Samsung Galaxy S II X

Thinking about getting this phone, are there any better android phones i should get instead?

location: canada

edit: i also see the galaxy nexus, which is better?

The galaxy nexus has a better cpu, honestly the galaxy s 2 x looks like a step backwards, exynos and TI are both better cpu soc's than the qualcomm's also the pixel density is reduced further from its larger screen. The galaxy s 2 HD LTE might be worth the wait or the GS3.mystic_knight

wut

Phone CPU's are virtually the same, all based on dual core ARM chips. The GPU on the Exynos destroys the Adreno in the qualcomm and whatever it is in the TI OMAP chip. Assuming the one he goes for has an Exynos, it objectively is better than any other chip in any other android

oh oops, thats the snapdragon version. Pretty sure the snapdragon still has a processor on par with the TI OMAP chips, at least until the 4470's start popping up

thx, i'm just going to stick it out and wait for the S 3

[QUOTE="mystic_knight"]The galaxy nexus has a better cpu, honestly the galaxy s 2 x looks like a step backwards, exynos and TI are both better cpu soc's than the qualcomm's also the pixel density is reduced further from its larger screen. The galaxy s 2 HD LTE might be worth the wait or the GS3.semianonymous

wut

Phone CPU's are virtually the same, all based on dual core ARM chips. The GPU on the Exynos destroys the Adreno in the qualcomm and whatever it is in the TI OMAP chip. Assuming the one he goes for has an Exynos, it objectively is better than any other chip in any other android

oh oops, thats the snapdragon version. Pretty sure the snapdragon still has a processor on par with the TI OMAP chips, at least until the 4470's start popping up

semianonymous

[QUOTE="semianonymous"]

[QUOTE="mystic_knight"]The galaxy nexus has a better cpu, honestly the galaxy s 2 x looks like a step backwards, exynos and TI are both better cpu soc's than the qualcomm's also the pixel density is reduced further from its larger screen. The galaxy s 2 HD LTE might be worth the wait or the GS3.mystic_knight

wut

Phone CPU's are virtually the same, all based on dual core ARM chips. The GPU on the Exynos destroys the Adreno in the qualcomm and whatever it is in the TI OMAP chip. Assuming the one he goes for has an Exynos, it objectively is better than any other chip in any other android

Half right. For one, the TI uses a SGX540 whereas the Exynos uses a Mali-400. You were probably thinking of the Galaxy S 1, which used a SGX540. The Mali-400 eats the competition. Look up some benchmarks, it stumbles in a few early triangle tests and then goes on to sweep the competition, only losing to flash performance against the tegra 2, strangely enough, but by about half a frame per second. The A8/A9 bit is correct, although once Qualcomms Krait SoC is released, that will likely be changed. Kind of silly that they waited this long, I honestly though they had caught up.

The Adreno 220 in the looks pretty much below average. Too bad, really.

Thanks for the heads up... apologies for that, the mali400 is indeed in gs2 and is superior to the power VR sgx540.

It does NOT matter how powerful a mobile GPU is in itself but it matters in relation to the screen resolution. Like an 800x480 phone doesnt really need that powerful a GPU whereas a 720p phone really should have a monster.

It's like PC gaming where if you have a 30" monitor and "only" a GTX 570 then you are kinda screwed and someone with a GTX 560 and a lesser screen resolution will be playing games at better settings and performance.

And btw andreno 220 is a highly capable GPU, dont know what you guys are talking about it's more powerful than SGX540.

It does NOT matter how powerful a mobile GPU is in itself but it matters in relation to the screen resolution. Like an 800x480 phone doesnt really need that powerful a GPU whereas a 720p phone really should have a monster.

It's like PC gaming where if you have a 30" monitor and "only" a GTX 570 then you are kinda screwed and someone with a GTX 560 and a lesser screen resolution will be playing games at better settings and performance.

And btw andreno 220 is a highly capable GPU, dont know what you guys are talking about it's more powerful than SGX540.

Gambler_3

Only the 200mhz one found in the SGS. The overclocked one found in later devices tends to edge it out in benchmarks

Yes my bad I was forgetting that the newer phones have a different SGX540.

However SGX540 is still too weak for 720p in my opinion, should have been the iphone 4S GPU.