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A quad core Arc S running vanilla ICS would be a division above iphone 4s. Sony hw design, powerful processing and most crucially bang up to date and perfectly performing Android is a proposition that would move SE beyond its frankly unsustainable 1.x% market share.
A Nexus Prime with this proposition would be a must-buy for me.
I agree with both last posters. Give the option of vanilla ICS and then examine the user data, see what consumers want.
If the Sonyness of the SE proposition is so important - and in SE it really, really is - then a SE launcher or even a bundle of apps would give consumers that ux. Its clear that consumers are not that interested in the Sony UX - market share tells its own story, even taking into account distribution/supply limitations that SE have reportedly experienced.
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Posted: 2011-10-05 09:10:00
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I dont think we'll be seeing quad core cpu phones until next year though, so that rules out the Nexus Prime.
And to be honest, i dont think the majority of SE customers would care about specs. Apple's way of getting peoples cash was to package their flagship in a sexy stylish vision of what a mobile phone should be. I dont think a single Android phone has ever been as successful as getting into the minds of joe average phone buyers.
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Posted: 2011-10-06 10:34:39
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Nexus Prime is a dual-core, its what Samsung along with Google are announcing with the release of ICS next week.
SE are working with 3rd party devs to bring clean Android to the "geeks" ,plus Cyanogen Team are now working on the entire SE XPERIA Droid line up, so getting vanilla Android wont be too difficult, although personaly im very happy with the SE UXP.
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Posted: 2011-10-06 12:56:59
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Vanilla android would be fine if the UI will look so much better than the
UX, I still think the default android UI looks dated. iOS has so much beauty in it in comparison. and since SE has been known to push updates faster than the competition (save for Google Nexus series of course) and also the fact that SE opts for a unified user experience across all platforms i'd say no.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-07 04:40 ]
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Posted: 2011-10-07 05:37:37
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On 2011-10-07 05:37:37, razec wrote:
and also the fact that SE opts for a unified user experience across all platforms i'd say no.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-07 04:40 ]
What do you mean by that mate?
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Posted: 2011-10-07 12:49:48
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^^ Same UI experience across all the platforms, the default android UI is far different from looking like the SE UX UI so the experience will be very different if they did not customize them. this might be one of the reasons for SE to reject WP7 since they do not allow shell customization (only a small subset of the UI i.e. wallpapers)
but if the vanilla Android ICS UI realy looks like this
then i think SE will only need to change the colors to match the UX interface as this thing already looked good.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-09 05:00 ]
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Posted: 2011-10-09 03:33:06
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On 2011-10-07 05:37:37, razec wrote:
Vanilla android would be fine if the UI will look so much better than the
UX, I still think the default android UI looks dated. iOS has so much beauty in it in comparison. and since SE has been known to push updates faster than the competition (save for Google Nexus series of course) and also the fact that SE opts for a unified user experience across all platforms i'd say no.
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-10-07 04:40 ]
I agree fully, except the part about iOS being beauty, okay yes it is a bit more polished looking than vanilla android, but it's still a very plain and boring OS.
SE certainly has made it look much better, with many stylish and ergonomic improvements over the standard. This is one of the reasons I keep coming back to SE; they nail the ergonomics every time. I look back on the Satio for example, which was hobbled by having the pain in the arse that is s60, yet had a homescreen that wiped the floor with any other s60 device I've seen before or since. And because the homescreen was native to the Satio, it didn't suck resources like 3rd party homescreens invariably do.
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Posted: 2011-10-09 09:19:20
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The screenshots allegedly from the Prime that are in the Samsung forum look pretty cool, if the real thing.
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Posted: 2011-10-11 01:33:49
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So in the light of this morning's announcement, have any of you thought about this any further?
Come on, admit it, most of us would step over our own mothers to be able upgrade our Arcs, Plays, Rays etc to ICS within the next couple of weeks.
It should always be like that - Google make the update announcement, users go and update their handsets.
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Posted: 2011-10-19 09:42:22
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The UI looks really good at default, i just love the new effects when swiping sideways to display a new set of icons and homescreens. and finally this version can properly use multi-core processing, although i still believe we need more GPU power not a quad core and a dual core with high IPC is more than enough
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Posted: 2011-10-19 10:17:46
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