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Meet "London," Marshall's First Android Smartphone
MojoKid writes: Marshall may be better known for its music equipment, but that isn't stopping the company from bringing a better audio experience to the smartphone market with its London handset. Given its highly customizable nature, it should come as no surprise that London runs Google's Android operating system (Lollipop 5.0.2). The London features dual front-facing speakers, a Wolfson WM8281 sound processor, Bluetooth atpX support, and a gold-tinged scroll wheel on the right side of the device that handle volume control, which Marshall says offers "tactile precision [that] allows you to find that sweet spot of sonic goodness." Once you get past the audio-centric functionality, there's a lot of lower-end hardware under the hood of the London. You'll find a 4.7-inch 720p display, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD slot, LTE connectivity, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front-facing camera, and a removable 2500 mAh battery. In other words, those specs make the London more in line with the Moto G.
And a tiny 16GB of storage. For music lovers. You know, the kind who would use flac instead of mp3. Just saying
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Don't forget the microsd slot...
Since he passed away the marketing boy's have taken over the place. Too much overpriced crap products
Screw your diamond encrusted case, I'll take mine with Brilliant Pebbles please.
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looks like a phone with decent specs and unique features and design. i don't see the need for the best specs on paper bundled together in a crappy phone with bloatware and a general purpose OS that's far from optimized for the hardware. which still won't have the unique features this one has. it's like saying "that dodge over there is crap, because it won't be as fast as my honda over here, but costs more". really, are some android-people so insecure that they always have to deride users of other phones than the ones they got, just to feel better? you'll hardly find those type of comments in windows-phone, blackberry or iphone forums. maybe the phone is their only pride & status - symbol in life?
A 720p display, a quad-core CPU with 2GB of RAM and an 8MP camera is "low-end hardware" now. In your freakin' pocket, too.
I guess kids these days don't have a clue about how much we've advanced in the last 30 years.
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