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[UPDATED] The PlayStation Phone

Looks like Android might finally have a fighting chance in the gaming segment of the mobile OS world. While this only shows some hardware and doesn't say much about their game plan, I think it's great. If Sony and Google start producing some quality games for Android, MS definitely will come back swinging! Which means more games and choices for everyone. We might even see MS come out with a slider phone that has gaming controls!
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Those blank spots better be for dual nubs. Other than that, fugly hardware accompanied by a great OS.
EDIT: It'd look fine if they made it look almost exactly like a PSP GO or a X10 Pro.

Honestly, Android games are lackluster at best. I'd be highly surprised if SE could make a phone good enough to challenge MS's Xbox LIVE integration in WP7.
Not to mention SE has a track record for putting old software on their NEW phones *cough* DONUT *cough*... I'm thinking it'll be DOA.

This isn't Google's device, but Sony's. This is there product and probably be the only Android device to legitimately support PSP titles. So this one device has to compete against the not one but nine WP7 devices. It's also probably digital download only which killed sales of the PSPGo, I'm guessing it's gonna do the same here. And if it doesn't add updated graphics there kinda wouldn't be a point.

meh. looks like a cheap UI like on every othe android device. gaming on android sucks anyway. there are hardly any decent titles.

My goodness where is all this misinformation coming from. First its only a prototype device. Second its chip beats every WP7 device. Third Android has a boatload of games from top gaming companies that also support the iPhone(which pawns every other mobile gaming phone OS).
One device versus 9? Be serious the iPhone 4 pawns every UNRELEASED WP7 device.

vetvito said:
My goodness where is all this misinformation coming from. First its only a prototype device. Second its chip beats every WP7 device. Third Android has a boatload of games from top gaming companies that also support the iPhone(which pawns every other mobile gaming phone OS).
One device versus 9? Be serious the iPhone 4 pawns every UNRELEASED WP7 device.
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I never said it wasn't a prototype. You can tell just by looking at it, that this device was somewhat thrown together.

Just putting this out there:
If you want to game, just go for WP7.
Android is a huge joke when it comes to gaming, WP7 has a huge group of real video game developers, plus the addition of XBL. Whoever said PSP games were any good anyway?
Regardless, this looks interesting
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Moved to General as it has nothing to do with WP7.

whats up with the two dots covering up the space for a half querty ?

souljaboy said:
whats up with the two dots covering up the space for a half querty ?
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I think they're kinda like the things on F and J keys on a keyboard. Tell you where to place your thumbs maybe..

I duno how I feel replacing the analog stick with a multi touch pad.
I think it would be neat to see them make a controller case for other android phones, that communicated via. blue tooth. That way, establishing a hardware platform would be significantly easier.

I would NEVER buy one, no more SonyEricsson for me thank you...
S/E are just fuc&%#¤ with us customers, they only send out old android versions, and they don´t keep their promises to us...
So pleace think long and hard about it before you spend money on that company...

Yeah I've never heard good things about SE phones. But things could change. It will most likely ship with 2.2.1 or hopefully Gingerbread.
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New links in OP.

There's another thread about this exact topic, could a mod please merge them?
On-topic: I actually like the look of this phone, might think about getting one (once I've seen the release version)

Asus Transformer Prime, Penta-Core ICS Tablet

Asus Transformer 2 (Prime) was just confirmed an hour ago, didn't see any posts about it in General so decided to throw one up myself.
Comes with Nvidia's Quad-core, or Penta-core depending on how you look at it, processor, most likely Ice Cream Sandwich if not Honeycomb with an upgrade by the end of the year. It's also thinner than both the Ipad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 at only 8.3mm with a Micro-SD card slot and Mini-HDMI excluding the ports that will eventually come on the keyboard dock.
Can't post links since I don't have eight posts yet, so if you want to find more info just google Transformer Prime and I'm sure you'll get a lot more information.

kal-el chips, finally!
this thing is a bit too shiny, but i can ignore that for how epicly thin it looks, the raw power, and how great its going to be to use (taken from the transformer 1)
always wanted a transformer, maybe i can obtain one of these.
oh, here's a link. http://phandroid.com/2011/10/19/asu...nstage-and-padfone-availability-during-asiad/
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i will be preordering one

http://allthingsd.com/20111019/jonney-shih-video-highlights-from-asiad-video/
Here is the highlight video of him announcing the Transfromer 2 Prime. Starts at around the 6 minute mark. I have to say that the pictures don't the actually size of the device justice. It's super super thin and looks amazing.

