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Motorola Planning 2GHz Android Phone For Later This Year

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

    on the other hand Motorola Droid is stock Android

  2. Carrier problems by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The main problems with this though will be carriers. Its becoming increasingly apparent you can't have 2 year carrier-paid phones and be remotely on the cutting edge. Someone who got the first Android phone released in the US on a 2 year contract still couldn't upgrade it at a lower price. With the iPhone releasing a new phone every year and Android improving by leaps and bounds every other month it seems like, there is just no way that this can't end up with hardware fragmentation because a 528 Mhz Backflip just can't run the same things a 1 Ghz Nexus One or the new Motorola phone at 2 Ghz and the trend for hardware still isn't getting faster and faster, AT&T still only has the Backflip which is really underpowered when compared to the rest of the high end phones which are not on AT&t.

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  3. Re:So? by Pharmboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't even the marketing types learned by now.that Ghz is a measure of frequency, not speed?

    But it's TWO Ghz! It's rated at TWICE the bogomips, it has to be faster! This is so fast, I can start talking before I even dial the number! Believe me, when it comes to talking on a phone, this faster CPU will make it much, much better!!!!!1

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  4. Not from Apple == Do not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Specifications are useless without the design and the status. My equation is simple. If Apple makes it, it is worth buying. If anyone else does, no thanks.

    Think Different.
    Think Better.
    Think Apple.

  5. Right, because there are never trade-offs... by divisionbyzero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in engineering. You can always have everything you want. I'm surprised the world hasn't been perfected yet. :-/ Come on, something has to give somewhere. This announcement is worse than vapor. It's vapor that can never exist. Lame.

  6. Re:Initial reaction by dnahelicase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Psh. Noob. I liquid cool and overclock my snapdragon to 4.5 GHz. The battery life is only about 30 seconds but it's worth it to play mobile crysis at 200fps.