Galaxy Nexus: 'Superior'

2012-08-21T15:34:00.002-07:00

A 'Superior' Galaxy Nexus? Rumored specs for refreshed flagship appear online

With the Galaxy S III on the market, Google's eight-month-old Galaxy Nexus is already feeling a little long in the tooth. However, a spec sheet spotted by SamMobile suggests that Google's developer device could see a spec bump in the not-too-distant future. The current GSM Galaxy Nexus, the GT-I9250, would be replaced by the GT-I9260, codenamed "Superior."

The display remains unchanged at 4.65 inches using Super AMOLED technology, while the processor has been bumped to from 1.2GHz to 1.5GHz. The Galaxy Nexus' camera is widely regarded as one of its weaker points, so an upgrade to 1.9- and 8-megapixel cameras on the front and rear, respectively, is encouraging. However, we are a little suspicions about the purported inclusion of a microSD card slot in this rumored Galaxy Nexus refresh — Google has said in the past that it prefers not to include expandable storage in order to maintain a streamlined filesystem. As unlikely as the inclusion of a microSD slot might be, Superior aligns well with Google's annual release cycle for Nexus devices — the Galaxy Nexus originally debuted November 2011 — and Q4 is just a few short months away.

Source: theVerge

Galaxy Nexus 2 Photo Leaked

2012-07-27T17:19:00.001-07:00

One of the most popular devices has by far been the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. And while it’s only been available for about 9 months or so, it appears we might now be seeing what the next Nexus phone might look like. For now, it’s being called the Galaxy Nexus 2, which isn’t of any surprise at all.

While we’re not sure yet if it’s made by Samsung or not, just by looking at it you can definitely see some resemblances to the devices that Motorola has made over the years. It would also make sense that Google might throw Motorola into the mix of the Nexus device makers with everything that it spent to acquire the company recently.

Below is the list of rumored specs that we could be looking forward to when we all sport one of these lovely beauties.

Super AMOLED display with 5 inch diagonal and 720p resolution
Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection
32GB of storage
8GB of RAM
HSDPA 42 Mbps connectivity
microUSB 2.0 with MHL and USB on the go
WiFi
Bluetooth 4.0
Back camera is a 12 megapixel sensor with autofocus, LED flash and simultaneous HD video and image recording, touch focus, image stabilization and face and smile detection. 1080p video capture at 30 fps
2 megapixel front-facing camera with 720p capture at 30 fps
3200 mAh battery
Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1
Quad core Nvidia Tegra 23 quad core 2 GHz processor
GPU ULP GeForce

WOW!! That’s about all I can say at the moment. Well, other than that I can’t wait until a date is announced for this beast of a phone as I would really like to see about getting one of these. Oh, and did you see #4 on that list above ? 8GB of RAM ?!?! That’s just crazy insane if it truly does come with 8GB of RAM. That will blow away a majority of home PC’s now days.

Thanks go out to Killu-Chan for the mockup of this device. It’s definitely a beautiful looking phone and I hope when it’s finally made official that it looks just like this, or very similar.

I know a lot of Galaxy Nexus owners will be upgrading to this device, but the big question is this: How many of you current Samsung Galaxy SIII users will give up your new toy for this one ? Do you feel it’s worth it ? Is it something you’d do at any cost just to have one of these shiny new Galaxy Nexus 2 devices when it finally hits the market ?

Source: Concept-Phones OMG!Droid