Will the storm4 have the same specs as the playbook?

[BerryBlack15]

Will it be sort of a mini playbook phone?? Will it have the QNX OS? Is it realistic for the storm4 to be released in early 2011 with these specs?

[grahamf]

RIM has shown that they are radically changing their production strategy, so who knows?
I imagine it will have 80% of the PB's specs, plus 4G (that's all but confirmed)

I doubt it will have HDMI out and a front-facing camera, but it should have 1GB RAM and the same processor, depending on battery life.

Unless the PB has like 20 hours of battery life, the smaller battery of the S4 will mean that limitations have to be imposed.

other than that, the "leaked" s4 image with 4'5" screen + 4G + the PB's specs + decent battery life = the perfect smartphone.

[BerryBlack15]

yeah if it has 1gb of ram, 1ghz processor, 4g, better resolution then not only will RIM not have to worry about keeping its current customers from bailing but it might also be able to attract a few converts from other devices.

[rookie83]

Please rim hear our request cram the playbook into the next storm and knock droids and iphones back a few pegs!!!!!

[Sparro]

I think the new Storm (or whatever it will be called) will be very similar to the PlayBook.
There has been lots of rumours of people claiming the new storm will have an OS all to its self... just like what we now know QNX will give us.
There was a link to a droid site that had a very reputable guy... JLevy or something claiming he had a hands on with it months ago. He said it was running an entirly different OS and did widgets and had a 1 GHz processor. Everything we know the the PlayBook is.
So yes, I believe the new storm will be a mini version of the PlayBook. But, I think it'll be a year till we see it.

[grahamf]

so, the S4 will be the PlayBook Mini?

[bighap]

Sal's early reported Storm 3 specs from late June sure line up with the PlayBook. 1 GHz processor and not running OS 6 but a unique OS of it own.

Blackberry Storm 3 – Early Specs « Salomondrin

[xnwrx]

There is no chance the Storm4 will use the same processor as the PlayBook. Who need a dual-core processor on its smartphone at the expense of a poor battery life ? The PlayBook is a platform on its own, nothing to do with a Smartphone plateform. It has more processing power, but is more power hungry. And to be fair, what would differentiate a PlayBook from a smartphone is they both use the same hardware and same software appart the size ? It would be a non-sense.
It is conservative to say that RIM's next generation Smartphone will use 1GHz single core CPU. This should happen sometime early 2011, not before.

[drjay868]

There was talk last week about a new type of chip being released that was actually a tri-core chip. Two of the cores ran at 1GHz for raw processing power, and the third ran at the same 624mHz as the S2 for background apps and standby. There was speculation that the S4 would have that because it would keep good battery life but have power when you need it.... like when tethering a PlayBook to the S4G, ya think?

[BB_StOrM_ChAsEr]

That may all be true or false, but my question is that this is DEVCON, and BB excs are suppose to be talking about the Playbook as well as other devices, so where is talks about the ew Storm? There are only 2 days left of DEVCON, today & tomorrow... so when are talks coming for the new Storm??

[corymcnutt]

There MUST be people there (like Kevin) that are asking them the tough questions about future phones? I am really anxious about the S3 or S4 with LTE.

[grahamf]

I think Verizon requested that RIM does not mention the S4G until Verizon is ready to launch their network.

[ttsoldier]

What do you guys do with your phone that it needs so much processing power?

Does your phone mow your lawn? Wtf.
The current CPU works great!

I think everyone just wants a big e-*****. "Hey my phone has a 5Ghz processor!".. Whoop de firetrucking doo...

[jacmeister68]

Originally Posted by BB_StOrM_ChAsEr

That may all be true or false, but my question is that this is DEVCON, and BB excs are suppose to be talking about the Playbook as well as other devices, so where is talks about the ew Storm? There are only 2 days left of DEVCON, today & tomorrow... so when are talks coming for the new Storm??

You are spot on buddy. This is the time that the next storm should be mentioned to keep everybody on board. Nobody wants to know about it at the end of next year, they want it as of now. It is needed badly to stop the migration of users to android and iphone.

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[The_Engine]

Yes CX posted that we woul see the Marvel Armada 628 chip in a device that would go live Q1 or Q2 2011. So that has 3 cores. I think 2 are 1.5 each and one is 624 or something. Google it.
It claims a very low power profile as it scales to use. So you don't go 1.5 ghz across 2 cores to type out a text. But when you start gaming or running flash heavy websites while listening to music you don't pin the processor. If you have all been reading about QNX this week you have probably read all about how it is designed to run multi core systems very efficiently.

So I think we will see multicore proc in the S3/S4. There will be multi core andropd devices this fall or early next spring so it is all in line. Plus when you get into LTE and online gaming, video calling/sharing etc. That horse power may be a nevesity.

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