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Apple iPhone 4S vs Samsung Nexus Prime vs HTC Vigor

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These 3 phones will be the flagships phones for each said company for the remainder of the holiday season. Just giving heads up with specs, details for each phone, and will update accordingly as new details emerge.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GT-i9250 + SCH-i515)
Announcement: 10/11/2011 @ CTIA
Release Date: 11/3/2011 (per cryptic tweet)
First to market with Ice Cream Sandwich OS (2.4.1)
Verizon Wireless exclusive at first, will trickle down to other carriers in the months ahead
Contoured 4.65 inch SAMOLED+ @ 1280x720
1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Dual Core SoC
PowerVR SGX 540 @ 384MHz
1GB RAM
5MP Camera + advanced sensors (1080p recording/playback)
2MP front facing camera
MHL (acts as a charging/HDMI port)
NFC ready (Google Wallet)
CDMA/GSM/LTE ready (will eventually be available on all 4 U.S carriers)
Will be ~8.8mm thick (as thick as current AT&T SGS II LTE phone)
No physical/capacitive buttons except for Power, volume buttons
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HTC Vigor
Announcement Date: 10/06/2011
Release Date: 10/13/2011
Super LCD 4.3 inch HD @ 1280x720
1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 Dual Core SoC
Adreno 220 GPU
1GB RAM
8MP camera
1.3MP front camera
HDMI
LTE ready
Running Gingerbread 2.3.4 using HTC Sense UI overlay
Will come with Beats headphones and Beats audio tweaks in the OS.
No word on which carriers will get this phone
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iPhone 4S
Announcement: 10/4/2011 @ Apple HQ (10 AM PST)
Release Date: 10/14/2011
Screen: 3.5 inch Retina Display (960 x 640)
Processor: A5 Dual Core SoC
GPU: PowerVR SGX variant
RAM: ?
Camera: 8MP camera + advanced IR filter + 1080p playback
OS: iOS 5
Network: GSM/CDMA ready (global phone)
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The iPhone 5 will continue to be the leader in the smartphone sales and experience, it will be holy and great, just like its predecessor †
 
Pink∆Floyd;13373853 said:
The iPhone 5 will continue to be the leader in the smartphone sales and experience, it will be holy and great, just like its predecessor †
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100% correct!

The others really don't matter.
 
Who is the fanboy?? You are comparing an unannounced phone to 2 other phones you have details for?

Why create this thread now? Why not wait until the iPHone 5 is announced?
 
Geckotek said:
Who is the fanboy?? You are comparing an unannounced phone to 2 other phones you have details for?

Why create this thread now? Why not wait until the iPHone 5 is announced?
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the OP is more of an objective post than anything else. No reason to feel insecure, the iPhone 5 will sell like hotcakes. And with the recent rumors, the iP5 will be no slouch.
 
aohus said:
the OP is more of an objective post than anything else. No reason to feel insecure, the iPhone 5 will sell like hotcakes. And with the recent rumors, the iP5 will be no slouch.
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I don't feel insecure at all. Not defending the iPhone, just annoyed by all the useless posts in here.
 
iPhone 5 and Nexus Prime will be for sure 2 of the best phones this year along with the Galaxy S2! Going to be a hard decision about which one to get though and with the Galaxy S3 not that far away and its rumoured specs it's a question alone whether to even get an expensive smartphone anytime soon for me.
 
Vigor will not sell well, galaxy nexus will sell two or three million (being generous) , if that, on vzw. Ip5 will sell multimillions and be the most successful phone in history... Are ppl really expecting any different?
 
Hype2k2 said:
I think you are confusing Samsung Droid Prime with the next Nexus which will be the first ICS but not vanilla.
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some rumors have been cleared up today

The Droid Prime (SCH-i515) is really the Droid Charge 2 coming to VZW.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GT-i9250) is the real deal, that will ship with vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich (2.4.1)
 
None of them.

Those three phones are place holders for the next six months for the imminent quad core phones with even higher resolution screens and 60fps video recording.

I would pick the Samsung Galaxy S III if those rumors are true and if it gets released by April next year. I can wait another seven months. Those are mindblowing specs that is advanced enough to last years. I like to update in an even number year. Nothing really intriguing in 2011.

This is like the BlackBerry 9900 which is just a place holder for QNX phones from RIM. Or Symbian's Anna or MeeGo which won't be supported by Nokia for very long once they go all-out with Microsoft. The PS Vita which is a gaming handheld can record at 60fps. I look at all three phones listed by the OP to be dated by the time the phones for MWC 2012 get announced.

And yes, believe that quad core is going to happen by 2012. If you look at NVIDIA's roadmap it even states quad core should come out either late this year or early next year with the introduction of Kal-El.
 
Savor said:
None of them.
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interesting, because the phone you get in 2012, will be obsolete when i get my end of year 2012 phone that will have pico projector support, 5 day battery life, and 1080p+ resolution on my smartphone.
 
Geckotek said:
Who is the fanboy?? You are comparing an unannounced phone to 2 other phones you have details for?

Why create this thread now? Why not wait until the iPHone 5 is announced?
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true. I am not expecting much for the iPhone 5. All the signs seem to be pointing to just a a minor bump but nothing impressive. But then again I prefer Android to iOS but I know people who iOS is the better choice for them. It is all about what you want to use the OS for.

I will be surprised if the specs of the iPhone5 are better than the Galaxy S2.
 
The biggest mistake Apple did this year for people who want the most cutting-edge specs is delay the iPhone 5 this year by about four months. Four months is a long time in this industry. By Feb of next year which is only four months away from this Oct, some more shinier toys will be announced that your iPhone will look so "2011-ish." This is like 2009 when that wasn't a year to truly upgrade although the speed from the 3G to 3GS has been underrated even if it looked exactly the same and the newer hardware features was basically a video recorder and compass.

Only reason that people are salivating more of this particular iPhone 5 is because of the waiting. The longer the wait, the more hype gets built for it. Sometimes those expectations becomes so high, it is never met. Apple really needs to think outside the box. The iPhone 5 will still sell like gangbusters whether it innovates or not. But sales doesn't equal quality. WebOS was obscure before people bought the TouchPad during its fire sale, and more people now are realizing it can be a superior OS than iOS and Android and best bang for the buck. Both iOS and Android bore me though. iOS is still the same. Android copies it and then adds widgets and live wallpapers.

My dream phone is really an OS like webOS or QNX, Android's superior hardware, and the app support and stability of iOS. But alas, that will never happen. If only HTC could buy webOS.
 
these three phones will be most sought after this holiday season.

just showing the specs for comparison sake.

please note that the nexus prime and htc vigor have yet to give out its official debut.

samsung nexus prime debut: 10/11/11 @ 11AM

htc vigor: set for 10/6/11
 
looks like the iPhone4S fails in comparison to other Android phones coming this holiday season :(
 
i added the teaser photo of the nexus prime.

there is rumor that this phone might act as a phone and tablet.

prime7.jpg



Would you use a concave tablet?
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The crux of the hypothesis centers around the three gold/copper circles seen on the side of the mystery phone. These may be electrical contacts, and Lancster believes that their purpose is to slide into a dock for a larger tablet, much like the Motorola Atrix and DROID BIONIC laptop docks, and alluded to in the “combination” theme of the Samsung Unbox Event video. He further hypothesizes that the black arc sen behind the phone is actually the profile of the tablet, which features a similar concave screen. Android Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to bridge the gap between Gingerbread smartphones and Honeycomb tablets.
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I disagree with all of these criticism on iphone 4S....

It was a let down and yes, it was a little bit of disappointment. But, the expectation was so high.

Apple is clearly making this iPhone 4s for people who haven't upgraded for iPhone 4. When people signed a contract for iPhone 4 last year and early this year, they are most likely not available to renew their contracts.

There is no reason to buy new iPhone every year...

Also, 4.3 inch is the largest screen I will ever deal with smart phones. I do not want 4.65 inch phones...

I will get a tablet for this.
 
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