I believe the hype has just blown out of proportion people's expectations, "the iphone 4s was dissapointing, the galaxy nexus was dissapointing."
Let me tell you they arn't dissapointing at all in fact.
Right it's not your 4" 1080p 3ghz quad core superphone
but they are still running specs that are like what ? Three times over the top than what it takes to run the OS or the games (iphone 4 SGX games included...)
Even the overclocked SGX540 will still run the lastest releases of gameloft 3d games in a year or two... Who the hell cares since we now change devices every year or so. Right the iphone 4s with its oversized GPU will run one or two epic game engine that are impressive, but what's the use of it ? Two games a year ? Seriously ? Not to mention the battery drain that such oversized gpu implies.
On the cpu department the TI omap has a dual channel memory architecture that makes it superior to both A5 and Exynos, only on CPU side ! I'll also mention that it can run up to 700mhz faster than the A5... if you clock it at it's factory setting of 1,5ghz instead of google's underclocked 1,2 ghz. Recent java spider benchmark flashed the nexus prime at 1900 (iphone 4s did 2200). Even though a lot of that improvement over the SGS2 (3000ish score) can be granted to ICS optimisations of dual core management.
Now on pentile display, it is just shocking to hear people say it is a downgrade from the galaxy S2 samoled+, simply astonishing that "bad, and ignorant" media coverage by lets say engadget for example, infused such false ideas into people's minds and that no one is even confronting it with real scientific logic.
720p Samoled pentile is in all aspects superior to 800*480 samoled +
You get one less subpixel per pixel, right, but it still doesn't mean that the real resolution displayed to the eye is not 720p, the whole point of pentile being that it shares a subpixel but yet stills create an information grid that is 720*1280 large, and this is what you expect for BETTER & ENHANCED browsing experience. I wouldn't spit either on the nexus S camera sensor, even if it is 5MP, know that 5MP at equal sensor size is superior to a 8MP simply because it has more surface per sensor thus more light sensitivity. I wouldn't be surprised if in further investigations it actually beats the iphone 4s optical trick at low light video or photography.
Other than that, pentile has its drawbacks which are the shizzeled red effect on lines, but that effect is only visible to a few people and at low resolutions, at 720p ? Frankly, unless you're using a microscope that drawback is totally non existant.
Over what everybody seems to ignore : let's come to power consumption, thanks to it's pentile arrangement, and sharing of subpixels, pentile samoled is simply put : 50% more energy efficient than RGB samoled plus.
50%
And as exposed previously, pentile samoled age better than RGB amoleds.
Galaxy S2 (3 dedicated subpixels per pixel)= 1,152k subpixels => 267.906 subpixels per diagonal inch
Nexus Prime (2 dedicated subpixels per pixel) = 1,843k subpixels => 400.695 subpixels per diagonal inch
Iphone 4s (3 dedicated...) = 1,843k subpixels => 526.00 subpixels per diagonal inch
Those numbers doesn't account for the shared subpixel of the pentile yet they are still a huge improvement. And what does the Nexus has over the iphone 4 retina ? Well, larger screen, larger resolution thus easier browsing, more information on screen at a time, and an actual ppi that is
IF pentile at this resolution makes for a perfect optical effect, which from the review of the screen impressions is granted, similar to the retina's one.
That + pentiles benefits on battery life & screen lifetime.
At some point you may ask yourself in all honesty...
Do you want a phone that runs it's OS smoothly and a stunning information sharing interface ("everything is about the screen" they said righteously) or do you want a phone that runs Crysis 2 like games for about 3 hours per year ?
