Samsung Galaxy S (aka Sprint Epic 4G) speed comparisons...

I told you before I like Samsung's Galaxy S, and soon the Sprint Epic 4G
version with the slideout real keyboard and WiMax will be available.

One of the articles I found on Daily Wireless has some speed comparisons
between some of the big guns and the Galaxy S line:

"Samsung’s ARM Cortex-A8 processor core is paired with a PowerVR SGX540
GPU, and claims to be super fast. Android and Me has a GPU comparison
chart for some of the leading smartphones:

* Motorola Droid: TI OMAP3430 with PowerVR SGX530 = 7-14 million
triangles/sec
* Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8×50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million
triangles/sec
* iPhone 3G S: 600 MHz Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX535 = 7 million
triangles/sec
* Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million
triangles/sec

It's another example of why this new Galaxy line plays the big movies so
smoothly while still being a phone. By comparison, a few game consoles
were also included:

"And for comparison a few consoles:

* PS3: 250 million triangles/sec
* Xbox 360: 500 million triangles/sec"

But, of course, PS3 and Xbox don't fit in your pocket and don't run off
a battery all day....

Samsung's new phone has the best AMOLED 4" display I've seen. One thing
that's different about Samsung's computers, like my NC10 netbook and the
new ones, Samsung's divisions work together to make the whole
thing....not just buy something from this guy, something from that guy,
integrate and kluge together the parts until they work, sorta. This
display was built for this phone and its very fast processor. There's a
lot to be said for one made by one of the largest electronics companies
on the planet.....Samsung.

Let's hope Sprint and the other Galaxy S carriers don't hobble it all up
into uselessness with their company crapware, damn them all.

Too bad Droid X wasn't tested for triangles in the test.....90M is gonna
be hard to beat on a battery powered shirt pocket portable....

--
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:02:42 +0000, in
<Xns9DC2131C949Fnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry <noone@home.com>
wrote:

>One of the articles I found on Daily Wireless has some speed comparisons
>between some of the big guns and the Galaxy S line:
>
>"Samsung’s ARM Cortex-A8 processor core is paired with a PowerVR SGX540
>GPU, and claims to be super fast. Android and Me has a GPU comparison
>chart for some of the leading smartphones:
>
> * Motorola Droid: TI OMAP3430 with PowerVR SGX530 = 7-14 million
>triangles/sec
> * Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8×50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million
>triangles/sec
> * iPhone 3G S: 600 MHz Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX535 = 7 million
>triangles/sec
> * Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million
>triangles/sec
>
>It's another example of why this new Galaxy line plays the big movies so
>smoothly while still being a phone.

My T-Mobile myTouch 3G (HTC Magic) plays movies (MPEG-4 AVC) smoothly
without all that horsepower. That's probably because triangles/sec is
about 3D graphics, not MPEG playback.

>Samsung's new phone has the best AMOLED 4" display I've seen. One thing
>that's different about Samsung's computers, like my NC10 netbook and the
>new ones, Samsung's divisions work together to make the whole
>thing....not just buy something from this guy, something from that guy,
>integrate and kluge together the parts until they work, sorta. This
>display was built for this phone and its very fast processor. There's a
>lot to be said for one made by one of the largest electronics companies
>on the planet.....Samsung.

The drawback to doing everything in house is you can't then pick the
best of breed from other companies. It almost always results in
compromises due to NIH.

>Too bad Droid X wasn't tested for triangles in the test.....90M is gonna
>be hard to beat on a battery powered shirt pocket portable....

I don't play games on my phone, so it's not something I care about.

--
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]

In article <rppt46tfcief0mrtqb0hru23fif1e7kb0d@4ax.com>, John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> The drawback to doing everything in house is you can't then pick the
> best of breed from other companies.

or you can optimize it for precisely the application at hand.

> It almost always results in
> compromises due to NIH.

sometimes yes, sometimes no.

> >Too bad Droid X wasn't tested for triangles in the test.....90M is gonna
> >be hard to beat on a battery powered shirt pocket portable....
>
> I don't play games on my phone, so it's not something I care about.

of course you don't.

John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in
news:rppt46tfcief0mrtqb0hru23fif1e7kb0d@4ax.com:

> The drawback to doing everything in house is you can't then pick the
> best of breed from other companies. It almost always results in
> compromises due to NIH.
>
>

Oh, come on, John! YOU, of all people, know better than that. The ****ing
phones are made of **** by the LOWEST BIDDER who meet the requirement.
They don't give a **** how it works as long as the users will buy
it....just like every other piece of consumer **** sold.

You been drinkin' Apple Koolaid??

--
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:32:14 +0000, in
<Xns9DC276209CB6noonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry <noone@home.com>
wrote:

>John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in
>news:rppt46tfcief0mrtqb0hru23fif1e7kb0d@4ax.com :
>
>> The drawback to doing everything in house is you can't then pick the
>> best of breed from other companies. It almost always results in
>> compromises due to NIH.
>
>Oh, come on, John! YOU, of all people, know better than that. The ****ing
>phones are made of **** by the LOWEST BIDDER who meet the requirement.
>They don't give a **** how it works as long as the users will buy
>it....just like every other piece of consumer **** sold.

Consumer devices have to be made to a price point, but the good
manufacturers (like Samsung and Motorola) work hard to get the best
quality and performance possible within that budget. If they didn't,
they'd get killed by the competition, just as they would on price --
that's how a highly competitive market like this one works.

The price issue is our own doing as consumers -- all too many of us buy
on price alone, and thus have only ourselves to blame when quality
suffers.

>You been drinkin' Apple Koolaid??

Android Kool-Aid.

--
John

"We have met the enemy and he is us" -Pogo

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:02:42 +0000, in
<Xns9DC2131C949Fnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry <noone@home.com>
wrote:

>I told you before I like Samsung's Galaxy S, and soon the Sprint Epic 4G
>version with the slideout real keyboard and WiMax will be available.
>
>[SNIP]
>
>Samsung's new phone has the best AMOLED 4" display I've seen. One thing
>that's different about Samsung's computers, like my NC10 netbook and the
>new ones, Samsung's divisions work together to make the whole
>thing....not just buy something from this guy, something from that guy,
>integrate and kluge together the parts until they work, sorta. This
>display was built for this phone and its very fast processor. There's a
>lot to be said for one made by one of the largest electronics companies
>on the planet.....Samsung.

I had a chance to play with one this afternoon in a T-Mobile store:
* Too big for my taste
* Thin and light, too thin for me to hold comfortably
* Nice screen, but not that much better than my myTouch 3G
* Lovely 3D graphics, but I'm not into eye candy
* I find the Samsung UI not as good as HTC Sense
* Actions seem less polished than myTouch 3G: ballistic movement
isn't as fluid, seems to stutter at times
Overall I'd say it's a very nice phone, but not everyone's cuppa.

--
John

"We have met the enemy and he is us" -Pogo