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Originally Posted by muni Isnt Galaxy-S a high end phone competing for the top spot and are you sure it will drop to spica levels or you are referring to spica successor like i5800/ Galaxy 3 like in the link below |
Frankly I have no idea how hardware prices are determined , All I case say is following moor's law number of transistors will double in 18 months. And going by trend Galaxy-S will come to price point of Spica in 6 to8 months time Quote:
Originally Posted by muni Processor is pretty much alright but maybe the hardware memory isnt sufficient. |
Spica is using 800Mhz Arm 11 based S3C6410 processor , Whereas All the FroYo reference devices till now are Arm Cortex A8 , Clock speed is not the only thing and there is a lot of difference between the two processor architecture , Vector processing using Neon instructions is not available on ARM11 which is main reason of speeding up of FroYo. Quote:
Originally Posted by muni Churning out new models with less than 8 months isnt the way to go I feel as you always leave a lot of people cursing you for what you did. |
Yes may be , but if you have read this thread my main gripe about Android is the huge processing power it needs and thus resulting higher bills of material ( BOM) cost.
Also Android is evolving fast in November you will have Gingerbread ready roughly at the same time most of the FroYo devices will be out.
In case processing power need of Gingerbread is very different from FroYo again same story will repeat. Despite Android being open-source the governence is not open so no-one outside the closed circuls of Google can predict the road-map and the processing needs of future.
So there is a choice either buy a very high end device of today which remains upgradable after 1 year or buy a VFM device and use it till you can use it best you can.
This should be true for any manufacturer |