Any actual hands-on reviews?

[knighthawk321]

I saw the Maple Syrup review, too. I have learned over the years playing with computers (and these are basically hand held computers - heck, 10 years ago, these would be desktops) not to put too much faith in benchmarking programs. Quite often they can be subtly written to favor a particular type of hardware (Intel over AMD or vice versa). Not only that, we're dealing with a hyperdriven version of Moore's law here. The hardware and software are growing by leaps and bounds. By next upgrade, we may be holding 5 or less year old desktops in our hands. For the price point, the Vivid looks just fine. Is it the fastest thing on the planet? Maybe not, but it's damn good and I will likely be quite content with it for the one contract cycle I'm likely to have it. By then, it will probably seem as slow and antiquated as this BlackBerry 9700 does now. The bleeding edge doesn't stay put for very long. Next cycle, we'll probably have quad core, 1080p AMOLEDs, 32GB internal storage, 4GB DDR3 RAM and microSDXC 64 or more. Android rev K may very well be fully cross-platform from phones all the way to desktops. Who knows? Let's enjoy each cycle as we get to them. Remember, these may be the last high end phones we get for $200 on contract at release.

 

[blopez24]

I saw the Maple Syrup review, too. I have learned over the years playing with computers (and these are basically hand held computers - heck, 10 years ago, these would be desktops) not to put too much faith in benchmarking programs. Quite often they can be subtly written to favor a particular type of hardware (Intel over AMD or vice versa). Not only that, we're dealing with a hyperdriven version of Moore's law here. The hardware and software are growing by leaps and bounds. By next upgrade, we may be holding 5 or less year old desktops in our hands. For the price point, the Vivid looks just fine. Is it the fastest thing on the planet? Maybe not, but it's damn good and I will likely be quite content with it for the one contract cycle I'm likely to have it. By then, it will probably seem as slow and antiquated as this BlackBerry 9700 does now. The bleeding edge doesn't stay put for very long. Next cycle, we'll probably have quad core, 1080p AMOLEDs, 32GB internal storage, 4GB DDR3 RAM and microSDXC 64 or more. Android rev K may very well be fully cross-platform from phones all the way to desktops. Who knows? Let's enjoy each cycle as we get to them. Remember, these may be the last high end phones we get for $200 on contract at release.

Touch? my friend.

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[knighthawk321]

Phil posted on the front site about benchmarks, too. Good read. On another front, the hands-on reviews are starting to roll in faster now, and they're generally looking Very good. Looking forward to getting mine.