Newly Launched Pantech Vega Xpress Comes with DDR2 Memory!

[Karthik R 246]

While LG’s upcoming Optimus 2X might be aiming for the performance crown by adding more processing cores into the mix, Korean smartphone specialist Pantech has a different plan: a smartphone that uses low-power DDR2 RAM, just like a laptop or desktop.

The Pantech Vega Xpress is the world’s first smartphone to combine an ARM processing platform, based on Qualcomm’s popular MSM8225 CPU, with LP-DDR2 memory – a combination which, Pantech claims, makes it considerably faster than the competition at pretty much every task you may ask of it.

The company’s internal testing suggests that its novel system design, combined with the high performance and yet low power DDR2 memory, means that it outperforms similar smartphones by around 1.5 times – and for certain memory intensive tasks, that figure rises considerably.

Web browsing is one area that appears to benefit greatly from the new memory in the Pantech Vega Xpress: unlike most smartphones, Pantech claims that its latest device offers PC-level rendering speeds – allowing the smartphone to draw a page as quickly as it can download it, with none of the delays and hitches associated with browsing a fully fledged website on a smartphone.

3D rendering, as required for on the go gaming, also gets a boost, with Pantech claiming a doubling of performance compared to its closest competitors, while power efficiency has also been tweaked to ensure that the handset gets a nice boost to its battery life.

Sadly, it looks like Pantech has cut some corners with the Vega Xpress in order to bring the price down. While the CPU and memory subsystems are impressive enough, the display is a fairly standard 4in WVGA model while the integrated camera is just 5 megapixels in resolution – far from the 12 megapixel and higher cameraphones we’re used to seeing come out of Korea these days.

Although the device has a custom user interface, reminiscent of the iPhone, it’s an Android 2.2 smartphone at heart – which is a shame, given that Google has just released Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ and all the improvements and additional features that implies.

Confusingly, Pantech’s data sheets suggest that the Vega Xpress includes support for Near Field Communications technology, as found in Google’s Samsung manufactured Nexus S smartphone – a technology which is only officially supported in Android 2.3 and above.

Although the company hasn’t discussed pricing, it’s thought to be launching the device in its native Korea later this month. So far, there’s no hint as to a world-wide launch.

Source : geekwithlaptop

Found a video on Youtube. I guess it is in Korean, will take time to decipher

[ashoksoft 83]

a smart move actually

[parin 857]

really good move

Phone looks to be a goodone

What will be the price

[Karthik R 246]

More specs :

• Display: 4-inch WVGA (800×480) 16 million color TFT LCD
  
• Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor
  
• Size: 120.5x 62.8×10.9 (mm) (with standard battery)
  
• Weight: 119.9g
  
• Battery: 1500mAh
  
• Camera: 5M AF CMOS / Flash
  
• External Memory Card: SD Card 8GB (up to 32GB)
  
• 720p HD video recording and playback support
  
• 3.5mm headphone jack
  

I would rather suggest you to wait a year for someone to come forward with phones running in i7 processors

[Genius 817]

todays cell phones are much faster than my first PC a cyrix 586 with 8mb RAM and 1.2 GB HDD

[Karthik R 246]

My first PC ran on the infamous and dreaded Windows 95 which was multi crash compatible

[Punjabi 10]

My first PC ran on the infamous and dreaded Windows 95 which was multi crash compatible

ha ha ha... this reminds me of my 1st pc - year 1997, the salesman told me "jayada RAM mat dalvao... boot kar nae mai der hogee"... ha ha ha... what a joker... the system was "super crash compatible"... it use to boot less and get formatted more :-)

Jas