Samsung Galaxy Nexus specs leaked

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Doboji

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Vindication... switching to AT&T from VeriZon and my SGSII back at the beginning of June was a smart move. I was worried that the Prime would make me regret it. Whew!
 
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trmiv

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So this is probably going to be $299 subsidized? Dammit, what can I sell???????
 
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BGR once again reporting vzw exclusive.

i'm tired of this shit so I'm ordering my SGS2 now.
 
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MrX8503

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If the specs of the Prime are to be believed, the SGS2 is the better device.
 
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Red Storm said:
Why not wait 5 days and find out for sure? :confused:
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30 day return policy. based on what i'm hearing I don't really care to wait.


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s44

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Bryf50 said:
Another "leak". This is a little more like it.
http://www.gsmarena.com/source_close_to_google_reveals_real_nexus_prime_specs-news-3239.php
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Hm... original Exynos certainly didn't use PowerVR. But it seems Samsung never revealed what was in the GPU side of the 1.5ghz Exynos 4212, and all this year's OMAPs only use single-core PowerVR. (And are 45nm to boot, which makes little sense paired with power-guzzling LTE.) Plus they already engineered the new Exynos into an announced LTE phone, and we know that LTE baseband combos are tricky.

Hoping for the best (Exynos), expecting the worst (OMAP 4430/4460). This is basically a "want" feature, though. LTE and HD SAMOLED are the essentials.

Edit -- holy crap, I missed the CDMA/GSM combo. This can't all be true, can it!?
 
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poofyhairguy

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pm said:
I must have read this incorrectly, Poofy, because you are normally a pretty rational guy. The problem isn't that the phone is step backwards hardware-internally from the SGS2... the real issue is that iPhone people might make fun of it? You are joking... right? And if not, who the heck cares what the "iPeople" think? :)
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Sorry I was a little off this morning. You are right, the random opinion of Apple fanboys don't matter. Let me try again.

What I meant to say was that this was an opportunity to completely lap the iPhone and put the Nexus Phone Line into the national conscience like Google always dreamed it would be (I don't completely buy the developers phone bit) and they blew it. Simply by not making the MP 8 or higher for the camera Google blew the chance for the Nexus to be better or equal than the iPhone 4S on all points that regular people (I am thinking about people who get their tech news from sites like CNN) could understand.

TVs have been sold as 720p for years- 720p is very sellable. WAY more than a "retina display." People do know to compare CPU Gigahertz thanks to the AMD/Intel race ten years ago- 1.2Ghz vs 1GHz in the iPhone or whatever will stand out to a normal person. The non-techy person doesn't know that the iPhone has the much better GPU because they don't completely understand what a GPU is- computers have never been sold by their GPU specs (except niche gaming machines).

But megapixels? The camera industry has made it so that regular people think the more megapixels the better (I know I know). iPhone has 8, Nexus has 5. Therefore for a layman something is better on the iPhone and the Nexus is no longer a clear winner. Apple's iPhone delay this year gave Google an opportunity that they might not have again and they failed because they cheeped out on a sensor.

For those who would like to see Nexus devices get a higher profile (so MAYBE the carriers would have more pressure to not delay and bloat Android phones) this one little issue is disheartening. What is even more depressing is the fact that obviously Samsung has the better sensors- Google for some reason shot its own foot!
 
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leeland

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when would we be expecting this to be released? Just curious as I am desperately in need of a new phone...have a Motorola Razor still
 
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All of these "leaks" are suspect. I'm just going to wait 5 days for the official reveal, seems easier.

Also BGR is consistently wrong when it comes to "leaks" so I really don't care what they have to say.
 
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The second set of leaks seems more like a wishlist than true specs does it not? Everyone here complained about the CPU/GPU combo and the camera and the battery, lo and behold the second set of specs comes out exactly as everyone would wish. I certainly like the sound of the second set, but the first set is what we've been hearing from the start, so that is what I would put more weight on.

Plus, didn't Google choose TI for ICS test platform? That is what I've heard over and over. So why would it not be a TI processor?
 
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one thing we should have all learned from the ip4s/ip5 announcement is that these rumor websites are usually 100% wrong. it makes sense that the specs would be on the lower end. verizon just released bionic and they wouldnt turn around and immediately release a much better phone.
 
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WelshBloke

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YoungGun21 said:
The second set of leaks seems more like a wishlist than true specs does it not? Everyone here complained about the CPU/GPU combo and the camera and the battery, lo and behold the second set of specs comes out exactly as everyone would wish. I certainly like the sound of the second set, but the first set is what we've been hearing from the start, so that is what I would put more weight on.

Plus, didn't Google choose TI for ICS test platform? That is what I've heard over and over. So why would it not be a TI processor?
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Makes sense for Samsung to put their own chips in though doesn't it?
 
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pm

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poofyhairguy said:
For those who would like to see Nexus devices get a higher profile (so MAYBE the carriers would have more pressure to not delay and bloat Android phones) this one little issue is disheartening. What is even more depressing is the fact that obviously Samsung has the better sensors- Google for some reason shot its own foot!
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Ok, that makes sense. And I agree with you. Thanks for the clarification. I guess we'll see what we are getting next week. All of the dueling rumors... it's hard to know what to believe.
 
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Ok, I thought about it more. Both are wrong, but in a way that together it looks like the 4460.

The first report was wrong because the 4460 runs at 1.5Ghz. No reason to clock down its native speed, and the second report is sure of a 1.5GHz dual-core.

But the second report is wrong here:

According to our source, the device codenamed Nexus Prime is going to ship with Samsung's own chipset, with a blazingly fast dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. But wait, there's more.
On that chipset will also reside a powerful dual-core GPU from Imagination.
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There is no current or going forward Samsung Exynos chipset with a SGX GPU. Samsung is committed to making it so most of the work can be done in house (or with exclusive suppliers like Yamaha) and they have committed to the Mali GPU architecture. Mali is ARM's GPU so it is maybe the most "pure" GPU, and gives them a way to get away from a supplier they once shared with Apple (Imagination).

But TI is a big fan of SGX GPUs, so you put all the evidence together and it looks like it is the TI 4460.

This is better than everyone is making it out to be then. At 1.5GHz this will be the fastest phone around CPU-wise (as TI is pretty much clock-for-clock with Samsung on CPUs), and the SGX450 GPU is clocked at a pretty insane 384 MHz. That is almost twice as high as the Galaxy S1's GPU's speeds. Benchmarks will show it to be a competitor- maybe even nearing the Mali.

Overall if its the 4460 that is a great thing. On Android CPU clock matters this most and on that count this will be a monster.
 
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