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s44

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Wow, it's been slow days for mobile news since CES (and, let's face it, there wasn't much there after the early Sony announcement). However...

Later today: HTC event in NYC
March 14: Samsung event in NYC

In between, MWC in Barcelona. Anyone else excited?
 
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Meh, I am starting to be less and less interested in hardware as they all seem to have the same software hardships year after year. Stuff gets updated late and they always want to screw around with the UI.

No, the interesting announcements for is when the big 3 companies unveil new software as its much harder to predict and they have much higher ambitions than just 1080p screens and LTE.
 
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i wish all these high end makers will settle around 5 inch 1080p, quadcore, 2gb ram, microsd, etc by the end of the year so i can pick phones based on creative features like s-pen or multiwindow or waterproofing. the hardware spec race is exhausting.
 
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bearxor

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I wish all these high end makers would make a flagship 4.3" 720p device so I don't feel like I have to register my phone as a deadly weapon.
 
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lothar

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I'm only interested in Motorola's X-Phone or the next Nexus...and maybe the GS4, but that sounds like a reach.
All the other phones announced or that have been leaked to the presses so far are irrelevant.
 
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The HTC One announcement is going on now, I'm interested to see what this "ultrapixel" camera they've been talking about really is.
 
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s44

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bearxor said:
I wish all these high end makers would make a flagship 4.3" 720p device so I don't feel like I have to register my phone as a deadly weapon.
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That's basically the midrange spec this year, which is quite amazing...

Anyway, the One details are already out. Camera the only really interesting thing. CPU disappointing. :(
 
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I hope the gs4 mini is the same specs as the normal gs4 with just a smaller screen.
 
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Yeah, there were rumors that today would see the announcement of the smaller HTC device too, but I guess not. We'll see where the manufacturers go with that. I wonder if they're resisting making it the *same* non-screen specs because the "mini" would eat the big version's lunch on GPU benchmarks.
 
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s44 said:
Yeah, there were rumors that today would see the announcement of the smaller HTC device too, but I guess not. We'll see where the manufacturers go with that. I wonder if they're resisting making it the *same* non-screen specs because the "mini" would eat the big version's lunch on GPU benchmarks.
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Ohh forgot to add keep the mini 1080p to like a 4.5in 1080p display
 
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s44

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grkM3 said:
Ohh forgot to add keep the mini 1080p to like a 4.5in 1080p display
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You realize that would actually be *more* expensive...

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Yeah, I was expecting them to throw a Core i7 in there :colbert:
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No, A15 or the Snapdragon 800. I'm slightly mollified by Brian's statement that "Krait 300" has some IPC advantage over plain-old-Krait, but really this just looks like an upclocked S4Pro. Same GPU, still on LPDDR2...
 
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You realize that would actually be *more* expensive...

No, A15 or the Snapdragon 800. I'm slightly mollified by Brian's statement that "Krait 300" has some IPC advantage over plain-old-Krait, but really this just looks like an upclocked S4Pro. Same GPU, still on LPDDR2...
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I don't care how much it costs I just want the mini gs4 to be just as good hardware wise and offer a smaller screen.

Not everyone wants a 5 in tablet in there pocket you know lol

Heck I would pay more all day for a 4.5-4.6 in gs4 mini
 
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s44 said:
That's basically the midrange spec this year, which is quite amazing...

Anyway, the One details are already out. Camera the only really interesting thing. CPU disappointing. :(
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The CPU is disappointing only because the US models got the Kraits last year. If you're looking at the global version just like the SGS3, they had quad A9s in there. This is a huge boost. Furthermore, with such CPU power, the phone should run beyond smooth. Hiccups now are due to software and not due to lack of hardware power....
 
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The CPU is disappointing only because the US models got the Kraits last year. If you're looking at the global version just like the SGS3, they had quad A9s in there. This is a huge boost. Furthermore, with such CPU power, the phone should run beyond smooth. Hiccups now are due to software and not due to lack of hardware power....
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Qualcomm says Snapdragon 600 is ~40% over S4 Pro just by raising the clocks...Now I really wanna see how much more amazing the 800 with Adreno 330 can do.
 
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StrangerGuy said:
Qualcomm says Snapdragon 600 is ~40% over S4 Pro just by raising the clocks...Now I really wanna see how much more amazing the 800 with Adreno 330 can do.
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I'm confused by Qualcomm's model numbers...again.
I thought S4 Pro was Snapdragon 600?
http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/s4

So there is the Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800...
Which one does the HTC One X fall under?
Which one does the Nexus 4 and Optimus G fall under?
Which one does the new Optimus G Pro fall under?
Which one does the new HTC One fall under?
 
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Suspicious-Teach8788

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StrangerGuy said:
Qualcomm says Snapdragon 600 is ~40% over S4 Pro just by raising the clocks...Now I really wanna see how much more amazing the 800 with Adreno 330 can do.
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Well yeah. I'm not disappointed with the specs. I think the CPU is great. It's a bigger boost for the intl. crowd which was on A9s than the US crowd which got to see dual core Kraits. But either way, it should be a win just moving to quad. Now given your 40% boost you're claiming, even better!

What I'm saying is that general UI lag and performance boosts should be coming more from software now than hardware (look at Facebook for example when they switched to native code, it flies even on old phones now). Maybe it'll take an octa A15 to run a phone as smooth as an iPhone 5, but while we can brute force CPU power, I'd like to see software improvements still.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)

I'm new about these animals but the charts do a good job showing which phone's got which dragon.

lothar said:
I'm confused by Qualcomm's model numbers...again.
I thought S4 Pro was Snapdragon 600?
http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/s4

So there is the Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800...
Which one does the HTC One X fall under?
Which one does the Nexus 4 and Optimus G fall under?
Which one does the new Optimus G Pro fall under?
Which one does the new HTC One fall under?
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According to the charts,

Dual-core Krait 200 = Snapdragon S4 Plus = HTC One X
Quad-core Krait 200 = Snapdragon S4 Pro = Nexus 4, Optimus G

Quad-core Krait 300 = Snapdragon S4 600 = Optimus G Pro, HTC One
 
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