ilikemoneygreen
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What makes the Galaxy Nexus so special
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got the mind to imagine stuff.ThaSurgeonGeneral
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True HD isn't the bragging right, its the ppi which, on this size of a screen, truly does make a world of a difference. Will there be much of a visual difference between the two top phones? That is to be determined as the pentile matrix may still pan out to be worse then the Rezounds SLCD (Bionic, Razr though far less ppi indeed). I hope not, given its status but, we'll see... Hopefully the pentile display just needed a boost in ppi to make it the superior screen? We'll see...
I wasn't commenting on True HD anyhow...
Btw, Best Buy, Costco and Verizon (and most likely Amazon Wireless, Wirefly) will be carrying this phone initially but Radioshack and 3rd party kiosks shouldn't be more then a week behind...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted
ThaSurgeonGeneral
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Because of this person, I won't be posting here anymore, I hope I helped you with your decision, PM me if you need anything else! I'm full of unecessary knowledge...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted
ilikemoneygreen
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Thats allTha Surgeon Generalis supposed to do. :biggrin:
droidsaiga
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Sorry OP I made the mistake of correcting his false statements
Once the phone comes out we can judge for ourselves if she lives up to the hype.
Yea I read that thread the other day, there were so many holes in his logic that is wasn't even funny... LOL
ThaSurgeonGeneral
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Ok, I wasn't going to post but, you really need to take another look at the thread... I wasn't pushing anything I didn't know better about... The main argument was not even between HTown and I... My arguments were fact based and ONLY fact based...
I never post otherwise AND if I'm wrong, I really don't mind saying so, however, HTowns points just weren't completely true...
That is all...
That is all...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted
ThaSurgeonGeneral
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Lol, suppose so...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted
My list was simply a list of reasons why a person would want to pick the Galaxy Nexus over competing phones. I was not bashing any of the competition (well, except maybe the iPhone a wee bit hehe), I was giving a "pro's" list about the G-Nex.
The Rezound does have a fantastic screen, but I don't believe it is any better than the Nexus, nor do I necessarily believe it any worse. Thus even if both the Rezound and Nexus have identical screen quality, my statement remains correct: the Nexus has the best screen, and so does the Rezound. However, the Nexus has the advantage of being 4.65" compared to, I believe, 4.3". Not a HUGE difference, but it is enough...
The Nexus DOES have a superior chunk of hardware, I am confident in that. I am not new to the whole tech-marketing and product-development thing, and it's no different than the AMD Phenom II quad-core processors that could be unlocked to be a six-core processor: companies will "soft"-disable bits of hardware, such as turning off good cores, under-clocking, or (like Intel) eliminating a cache level. It usually starts out of "we have these two thousand six-core processors, but people are buying WAY MORE quad-core processors... so we could sit on them, or we could disable two cores, and sell it as a quad-core and make money now, without tainting our brand!". Sometimes, there are actual physical defects on the chips, but with the AMD example, 80%+ success rate for unlocking tells you that the primary reason was not chip defects. The Radeon 6850/6950 being able to be unlocked into a Radeon 6870/6970 is the same exact thing.
Thus it is with the Nexus. It shares the TI OMAP4460 with the Rezound, but I would bet $1,000,000 Internet Dollars that the Rezound has whatever chips passed the "necessary minimum" testing, while the Nexus phones all have chips that surpassed the "necessary minimum" testing by a certain percentage. Yet, they still chose to under-clock the chip from 1.5ghz to 1.2ghz, because frankly: 1.2ghz dual-core is still a hefty CPU for a PHONE!
There will be some point where the chips are unlocked via a software update to run at the full 1.5ghz, in order to keep them "up to date", and as I said before: I have NO DOUBT that the Galaxy Nexus will be the first phone to be able to run stable at over 2ghz, because they have the "most perfect" silicon in them. It's just how it is.
Flagship phone gets Flagship CPU with fewest/no defects that would hamper its potential.
Regarding 4G download speed, I cannot speak to the West Coast, as I am in the Midwest, but even in a city with over 2 million people (we've had LTE infrastructure since the testing-phases, so we're probably further-ahead than most) the Thunderbolt my friend has averages around 15Mbps downstream. Another friend's 4G card, for his MacBook Pro, gives him around 25Mbps consistently. One of the city's VZW stores I was at, the guy there told me he has seen the Nexus peak at 30Mbps downstream, just three days ago, when a manager had one out and was playing with it.
