If VZW gets G-phone...

[boatman]

If it is for $199 w no contract, you will see lots of people move towards it. You can just purchase pay as you go, I am sure you will be able to unlock it, and then use it pay as you go on ATT, TMo, and International GSM. I am not sure many vzw clients will jump ship to it, but lots of non vzw clients would be very interested in it.

 

[gonzoguy24]

They had a pretty big hand in the G-1 development, as well as the Droid.

touche barry touche you are very right. But still i think it can be the google phone even if HTC makes it

 

[sooper_droid12]

If it is for $199 w no contract, you will see lots of people move towards it. You can just purchase pay as you go, I am sure you will be able to unlock it, and then use it pay as you go on ATT, TMo, and International GSM. I am not sure many vzw clients will jump ship to it, but lots of non vzw clients would be very interested in it.

I think what they mean without contract is: Without Voice Plan contract. You still need to pay for a carriers data plan. T-Mo already has plans (voice and data) without contract. They're one of the only carriers that offer no contracts that's not specifically called "Pay as you Go." However, if this phone goes to VZW, guarantee you'll have to pay for a data plan contract (i.e. like their broadband service).

 

[andrew53517]

This is the same kind of question as: Is the DROID better than the iPhone? Is it an iPhone killer? The DROID does DROID well and the iPhone does iPhone well. In the same way, people are asking the question: Is the Snapdragon an OMAP killer?

The OMAP/SGX cpu/gpu has its strong points, particularly with 3-D rendering and texturing; most every graphic push to the screen is some form of rendering or texturing (e.g. cube animations for GDE's home replacement).

The Snapdragon does really well with integers as you would expect given its the Scorpion core's strength. But the biggest boon for Snap is that its REALLY good on batteries. However, if the HD2 is an indication, their battery life is comparable to current OMAP applications. If you want to see longer battery life, you'll have to look at Acer's attempt to make a long lasting smartphone and how they under-clocked the Snap to achieve it.

OMAP is mature and powers the best smartphones and tablets out there. Snap is gaining some momentum, but don't be fooled by clock speeds, because they mean not very much. The short answer? We'll have to see. If you look at the OpenGL bench tests, the iPhone 3Gs running OMAP/SGX running at around 600-ish MHz outperformed the Snapdragon with optimized drivers on the HD2 in just about every test, except integers.

Take it for its worth. To me, this is like Intel vs. AMD back in the day. AMD kept upping the clock, but at the end of the day, Intel was just making a better integration of chip. And that's really what shines about the OMAP/SGX is their integration and how well they work together despite not boasting the clock numbers of the Snap/Imageon combination. At the end of the day, you may not notice it.

Okay, that makes sense, thanks for that post! very nice post!

 

[KoukiFC3S]

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