Its faster certainly. Not sure what 'future proof' means.
Ehh its more of a wash. The snapdragon s4 has much faster cores though. There about the same with the snapdragon having a huge advantage in single and double threaded tasks. It also has 2gb of ram.
I wasn't the one who said it was more future proof
A phone never lasts more than a year and a half with me and I'm getting the Nexus 4 anyway.
I think I saw you on the xda Nexus 7 PA thread blackhand.