Christmas Phones

deaglecat

deaglecat

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Hi - I was wondering whether there are any good new phone (I am thinking Android) releases between now and x-mas.

... or do we have all we will get already (Samsung Galaxy S etc)

So... what next ?
 
Well there are 2 phones coming out soon.

HTC Desire HD which basically offers a bigger screen than the HTC Desire and has a unibody design, whilst keeping the same 65nm Coretx A8 based Snapdragon chip and Adreno 200 gpu.

Motorola Milestone 2 which is a successor to the original using the latest chip OMAP 3630 which has a 45nm Cortex A8 processor (like the Galaxy S and iPhone 4) and a SGX530 (second only to the Galaxy S which uses SGX 540 and iPhone 4 which uses SGX535).

T-Mobile G3 might also eventually see its way to the UK.
 
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mmm unibody - thought apple had a patent on that. basically it is a milled case right ?

Also anything with an oled display at Apple retina resolutions would be nice.
 
deaglecat said:
mmm unibody - thought apple had a patent on that. basically it is a milled case right ?

Also anything with an oled display at Apple retina resolutions would be nice.
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Well the HTC Legend was the first unibody phone.

Nothing atm will have a resolution close to the iPhone 4.
 
sarge78 said:
The desire HD should get the newer 45nm 1-1.3ghz snapdragon (not to different to the Samsung/TI chips)
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Really? I thought they were just all rumours which turned out to be wrong. The Snapdragon QSD8650A (which is what you are referring to) still uses the same old GPU though.

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The 8650A might use Adreno 205 which is supposedly a fair bit better than the old Adreno 200. All still rumours though.
 
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There's a few more rumors about the HD running at 1.3ghz (just assume its the 45nm part) but as you say average gpu compared to the powerVRs.
 
The next major jump in phones will occur with Cortex A9 SoCs. These include Nvidia Tegra 2, Snapdragon QSD8672, Samsung Orion and OMAP's version (which I don't believe has a name yet).

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OMAPs chips do indeed have names (OMAP4430/OMAP4440)

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wt...ateId=6123&navigationId=12843&contentId=53243

and use the same GPU in Samsung Hummingbird (SGX540) but no phones announced are using these chips yet.
 
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ghost101 said:
The next major jump in phones will occur with Cortex A9 SoCs. These include Nvidia Tegra 2, Snapdragon QSD8672, Samsung Orion and OMAPs version (which I don't believe has a name yet).
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Can't wait to see what these chips can do :)
(there's also a few others like the NEC Emma)

Edit: I wonder how long before we see threads about which mobile gfx to get, powerVR or NVIDIA? :P

The N8 is more a p&s digi camera replacement, it shouldn't be compared to the iPhone, desire, galaxy s etc.
 
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sarge78 said:
Can't wait to see what these chips can do :)
(there's also a few others like the NEC Emma)
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All based off of ARM (who says british engineers suck at tech), who it seems no one can challenge; Not even the mighty Intel.

Edit: I wonder how long before we see threads about which mobile gfx to get, powerVR or NVIDIA? :P
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Remember AMD being used by Qualcomm :p.
 
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deaglecat said:
OMG... I forgot about Windows Phone 7 Phone series.
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Yup, there should be about half a dozen of those coming out too. HTC 100% will have one out (probably Nov), same with Samsung and LG, which I think are going to be releasing two apiece pretty soonish.
 
radderfire said:
The Nokia N8 will be available online in the last week of September, it runs Symbian^3:

http://mashable.com/2010/09/08/nokia-n8-coming-september/
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Symbian, 680 Mhz, 256 mb ram, £429 = WTH are Nokia smoking?

It has a 12 Mpix camera, but really, modern 5 Mpix ones are good enough, as long as they have a decent flash.

Its funny that Sony Ericsson fell far behind for some time around and after the K850i, and took ages to get competitive in the high end, and ow Nokia are actually falling behind.

SE are still a bit behind HTC and Samsung, but still not as far off as Nokia are.
 
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bhavv said:
Symbian, 680 Mhz, 256 mb ram, £429 = WTH are Nokia smoking?

It has a 12 Mpix camera, but really, modern 5 Mpix ones are good enough, as long as they have a decent flash.

Its funny that Sony Ericsson fell far behind for some time around and after the K850i, and took ages to get competitive in the high end, and ow Nokia are actually falling behind.

SE are still a bit behind HTC and Samsung, but still not as far off as Nokia are.
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You clearly havent seen it in action - It has the fastest mobile gpu and everything on it is hardware accelerated. Also it runs Symbian^3 which requires far less than the inefficient resource hog called android. Do some research :p
 
Temi_D said:
You clearly havent seen it in action - It has the fastest mobile gpu and everything on it is hardware accelerated. Also it runs Symbian^3 which requires far less than the inefficient resource hog called android. Do some research :p
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Fastest mobile gpu? Who told you this lie?

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n8-3252.php

ARM 11 is years old (used in the iPhone 2G/3G for example) and some random 3D hardware accelerator built with it will be rubbish.

No one will pair ARM11 with a decent GPU. Remember that Nokia have to buy the chips from someone and no one will pair ARM11 with the latest PowerVX gpu.

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Okay, it might have a decent gpu (although not the fastest). It seems it is using the original Tegra SoC, which has very good OpenGL support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra

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Nope, not even using Tegra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N8#Hardware

The GPU is a Broadcom BCM2727.

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Mobile-Multimedia/Mobile-Multimedia-Processors/BCM2727

A 2007 chip.
 
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