Nexus One coming to Verizon this Spring!!!

[ardoreal]

It does do faster 3D according to benchmarks though.

k

I checked out Neocore with reference to this post at Engadget

Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot -- Engadget

I downloaded the benchmark and ran it on my Droid, it scored a paltry 21.3 fps. I noticed, however, that I had browser with 3 windows open, Pandora still open, bloo, and several other apps with only about 20mb of memory free when I loaded advanced task killer.

When I killed my tasks down and free'd up my memory, I ran Neocore again and scored 31.5 fps.

Droid GPU pwnz Nexus One's.

 

[littlegreenmen]

k

I checked out Neocore with reference to this post at Engadget

Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot -- Engadget

I downloaded the benchmark and ran it on my Droid, it scored a paltry 21.3 fps. I noticed, however, that I had browser with 3 windows open, Pandora still open, bloo, and several other apps with only about 20mb of memory free when I loaded advanced task killer.

When I killed my tasks down and free'd up my memory, I ran Neocore again and scored 31.5 fps.

Droid GPU pwnz Nexus One's.

Do you klnow what else was open in the nexus being tested?

 

[cqq1jmg]

k

I checked out Neocore with reference to this post at Engadget

Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot -- Engadget

I downloaded the benchmark and ran it on my Droid, it scored a paltry 21.3 fps. I noticed, however, that I had browser with 3 windows open, Pandora still open, bloo, and several other apps with only about 20mb of memory free when I loaded advanced task killer.

When I killed my tasks down and free'd up my memory, I ran Neocore again and scored 31.5 fps.

Droid GPU pwnz Nexus One's.

Wow, nice job! That rocks!

 

[ardoreal]

Do you klnow what else was open in the nexus being tested?

No idea at all.

We'll have to hope that end users getting their hands on this and testing it comprehensively will give us the results.

By all indications though, Snapdragon was expected to yield this huge performance boost being at 1GHz whereas Droid's TI OMAP 3430 was at 530-ish. The Qualcomm 8250 is similar to a Cortex A8 class CPU in architecture, it's using ARMv7, and it has some interesting design choices that make it great for video playback.

However, on an instructions per clock, it looks like the omap is par for Snapdragon. I'd attribute this to the shared memory controller, the ISP, and the bus. They both use the same types of instruction sets.

The advantage in CPU here is strictly clockspeed.

The difference comes in when you look at the SGX PowerVR core. This is where 3430 is slaughtering Snapdragon. The Snapdragon needs to do a lot more work on the CPU because of its limited GPU. All that geometry performance comes from the CPU doing its transforms. Whereas on the 3430 the powervr core does all its geometry.

I dunno, depends on what you're going to use a phone for

Gaming on Android is not a serious proposition at all right now. It looks like the Droid is in a good position for it, but for the stuff Nexus One was shown off for, it is still better, but only by a little.

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

Not going to be flocking to the N1 to be honest. Sure it's sleek looking, but I love my Droid. Something "better" will be out in another 6 months, so I'm not hurt by this at all. Good move by Verizon though.

 

[buckifvr]

I just saw the clip on Adobe Flash on Nexus 1. Flash capability will be a HUGE draw for the Nexus 1, Nice to know that Big Red is going to get another great phone. I'll probably ditch my Storm for this in the Spring.

 

[largeselection]

We will have to see. I will be available for an upgrade soon, since I ate the full cost of the droid when I got it. However, I might save that for the next big thing. It doesn't seem like the N1 is so much a leap forward over the droid. The other big thing that I see is that I haven't read comprehensive reviews about battery life and I've read that the snapdragon does burn battery faster. I don't have a problem with battery life on my droid, and with 2.1 on my droid I feel like I have most of the pros of the n1 and that's with an unofficial 2.1 leak installed, the official release will prob be ridiculous.

 

[ardoreal]

I have to agree with the sentiment about the battery life. If there's one thing I can say about my Droid is that the battery life is stellar. Snapdragon hasn't really been out there for us to quantify in that regard.

By the HTC Touch HD2's battery life it was sorta "meh". Droid was remarkable for its battery.

So is it a tradeoff? It seems like the Nexus One will do ok so long as you don't do anything intensive. Tantamount to a fighter jet, once you kick on the afterburner your fuel just gets used up at an exponential rate faster.

 

[ChocoBilly]

Verizon is confirmed to be getting the Nexus 1 in Spring 2010. Talk about a kick in the balls to everyone who bought the Droid. How is everyone feeling now?

It only hurts when I laugh... HA! HA! *ouch!

 

[Solid_Droid]

People crack me up, or some Droid users do.
No one wants to hear about the box phone with it's inverted chin. I am stylish, admittedly a little superficial but otherwise a pretty cool person. Right now I'm glad as hell I returned my Eris as soon as I got it and will gladly give big red 2 more years of my life for this one but won't.

Sign me up Something bigger and badder will be out soon after anyway.

 

[weswilkes]

If Droid users want the Nexus One that bad then just buy it without a contract. You will easily be able to sell your Droid for atleast 400 on ebay then just shell out the other 180 or whatever. It would be the same as the upgrading price but no new contract just stick with the one you have. But can anyone else see why Verizon made there ETF fee 350 now lol!!

 

[solstra]

The nexus one gives more options which is good. If you like a hard keyboard then go driod, and if you like the nexus one form factor then go with it. Thats one of the things that I love about andriod handsets, there are choices!

 

[Hoagie5252]

So do we think the price will be 179 on big red. I think it would be strange if the newer android phone was cheaper than the droid but i guess Google is controlling the price and not Verizon.

 

[sd_bber]

If Droid users want the Nexus One that bad then just buy it without a contract. You will easily be able to sell your Droid for atleast 400 on ebay then just shell out the other 180 or whatever. It would be the same as the upgrading price but no new contract just stick with the one you have. But can anyone else see why Verizon made there ETF fee 350 now lol!!

yeah thats exatly what i did with my mytouch. bought it off contract price, sold it around retail price, used the profit i made to pay off the rest of the nexus. i actually made $20.