Well let's be realistic a bit in here. What do you want from a smartphone? I mean, I know that Harmattan is a one son of a gun OS with all the open-source Linux goodies and so forth, but the device is just doomed to extinction. I lived the N900 experience, and without lying to you, when I see all the folks with their sparkling multi-core Android ICS handsets, I do feel like I'm from the 70s.

The Galaxy Nexus does just what all smartphones should be doing in the most perfect way ever, yet being one of the few most "open" stock Android handsets available.

Just look at the internals, the TI OMAP 4460, in terms of raw CPU compute power, blows all other mobile processors out of the competition, it definitely surpasses all dual-core CPUs available today in the market. The only negative side is the GPU, which is an the SGX540, but it is just powerful enough to operate all visual content including the most demanding games (Real Racing, GOF2, etc...) on this tough, lush 4.65" HD screen with A LOT of pixels to push at 50FPS, never below 40. You would notice that the stock I/O performance of the Galaxy Nexus is below average once trying it out, but this is where custom kernels jump in to save the day. I'm using the Trinity kernel with the SiO Scheduler activated and the I/O performance now surpasses all handsets. It's just a plain rocket-ship.

Now I know, that the OS is crappy JAVA codes built on a Linux kernel, true dat, but Android 4 is really different. ICS is really awesomely different than all of the past Android versions.