Samsung Stratosphere Hands-on

2. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 12 Oct 2011, 09:35 3 0

This doesn't look bad but they could have at least bumped it up to 1.4ghz and 1gb of RAM.

5. GeorgyP (unregistered) posted on 12 Oct 2011, 12:08 1 0

Totally bums me out why manufacturers assume that physical QWERTY lovers only want mid-range specs: WHY ISN'T THIS BASED ON THE 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus- screened Galaxy S2 derivatives?
While the keyboard actually looks ace, imagine *how fantastic* it would have been with one of these phones or even the S2 HD LTE or Galaxy Note as a base!! An absolute category-killer that pple could only stare at slack-jawed with NO ability to dream of complaining about.
Seems this "tablet" frenzy is clouding the minds of OEMs and people are forgetting that MOBILITY is key; even a 5.3-inch screened slider is FAR more pocketable and therefore USEFUL than a 7/7.7/8.9/10.1-inch tablet!
Same madness afflicting Blackberry in rushing out the Playbook with QNX/BBX before it's feature-complete instead of e.g. a 5-inch slider with the same 1024 x 600 pixel resolution screen and a KILLER QWERTY running OS7 (6,1) on the same 1 Ghz dual-core 1GB SDRAM platform. Would have both sold better PLUS buy time to complete QNX instead of muddying the waters and releasing also-ran products.