If you watch movies/TV and play games, this phone will have the screen to make them look life-like, and the hardware to keep it stutter-free while the 4G speed keeps the video from getting choppy, even at 720p while in a car constantly switching towers.
PLUS, YOU HAVE GOOGLE BEHIND YOU!
ThaSurgeonGeneral
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First, I need to apologize if my post sounded argumentative... I was just talking and typing simultaneously...
With the CPU as you were explaining, I agree. I wasn't trying to argue CPU/GPU specs... Besides, I don't know if you've noticed but, because of Snapdragon's proprietary nature, its not exactly the easiest chip to compare and neither is its GPU, tho that is entirely Qualcomm's fault as there coding improves, so do their chips. I'd have to argue their silicone isn't necessarily the problem all the time...
I will also state, until the Rezound is unlocked, debloated and desensified just like the Nexus, comparisons are null and void. Case and point: HTC Thunderbolt.
A perfect example is no A9 chip yet and still when you look at hardware specs you consistently see v71 listed...
I was not bashing the Amoled screen, I was bashing the less then brilliant pentile screen though. You want a mobile cinema experience, you get Amoled, for everything else, there's SLCD (or soon SLCD2). Tho, I own both the Razr and Rezound, ppi aside, I still am partial to the Rezounds screen.
However like I said, Rezound holds the crown, for now; I also stated that maybe the pentile Amoled screen just needed a boost in ppi to become truly the superior screen for both cinema and reading. Given its label, I actually hope so because that would suck to get beat out by a non flagship phone...
I won't comment on the download speeds... Nothing will change there as what I mentioned holds true...
Sorry for the arsewipe nature my statement came across as...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted
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Tillers_Rule
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The same thing that made the Bionic so good before it came out and the Razr so good before it came out (as well as the Thunderbolt, Lightning, Rezound...). It's the next, latest and greatest device.
This display is better than that display because it has a '+' at the end of the name. This processor is better than that processor because the name is catchier. This phone is made from different plastics than that phone, etc...
Coming up from the OG Droid, any of them will perform better.
This display is better than that display because it has a '+' at the end of the name. This processor is better than that processor because the name is catchier. This phone is made from different plastics than that phone, etc...
Coming up from the OG Droid, any of them will perform better.
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Just some facts.
Rezound: 342 PPI(Highest in a hand held device so far) and true 720P with Super LCD.
Nexus: 316 PPI 720P (shares sub pixels because of Pentile Matrix screen) but it's larger.
So they are extremely similar, but at 300+ PPI we're talking semantics.
Both are great screens, I personally like the Nexus screen better because of it's colors and the extra screen size is useable when gaming/videos/picture viewing.
Rezound CPU is actually worse than the Nexus. It's a Snapdragon overclocked to 1.5Ghz, while the Nexus uses a higher binned(better quality than 4430) that is downclocked to 1.2Ghz from 1.5Ghz to consume less power.
What this means is, the 4460 in the Nexus is natively clocked at 1.5Ghz, but they reduced the voltage and run it at a slower speed for many reasons, the two most important being less heat production and less power consumption.
The Rezound's GPU does beat the Nexus though and by a fair margin.
Rezound: 342 PPI(Highest in a hand held device so far) and true 720P with Super LCD.
Nexus: 316 PPI 720P (shares sub pixels because of Pentile Matrix screen) but it's larger.
So they are extremely similar, but at 300+ PPI we're talking semantics.
Both are great screens, I personally like the Nexus screen better because of it's colors and the extra screen size is useable when gaming/videos/picture viewing.
Rezound CPU is actually worse than the Nexus. It's a Snapdragon overclocked to 1.5Ghz, while the Nexus uses a higher binned(better quality than 4430) that is downclocked to 1.2Ghz from 1.5Ghz to consume less power.
What this means is, the 4460 in the Nexus is natively clocked at 1.5Ghz, but they reduced the voltage and run it at a slower speed for many reasons, the two most important being less heat production and less power consumption.
The Rezound's GPU does beat the Nexus though and by a fair margin.
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