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Tegra 2

Snow_Fox

Snow_Fox

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So word has it tegrea 2 and the new motorola super phones are suppose to have "days" battery life instead of hours.

I don't see it as being impossible.. but, I am wondering if the olympus will be out on at&t before end of january.

I am really hoping to have a new phone before I go back to school on the 18th... I doubt its gunna be out that soon but, I don't really want to wait any longer than jan.. so I am hoping for personal reasons this thing gets out asap.

I am wondering if its really gunna be what is is suppose to..

It would suck if it was two cores running like a 4th of an instruction per clock..
 
Can't talk yourself out of those sour grapes that way - Linux is well-able to support multiple cores, Android is a Linux port...

Sounds like you have the pre-CES jitters - announcements come on Jan 6, then we'll know. ;)
 
All this time my parents have been dead set against a data plan and now out of no where, I've noticed a change in tone.

6 months ago if I had the capt I wouldn't care now.. but, now that its this close.. I'd be stupid not to wait on the olympus. (assuming it is actually coming out within a reasonable time frame).

I know dual cores are actually more energy efficient but, I am wondering if it is really going to be able to last as long as they claim... It could be amazing.. or fail horribly...

Plus I am trying to not get overly optimistic.. knowing at&t.. they could charge outlandish prices for it >.< or do other horrible things to it.
 
If I could get the same usage from the Olympus that I do from the iPhone 4 I would be happy. The reason I hated the Captivate was the battery life was terrible.
 
Eh... captivate requires some management of battery but, its not too terrible from what Ihear as long asyou turn down brightness..
 
You heard DAYS of battery life?

Sorry dude but that's pretty damn unlikely.

Dual cores can help the battery life (although not HUGELY or anything), but the biggest battery drain is the screen by FAR.

I would guess a 1500 mAh battery. So even optimistically, if tegra 2 has great power consumption, the screen tech has great power consumption, and the phone is generally designed well, I don't see the battery life being dramatically better than Galaxy S phones.

It still sounds like it's going to be a winner though :) I know this is crazy on an android forum, but if you want days-long battery life, get a blackberry; mine can go five days without a charge pretty easily.
 
lol... blackberry.

I am not trying to knock your personal choice because, you have every right to love what ever phone you want to.

I hate blackberry... I always feel like I'm running around in circles when I try to do anything on it.


Edit:

I also don't think its going to seriously last days literally.. but, it is suppose to have better battery life... so I think most people would be happy if it lasted 12 hours with some serious useage...

I mean if it actually afforded 2 hours of hd playback and then regular texting and calling and still got you home with a little bit of juice to spare.. that would be impressive.
 
HD viewing on a BB?

While they advertise the web, and while we'll all make do with whatever we have - c'mon - no way is that the profile for the typical BB user.

And plus - why d/l HD to an SD screen anyway?
 
Because, you can attach the olympus to an hd tv and push video straight from your phone :p

Plus to be honest.. I HATE having to code every video I want to watch just to work on mobile devices...

And I wasn't profiling anyone just saying why I hate blackberry...
 
I'm hijacking this thread and making it all things Tegra2 :D

So I was reading a review comparing the linepack scores between the iPad2 and the Xoom. The iPad2's score blew the Xoom away. This was the reviewer's reasoning:
But the only factor we can think of that would explain such a boost in LINPACK performance vs. both the original iPad and rival Tegra 2-based devices is that A5 must have full support for ARM's NEON vector extensions (the ARM equivalent of Intel's SSE instructions). The NEON extensions, along with the larger vector FPU (VFPU) to support them, are included by default in the A8 family, but are optional in the A9. NVIDIA's Tegra 2 opted for the smaller, lower-power, but weaker ARM FPU, while Apple seems to have included the beefier NEON VFPU in their implementation of the A9. Clearly this is the way to go, and we can expect other ARM SoC vendors to follow suit.
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So does anyone know if the Moto kept the ARM FPU on the Atrix or did they spuce the Tegra2 up with something similar to the iPad2's NEON VFPU. Now that I'm thinking about it...I'm thinking no since both Xoom and Atrix are made by Moto. :/
 
on the topic of tegra 2. I was just reading up on it gaming wise. The tegra 2 is able to run the unreal 3 engine just fine. That just blows me away that cell phones are able to push such graphics. For those that are having trouble finding tegra 2 supported games a must have app is called tegra zone. Its was put up by nvidia to list all tegra 2 supported games. here is a link to nvidia's main site about tegra zone
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-zone.html

Here is a quick youtube video of one of the first games dungeon defenders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKRC51s4qc
 
I don't put a lot of stock in Linpack scores. The underlying code was never intended to see what could be done on a multi-user, graphically-oriented OS.

Comparing two devices, all things being equal - like they did for the two iPad - maybe.

Even then, as sremick likes to say, that benchmark is like seeing how high you can rev the engine while parked in the driveway.

When I tuned my phone for best overall performance, my Linpack scores went down - and I didn't care.

The Sunspider Javascript benchmarks you published in another thread are probably more indicative of the power available for real-world tasks as it tends to cover a number of data transactions.

Just my opinions, tho.
 
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