Time to change my Nexus One

Recently I’ve been having issues with my Nexus One, 3G is not working and when I enable it does not receive any data transfer and it drops to zero bars the signal, having 3G then lose it is horrible and edge in Panama sucks (depends on the carrier).
So due that there are several super phones that are coming out I’m going research which is the best and i’ll post my findings, and BTW I’m only going to check Android phones

Having passed CES some phones were released others where released before it, this is the list of phone worth considering:

• Motorola Atrix
• Samsung Infuse 4G
• HTC Inspire 4G
• LG Optimus 2X
• Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc

Hardware Comparizon chart

	Motorola Atrix 4G	Samsung Infuse 4G	HTC Inspire 4G	LG Optimus 2X	Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc
Network 2G	AT&T1	AT&T1	AT&T1	AT&T1	AT&T1
Network 3G	AT&T1	AT&T1	AT&T1	TBA	AT&T1
Android Version	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.3
Screen	LCD qHD 4” (540x960)	Super AMOLED 4.5” (480 x 800)	S-LCD 4.3” (480 x 800)	LCD TFT 4" (480x800)	LCD 4.2" (480x854)
CPU	Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core 1 GHz	single-core 1.2GHz Hummingbird	Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor	Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual-Core 1GHz	Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor
RAM	1GB of RAM	1GB RAM (Not confirmed)	768 MB of RAM	380 MB of RAM	512 MB of RAM
WLAN	802.11n	802.11n	802.11n	802.11n	802.11n
Internal memory	16GB	16 GB / 32 GB (TBA)	4GB	8GB	512MB
Bluetooth	v2.1 with A2DP	v3.0 with A2DP	v2.1 with A2DP	v2.1 with A2DP	v2.1 with A2DP
GPS	A-GPS	A-GPS	A-GPS	A-GPS and digital compass	A-GPS
Camera (back/front)	5MP/VGA	8MP/1.3MP	8MP	8MP/1.3MP	8MP
Flash	Dual LED	LED	Dual LED	LED	LED
Video Capture	720p	720p	720p	1080p	720p
Video Out	HDMI	HDMI	none	HDMI	HDMI

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Mobility#Radio_Frequency_Summary (850/1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 850/1900MHz UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA)

Front Pictures

Motorola Atrix 4G	Samsung Infuse 4G	HTC Inspire 4G	LG Optimus 2X	Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc

Unique features

Motorola Atrix 4g
As Mentioned on CES 2011, this phone will have a laptop dock and the HD dock these will give ou the ability to use it as a laptop, media center and a pseudo-PC

Samsung Infuse 4g
This phone will be using the new Gorilla glass that will protect it from scratches and some hits to the screen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxj6gRYwS0

Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc
As announced this phone will have the Sony Mobile BRAVIA® Engine, which will improve the image quality from any signal and you will see clearer, sharper and more natural images.
Also the camera in the phone will be using Sony's Exmor R technology

LG Optimus 2X
As seen in some pictures of the phone this will have dual speakers at the bottom of the phone.

HTC Inspire 4g
I didn’t find anything extraordinary or not common like in the other phones it just have good specs, it uses the same CPU than the Nexus one but it is using de new Adreno 205 GPU which have the following features:

• Hardware-accelerated SVG and Adobe Flash®
• Significant improvements in shader performance over Adreno 200 GPU
• Streaming textures that can combine video, camera, SVG and other image surfaces with 3D graphics

Choosing a phone
Given the current data I will like a phone that doesn’t get outdated too fast, nice design, good features and specs.
For some reason I’m not liking that much the XPERIA design so that will that leaves us with 4 phones.

For the moment LG Otimus 2X is out since there was no information for what carrier it is going or its 2G and 3G networks frequencies

So for the moment we have the Atrix, Infuse and Inspire.

• The HTC Insire will give you optimize flash content, faster Google maps rendering, better 3D features.
• The Samsung Infuse is definitely faster than the inspire and its CPU was build around the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU which is the next version from the one on the iPhone 3GS.
• The Motorola Atrix has a 1GHz Dual core Tegra 2 which nVidia has demonstrated its power in several videos on youtube (Unreal Engine 3 na Tegra 2)

So between these three I consider that the Infuse and the Atrix are serious candidates and at some point I would like to do video calls and the HTC Inspire doesn’t have a front camera another point is that I’m not that into the HTC interface, so I’ll leave that one out.

These are basically the main differences between the two phones:

	Motorola Atrix 4G	Samsung Infuse 4G
Screen	LCD qHD 4” (540x960)	Super AMOLED 4.5” (480 x 800)
CPU	Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core 1 GHz	single-core 1.2GHz Hummingbird
Bluetooth	v2.1 with A2DP	v3.0 with A2DP
Camera (back/front)	5MP/VGA	8MP/1.3MP
Flash	Dual LED	LED

The interface of both phones are nice both with nice specs the only thing that changes is that the Atrix has both docks on its side so that are a great plus, but until some degree the Samsung can be compared since it has also HDMI output.

For some people something that has a lot of weight in this decision is the carrier contract, but my decision will be based more on the specs since carriers are not very up to date with new phones and smart phone consumer market is mostly dominated by Blackberry and the only reason for this is marketing and because of BB messenger.

I guess I’m going with the Atrix because of the lower size display but higher pixel density, dual-core nVidia Tegra 2, and the accessories.

WINNER:  MOTOROLA ATRIX 4G