Hello baby, come to Papa. Been waiting for it for a while now!

Hmmm...very interesting indeed...I wonder how much will it cost..

Greatbape said:
http://allthingsd.com/20111019/jonney-shih-video-highlights-from-asiad-video/
Here is the highlight video of him announcing the Transfromer 2 Prime. Starts at around the 6 minute mark. I have to say that the pictures don't the actually size of the device justice. It's super super thin and looks amazing.
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Sweet gracious! That is one thin tablet!! Makes my Transformer look like a cinder block...

Nyjil said:
Comes with Nvidia's Quad-core, or Penta-core depending on how you look at it, processor
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I'm not sure what you mean. five counting a gpu or what?
slick looking tablet regardless!

Call_Me_Blur said:
I'm not sure what you mean. five counting a gpu or what?
slick looking tablet regardless!
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The Tegra 3 chip uses four 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 cores, in addition to another Cortex-A9 made on a low-power process, that runs at 500MHz. When the tablet is doing mundane things like checking emails, it drops onto the low-power core to save power.
It is logically a quad-core chip, but it will switch to a single low-power core whenever possible to save power.

Put windows 8 on it and I'll buy 10

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It is logically a quad-core chip, but it will switch to a single low-power core whenever possible to save power.
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oh wow, that's cool. i dont usually pay much attention to tablets, but this one has me excited now!

I'm glad to finally see this coming!
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Put windows 8 on it and I'll buy 10
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I'm glad you hate Android so much. If you didn't, you'd probably beat your wife.

No, if I buy a tablet I want a full desktop, or at least laptop experience out of it. You seem to like to make everything out to look as though I'm the bad guy and troll me even when I'm paying something a compliment. That said, I wouldn't buy an iPad, or another android tab. They're mobile OSes and I want a desktop OS for my tab.

z33dev33l said:
No, if I buy a tablet I want a full desktop, or at least laptop experience out of it. You seem to like to make everything out to look as though I'm the bad guy and troll me even when I'm paying something a compliment. That said, I wouldn't buy an iPad, or another android tab. They're mobile OSes and I want a desktop OS for my tab.
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Someone brings up the topic of a brand new Android tablet, and your response is "if it had [my favorite software-maker's OS] on it, I'd buy 10." How, exactly, is that a compliment?
Oh, right, 'cause you're a troll!

That statement was actually in relation to the razr thread, however the hardware of this looks outstanding and I'd love to see it run a desktop OS. Asus announced some new 2012 windows 8 tablets though and I'm sure at least one will use a similar chassis so no worries. If I own a tablet computer I want it to be a small computer, not a big phone.

z33dev33l said:
That statement was actually in relation to the razr thread, however the hardware of this looks outstanding and I'd love to see it run a desktop OS. Asus announced some new 2012 windows 8 tablets though and I'm sure at least one will use a similar chassis so no worries. If I own a tablet computer I want it to be a small computer, not a big phone.
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Oh, well gosh darn. I assumed you were talking about, you know, the topic of this thread—and not some random, unrelated phone. Silly me.

Well, I suppose I missed the line about domestic abuse in the original post. Please sir, practice what you preach. Do not knock a thread off topic and then proceed to insult someone else for doing so. While we're on such a kick, please do not insult my English, I am not originally from an English speaking nation. However, looking at your posts, I could provide you with tutoring. There is no reason to turn every thread that I post in to a jumbled mess, your insistence on doing so is based on a ban you received that was not by my report.
As far as the tablet goes, it's outstanding hardware, I just don't see any current mobile OS replacing my laptop. Android is, however, getting closer and closer. Build a decent version of WINE on there and I may just pick one up.

