News · 18 Oct 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Someone using a prototype or developer version of the soon to be announced Samsung Galaxy Nexus (or Nexus Prime) has submitted GLBenchmark scores indicating that the handset is powered by a TI OMAP 4460 Dual-Core SoC clocked at 1.2Ghz. This may be disappointment to some but unfortunately the way it is because TI is the development partner for Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich (similar to how NVIDIA’s Tegra was Android 3.0‘s primary platform etc.) You can also note that the screen resolution is reported to be 1196 x 720 instead of 1280×720 because of the on-screen “hardware buttons”.
We should no more about the device and OS in the coming hours once it’s officially unveiled by Samsung and Google in Hon Kong but let’s just hope that it won’t suffer from some disappointing limitations like previous Nexus devices (no memory expansion slot, gimped Camera etc..)
UPDATE: The Full hardware Specifications of the Galaxy Nexus have leaked.
source: GLBenchmark
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