rajshenoy said:
I am on a lookout for a high end phone which will be a complete package.(mainly for browsing,games, office docs, videos and camera)
Flipkart is showing similar prices for Xperia Neo and samsung galaxy S. Galaxy S no doubt is one of the best mobiles available today.
But looking at the specs of Xperia Neo, barring slightly smaller screen(3.7 vs 4) it seem to excel in every other department, Especially on the camera/video department. Also it has HDMI o/p and the 2.3 OS.
What does TE recommend ?
All things considered. Neo is the one to buy. Quite simply because,
a) Samsung Galaxy S is soo 2010, which means while it definitely will move up to android gingerbread, it'd mostly just stay put there.
While the Neo is the newer generation 2011 phone..which means while it will START at gingerbread, it would be good for atleast another two generations of android updates or even more perhaps, considering x10 moved up from Android 1.6 to 2.3, thats four generations of upgrades!
And yes, that Adreno 205 IS just AS good AS the SGX540 if not better..while the Neo also uses the new gen Scorpion 8255 1GHZ and both have 512mb RAM. Though, the GalaxyS actually uses much less of its 512mb ram.
check ->
http://http://androidandme.com/2010/10/news/3dmarkmobile-gpu-showdown-adreno-205-vs-powervr-sgx540/
and
OpenGL ES 2.0 benchmark: Adreno 205 vs SGX540 / HTC Desire HD vs Samsung Galaxy S | MobileTechWorld
b) Neo is a high-end SonyEricsson phone, which as history teaches us, will like all high-end SE phones will have brilliant sound quality and an amazing camera..especially with that Exmor R camera sensor thingy. And well there's not much to crib about the screen either..as the initial pre-production reviews for the Bravia powered LED backlit LCD are rather good (as found on xperia arc). YES..ofcouse it wont be as good as the S-AMOLED but the Bravia-ness of the Neo's LCD will ensure deep blacks and good color/contrast. And well, 3.7in vs 4.0in difference in screen is not really much...
Importantly, the camera is a 8mp exmor r sensor and it has a hdmi out and it has an LED indication light, which is inhumanly useful!
And if it is multimedia that you love,with the usual emailing and basic Officy document stuff but you're not much into the app store thingy,May i suggest an alternative,
You can get a Samsung Wave II S8530 (which is basically a galaxy s that swaps the awful plastic body for sweet metal body and Android for Bada. and Bada btw is rather good for smartphonyness ) for about 15.5k on ebay.in and well you can either save the 10k for your next dual core Motorola Atrix/HTC Pyramid/Galaxy S2. OR you can get an ipod touch 8gig for about 10k to fulfill you Apps thirst (and well as you know apple AppStore is just massive)
Cheers! Hope it helped.
-RomilD
p.s.: So as to not sound a PR man for SonyEricsson,a couple of facts,
i myself own a Samsung Wave S8500 with the glorious SAMOLED and i love it! (though i wanna swap it for an android soon, mostly Galaxy S2
) and my younger bro has a Galaxy S...which makes me very jealous
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