Who Wins The Final Battle of the 2011 SUPERPHONES!

[JuniorJays]

All the current crop of smartphones use 1st gen multicore SoCs which ironically is not even optimized yet by Android until ICS. They are not very energy efficient but plenty powerful.

The Snapdragon S4 probably will dominate the next wave of phones because it has a fully integrated baseband and an async clock. This gives it a significant advantage over the other SoCs like the A5, OMAP, Exynos, Tegra because those chips will still rely on external basebands which will chew up power. But it seems that Google has chosen the OMAP as the CPU of choice for phones at least so updates will happen sooner on that SoC.

My 2 coins

Just curious what's a baseband, do you mean like the cell radio it something and what's a async clock

 

[combatmedic870]

Just curious what's a baseband, do you mean like the cell radio it something and what's a async clock

yep! the LTE radio is integrated into it. The S4 wont be the fastest of the group(not the slowest either)...but it will be very power efficient. I kind of feel like skipping on the nexus and wait for a phone with a second gen LTE chip(S4).

 

[JuniorJays]

I'm curious to see what the next gen lte chips do to battery life

 

[DamirD1984]

First let me say no i dont have a leak, i have no inside information. and i havent seen this anywhere else, BUT
I think the best phone is the iphone 4s...........no just kidding dont shoot me
I dont think we have even heard about it yet. Spec wise.
nexus will win for the unlocked bootloader(if verizon doesnt do something crazy).
But i think there will be something that out specs everything out there now.
Not saying the nexus will disapoint, and probably what ill get. but i expect a surprise that we havent even heard of.

I hope that surprise would be something along the lines of a TIOMAP 4470, I would have a nerdgasm instantly... Just because, I am not a big fan of the 3 year SGX540 GPU.... and the SGX544 that comes with the omap4470 would be heavenly...

 

[indymale26]

i dont consider it the most anticiapted phone of year we didnt even know bout nexus prime untill past two months the didnt come out with any specs or nothing in till after bionic which took 9 months which is way longer then 2 months , i t might be best phone but it has its faults as well just like any smart phone, there is good with the bad,

 

[DamirD1984]

I'm talking about major markets with large population where it really matters.

Disagree ;-P

 

[DamirD1984]

im thinking that the nexus is still looking like a winner, but we wont really know until people get some hands on review action going. I am worried about samsung and their gps/navigation capability, but I am hoping being a google phone they wouldnt allow those shenanigans

That issue resolved mostly with people rooting their devices... Sammy has been on the lame side on updating their device's OS, and if that does not change, I do not see em keep a loyal costumer base.

 

[DamirD1984]

My vote goes to the Samsung GS2 Exynos variant.... Awesome phone, available to many across the globe. Killer performance in the CPU area, and one of the best GPUs available for Android based devices. It's unfortunate that Verizon has passed on the GS2, because I would have gladly signed a new 2 year agreement for it

 

[kinfolk248]

maybe i missed it but will it have hdmi capabilities?

 

[JuniorJays]

maybe i missed it but will it have hdmi capabilities?

Almost every phone out right now how some hdmi capable things weather you can mirror no one knows

 

[sbenson]

maybe i missed it but will it have hdmi capabilities?

Yes, same as the Galaxy SII.

You'll need one of these.

 

[jerroedr]

so what about the rezound?

 

[stragabenz]

I am so down for the Galaxy Nexus but I have been checking out alot of videos of the Droid RAZR and it looks pretty sweet, I love the design (ultra thin, flexible, kevlar, gorilla glass) and how they supposedly made it to be very "durable" plus water resistant. Almost 80% of my phones have been Motorola and I've been fairly happy with their products. I don't know anyone who has a Samsung phone so I don't know too much about their history. The only thing that concerns me with these phones is battery life, smoothness & responsiveness, reception, and software issues. I think until these phones get out into the population its hard to say which one will be the best phone.

 

[xeene]

rezound sounds awesome, but it's like carrying a brick phone. you'll need extended battery and it'll weigh close to a pound and be a size of of current thunderbolt with extended battery. i'll pass.

 

[RETG]

I am so down for the Galaxy Nexus but I have been checking out alot of videos of the Droid RAZR and it looks pretty sweet, I love the design (ultra thin, flexible, kevlar, gorilla glass) and how they supposedly made it to be very "durable" plus water resistant. Almost 80% of my phones have been Motorola and I've been fairly happy with their products. I don't know anyone who has a Samsung phone so I don't know too much about their history. The only thing that concerns me with these phones is battery life, smoothness & responsiveness, reception, and software issues. I think until these phones get out into the population its hard to say which one will be the best phone.

Flexible? Saying it bends?