PP Mguire
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Actually, I should change that. The GoPhone I got is a Pantech, so naturally stupid connector on it.
Right, once smartphones started becoming the norm after the iPhone launch, methinks the big companies finally started to understand that proprietary stinks, especially with phones that have higher capabilities to their flip predecessors. More people would be needing USB cables for them as opposed to flip phones, so switching from proprietary to mini USB variations made sense. HTC was one of the only ones I can name with certainty that still had proprietary charger ports on smartphones up to late 2009/early 2010 like my HTC Hero CDMA version...you could still fit a mini-USB cable in there even though it wasn't made for it, which is nice.
I'm guessing they did it so they wouldn't be tied to ARMs roadmap for future devices. Although until we see more specs and performance it's hard to tell how successful they have been, it appears to be quite a bit slower than Krait which is Qualcomm's custom ARM design but without knowing the core count of A6 it's hard to say how significant that is.
Given the pile of cash they are sitting on they could have just bought AMD and Global Foundries if they wanted to go the 100% in house route.
Right, once smartphones started becoming the norm after the iPhone launch, methinks the big companies finally started to understand that proprietary stinks, especially with phones that have higher capabilities to their flip predecessors. More people would be needing USB cables for them as opposed to flip phones, so switching from proprietary to mini USB variations made sense. HTC was one of the only ones I can name with certainty that still had proprietary charger ports on smartphones up to late 2009/early 2010 like my HTC Hero CDMA version...you could still fit a mini-USB cable in there even though it wasn't made for it, which is nice.
Oh know, looks like your XFX 5770 took a dump on you. That is what all 4 of mine did to me. None of the RMAs I had from them fixed it.So. Um.