HTC Shooter Emerges = EVO 3D? Gingerbread-based Dual-Core

[reb422]

What's funny to me is how people are now jumping OFF of the Thunderbolt bandwagon and on to the Shooter... why is this funny? Because people have been making the argument FOR the Thunderbolt over the Bionic saying "dual cores drain batteries quicker" or "Android isn't even optimized for dual cores yet so it's useless technology". Which is it people... are dual cores better or not?

 

[Officerpolabear]

Now I don't know if I should get the Evo 3D or Sprint's version of the galaxy s2 . Rooting isn' t a problem for me (and rooting on samsung phones is like nothing). Samsung's definitely has the superior gpu and I'm guessing cpu differences are minimal. But it's the screen that is making this decision hard. High res or vibrant colors!?

 

[menschmaschine5]

People:

This phone won't be out for a few months yet. It hasn't even been officially announced yet. Verizon will probably have a comparable phone or two by then. The Thunderbolt doesn't suck, it's just an earlier release.

 

[justinsaneeeee]

Rumors are Rumors lets not get ahead of our selfs. IF Sprint anounces something like this I be ontop of it but Verizon has LOTS of 4G phones that have been anounced so we do need to look out for that.

 

[justinsaneeeee]

"Android isn't even optimized for dual cores yet so it's useless technology". Which is it people... are dual cores better or not?

Point taken, but it will be optimized of course, they wont just put techology into something and not utilize it.

 

[hereyesmydreams]

benchmark for shooter might be handy for some(site is in dutch) vs LG 2x en Moto Atrix

HTC Shooter krijgt dualcore-processor

 

[eze036]

cant wait.... sprint starting to compete...i so deff getting this

 

[MannyZ28]

I am just hoping that all those early benchmarks are just that....early benchmarks and that the final product will be as competitive as it's specs promise it to be.

 

[TenshiNo]

What's funny to me is how people are now jumping OFF of the Thunderbolt bandwagon and on to the Shooter... why is this funny? Because people have been making the argument FOR the Thunderbolt over the Bionic saying "dual cores drain batteries quicker" or "Android isn't even optimized for dual cores yet so it's useless technology". Which is it people... are dual cores better or not?

Yes dual-core is better. Some people have been running around proclaiming the end of all battery life, but it's not the case. The guys manufacturing these things aren't stupid.

I have a Tegra 2 device and it gets great battery life. The ARM-based CPUs are used in mobile devices because of their low power drain, which is largely a result of how efficiently they "scale". That is, when you ask the processor do a lot of work, it will "scale" up to 1Ghz, do the work, and then drop back down to say 225Mhz. Ask the processor to do a moderate level of work and it'll scale up to 580Mhz, and then back down. You get the idea.

CPU's use significantly more juice at higher clock speeds (which is why these scale in the first place), so the premise behind dual-core is this: if it takes a single CPU 30 seconds at 1Ghz to do a task, then a dual-core could do the same task in 18 seconds at 500Mhz. The dual-core uses less juice for a shorter period of time.

And as far as Android not supporting SMP (Symetric Multi-Processing), it's true. For the moment. The reason we haven't seen Gingerbread pushed out to any devices yet (or even any talk about it) is because all the manufacturers are waiting for 2.4 (still Gingerbread).

Google's working on getting SMP support in Gingerbread, I *think* because they're not ready to start dumping Honeycomb on cell phones yet and we've got dual-core cell phones hitting the shelves now. It's safe to assume that most manufacturers are going to skip 2.3 and jump straight to 2.4 when the code comes out.

All that said, my HTC Evo with a single 1Ghz CPU gets a quadrant score of about 1220, running CM7 (Gingerbread 2.3.3). My G-Tablet, on the other hand, with the Tegra 2 CPU gets a quadrant score of about 2360. And that's running VEGAn (Froyo 2.2.1).

I can't wait to see how much this thing screams when I can get 2.4 on it with full SMP support.

 

[menschmaschine5]

I wouldn't trust any benchmarks at this point. This rumored device is just that: a rumored device. Any phones they have now are likely only prototypes.

Anyone remember the early spec list for the Thunderbolt that was leaked? Promising ridiculous stats (something like a 1.5 ghz dual core processor, 1 gig of RAM, 8 mp rear and 5 mp front camera, Gingerbread, etc)...

 

[imex99]

Sprint's CTIA announcement details leaked -- Expect Evo 3D, Evo View 4G, and Xoom
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprin...ils-leaked-expect-evo-3d-evo-view-4g-and-xoom

The HTC Evo 3D is the real show-stopper though, and has some awesome specs. The Evo 3D supposedly has the following hardware:

* 4.3-inch 3D qHD capacitive 960 x 540 px display
* 1730 mAh battery
* 4GB internal memory with 8 GB SD card, expandable to 32 GB
* 1 GB RAM
* 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon CPU
* Android 2.3
* Dual 5 MP rear cameras (3D)
* 1.3 MP Front camera
* records 2D @ 1080p, 3D @ 720p
* Dimensions = 5.0 x 2.6 x .48 inches
* DNLA support and HDMI port

BGR reports that special 3D versions of the Blockbuster and YouTube apps will be on board as well.


IS IT 4G?

 

[PSYCHOTRON_CB]

Sweetness cant wait.

 

[RUSH]

••> Is it possible for these batteries to get any worse than they are?? <••

Personally, I don't care if the EVO 3D is dual core or not - just give me something new in the line of the EVO family - this phone is super awesome. (BTW) •> In no time... we'll hear the competitors announcement of a similar version to the (allegedly) EVO 3Droflol.

 

[MannyZ28]

Nice freaking specs....wow, can't wait!

 

[Bye bye Blackberry]

I can't wait. Hopefully it's out in June just in time for my upgrade.

 

[4 Star General]

The competition is now just catching up with the evo, and now sprint has mashed the gas pedal again. Kudos Sprint. One last thing, date please.

 

[michael.molloy1985]

sounds like a good hit for my first android phone.

 

[MikeBinOK]

I'm hoping it has the ability to stream Netflix that new Snapdragon processors are allegedly going to have! What was bragged on in the presss releases about a month ago.

T he Blockbuster and 3d Youtube apps are just a waste of perfectly good silicon, since I'm sure we won't be able to uninstall without rooting.

 

[drewsg]

I can't remember where I saw the benchmarks, but the Snapdragon that was benchmarked in the HTC shooter performed rather poorly compared the TI's OMAP and Nvidia Tegra 2.

 

[PSYCHOTRON_CB]

sounds like a good hit for my first android phone.

Same here dude!