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Rumours suggest that Samsung’s hard-to-buy Nexus 10 tablet is about to receive a small hardware update, with the Korean maker of glossy rectangular items said to be working on a new quad-core version of its Nexus 10.
According to a bizarrely worded report over on Bright Side of News, developers complained that the Nexus 10′s dual-core Exynos chipset struggled a little when managing the tablet’s enormous 2560 x 1600 resolution display, leading to the decision to stick an enhanced quad-core processor alongside an eight-core Mali T628 GPU in a future model.
Hopefully it’ll also make more of the things this time as well. The Nexus 10 has been even harder to get hold of than the Nexus 4, with Google almost continually out of stock of the things since launch last year.
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My Nexus 10 is definitely not sluggish at all. Handles everything well. Wacking in a bigger processor will probably give diminishing returns and will hit the excellent battery life on it.
totally agree, my nexus 10 hasn’t missed a beat at all, playing need for speed most wanted is flawless and nothing I have used has slowed it down, or made it lag.
Are either of you a developer?
“… developers complained that …”
Developers has to limit their imaginations down to Earth… you know, I’m sure they would love to give you desktop rivaling gfx/fx stuff but you know what they meant here… Devs wants to push quality a bit, and they cant while the physical limitations are there… Games most are designed for current gen h/w…
i am a ninja, does that count
I take that, but they’d have to really improve the battery inside for it to be worth it. Doing a graphic intensive thing, it has a life of around 4 hours, and you cant have it on charge and expect it to run off that.
If you doubled the power, then you’d only be able to use it for an hour or two before it was flat then you have to wait a few hours to be able to use it for something lightweight. It’d just be stupid.
True, but that would be calculated in the equation of the upgrade’s pros/cons. But this is not talked about in details. Article is only pointing out devs request better h/w to do better thing. Of course you cant have best of everything, you have to do compromises both for usability vs profitability aspects, so we will have to wait and see what the rumors will bring
has anyone noticed that photographs of the device make it look very bulbous on the back?
and the slightly rounded edges on a front facing pic make it look odd, but in real life it is neither of these
Seems improbable. The whole point of Nexus is for Android to have a reference platform. It doesn’t make sense to have two versions of almost the same reference platform, with slightly different hardware. And it’s too soon for a new generation.
Tend to agree with you although it could be they’re following what seems to be the new trend of launching new models before you’ve even got the last one unwrapped.
If this was the case then wouldn’t Google more likely replace it at its I/O conference in may?
So nopw CPUs run screens?! Who knew!