RazzMaTazz
Android Expert
I want to upgrade me and my family to 3G Android smartphones on Sprint before the $10/month smartphone adder kicks in on 1/30/11. The LG Optimus is getting stellar reviews, and much better reviews than the Samsung Transform, but since the Transform has a more powerful CPU(800MHz CPU vs 600MHz), and a keyboard, dual-cameras, LED-flash, etc.) I'm wondering if the Transform will be better than the Opimus when Transform gets Android 2.2. Anybody have an educated guess at the following issues?
1) Will 2.2 likely make the Transform less laggy and at least equivalent to (if not faster than) the Optimus?
2) Engadget says that Samsung hasn't written a driver to take advantage of the hardware graphics accelerator that's built into the Transform's processor (or at least hasn't written an OpenGL driver), but LG is taking advantage of the Optimus's graphics accelerator. Do you think Samsung will support hardware acceleration in the 2.2 release?
3) Both phones have a 3.2MP camera, but the 600MHz Optimus shoots 640x480 video, whereas the 800MHz Transform only shoots 320x240 (or perhaps 352x288) video. I assume that's because Samsung isn't taking advantage of the hardware graphics accelerator, whereas LG is. Any idea if the Samsung will bring that up to 640x480 (perhaps with 2.2)?
4) Engadget implies that the Optimus gets better reception than the Transform. Any idea if that's true?
I don't know the details about each CPU & graphics accelerator but the Transform's hardware seems superior, so one would think that (with the right OS & drivers) that the Transform would be superior to the Optimus in just about every way (except for screen brightness).
Thanks in advance for any insight!
1) Will 2.2 likely make the Transform less laggy and at least equivalent to (if not faster than) the Optimus?
2) Engadget says that Samsung hasn't written a driver to take advantage of the hardware graphics accelerator that's built into the Transform's processor (or at least hasn't written an OpenGL driver), but LG is taking advantage of the Optimus's graphics accelerator. Do you think Samsung will support hardware acceleration in the 2.2 release?
3) Both phones have a 3.2MP camera, but the 600MHz Optimus shoots 640x480 video, whereas the 800MHz Transform only shoots 320x240 (or perhaps 352x288) video. I assume that's because Samsung isn't taking advantage of the hardware graphics accelerator, whereas LG is. Any idea if the Samsung will bring that up to 640x480 (perhaps with 2.2)?
4) Engadget implies that the Optimus gets better reception than the Transform. Any idea if that's true?
I don't know the details about each CPU & graphics accelerator but the Transform's hardware seems superior, so one would think that (with the right OS & drivers) that the Transform would be superior to the Optimus in just about every way (except for screen brightness).
Thanks in advance for any insight!