A downsized picture taken in similar conditions with any 8mpx camera phone would look similar or even better.
Compression noise is apparent (though it's hard to tell whether its caused by image compression software or camera drivers + noise generated by the sensor itself) but also contrast is unimpressive and details are lost. There are visible distortions on the right side of the picture too.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/a-rim-truck-with-5200-blackberry-playbooks-inside-stolen/
Not really Android related but lmfao, how can you steal a truck this big and get away with it. And where would you sell so many Playbooks?
Not really Android related but lmfao, how can you steal a truck this big and get away with it. And where would you sell so many Playbooks?
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