While rumors and speculation still surround Apple’s next generation iPhone handset – the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 5, reckoning on whom you believe – other mobile phone makers still develop newer, faster handsets to compete within the marketplace. This week, a leak took the wraps off what's being referred to as the Nexus 4G – Google’s next flagship Android handset which is scheduled for launch sometime in November 2011. With future iPhone rumored to be launching in September 2011, let’s take a short explore how these handsets will stack up against each other.
Nothing is however known regarding what quite upgraded internals future iPhone will ship with. It’s rumored to be packing a dual-core processor, which is likely a spinoff of the A5 processor currently powering the iPad 2. as the iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM, future iPhone will probably push this up, perhaps to 1GB. Most analysts and journalists doubt that Apple are including a true 4G LTE radio within the next iPhone as Verizon is that the only carrier within the US with a fairly sized LTE network at now.
There are many rumors swirling around concerning the display, with most believing that the physical size of the display will grow to somewhere around 4” total, whereas keeping a similar screen resolution therefore developers won’t need to do any scaling with their apps. Technically, this display will still be ready to be referred to as a “Retina Display” although the pixels-per-inch count would be under the iPhone 4. Finally the jury continues to be out on whether or not future iPhone will receive an upgraded rear camera, but it's largely expected that Apple goes to move the flash to the alternative side of the phone to induce rid of red-eye and other artifacting that is currently plaguing the iPhone 4.
If it truly is launching just a month when future iPhone, the Nexus 4G may end up a significant competitor. The processor is expected to be a dual-core processor running somewhere within the neighborhood of 1.2 to 1.5 GHz; this would either be one among Texas Instruments’ OMAP 4460 chips, or a more recent Qualcomm Snapdragon. The phone will most likely ship with 1GB of RAM similarly. Since it's the “4G” moniker as a part of its name, rest assured the Nexus 4G will virtually positively be shipping with an LTE radio in it. Rounding out the rest of the rumored specs, the phone will have a 720p HD display – the physical size is unknown but expect it to be well over 4” at this resolution – and a front/rear camera combination which will in all probability be 1 megapixel and 5 megapixels respectively.
The hardware is, of course, not a lot of while not an operating system to power it. Apple took the wraps off of iOS 5 at the recent Worldwide Developers’ Conference, with most of the most important announcements showing off huge improvements in daily-use things like notifications. The Nexus 4G will most likely ship with Android 4.0 – codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich”. this will be Google’s 1st version of Android that mixes the phone operating system with the pill version, therefore it’s expected that it'll be a powerful giving.
Without knowing additional regarding Apple’s plans for future handset, it’s powerful to mention whether or not the Nexus 4G are an “iPhone 5 killer”. what's clear is that within the end, we’re all taking advantage of the serious competition taking part in out within the marketplace between Apple and Google, with better and better handsets beginning annually.
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