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xAGx Why couldnt they clock it faster and throttle it down when not needed? My droid incredible doesnt always stay 1 Ghz because, yes, that would kill the battery. When looking at a third party system info app with several background tasks running, the speed jumps even lower than what the 9800 runs at.
I dont even game really on it and I can appreciate the extra speed for app switching, browsing, navigation, etc.
And when i had a Storm 2, I had to charge it every night anyway. Sure, I could have made it last longer, but it wouldnt be that much better to go into the second day with like 20% charge left.
And for those saying it may not need it because of the architecture, well, what happens when you have good architecture and a higher speed? It does even better.
I dont hate the Blackberry platform at all. In fact there are a few things I miss from it compared to Android. OS 6 looks great. I just cant stand by RIM when they elect to use outdated hardware. Sure, it may not need all the super high end stuff that currently exists, but they can do better than this.
It would not have been difficult at all for them to do a 3.5 inch screen with like an 800 mhz processor, and a res of like 640x480. Sure, your battery might take a hit, but your not going to go from like 1.5 days to five hours with a nominal bump.
You dont have to go to the very high end, but you sure as well dont need to stay at the lowest.
Your post reminds me of an article I read earlier. Here's the link: Blackberry Torch 9800: Try Again, RIM - PCWorld
After blasting the 9800 for inferior specs, the writer says this:
Writing this article was too easy. All I had to do was look at the Blackberry Torch's major hardware specs, compare them to other leading smartphones, and note how the Torch is inferior. That doesn't mean the Blackberry Torch 9800 will be a bad phone, it just means RIM still has a lot more catching up to do.
Dude hasn't even used the phone yet. Just isn't impressed with the specs. Can't we just wait before we say that it's not powerful enough? Can't we wait until some users have actually put their hands on it and used it for a few days, and then we can see if it's actually lacking? We might find that it's more than powerful enough to run BB6 and browse the web and all that stuff. We might be impressed.