Upcomming smartphone releases

Myshra · 14 Sep 2011 at 09:40

At least try to keep the fanboy comments to a minimum please

It's worth remembering that in mobile SoC design the clockspeed is important but it's only the peak speed, it's not like your processor is running flat out at that (and neither is the discrete gpu, radio controller, hardware video decoder etc etc..)

Like a lot of tech, quadcore designs will give us the potential to do more rather than do more to start with. If they design things that can take advantage of it then woo - good for us. I expect the early kraits will be too power hungry for phones to start with considering their ability. Or, you know, they end up in 5.5" phones with 2500mAh batteries.

uvarvu · 14 Sep 2011 at 13:12

HTC Sensation XE announcement.

Fallen god · 14 Sep 2011 at 16:16

uvarvu said:
HTC Sensation XE announcement.

Just looks like it has a slighting bigger battery and a OC cpu, not really anything great. Think ill wait for the Nexus prime really hope it has some 720p goodness and the great codecs u find on Samsung phones.

Sinny · 14 Sep 2011 at 18:56

I'm waiting on the new Samsung Galaxy W, 1.4Ghz single core is enough for me and I don't like these massive phones, something same size as my HTC hero I'd be glad with.

sarge78 · 14 Sep 2011 at 20:22

Why are you waiting for a galaxy w? (Considering the desire S, SE Neo etc are similar or better)

chiggz · 14 Sep 2011 at 22:31

I use http://www.gsmarena.com/ to get specs on phones. They're also pretty good with keeping the list updated (when it's official).

Sinny · 14 Sep 2011 at 22:40

sarge78 said:
Why are you waiting for a galaxy w? (Considering the desire S, SE Neo etc are similar or better)

Has a slightly better processor, also I can't afford a new contract at the minute so I'm waiting to see how it fairs up.

sarge78 · 15 Sep 2011 at 15:50

^ They all use the same 45nm S2 snapdragon and overclock to ~1.8GHz (the cheapest being a ~£170 Huawei U8800)

There's some good deals around for newish phones atm, check out this Quidco/T-Mobile deal.
£11.50pm gets you 300mins/FUP data and a free SE Arc (The best S2 snapdragon phone) Motorola Atrix (Nice 4" tegra 2 phone) or SE Neon (3.7" version of the Arc)
Hopefully in 3-6 months time the SGS2 should be on a similar deal

Oh yeah, here's more details on the 4.5" 720p AH-IPS LG phone (S3 snapdragon)

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_lu6200_leaks__lte_15ghz_dualcore_cpu_and_hd_screen-news-3138.php

Judgeneo · 15 Sep 2011 at 15:57

I've found I don't really use that much power of my SGS, when my contract comes up I'd quite like a phone with a good screen, build quality, camera, and top notch battery, that runs android, not top CPU power, say dual core instead of quad.

I don't see any on the horizon though :s

Presumedly with the move to 28nm, we should start seeing some long battery life phones again?

kona786 · 15 Sep 2011 at 17:23

Judgeneo said:
I'd quite like a phone with a good screen, build quality, camera, and top notch battery, that runs android, not top CPU power, say dual core instead of quad.

thats basically an SGSII with the official ~ 2000mah bigger battery.

413x · 15 Sep 2011 at 17:43

The two i have my eye on atm are the prime and the sony ericsson duo, really don't like the feel of the sgs 2, worried about what the prime will look like and the res, and also id the duo will be good enough in the light.

I'm looking to upgrade from october to just after xmas, theres nothing currently out that I feel is worth me selling my htc desire original.