Posted on 07/21/2010 12:22:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Both run at 1 GHz. For the exact GPUs, now you're making me do research. It's kind of fun, a learning experience here. Found it. The Hummingbird has a PowerVR SGX540 vs. the A4 PowerVR SGX535. Don't let the small number difference fool you, since 540 pushes twice the polygons per second. However, the A4 adds a PowerVR VXD375, which is apparently a dedicated hardware video encoder/decoder. This would probably be why iMovie can edit HD video with only a 1 GHz ARM processor.
So, for games the Hummingbird probably easily beats an iPhone. But for video the iPhone probably wins, especially when you take battery life into account.
I have read that there will be a big difference between android 2.1 and 2.2.
Memory and storage use will go up, and initial app start times will go up, but app performance should also go up quite a bit (to varying degrees, depending on the app). Also, apps will have to be modified in order to take full advantage of JIT, so don't expect immediate improvement for everything.
The increased memory and storage requirements are likely why many phones sold up until only a few months ago will not be officially upgraded to 2.2. And people complained about iOS 4 not being supported on the original iPhone that was discontinued two years ago.
Tmobile has announced an upgrade for the original Mytouch 3G to Android 2.2. I think it is the second oldest Android phone on the market. I have one of those, I’m curious if it will help or hurt performance.
I like Tmobile, I wouldn’t change service for a specific phone but yesterday Engadget reported “inside sources” claiming that there is an 80% chance of the iPhone coming to Tmobile this fall. I’m not sure what that means but it would make things interesting.
I don’t have a “burr” up my butt. You asked “really?” and I explained why.
Ping you? I was responding to you in that reply.
But, just in case, here's a courtesy ping:
Ping!
Is that better?
Ah, I think I see now. Your post was directly after mine talking about seeing my wife’s new phone. You did not reply to me, you replied to Ernest.
My bad. I couldn’t figure out what you had against me. I guess you have this now.
Sorry.
No harm no foul, I thought it was sort of funny actually.
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