z33dev33l said:
Well, I suppose I missed the line about domestic abuse in the original post. Please sir, practice what you preach. Do not knock a thread off topic and then proceed to insult someone else for doing so. While we're on such a kick, please do not insult my English, I am not originally from an English speaking nation. However, looking at your posts, I could provide you with tutoring. There is no reason to turn every thread that I post in to a jumbled mess, your insistence on doing so is based on a ban you received that was not by my report.
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What line about domestic abuse? What tutoring? What ban? And you say I'm the one taking this off topic?
z33dev33l said:
As far as the tablet goes, it's outstanding hardware, I just don't see any current mobile OS replacing my laptop. Android is, however, getting closer and closer. Build a decent version of WINE on there and I may just pick one up.
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This isn't a topic about whether or not tablets are technologically equivalent at handling the tasks of a laptop, as we could all agree they are not. (Again, I'm the one being off topic?) But I certainly agree with you. I'd like tablets to be more like laptops than phones, but (back to on topic...) the introduction of quad-core chips in tablets is certainly the right direction for accomplishing this.

To be quite honest, I don't see the core count as anything outstanding. I mean the only issue we really have with tossing these into phones is size constraints. Tablets get much larger. What's really going to matter is how they make use of such power. Without some crysis quality games, what is the point in all those cores?

lmao I've never seen a thread derailed so quickly.
You guys are badass. Keep it up!!

Exclusive Huawei Ascend P1 Review on Benchmark.rs

Hello fellow XDA members. Who and what is Benchmark you might ask? I will introduce us in short. Benchmark is largest website and community in the Adriatic region, with latest and greatest informations in the domains of Hardware, Software, Mobile, Multimedia, Business IT and Games. We write reviews for many categories of devices, one of which are smartphones.
Anyway, we have something that might be of interest to you, and if we are not mistaken, this will be a premiere and a real review of Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone, not just hands on details. We managed to grab an Engineering Sample early, so we were lucky. I decided to do a thorough translation of our original text in Serbian, so that others enjoy the review too. Here is the link leading to our review in English:
http://mobile.benchmark.rs/mobilni_telefoni/review_huawei_ascend_p1_u9200_english_version
It would be nice if you could share this review with others, it would mean very much to us. We aren't popular like Engadget and GSMarena, so spreading the word is not a simple task. Cheers guys, and hope you will like my review.

Fantastic work mate I must say. Bravo.
Ill share this with my fellows
All the best

Nice review and nicely spec'd phone, I wonder if this will ever reach the UK market because brands like this rarely do?
Stock ICS but not the stock ICS launcher?

There is a stock ICS launcher, 3D one is just optional, as i wrote in the review
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As for UK availability, no idea. Do you guys have any Huawei products available over there?

My apologies, I didn't realize that what you meant from this...
It comes with Android 4.0.3 version, and an optional 3D interface.
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I realize now, does still look very nice but it's a shame about the slightly lower spec GPU when the rest of the phone is of such high spec. I'm not sure what it means for real time use though.
Isn't the GPU the same as the one Samsung used in the slightly inferior SGS2 GT-I9100G?
As for Huawei in the UK, I have seen very fee of their products here tbh. They are about, I own a Huawei E586 MiFi but you don't see many phone other than low spec cheap pay monthly.
Maybe if this phone is as good as it sounds it'll get picked up by UK carriers, would be interesting see how it performs against the SGS3 later this month and the Galaxy Note 2 when it arrives.
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Well yeah, PowerVR SGX540 does come in I9100G model, but also in many other models like Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S I9000, Wave I and II, Motorola DROID RAZR XT91, LG Prada, etc. It's not a fresh chip that's for sure, it was manufactured in November 2007, but it still widely used in devices, as it is still very powerful.
There is a a discussion circling the internet, about Mali-400, the most praised GPU that SGS2 and Note have, only being better in benchmarks, because of the higher fill rate.
"The Mali-400 MP4 in the SGS2 is performing better than the SGX 540 in benchmarks because of fill rate. Read this article by Anand, it explains some of the differences between the GPUs: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4686/samsung-galaxy-...
When it comes to handling polygon counts though, the SGX 540 is actually much more capable. Next year's games will be very poly-intensive and this is where the SGX 540 can actually start outperforming the Mali-400 in the SGS2."
So, I would say that it's not entirely a bad thing having a PowerVR SGX540, and in real use, it doesn't make a huge difference vs Mali-400, as people think it does.
I don't have any doubts that Samsung will take its SGS3 and Note 2 a couple of steps further. Huawei really needs to think very carefully, and assign a good price for this model, because it might find itself outperformed by models that are coming very soon.

