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2.3 Gingerbread

slbailey1 said:
That's why I'm not buying a tablet now. I'm wait for tablets that have Honeycomb preloaded and is LTE ready. I do go the the Verizon Store and Bestbuy whenever I can to play with the Galaxy Tab. Today I played with the Galaxy Tab for 30 minutes at Bestbuy. I LOVE the 7" form factor!!!
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HONEYCOMB preloaded? You are going to be waiting a good while for that one then I think.
 
ImaYam said:
Its faster than most 1GZ Snapdragon phones (Evo, Droids, HD2)

The G2, technically, has TWO processors, each at 800 MHZ. Its actually 2 cores, and both can be over clocked to 1.6GeeZees.


We can make it stronger, faster, better. We HAVE the technology.
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I know it's possible to overclock it but it's not official is it? i.e. not from HTC. I'm sure it's possible to load Gingerbread on it, I just meant I didn't think it'd have an official update.
sorry for the miscommunication x
 
jradicle11 said:
Since the EVO has HTC Sense, I doubt it will be released to it quickly.
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I'm not terribly sure about that. Under this same logic, HTC is going to not release any newer handsets with 2.3 either. To stay relevent they will need to stay ahead (or at the heels) of the competition.
 
adi19956 said:
I know it's possible to overclock it but it's not official is it? i.e. not from HTC. I'm sure it's possible to load Gingerbread on it, I just meant I didn't think it'd have an official update.
sorry for the miscommunication x
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That minimum req is probably also for single core cpus. That said, we are getting away from the age of more mhz means faster cpu and coming more into a time where it is more important how efficiently these processors handle information
 
lordofthereef said:
That minimum req is probably also for single core cpus. That said, we are getting away from the age of more mhz means faster cpu and coming more into a time where it is more important how efficiently these processors handle information
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I'm afraid once you go into that world, you have lost me :) isn't that measured in MFLOPS? I don't understand it... could you explain it? :)
 
adi19956 said:
the G2 only has a 800 MHz processor and Gingerbread (apparently) requires 1 GHz
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That was debunked by Google. The 1ghz requirement is false.

ImaYam said:
Its faster than most 1GZ Snapdragon phones (Evo, Droids, HD2)

The G2, technically, has TWO processors, each at 800 MHZ. Its actually 2 cores, and both can be over clocked to 1.6GeeZees.


We can make it stronger, faster, better. We HAVE the technology.
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Wow, some misinformation here. First, the 800mhz Snapdragon in the G2 is not faster than the 1ghz Snapdragon in the N1 or similar phones. They're the same CPU, just made on a new fabrication process. If you overclock the G2 to 1ghz, it's just as fast as the 1ghz in the N1. So what are the differences in this new CPU?

-45nm (as opposed to 65nm), meaning it produces less heat and uses much less battery. It also has in theory, more overclocking headroom.

-The SOC (system on a chip), not to be confused with just the CPU, includes the new Adreno 205GPU, which is roughly 2.5X faster than the Adreno 200 that was on the original Snapdragon SOC.

-And now, this is where people say "but Quadrant is higher on the G2." Yes, the total score is, but get the paid version and you'll see the scores for the individual components. The CPU of the G2 is slower than the N1, while the GPU is faster.

And no, it's not a dual core. But they're coming soon!
 
cheers, didn't know that :) could the requirement of 1 GHz be required for 3.0? because my Legend with 600 MHz is quite slow with Froyo so surely one needs a faster processor to run more complicated OS's?
 
adi19956 said:
cheers, didn't know that :) could the requirement of 1 GHz be required for 3.0? because my Legend with 600 MHz is quite slow with Froyo so surely one needs a faster processor to run more complicated OS's?
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Android is quite scalable, and can be run on a myriad of devices. Sure, you may want a 1ghz-ish device with 512MB or RAM to use the latest version with all the bells and whistles (for instance, you can use 2.2 on a low end phone, just not Flash), but a low end device can still run the latest release.

Maybe 3.x will require 1ghz, but whether or not that's the case, Google hasn't said it yet.
 
Medion said:
Android is quite scalable, and can be run on a myriad of devices. Sure, you may want a 1ghz-ish device with 512MB or RAM to use the latest version with all the bells and whistles (for instance, you can use 2.2 on a low end phone, just not Flash), but a low end device can still run the latest release.

Maybe 3.x will require 1ghz, but whether or not that's the case, Google hasn't said it yet.
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who made it up then?
 
lordofthereef said:
That minimum req is probably also for single core cpus. That said, we are getting away from the age of more mhz means faster cpu and coming more into a time where it is more important how efficiently these processors handle information
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I'm not saying they won't release it at all, but compared to devices with stock android, there will definitely be a later release. After all, they have to get everything situated with HTC Sense.
 
okay well I love them :) except maybe the Nexus' Gallery... I had it when I had Cyanogen, that was good, but it ran too slow on my Legend so I got a different ROM and lost it
 
Rumour is, it is coming on the 6th (i.e today). I guess it will be the Nexus phones supported first, but it wont take long for XDA and other forums to port it over to the other popular devices (HTC etc).
 
Medion said:
That was debunked by Google. The 1ghz requirement is false.



Wow, some misinformation here. First, the 800mhz Snapdragon in the G2 is not faster than the 1ghz Snapdragon in the N1 or similar phones. They're the same CPU, just made on a new fabrication process. If you overclock the G2 to 1ghz, it's just as fast as the 1ghz in the N1. So what are the differences in this new CPU?

-45nm (as opposed to 65nm), meaning it produces less heat and uses much less battery. It also has in theory, more overclocking headroom.

-The SOC (system on a chip), not to be confused with just the CPU, includes the new Adreno 205GPU, which is roughly 2.5X faster than the Adreno 200 that was on the original Snapdragon SOC.

-And now, this is where people say "but Quadrant is higher on the G2." Yes, the total score is, but get the paid version and you'll see the scores for the individual components. The CPU of the G2 is slower than the N1, while the GPU is faster.

And no, it's not a dual core. But they're coming soon!
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THeres misinformation on that too. The g2 cpu isnt snapdragon.. Its scorpion (this phone's processor isn't the same as the 'dragons used by other phones up to now. It will feature Adreno 205 GPU (rather than Adreno 200), which is much much faster, and its not "dual core", I meant it was capable of core-threading, times two, making it like the pentium 4's with Hyper Threading (remember those?) before the dual cores came out.
 
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