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Kumary check out Plasma Active on Nexus 7. Very impressive performance.

HELLASISGREECE, the funny thing about the N900 is that it was the first phone to adverise the cpu Mhz so actively. It is probably still the only phone with the SoC designation printed on the case. Then the cpu wars started.

Another fun trivia is that long before dual core became the norm Nokia understood the benefits and they put two processors in the N95. And then for some weird reason they decided to remove one of them and the GPU for the next generation of devices, just when SoC's started to become important. And with that they shot their N-Gage platform in the foot. Same with dpi, N900 had 265dpi in 2009. (Not to mention 770 200+dpi in 2005)

Returning to topic, the GS4 seems to me like an unneeded incremental update. Neither 1080 seems worth (nobody could notice the pixels on the GS3 anyway, and I'm a big fan of high resolutions, but 450dpi is getting ridiculous. It doesn't have a stylus probably to make room for the new Note, but 5" are more than enough for jotting. Battery life story reminds me just that of the old laptops: just self preservation of stupidness. Manufacturers saw that the competition all had about 3h of battery life and thought that was enough. ********. It took *one* laptop to take the mark to 7h and start the race. If they kept the thickness at the GS levels and had a 7000Mah battery lasting a week, that would be innovative. The software is just those gimmicks that are cool for a keynote but will never be used. I can pause the video myself I don't need eye tracking technology, not to mention it has a very high probability of the feature beeing annoying just like a multitude of other "smart" features. Not that I believe the iPhone 5 is innovative don't get me wrong. The N95 was innovative in it's time, the OG Note, the R380, the qTek 2020, the HD2 maybe, the Omnia HD, the original iPhone, even the 808. The GS4 can't compete with those devices in any way regarding innovation.
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