Everything available right now on the market in phone and computer hardware is already obsolete. Even the newest Intel and AMD processors are obsolete on market entry.

Think of available hardware as a bell curve. On the one end you have something 4 years old and probably significantly out of date, and on the other end you have the most cutting edge technology that will not show up in commercial hardware for another two or three years.

In the middle is everything you can buy right now -- it's faster than what you had 4 years before now, but it isn't cutting edge.

Now consider the market -- Utopya is supposed to be the phone for the average guy in a variety of countries. Fast enough is precisely that. It doesn't have to be cutting edge, blazingly fast when you are in the middle of Timbuktu with terrible reception. It just has to work well enough to get you out of there.

Also, any tech like this has planned iterations and future versions. The first set of phones need to be rock solid reliable, and cutting edge is not always reliable.

You can only type so fast, you can only talk on the phone the same way you did before, and frankly most users are fine with a 4 year old anything.

Go with rugged, reliable and expandable over cutting edge every time.