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On 2012-03-03 11:00:10, rickster2kuk wrote:
Pureview is amazing but it's on Symbian - it's like have a quad core VCR player in todays age.

Regarding specs, I'll say it again, only the geeks care about whether it has S3 or S4 or Adreno so and so, the average consumer doesn't care, they just want a fast, fluid experience, and a device that looks good.

On 2012-03-02 21:21:50, Bonovox wrote:
Never had N8 photos come out that dark on auto when I had it even in poor lighting

On 2012-03-03 20:50:44, yuunanase wrote:
Having using the Xperia NX for the past week, I could say that it is really the true successor of X10. Why? Because it inherrits all the bugs of the X10!

1. Low in call volume - it is very true, much worse than the Arc
2. The flip of the USB port.
3. I have the charging problem once again. Sometimes, it discharges much more quickly than it charges.
4. It is really hard to find the touch sensitive buttons in the dark. I know, the bar does light up, but not until you have actually toched the buttons.

NX does NOT have NFC, so I could not test it.

On 2012-03-03 00:08:20, Bonovox wrote:


Nope. That's what you want me to admit. But I still think the n8 is better & does take better pics than that shown. Goodnight

On 2012-03-03 20:50:44, yuunanase wrote:
NX does NOT have NFC, so I could not test it.

ST-Ericsson’s new Nova A9600 brings over 200 percent more mobile computing performance compared to the U8500 platform. It features the industry’s best and most efficient low-power implementation known today of a dual ARM® Cortex- A15 MPCore™ with each core running up to 2.5GHz thanks to very innovative power saving techniques to be disclosed later this year.
“As the selection of advanced smartphones and tablets increases we see the need for a wider range of performance points to be addressed,” said Mike Inglis, EVP and general manager of the ARM Processor Division, “This announcement shows the performance that can be achieved by combining the Cortex-A15 processor with integrated LTE modems.”
The Nova A9600 will be the first platform announced to incorporate Imagination Technologies next generation of graphics processors, codenamed Rogue, which will set a new performance bar for GPUs at mobile power consumption levels. The Nova A9600 will bring more than a 20-fold improvement in graphics performance compared with the U8500 platform.

“POWERVR Series6, codenamed ‘Rogue’, moves the goalposts in terms of graphics performance and efficiency at low power consumption for next generation mobile.” said Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies. “We are delighted to be working with ST-Ericsson on such a groundbreaking product.”
The Nova A9600 will also be able to play full HD video at 120 frames per second, supporting professional camcorder-quality recording in 3D, as well as high definition videoconferencing and tele-presence.

ST-Ericsson also unveiled the Nova A9540, a dual-core ARM Cortex- A9-based processor, with each core operating at up to 1.8 GHz, and the Nova A9500, a dual-core ARM Cortex- A9-based processor, running at 1.2 GHz. The Nova A9540 delivers a four times improvement in graphics performance compared with the current generation, while the A9500 delivers state-of-the-art graphic capabilities on mobile devices.

The Nova A9540, built in 32nm, uses a dual-core Cortex-A9 running at up to 1.8 GHz and delivers graphics performance up to four times that of the U8500 and is sampling H2 2011.
The Nova A9500, built in 45 nm, uses a dual-core Cortex-A9 running at clock speeds of up to 1.2GHz, with Mali™ 400 improving graphics performance up to 20 percent, supporting full HD camcorder capabilities and up to 20 megapixel cameras. It is sampling and in design with ST-Ericsson customers today.

We've received an email from ARM that confirms that the Cortex-A15 will be at least 40 per cent faster than the A9 when it comes to raw performance (Dhrystone MIPS), all things equal; same number of core, same speed.
The Cortex-A8 reached 2.0 DMIPS/MHz while the Cortex-A9 reached 2.5 DMIPS/MHz, a 25 per cent improvement. According to our contact at ARM, the A15 has a "published but not formal number" of 3.5 DMIPS/MHz but told us that the performance difference across generation is "dependent on many factors" before adding that "Other benchmarks can show less improvement on specific devices, others a greater improvement.

The 25 per cent performance improvement roughly ties up with the preliminary benchmark results reported by Nvidia and by Anandtech, which means that ARM is deliberately being conservative when it comes to benchmark figures.

What's more we already know of at least one manufacturer who has published benchmark figures for the Cortex-A15; Last month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ST-Ericsson revealed that its new system on Chip, the Nova A9600, would have two Cortex-A15 core, runs at 2.5GHz and, more importantly, breaks the 20,000 DMIPS barrier.
This means that the ST-Ericsson's tweaked implementation of the Cortex-A15 can reach at least 4.01 DMIPS/MHz, which is itself a 14 per cent improvement upon what ARM's figures.