Nice review, keep up the good job!

Good and exclusiv review.
I wish you all the best. Keep going with the good work.

Thanks for the review! How about the Ascend P1 S? Has it been released yet?

This phone is so amazing, it has all the features that you may need. I definitely will go for it when it hits Chile

So the P1 is fatter and does have less battery 1670
and the P1 s is thinner and does have a bigger battery 1800 mA , is that correct? I thought just the inverse.
And engadget said that the snappier of the two was the P1 S, anyone wonder why? if they have the same specs.

do you konw if this device support OTG ?
thaks

will be really interesting how much support this device will get from community devs

feierwehrmann said:
will be really interesting how much support this device will get from community devs
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Same here.

nice review! i just want to share that i bought mine at http://www.liaow.com/huaweiascendp1u9200.asp and its the international version! i really love this phone!

[Q] DFT WML (Windows Mobile Loader) news ? (new picture !!!)

As I would really like to know a "when" but, I was really just wondering if there has been any news on the DFT project of a Windows Mobile loader for Windows Phone 7.
It was tweeted about here..
https://twitter.com/#!/CotullaCode/status/169865585591721985
We head a nice buzz about it on about 2 months ago with a video but, now nothing and has anyone heard any news on it ?
I have searched and googled the "heck" out of it with nothing but old news...
This is NOT looking for a ETA (that would be breaking XDA rules) I am just wondering if there has been progress or news on it.
Thanks !

I'm not aware of any. That's a bit surprising, considering that it looked pretty polished int he preview videos. It would be nice if the DFT forum weren't so inaccessible to most people who frequent XDA-Devs; there's a number of other forums as well and it's too bad that the hacking and homebrew community ineitably ends up fragmented as a result.

GoodDayToDie said:
I'm not aware of any. That's a bit surprising, considering that it looked pretty polished int he preview videos. It would be nice if the DFT forum weren't so inaccessible to most people who frequent XDA-Devs; there's a number of other forums as well and it's too bad that the hacking and homebrew community ineitably ends up fragmented as a result.
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Exactly why I posted this. The Video looked like it was almost ready, there was hype about it and that was it. That was about 2 months ago.
And your so true about the fragmentation, it's too bad.
Thanks for your reply !

I guess no one has heard anything about this project ? Man, I have about 3-4 apps (nothing too fancy) that would love to run again and at least see if it was as good as I remember.
This sounded like a cool project..

It's been a while and I would really like this. My old Touch Pro's VGA display is too small to use my old 6.1/5 apps...
So, what they heck, anyone have a update on this ?

There has been a fair amount of silence of several projects lately, I suspect they are just busy.
Although in saying that, we're still waiting on WM6 ROM for the Alpine! that had a video published several years ago sooo.....
My guess is that development has been poured in to sorting out HSPL for various devices and similar tasks, after all, that is a much more useful project for a lot more individuals.
If you want my advice, just forget about it, that way, if and when its done then you can be over the moon again
rather then spend the next 6 months being annoyed about it all!

Cotulla posted some news on his twitter account lately

dazza9075 said:
There has been a fair amount of silence of several projects lately, I suspect they are just busy.
Although in saying that, we're still waiting on WM6 ROM for the Alpine! that had a video published several years ago sooo.....
My guess is that development has been poured in to sorting out HSPL for various devices and similar tasks, after all, that is a much more useful project for a lot more individuals.
If you want my advice, just forget about it, that way, if and when its done then you can be over the moon again
rather then spend the next 6 months being annoyed about it all!
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I hear ya, I was just trying to see if there was anything new. Not that I would use it every day but, There are somethings I would use.
and I checked his twitter feed...
Ah, a new image....I guess they got network support now, Nice ! Maybe we are getting closer to a beta or a release !!!
https://twitter.com/CotullaCode/status/210394783787663361/photo/1
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I hear ya, I was just trying to see if there was anything new. Not that I would use it every day but, There are somethings I would use.
and I checked his twitter feed...
Ah, a new image....I guess they got network support now, Nice ! Maybe we are getting closer to a beta or a release !!!
https://twitter.com/CotullaCode/status/210394783787663361/photo/1
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Maybe they are busy doing away with those God awful 1 2 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen; God I hope so

I am eagerly waiting for this release from DFT. I read somewhere that it uses something called hTC Gold to emulate. I really hope that it works on a Samsung Focus.

"HTC Gold" is HTC's internal name for the model of phone commonly known as the "HTC 7 Pro" (the CDMA variant, commonly called "HTC Arrive", is known as the "HTC Gold_C"). The phone you see in the picture above is an HTC Gold model.
As for whether it will work on a Focus, I can't be certain of that but I would guess that yes, it probably can. It depends on how much they're relying on the hardware of the phone, vs. just virtualizing all of that, though. For example, the 7 Pro (Gold) has a hardware keybaord, as you can see. The Focus does not, so if for some reason the hardware keyboard is required, that won't work. However, in most ways, all gen1 and even gen2 Windows phones are very similar.

GoodDayToDie said:
"HTC Gold" is HTC's internal name for the model of phone commonly known as the "HTC 7 Pro" (the CDMA variant, commonly called "HTC Arrive", is known as the "HTC Gold_C"). The phone you see in the picture above is an HTC Gold model.
As for whether it will work on a Focus, I can't be certain of that but I would guess that yes, it probably can. It depends on how much they're relying on the hardware of the phone, vs. just virtualizing all of that, though. For example, the 7 Pro (Gold) has a hardware keybaord, as you can see. The Focus does not, so if for some reason the hardware keyboard is required, that won't work. However, in most ways, all gen1 and even gen2 Windows phones are very similar.
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Oh ok. Thanks for clearing that out. Talking about Windows Phone, today is a huge day for our beloved platform. Sorry to be off topic, but I just could not resist it.

Has anyone seen any new news on this ?

According to his Twitter page, there was some updates, It's now running WM 6.5 (instead of 6.1), wonder how close we are to a release...

Does anyone know if there is any news on this?
Best regards

I guess we'll know when cotulla wants us to know...I just hope it doesn't get dropped... It would be so useful!

Desperately waiting for DFT WML?
I'm looking forward to getting this Windows mobile loader too, as I'd like to keep running my brave old. ListPro. App for which I haven't found any decent and valid substitute yet.
Could DFT tell us what the real status is?

Don't hold your breath, this has been dead for ages unless anyone has any new news?
Sent from my Rooted Kobo Arc

Why does samsung have to be a bunch of dkheads!!!!

Why Dont they release One phone for ALL This is one downfall of these money hungry FKRS... Korea apparently get the 1.8ghz clocked Octa core WITH LTE ---- WHY CANT WE ALL GET THIS ONE, WHATS THERE FKN PROBLEM.. MTHR-BEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!... Most other countries will get the I9505 snapdragon and other countries will get the I9500, And here is where is becomes REAL stupid... 60-70% of sites say the I9500 will come only in 3G 30-40% say it can support LTE in some countries.
Some ridiculous news I heard
Samsung did not have enough parts, so they used the S600 to fufill there stock.
Some developers can unlock the i9500 so they it works on LTE
The LTE exynos is bad on battery ( BS ) I own the I9305 its the SAME BATTERY LIFE as the I9300 I owned them both, I DIDNT NOTICE ANY DIFFERENCE
ITS 2013 EVERYPHONE SHOULD COME WITH 4G STANDARD!!!!!!!!
Guys Is the S4 I9500 going to support LTE or not and why are so many places saying it can and and so many saying no... If someone knows anything, do you know what LTE bands it will be

Surprised to see a senior member post this. You can have your exynos octa. I'll take my superior gpu and be on my way

Wow.... switch to decaf?

Sorry I just snapped it.... LOL
I really dont care if its Octa or Quad or what ever.. Why do they need more then one variant... I wasnt happy about the I9305 but I said ahh maybe they made a mistake and realized we should of brought out all the phones with LTE and 2gb ram.... But no it happens again... Ah well life goes on Rant over...
So really is the I9500 LTE or not... And why are there so many places saying it is and vice versa.. Anyone have it in there hands already that actually know?

