News - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 geared for September release

[mark22]

Tbh I thought the s2 fared fairly well in that respect, just before s3 release O2 were still paying £260 to recycle it in any condition. This was a year after I bought it.

[snedger]

nice - the October date had me teetering on getting the inaugural Note.
Happy to wait to September, can tell Virgin Mobile where to go for one of my contracts, give my youngest son my SII for when he goes to uni - everyone's a winner!
5.5" video on the train - loverly.
Not happy about thinner phone though - probably = less capacity battery.
Ok mobile phone shops - who wants me?

[dcwt2010]

Sorry to disappoint you but "international" SIII's are all 1GB RAM (or 779MB according to Android System Info). LTE models (for the US market naturally) got downgraded to dual core, but got that RAM doubling boost. However, there's talk that one carrier - SK Telecom in Korea - is getting a hybrid model, so that's quad core (like the international models) but with the 2GB allocation (like the LTE models). Some are also claiming that despite being quad core, the reason the SKT models have 2GB RAM is that they're also LTE-equipped.

If true, then you've got to wonder what the heck Samsung is playing at. Although my SIII seems to run fine on a "mere" 1GB of RAM - ASI claims I've currently got 126MB free.

Android doesn't free up ram unless it has to in order to expedient app loading. What app have you used so that has suffered due to low ram availability?

[ZakWolf]

I feel so outdated on my Nokia 6300 o.o

[crossy]

Android doesn't free up ram unless it has to in order to expedient app loading. What app have you used so that has suffered due to low ram availability?

(a) I know that - a lot of OS's behave that way (Linux and AIX being the two that I'm sitting in front of at this moment);
(b) Android also speculatively loads in apps to fill some of the available memory - which means that since the app is already loaded, it starts far faster when you invoke it (which makes the OS feel "faster"). Although I'd prefer it if it actually looked at what apps you use - my SE X10 used to delight in loading stuff that SE bundled that I'd used only once;
(c) you meant "expedite" not "expedient";
(d) Note that I said 'a "mere" 1GB of RAM' - the quotes hoping to indicate my feeling that 1GB in my SIII is actually sufficient for my current needs - especially as it's 2 2/3'ds more than I had in the phone the SIII replaced.
(e) The only time I've seen an Android phone suffer from memory scarcity to the detriment of app performance was on my daughters X10 Mini Pro - although I will say in it's defence that this is a particularly RAM-challenged design (128MB RAM!) and she - being a typical teenager - had a shed load of daft games and social media apps going.

[HalloweenJack]

intel are the ones saying that android doesnt use quad cores well - as they are about to enter the smartphone / tablet market.......

[crossy]

intel are the ones saying that android doesnt use quad cores well - as they are about to enter the smartphone / tablet market.......

... with dual core devices!

I was reading an article yesterday that's got me a little worried. It was talking about how the SII won't be getting Jelly Bean (something to do with a low-res screen apparently, which surprised me). Anyway, there was a throwaway comment that Samsung's Jelly Bean "also works better with quad-core".

So that left me thinking - if true does this mean that JB is better optimised for quad-core devices, or that it's so bloated (TouchWiz?) that it really does need quad-core power to get it running at a decent lick?

[mark22]

I should think it's better optimised, but it makes sense if it's designed for higher res devices a bit more grunt is needed. Can't wait to put it on my S3, there's always something to wait for!!!

[saltyzip]

I think it will be dual core as that would compensate somewhat for the large screen sapping battery usage.

You can't have everything until technology has advanced enough to make it feasible.

[Biscuit]

I think it will be dual core as that would compensate somewhat for the large screen sapping battery usage.

You can't have everything until technology has advanced enough to make it feasible.

The other side of that logic is if you have more pixels then you need more power to drive them

[HalloweenJack]

... with dual core devices!

I was reading an article yesterday that's got me a little worried. It was talking about how the SII won't be getting Jelly Bean (something to do with a low-res screen apparently, which surprised me). Anyway, there was a throwaway comment that Samsung's Jelly Bean "also works better with quad-core".

So that left me thinking - if true does this mean that JB is better optimised for quad-core devices, or that it's so bloated (TouchWiz?) that it really does need quad-core power to get it running at a decent lick?

just as my S1 wont get ICS *officially* so i do think your S2 wont get JB *officially* (im running ics btw) - btw ios5 isnt amazing on an iphone 3 so not upgrading old phones is a reasonable idea...