Rumor that LG has a Nexus handset in the works have been brewing, yesterday we saw a leaked photo and apparently today we’ve got benchmarks. From the way things are ramping up Google & LG won’t be able to keep the cat in the bag much longer.
An LG prototype that has escaped from the labs has been run through AnTuTu and Quadrant benchmarks, the device scored 9270 in AnTuTu and 4207 in Quadrant. To give you a point of reference it is lower than scores from the HTC One X with Tegra 3. The one thing that you should keep in mind is that this is pre production device and it’s running pre release software. Android and Me who got the photos and information were told that the owner had the device for over half a year, if the software hasn’t been updated during that time, it could account for the low scores.
What doesn’t really make much sense is that the 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chip kills anything on the market, so the LG Nexus device that we see here likely isn’t running the latest chipset or the latest software, this news is basically just an exercise in adding another LG fact to the pile.
Oh, the one thing worth noting is that the release date will likely be on October 29th. So expect the rumors to get more enthusiastic over the next few weeks.
Via Android& ME
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Nexus Series by Google is never about super spec sheet phones. see the previous nexus series phones, they all are mid range phone hardware.
Nexus series is more about giving a pure Google android experience on a good glitch less hardware and more importantly on a decent fair price slabs. So that more and more people connect to it and feel the Google Android experience in best quality way possible on a mobile device on a fair price.
So I wouldn’t be expecting a blown up synthetic scores, but yes I’ll be expecting decent pricing and always updated software.
But logistics dictate that a phone in the hands of anyone for 6 month won’t be sporting the latest hardware. Prototypes change design so quickly that they wouldn’t have had access to the latest chipsets. Even if the are using the same processor, Qualcomm would have made changed to the chip by release date that would make these numbers meaningless.
Logistics and related stuff is just one of the scenario. But then this doesn’t apply on Nexus Series.
Instead more relevant reason for not getting latest and off the hot press chipset is again the software part.
As Google software engineering team require a minimum 3-4 months to make the software – hardware relationship perfect, so that hardware & software marriage works perfectly.
And for that they need a perfectly engineered working phone in hand prior to launch by at least minimum 3-4 months.
Cosmetic changes like screen / camera / body /battery can change later on, but not the PCB or SOC.
Especially in case where we are expecting project roadrunner ( 4.2) or may be a 4.2.1, which can’t afford to go for a last minute change.
Yeah but if the handset has been on the street for more then 6 months, I’m confident there would be one more processor refresh between that model and the one that will be benchmarked in a few weeks.