Xperia Arc/ArcS vs Android 4.0 Galaxy Nexus

[uliwooly-wooly]

Samsung Nexus	Xperia Arc	Alternatives
Lock Screen Camera Access Notifications (ALL/Full)	Lock Screen Not available Notifications SMS/MMS	LockScreen WidgetLocker
Face Unlock	Can't be done	Visidon AppLock (front facing camera required)
Google+ Integrated Google+
Camera video 1080p Picture multiple formats Panoramic	Camera Video 720p (over compressed image) Picture Different formats(over compressed image) Panoramic fix angle (270degrees) 3D panoramic	Panorama Panorama (free/pro) Easy panorama camera Pano Easy 3D camera Camera 3D or AndCam3D
Voice Typing	none	Vlingo Voice SMS
Display Super AMOLED HD 720p 316ppi Oleophobic surface 3-axis gyroscope	Display LED-backlit LCD Bravia Engine 233ppi
4G LTE and HSPA+ 21MBps	4G HSPA+ 14.4MBps

Of course I'll add more info on Ice Cream Sandwich improvements 

[uliwooly-wooly]

Android 4.0	Xperia 2.3.4	Alternative
Virtual buttons	N/A	Virtual buttons Softkeys for ROOT USERS
Widgets on a similar tab as apps	N/A
Folders drag and drop on another icon	Same
Home launcher	Same
Integrated Voicemail	N/A	Google Voice Visual Voicemail Youmail
Pinch-zoom on calendar	N/A	Touch Calendar Free (double tap)
Offline Gmail	N/A	toGmail
Screenshot (Power and volume down)	Screenshot (Power button )
Better and smarter keyboard faster copy/paste easier to add words to dictionary	it's decent
can access apps from lockscreen	N/A	Widget Locker
New browser up to 16tabs
sync Google Chrome automatically	N/A	Google Chrome to phone ChromeMarks
New ROBOTO font
DATA USAGE control you can set warnings to pre-set data limit ability to shut down data traffic once certain limit has been reached    3. you can kill apps that are using background data	data on/off widget Data traffic
Camera Zero shutter lag bulit in photo editor New gallery	Camera Almost zero shutter lag N/A	picsay, photoshop Picturen Lite
Social network integration w/ hi-res images	facebook integration low-res images
Android beam/NFC feature	N/A (lack of hardware)	N/A
ANY APP CAN BE DISABLED, even pre-loaded apps
Faster multi-tasking drop-down menu slide to right to trash apps that you are not using	Long-press MENU

[uliwooly-wooly · Accepted solution]

Galaxy Nexus

Sensors

• Geomagnetic sensor: Brand new tri-axial Yamaha YAS530
• TouchScreen sensor: Melfas MMSxxx touchscreen
• Optical / proximity sensor: GP2A (same as Galaxy S and Nexus S)
• Barometric pressure sensor: BOSCH BMP180 (first of its kind in a smartphone)
• Triaxial acceleration sensor: BOSCH BMA250
• Triple Axis MEMS Gyroscope: InvenSense MPU3050
• Fuel Gauge (algorithm to track battery's state of charge): MAXIM MAX17040

Silicon

• CPU: Texas Instruments OMAP4460 (same as the Droid RAZR and Archos G9 tablets), 2047.7 BogoMIPS
• GPU: Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 540 (same as the Galaxy S and Nexus S)
• WiFi / Bluetooth module: Broadcom BCM4330 (same as in the Galaxy S II)
• Audio codec: Texas Instruments TWL6040
• HDMI: Silicon Image MHD SiI9234 transmitter over MHL (same as Infuse 4G and GSII)
• USB Switch: Fairchild semiconductors fsa9480 (industry standard)
• Framebuffer controller: Samsung S6E8AA0 MIPI LCD with Gamma correction driver

Misc. internals

• Facial recognition elements (Face Unlock😞 left eye, right eye, nose base, head, face
• Available resolution for standard apps: 720 x 1184px
• Refresh rate: 60Hz
• LCD Density: 320
• Default display color depth: 32bit
• Camera uses OMAP Ducati Subsystem, on-screen preview size is 768 x 576
• Linux kernel: 3.0.1 compiled for SMP with voluntary kernel preemption for best interactivity
• Android ROM: version 4.0.1, built October 13, 2011
• Device name: Maguro
• Main input/output type supported: Headphone, Speaker, Microphone, Bluetooth, Voice, FM, S/PDIF over HDMI; USB Audio DAC (digital-to-audio converter with USB input and stereo outputs) should also be supported

Thanx Engadget

[#4]

Currently, Samsung is the Android phone market leader in the following two areas :

1) Latest technology in their phones

2) Ever rising popularity and market share

Unless SE realises that customers of this generation want the latest and greatest stuff, it might not be in the mobile phone business for long. Being a generation behind in technology nowadays is not a good thing. It is a tough and competitive world out there.

Something for the SE bean counters to consider. Sometimes you need to spend some money to make even more money

I have been using Ericsson and then SE phones exclusively for more than 17 years.

In the light of current developments with mobile phones, my next phone purchase could be a Samsung model, whatever is their latest and greatest at the time of my purchase.

[uliwooly-wooly]

I think SE approach until today was to focus not on the cheap phones nor the most advanced phones, that might've worked before, before the smartphones era. Things are different now and if SE's approach is to release phones that look nice but hardware wise its a YEAR behind well sadly SE won't last long.

[#6]

Time will tell...

[uliwooly-wooly]

Features for the next Xperia flagship

http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/115419#115419

[slimshaddy]

but i dont like the cheap plastic that they use :@

horrible looks and quality thats why i bought the arc and not s2..

if they can come up with a beauty with brains concept then m sure will buy a samsung..

[uliwooly-wooly]

Carbon Fiber will be great, lightweight, resistant, strong, could make an even slimer phone, that and gorilla glass or dragontrail will be a great convination and it'll be nice if SE stop using those chrome buttons and lines around the phone, I don't know how you feel about it, but it makes it seem a bit cheap (the buttons)

[slimshaddy]

nah i dont think it as cheap

i mean i have a silver arc and it compliments teh color..so no prob in that

do we have phones with carbon fibre:smileyshocked: