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Samsung accidentally confirms the upcoming Nexus Prime; 800 x 480 pixel screen set to disappoint

Categories: Android, Samsung
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 1:34 AM
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Samsung has accidentally confirmed the existence of the next Nexus device by uploading something called a “user agent profile”. Mobile phone makers create said files so developers and websites know the capabilities of the device a user is using to access their content. While it doesn’t provide a complete spec sheet, it does give some hints as to what we can come to expect. For one thing, the name “Nexus Prime” has finally been confirmed. We’d honestly be shocked if Google or Samsung decided to change this. Next up, we know the technical name of the device, the “GT-I9250″. This will come in handy when combing through FCC documents and other certification pages, looking for hints as to the type of phone we can expect to see this holiday shopping season. Finally, and this is the one that hurts us the most, the rumor that the Nexus Prime would ship with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution screen has now been debunked. According to the user agent profile, the most we can expect is 800 x 480 pixels, which is what every decent Android smartphone has been delivering for close to 2 years.

Has this changed your decision about which smartphone you’re going to buy? Personally, the Nexus Prime is now dead to me since I was highly looking forward to that rumored HD resolution screen. There’s no way I’d dump my iPhone for something that produces blurrier text since I spend a significant amount of time with my smartphone reading the news, processing email, etc.

That being said, it’s not going to stop us from recommending the Nexus Prime since we’re allergic to the layers of “differentiating UI” that hardware vendors throw on top of Android. The pure Android experience, which started with the Nexus One, was continued with the Nexus S, and is now coming with the Nexus Prime in the shape of Ice Cream Sandwich, is the only way we can imagine using Google’s mobile operating system.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    bwahahahaha 

  • kbar

    This is a tough one to process.  The 720p screen that people were getting real excited about was going to be PenTile, and the current 480×800 SAMOLED+ screens — while admittedly still only WVGA — look really, really good.

    PenTile reduces the effective resolution anyway, but it sure would have been nice to see something as decent as 540×960 in SAMOLED+ if they couldn’t manage fullblown 720p without PT.

    Disappointing, I suppose.

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure these specs are not accurate. As Thisismynext.com points out, the specs also mentions an ARM11 chip. That would make the phone’s processor older and slower than that of the original Droid.

    They were looking at the source code of an incomplete and unpublished webpage. You can’t really rely on anything you read there. Except for possibly the name of the phone.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the entire user agent profile is identical to that of the Nexus S. None of it is real, and it’s all just a placeholder for the real thing. 

    The real specs behind this thing are likely far superior than the UAP that leaked, which only bears the Nexus Prime name, and nothing more.