the old model is dual core, also you can get these phones with local importer warranty if you don't mind paying an extra $50. Also this comes pre-rooted and there are alternate roms for it now. The good news is you can buy the phone "now" for around $200 and it comes with two batteries and a cover.

I forgot to mention, he purchased it late last year, even in China prices do go down over time.

Google Nexus is LG, not exactly top shelf either, also no SD Card slot and a smaller screen.

The old version is dual core, google harder..

Only idiots with to much money and no internet skills pay more than $400 for a so called high end phone. One of the guys at work recently purchased a 5.7" quad core IPS screen mobile from china for a little over $300 (Model# N7300, google it). I was thinking, naaw it will be a heap of crap, well it arrived and worked and not only that "it was pre-rooted". It played 720p mkv movies with no issues and has a dual sim and a SDCARD slot.

You do realise the English sent 10x more convicts to the USA than to Australia, in fact the worst convicts were sent to the USA.

also it will teach budding unemployed IT people who cant afford windows how to use Linux and run IE 6 under wine totally free

or the ISP's can copy what Google did in German, block all copyright material then watch the perpetrators of the legal action have a nervous break down when they realise they have just blown their own foot of with a 22mm canon. Media needs exposure to survive, even illegal downloaders assist in sales (most downloaders are also their biggest $$ customers). So when the media reps lose a major exposure channel trust me they start to hurt especially when they realise their advertising budget is now 5x higher to get the same income.

If there was any truth in advertising Facebooks new data centre would be shaped like a huge vacuum cleaner.

you do realise drug companies can write of the research and testing period expenditure in many western countries, in many cases the write off exceeds 100% of the investment.

accept only 5% of all that money is related to research, the rest is marketing and lawyers and over paid management. Most of the money for drug research comes from the public purse and the average US citizen is getting royally screwed by the drug companies for drug research they paid for already.

For people with Prosopagnosia (the inability to identify faces) this bit of technology will be a boon.

So the multi nationals want to turn all consumers into rent slaves, you own nothing you merely rent it from them never knowing when your masters decide the change the rules and take what you rent away.

Today it was reported that the EU commission has submitted for review a new tax on Oxygen used while watching media. The director EU of silly taxes responded to criticism of the new tax "after years of research costing millions of Euro's we can confirm that 100% of pirates consume Oxygen while watching stolen movies or playing games so we have decided to tax Oxygen". Some questions have been raised by fellow EU members about the waiver of the tax for all EU officials especially considering how much Oxygen they wast on a daily basis.