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Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year

Posted by Soulskill on from the soon-we-can-expand-crysis-jokes-to-phones dept.

rocket97 writes "On Wednesday, at the Executives Club of Chicago, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly decided to chat about the relatively near future of the mobile landscape as he sees it — which, in part, includes the ultimate demise of mobile computers in favor of highly-capable smartphones. This being his vision, Jha discussed Motorola's plans for a smartphone with a 2GHz processor — by the end of this year. While Jha did not want to divulge any further information, Conceivably Tech cites another anonymous Motorola executive who was a little more chatty, talking up a device intended to 'incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smartphone today.'"

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  1. 2Ghz what? by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which ARM variant is it?

    Ghz ain't everything.

  2. Re:Motorola Has Crappy UI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    on the other hand Motorola Droid is stock Android

  3. Re:Perspective by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is not a fair comparison. Any core2 is going to stomp to death any ARM clocked at 2Ghz, in floating point it won't even be worth comparing. Ghz ain't everything. This may get these phones into the upper p3- lower p4 levels of performance for non-floating point operations.

  4. Re:Highly capable smart phones? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basic phones are getting rarer, but they aren't that hard to find. I found this article a few minutes ago, supposedly updated today:

    http://reviews.cnet.com/best-basic-phones/

    Oddly, the top entry has a camera, a goof on their part.

    The thing is that people that reject the cameras are a small enough market that it might not be worth giving much attention to.

  5. Re:This is going to be about as useful as 300+dpi by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 4, Informative

    here's a pic of the 300+dpi screen compared to anon 300+dpi iphone:
    linky
    I know that it's not as amazing that apple wants to make it sound, but the pixel density is awesome and would help a lot on applications that have lots of text. Hell it's great for pictures too.