Rumour: Next Google phone to be the Samsung Nexus Prime
Comes with a 720p screen and an ice-cream sandwich
The coming of a new, ‘official’ Android phone from Google and its selected partner is pretty much as close as the Android world gets to Apple’s frenzied iPhone rumour milling.
In the spirit of overly-impressive features, BGR is reporting that Samsung will, once again, be the manufacturer in charge of delivering the ‘baseline’ Android phone. and that its name will be the Transformers/Blade Runner hybrid - the Nexus Prime.
The internals are expected rest on Texas Instruments’s shoulders, with an OMAP4460 processor (1.5GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9) hinted at by the mysterious sources.
The biggest jaw-dropper from the rumour mill, though, is that the Prime is rumoured to be packing a, frankly obscene for the size, S-AMOLED 1280x720 resolution screen (720p in normal everyday language), which puts it well above the Retina display (960x640) sported by the iPhone 4.
Why a device that will likely not be much bigger than four inches actually needs such a high screen display is anyone’s guess, but it would certainly look good in action.
Like the recently revealed Nokia Windows Phone, the Prime has no physical keyboard on its front, while it will be running a vanilla version of Android 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich) as its OS.
If these rumous are true (and that’s a big ‘if’), then expect the phone to arrive in the real world near the end of the year.
