I might...just might, give the first Gen WPhone 8 a miss..

[Heron_Kusanagi]

It's always likely that the second round of devices will bring a L940 or something which will bring

- Quad core S4 Pro with 2GB RAM
- 12MP PureView 3 (N8 Camera tech with OIS)
- Faster wireless charging
- 1080p 5 inch display
- 120Hz screen refresh rates
- Hyper sensitive touch where your breath can be used to control the phone
- Rich Recording
- Bose amp
- 200g (SO HEAVY)

And then one will look forward to a PureView 4, blah blah blah.

So just buy the phone you want. If you want to be a spec chaser who loves the fastest and the latest, be my guest. I will just step over here and use a phone that's plenty fast and the end user will never notice the differences measured in split milliseconds.

 

[AngryNil]

The screen is bigger, the new quad-core ship not only allows lte but runs faster and colder, it has a double the memory of the lumia 920 and four times the HTC8X.Its also thinner and lighter.

Bigger =/= better, how many times must one say this until it gets into your head? I want a smaller, more manageable screen with high pixel density so text is lovely and crisp. Why do you continually hark on about 3mm in thickness if you're so care-free regarding the size of the device?

Guess what? The Snapdragon S4 supports LTE! It also runs much more efficient and with less battery drain than the Tegra 3.

Windows Phone does not require large amounts of RAM. It is limited in the number of apps frozen, only allows (for the most part) unintensive background tasks, and apps are specified to work within a 90MB limit. You are lying through your teeth regarding the RAM on the 8X, and you have been for quite some time.

An extra 3mm in thickness versus an extra 0.4" in screen size? Guess which handles better? Weight's importance is subjective, I've never seen a reviewer knock the Lumias for their weight.

Another post down the drain. Your strategy here reminds me of Samsung's - chuck everything at the wall and see what sticks. Please take the time to formulate some decent arguments.

 

[squire777]

Aside from more storage space I don't see why so many cores and RAM are needed for smartphones at the moment. Even desktops barely utilize multiple cores and all the RAM these days so I fail to see where such high specs would be required on a phone.

The smartphone high end spec arguments kind of remind me of those guys who compare horsepower of their cars yet the only driving they do is on the street and never take it to a track.

 

[JoeDizzle33]

This first gen devices are going to be really behind in specs again by the time it comes out.

OneX+.

Quadcore LTE, 4.7 screen,64GB of storage

Note 2

Quadcore LTE, 5.5 screen, SD card supported.


The 8X looks mid-tier compared to this and so does the Lumia 920. And to be honest, I'm really liking the OneX+.

To me it is about the OS. I had an iPhone 4 and I looked into some droids but the L900 had the better OS for me and so I bought it. At the time there were better driid phones but I chose the L900 based on OS. Technology is always advancing, if you are basing a purchase on latest technology then you may never be happy because the next beat thing is always around the corner.

 

[Big Supes]

^Exactly. I would take a Wp7.5 device, specs 'n all, instead of any of the listed examples.

Sent from my Lumia 710 using Board Express

 

[Coreldan]

Bigger =/= better, how many times must one say this until it gets into your head? I want a smaller, more manageable screen with high pixel density so text is lovely and crisp. Why do you continually hark on about 3mm in thickness if you're so care-free regarding the size of the device?

Guess what? The Snapdragon S4 supports LTE! It also runs much more efficient and with less battery drain than the Tegra 3.

Windows Phone does not require large amounts of RAM. It is limited in the number of apps frozen, only allows (for the most part) unintensive background tasks, and apps are specified to work within a 90MB limit. You are lying through your teeth regarding the RAM on the 8X, and you have been for quite some time.

An extra 3mm in thickness versus an extra 0.4" in screen size? Guess which handles better? Weight's importance is subjective, I've never seen a reviewer knock the Lumias for their weight.

Another post down the drain. Your strategy here reminds me of Samsung's - chuck everything at the wall and see what sticks. Please take the time to formulate some decent arguments.

I know, I've been argueing with so many Galaxy Note 2 fanbois recently. They go on and on about how 920 is so damn huge and heavy while they sport a damn 5,5" device themselves?! Nor do they seem to realize that most people dont really want a 5,5" device as it's too big, and keep on insisting that the Galaxy Note 2 is the champion of all mobile phones (its barely mobile, damnit!)

I rather take that extra 3mm of thickness and that 1" smaller screen, thank you very much...

 

[jrdatrackstar1223]

I'm actually in line with waiting for more powerful hardware myself. I desperately want a WP8 device for the new speech capabilities, NFC, and (possibly) better hardware for listening to music (turning the volume up all the way on my Lumia 900 isn't loud enough for me, and there are no equalizers present). I want to have a device that, if I shell out $500-$600 bucks for, will be future proof in that games and other high end apps will run perfectly fine on it.

A good example is my old Sprint Galaxy S3 I had, which currently sports the chip we will have in 1st generation WP8 hardware (S4 225 Adreno). That thing ran Modern Combat 3 and N.O.V.A. 3 like complete crap, and for a flagship device it's ridiculous. Now, to be fair, Android fragmentation has a big part in this, and the games weren't properly optimized for the S4, but the fact remains that even with optimization, the S4 chip is lagging behind the competition. Think about it: what if Microsoft really does pull off being able to play XBox 360 looking games on your phone, where you will be able to pause and continue playing a game from your console to your phone. You need powerful hardware to do stuff like that.

I'm waiting because I think they are selling phones with the S4 chip because it's cheaper to put onboard newer hardware since Windows Phone isn't the OS a lot of companies are thrilled to produce hardware for right now. It would cost HTC, Nokia, and Samsung more money to ship the S4 Pro (or even more powerful chips) on devices that aren't guaranteed to succeed (as shown by Windows Phones current success, or lack thereof...). I want the platform to succeed, and Windows Phone will be the only OS I use for quite some time (this Lumia 900 is amazing compared to my 710...like a different OS almost), but I will not rush to get 1st gen devices like I originally planned to in the beginning.

Also, keep in mind that you will only be running old 7.5 apps with the new hardware, and a lot of the new features won't even be taking advantage of with the new hardware because: 1. Microsoft has restricted so much of the SDK, and 2. It will take time for a lot of the apps we need from iOS and Android to be packaged over and moved to Windows Phone store. So in the end, you will buy hardware that won't even really show off what all it can do until Windows Phone 8 really takes off....