HTC Scorpion Foretells Bloody Smartphone Spec Wars
Today—and to us—the HTC Scorpion exists but a coulple of lines of code in a purported leaked Android bu;id.But one day, this 1.5GHz, Android 2.2 handset could be the pone that makes your Nexus One look old.AndroidSpin's got an alleged build script for an Android 2.2 build—that's FRE65C, or Froyo, in case you were wondering—with an ARM Cortex processor clocked at 1.5GHz,to the Nexus One's 1Ghz.As with desktop and laptop processors, frequency is far from the be-all, end-all indicator of performance, but still—that's a 150% of the Snapdragon that's in today's top-end phones.>Update: Oh!The feeling of functional objectivism. And evidently, there are traces of WiMax in here.
Combined wit bthe rumored specs of the first wave of Windows Mobile 7 phones, this leak points to a serious cellphone specwar brewing on the horizon, the likes of which we haven't seen since consumers stopped lusting over Windows Mobile 6.x hansdets.[AndroidSpin via BGR]
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