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Rumor: HTC Scorpio(n) coming to Verizon with 1.5Ghz CPU, will the madness ever stop?
June 3, 2010 | by Chris Smith
HTC, Rumors, Verizon
According to an “infamous ROM hacker”, conflipper‘s Twitter page a new HTC device named (or codenamed) the Scorpion is on it’s way to Verizon as well as Bell Mobility. MobileCrunch picked up the story and because of it being a single Twitter post very little is known about the rumored device other than it is packing a 1.5Ghz processor.
Something strange about this is that when MobileCrunch heard about this device a while back they believed that it would run on a 4G WiMax network. If that is still the case it looks like it should be headed to Sprint’s 4G network, not Verizon’s soon to be LTE. There is no real validation to any of this so it could be coming to either carrier. Nonetheless, it appears that speed is the only thing holding mobile and handheld devices from being small “super-computers” in your pocket. It’s kind of crazy.
A discussion begs to be had here. Is there ever going to be a thing as “too much power” for a mobile phone? Or are we happy to go to the cell phone depot and walk out with the latest-greatest device, only having it be trumped by something later-and-greater as soon as we get home? I love technology, but this stuff is getting expensive; upgrading to the newest device is no longer a bi-yearly event for gadget hounds. Even a year is cutting it close. So, do you think that the Android upgrade pace is too crazy or are you in for the ride?
Via [MobileCrunch]
See! That's exactly why I'm on the fence about getting the EVO. I'll be pissed if I drop $200 today just to see more eye tech candy in another few months. Even though I can upgrade yearly, that's wild to spend $200 annually trying to keep up with the latest and greatest. I want a phone I can be happy with and my eyes won't stray for the whole 2 yrs.
Good luck with that, at the rate mobile technology is increasing you'd be hard press to find a phone that was still top of the line after one year.
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@MsKeesh, 2 yrs with no wandering eyes? Good luck with that one.
I believe that we're in a perfect storm of competition combined with major advances in mobile device technology like we have never seen before. This will slow down eventually, much like the PC CPU race did. For now it's certainly a wild ride!
Like @MsKeesh I'm "kind of" on the fense. I've got a trigger finger for this device though… and at the cost, I won't be shelling out more for a new device for at least 2 years, unless it's a free upgrade or crazy cheap!
However, honestly, this is just Moore's law, but with small devices. While we use to constantly upgrade our beige boxes to be the latest and greatest, we then shifted to laptops, then laptops blurred to phones and phones now being devices are simply carrying on the tradition of desire for portable computing but at ever faster rates.
It's only a matter of time before we are completely portable with small form factor devices that can do as much or more than a traditional desktop that simply use a project of the large screen we desire and a wireless mouse and keyboard for easy of input.
Speech/Voice input is nice and all, but it's loud enough with normal conversation not to mention a partial desire for immediate (surrounding) privacy. Who wants to hear some untrained Joe shouting at their device "where's meat house" or "open my app dammit". It's hard enough to shut them up when they are on a phone call in a public. YA know?! Sorry – off topic rant.
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