Official MWC 2012 Thread

[sciwizam]

So whats with Nvidia's inability to get LTE working on their Tegra line?

That why Nvidia announced a partnership with Renesas and GCT for LTE chips, while they wait for their own Icera team to catch up.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

So whats with Nvidia's inability to get LTE working on their Tegra line?

It may not be Nvidia's fault per se. For whatever reason every single At&t LTE device has a Qualcomm SoC even though we know OMAP 4 and Exynos have no problem working with Verizon's LTE network. Perhaps there is some advantage to using Qualcomm SoCs in GSM+LTE configurations.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Hmmm. I am liking the HTC One S...

 

[sciwizam]

One S has the qHD SAMOLED display, good if you are not bothered by the pentile display @ 4.3"

 

[sciwizam]

Dear god, what has HTC done in Sense 4?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The middle end device the One S is perfect. 4.7" is WAY too big. Sorry, even my SGS2 is a little too big sometimes....

 

[ponyo]

Hmmm. I am liking the HTC One S...

I guess you missed 4.3" size...

 

[GTaudiophile]

No, I didn't. I prefer closer to a 4" screen.

 

[ponyo]

I know. Remember you said 4.3" was too big. Well this phone is 4.3."

 

[YoungGun21]

It is sad knowing that probably none of these are coming to VZW

 

[Annon2255]

It is sad knowing that probably none of these are coming to VZW

This...

 

[PingviN]

Damn the One S looks nice!

 

[amdhunter]

I thought more news would be coming out. Is everyone scared to announce anything?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I wish they made the One S more like the X in terms of a flagship device. 4.7" is too ginormous lol

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Paul O'Brien tweets: "I have never seen a screen like the SLCD2 on the @htc One X. Totally blew me away, INSANE. Made my Galaxy Nexus look 10 years old."

This once again reaffirms SLCD is amazing. No one believed me when I said the SLCD Incredible S beat the shit out of my Nexus S.

 

[Annon2255]

Wish the One X was coming to Verizon =/

 

[stormkroe]

Paul O'Brien tweets: "I have never seen a screen like the SLCD2 on the @htc One X. Totally blew me away, INSANE. Made my Galaxy Nexus look 10 years old."

This once again reaffirms SLCD is amazing. No one believed me when I said the SLCD Incredible S beat the shit out of my Nexus S.

I believe you, it's just one of the many thing people drinking the samsung coolaid rage about if you don't agree with them. The Gnex is alot better than the SGS2, but even without the ABYSMAL resolution of the S2, the oversaturated colors remind me of when one of my kids play with the color controls on my TV.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

well i actually like the S2 better than my Nexus S. The non pentile screen even though its blown up now is miles better. The problem with any AMOLED screen is that it needs to be properly calibrated. My Nexus S is, but my SGS2 just isn't and so it's not as vibrant and punchy.

I've seen a few GNexs and they were very blueish to me. I know this can all be fixed, but the default colors just look washed out and overly blue.

 

[kaerflog]

The spec on the HTC OneX is nice but its still the same bland design that HTC always produce. The OneX doesn't look any different from all their other phones from the previous couple of years. HTC need to hire new designers.
The HD2 is still HTC best looking phone to date.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The spec on the HTC OneX is nice but its still the same bland design that HTC always produce. The OneX doesn't look any different from all their other phones from the previous couple of years. HTC need to hire new designers.
The HD2 is still HTC best looking phone to date.

why does it matter? the sgs2 wasn't anything revolutionary. the sgs1 is more like the iphone 2g/3g design. shrug. dunno what people really want. i just want a phone thats ergonomic and runs well. as long as it isn't designed to look like a brick im good.

 

[ChronoReverse]

I'm honestly more concerned that it be a good smartphone over how it looks as long as it's not ugly. And I mean actually ugly rather than the kneejerk "ugly" everything gets called left and right. Some like the Aztec ugly.

Otherwise, functionality, battery life, stability are the tour du jour

 

[_Aurel_]

I honestly think that ATT customers are going to get the best version of the X. I was on board the Tegra 3 hype train until I read about Krait, and Tegra's graphic performance compared to other processors. Qualcomm's S4 is just straight-up more efficient because of die size and newer ARM cpu architecture. Tegra 3 relies on a gimmicky 5th core to minimize battery life drain from doing simple tasks. It's pretty obvious that once you start doing graphic-intensive stuff on your device the Tegra 3 will choke when it's up against S4 because at this stage you're comparing a older 40nm process to a newer 28nm process.

I'm hoping that Verizon picks up a variant of the HTC One S and rolls it out on their network.

 

[sciwizam]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5592/intel-atom-z2580-z2000

Next gen Atom Z2580: Dualcore, SGX544 MP2 @ 533Mhz

At 533MHz you can expect roughly twice the shader/compute performance of the 543MP2 that's in the A5. Granted by early next year we'll likely see competitive, if not faster GPUs implemented in SoCs (quite possibly long before then).

 

[poofyhairguy]

Tegra 3 relies on a gimmicky 5th core to minimize battery life drain from doing simple tasks.

Funny enough, that "gimmicky" core has allowed my Prime to have amazing battery life compared to dual-core tablets. Maybe it isn't such a gimmick.

It's pretty obvious that once you start doing graphic-intensive stuff on your device the Tegra 3 will choke when it's up against S4 because at this stage you're comparing a older 40nm process to a newer 28nm process.

Um no. Tests of the GPUs show that in some cases Tegra 3 is better and some cases Krait's Adreno 225 is better. I personally prefer two extra cores.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

either way the fragmentation of the AT&T version means development will be tough. have fun with custom ROMs.