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amitabhishek

amitabhishek

Bad to the bone
Which is the best 2.1 custom rom for htc hero at this time in terms of performance & speed ?

Villian ROM and Perfect Eclair seems to be a popular choice. We don't have Hero so can't recommend one. But OEM ROM seems to be very god(except its 1.5). Both are 2.1. Flash and post comments.
DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP USING NANDROID!

*forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=512
 

Tanmay Satpathy

Sing Along Samsung
Interesting read on Android... Should get a Nexus One soon...

I dont consider Xperia X10 as it is officially declared that X10 will not get multitouch due to hardware limitations after it's much delayed upgrade to 2.x FTW !!!!! I doubt it would get the upgrade somewhere soon.
 
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amitabhishek

amitabhishek

Bad to the bone
Ha...The iPhone thread creator wants a piece of Android:). Thats a welcome development!

N1 is a good choice...kalpik has already ordered am planning one too (subject to my savings).
 

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
WTF!! Now the eBay dealer called me and said its out of stock! He's trying to arrange.. Lets see.. :(
 

jain_pranav

Broken In
@ kalpik
what price r u quoted in gaffar market?
N y dont u try expansys.com
It is a uk based site & DHL ships them..It will be much cheaper to get from this site.
 

sriharsha_madineni

Cyborg Agent
Guys what do you think of the Samsung Galaxy I9000 S. What in your opinion should be the ideal price for this beauty.
Review

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S manages 7:25 hours of video playback, puts critics to shame
 

desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
Any physical QWERTY keyboard Android phone under 15k?

none. inside 15k, if you are looking for a phone with physical qwerty, N71 is the current best choice. It's stable, sturdy and looks awesome. (else wait for C6 and other new Nokia phones to stabilize).

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Guys what do you think of the Samsung Galaxy I9000 S. What in your opinion should be the ideal price for this beauty.
Review

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S manages 7:25 hours of video playback, puts critics to shame


1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird CPU; 512 MB of RAM
720p HD video recording at 30fps
802.11 n baby!!!
4" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution
7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support

Smoking Hot!!!! And I do hope it will be priced lower than HD2 which is still superior to this phone.
 

vulpine

Broken In
none. inside 15k, if you are looking for a phone with physical qwerty, N71 is the current best choice. It's stable, sturdy and looks awesome. (else wait for C6 and other new Nokia phones to stabilize).

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You must have meant E71 becas AFAIK N71 was a flip.

1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird CPU; 512 MB of RAM
720p HD video recording at 30fps
802.11 n baby!!!
4" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution
7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support

Smoking Hot!!!! And I do hope it will be priced lower than HD2 which is still superior to this phone.

Its super sexy!!
I heard it has thrice the graphic processing power of N1. Now I have a doubt. Both of them have a 1GHz procy (different though) (N1-snapdragon Galaxy S-humming bird) how come galaxy S is so much better?? Does it have a dedicated GPU?

Is the procy used same as that of ipad?


But I think its too large. For me iphone is the limit for size of a phone. Any thing larger looks ugly. What do you think?
 

sujoyp

Grand Master
^^ Looking at the dimensions

Galaxy-s---122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm
Iphone 3gs---115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm

that says galaxy is longer and just 2 mm wider and less thicker

Soo dimension have not much increased from iphone but screen size have increased from 3.5 to 4 inch...much bigger:-o
 

sriharsha_madineni

Cyborg Agent
You must have meant E71 becas AFAIK N71 was a flip.



Its super sexy!!
I heard it has thrice the graphic processing power of N1. Now I have a doubt. Both of them have a 1GHz procy (different though) (N1-snapdragon Galaxy S-humming bird) how come galaxy S is so much better?? Does it have a dedicated GPU?

Is the procy used same as that of ipad?


But I think its too large. For me iphone is the limit for size of a phone. Any thing larger looks ugly. What do you think?

Because both Snapdragon and Humming bird are based on different architectures and designs.

N1 uses QSD8250 from Snapdragon family + Adreno 200 capable of 22 million triangles per second.

Galaxy S uses Samsung hummingbird S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 capable of 90 million triangles per second.

Where as iPad uses a custom made CPU based on the same S5PC110 processor, but 2 layers or Ram built into it, unlike the above phones which have a separate Ram module. I think both 3GS and iPad use the same PowerVR SGX535 GPU as per the specs, but 3gs does only 7-10 million triangles per second.

Here's some interesting article about Apple's A4 CPU Teardown *bit.ly/cSj4k2

Here's a benchmark test b/w iPad, iPhone 3GS and N1 from anandtech *bit.ly/9syhiL

Apparently Snapdragon family has another monster the Single chip, dual CPU QDS8672 clocked at 1.5Ghz yet it still manages only 80 Million triangles per second.

Donno which phone uses this monster Snapdragon, but there were some rumors before the iphone 4G surfaced that it might be using this monster snapdragon CPU.

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Couldn't find it in Samsung OEM list, may be that is for their special Phones ;) *bit.ly/9A3Tx3

Here's official Specs of Snapdragon *bit.ly/c9g99Z
 
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desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
isn't snapdragon based on ARM Cortex A8? It's architecture is licensed from ARM but is implemented in a better way. same is the case with Apple a4. Designed by Apple after getting license from ARM.
 

sriharsha_madineni

Cyborg Agent
Oops yeah confused , corrected the post :p Edited it now

Also found a better article now *bit.ly/co1PM7

*alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cellphonehardwarecompari1.png

SOURCE - alienbabeltech.com

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isn't snapdragon based on ARM Cortex A8? It's architecture is licensed from ARM but is implemented in a better way. same is the case with Apple a4. Designed by Apple after getting license from ARM.
Anna is this true?? Stumbled upon this
 
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desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
Oops yeah confused , corrected the post :p Edited it now

Also found a better article now *bit.ly/co1PM7

*alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cellphonehardwarecompari1.png

SOURCE - alienbabeltech.com

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Anna is this true?? Stumbled upon this

ah. so, only v7 instruction set is licensed from ARM. :) was looking at wikipedia that mentioned that snapdragon is based on Cortex A8 (another proof that we should not solely rely on wikipedia) :)
thanks for the info.
 

sriharsha_madineni

Cyborg Agent
Also saw a post in macrumors that Apple took over the firm "intrinsity", who collaborated with samsung in Hummingbird development
*bit.ly/ddXPR8

If iPhone had such marvelous games running smoothly on that hardware, I can't imagine the gaming potential of Galaxy S ;) which it seems is 10 times more powerful :))
When would we see good games for Android Platform.
 

sriharsha_madineni

Cyborg Agent
Ahh look at the display quality of Galaxy S, its gorgeous *bit.ly/blOOwF

Wish I could afford this beauty. But sadly its gonna be 30K+ as informed by some internal contact ;)
 
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