There's so much ignorance in the OP... and I don't mean that to be disrespectful.
Samsung is one of the only companies that is capable of doing such a giant world wide launch in every country producing millions and millions of HIGH END phones for everyone at once.
No one is capable of doing this, not Apple or HTC.
Apple slowly releases the iPhone out in regions. HTC doesn't sell as well as Samsung does.
Look at it at a business standpoint. That's all I can say.

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Bwahahaha! More like " need a hug?" LMAO! Lets get this closed.

I don't want to look at it from a business stand point . I want to look at it from a consumers
I guess you will like it if you buy a phone and then 3 months later they release the same version but enhanced. Well I myself would rather them releasing that enhanced one 1st then 1 year later another enhanced one, but that's just me. < and BTW I don't doubt samsung is a capable company, I just don't believe that they couldn't create one variant for all, its all money making ajendas
Rant out..

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I don't want to look at it from a business stand point . I want to look at it from a consumers
I guess you will like it if you buy a phone and then 3 months later they release they same version but enhanced. Well I myself would rather them releasing that enhanced one 1st then 1 year later another enhanced one, but that's just me.
Rant out..
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So, why did you have to start a brand new thread? I see several open threads about this topic already...

Didn't have enough time to search I just quickly looked at first pages topics and didn't see anything like this.
Feel free to close .. I made my say hopefully a samsung spy has read it and passed my message to the boss LOL

btemtd said:
I don't want to look at it from a business stand point . I want to look at it from a consumers
I guess you will like it if you buy a phone and then 3 months later they release the same version but enhanced. Well I myself would rather them releasing that enhanced one 1st then 1 year later another enhanced one, but that's just me. < and BTW I don't doubt samsung is a capable company, I just don't believe that they couldn't create one variant for all, its all money making ajendas
Rant out..
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But haven't you seen the benchmarks? They are nearly identical in performance. One isn't going to outperform the other by a noticeable margin. And if there are regions without LTE, then why put LTE chips in those phones? Even if a LTE chip cost $1, that's a few millions of dollars that add up in these regions. That could cut cost on your next TV, Phone or samsung designed toilet.
My i9300 outperforms my GF's i747 in benchmarks but there's nothing I've ever done that her phone couldn't do.
I'll just leave it at this. You're possibly one out of a million consumer that feels this way. The other consumers probably don't care and will never notice the benchmark differences. They will have a phone that functions like another SGS4.
In a research study, people were blindfolded when drinking various water bottles. Most of them chose plain American tap water as the best tasting water.
I do hope that one day Samsung is capable of just making 1 phone for development reasons. But if this allows me to enjoy a SGS at a great price optimized for my region and I don't have to wait 6 months like I did with my ATT Captivate I'm happy!

btemtd said:
I don't want to look at it from a business stand point . I want to look at it from a consumers
I guess you will like it if you buy a phone and then 3 months later they release they same version but enhanced. Well I myself would rather them releasing that enhanced one 1st then 1 year later another enhanced one, but that's just me.
Rant out..
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I believe it's because of fulfillment reasons. They don't have enough initial capacity to produce enough handsets worldwide.

btemtd said:
Sorry I just snapped it.... LOL
I really dont care if its Octa or Quad or what ever.. Why do they need more then one variant... I wasnt happy about the I9305 but I said ahh maybe they made a mistake and realized we should of brought out all the phones with LTE and 2gb ram.... But no it happens again... Ah well life goes on Rant over...
So really is the I9500 LTE or not... And why are there so many places saying it is and vice versa.. Anyone have it in there hands already that actually know?
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they've been doing it since the s2, unfortunately.

barondebxl said:
Bwahahaha! More like " need a hug?" LMAO! Lets get this closed.
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Maybe the OP needs to unregister from XDA and start enjoying life a bit more.
The only fail by Sammy is that they are not using SD600 in all their S4's.

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Its all about keeping the business. Look at the auto business. Why cant they just give me a car that has everything I want?

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