will honeycomb overwhelm our single core?

[Crispelb]

I was a little worried when going from a duo core playbook, to the flyer...so far she's runnin pretty briskly, but will honeycomb be too much for our Flyers?

 

[npath]

I doubt that Honeycomb is fully optimized to take advantage of dual cores at this point. A 1.5 GHz single core processor is going to be plenty to run Honeycomb. As the Flyer ages, it will eventually be overclocked to run at 2 GHz, which will be plenty fast for the future. I bought and quickly sold the Motorola Xoom. Honeycomb is not quite ready for prime time. I found it to be slow and unstable. Personally, I am happy that HTC decided to stick with Gingerbread for now.

 

[Crispelb]

Thnks, that's comforting to know.... I'm new to android, but completly overwhelmed by the available software.

 

[bouncing]

Generally Android doesn't follow the model of making each version require more and more hardware. The only reason the original g1 can't run Gingerbread is that its storage isn't sufficient. But in terms of CPU, Android actually has improved with time.

 

[npath]

I agree with bouncing, RAM and storage space are more important than CPU clock speed at this point.

 

[shadohh]

The 1gb ram is nicer in our tablet compared to a dual core ipad 2 at 512mb.

Also...iOS might use dual core at the kernel level but their own applications like iMovie for the ipad2 is only using a single core.

Honeycomb should run better on our devices then 2.3. Why? Honeycomb take advantage of GPU hardware acceleration for the GUI. 2.3 is all software rendering and cpu dependent

In some applications such as web browsing we should see more performance. The CPU will be free to do more work as the gpu can handle more of the animations and menu/text drawing.

 

[bouncing]

The 1gb ram is nicer in our tablet compared to a dual core ipad 2 at 512mb.

Also...iOS might use dual core at the kernel level but their own applications like iMovie for the ipad2 is only using a single core.

Honeycomb should run better on our devices then 2.3. Why? Honeycomb take advantage of GPU hardware acceleration for the GUI. 2.3 is all software rendering and cpu dependent

In some applications such as web browsing we should see more performance. The CPU will be free to do more work as the gpu can handle more of the animations and menu/text drawing.

Gingerbread doesn't use the GPU for GUI elements?

 

[S Prime]

Questions

Gingerbread doesn't use the GPU for GUI elements?

Doesn’t HTC Sense 3.0 and features like the 360 degree carousel on the home screen utilize the Adreno 205 GPU on the Flyer? Also, has anyone heard if, HTC’s Honeycomb on the Flyer, will tap the GPU for the UI and improve browsing and scrolling?

 

[shadohh]

partial in GB, full in HC

Gingerbread doesn't use the GPU for GUI elements?

 

[shadohh]

no, thats all CPU

Doesn?t HTC Sense 3.0 and features like the 360 degree carousel on the home screen utilize the Adreno 205 GPU on the Flyer? Also, has anyone heard if, HTC?s Honeycomb on the Flyer, will tap the GPU for the UI and improve browsing and scrolling?

 

[S Prime]

partial in GB, full in HC

Will it be native in HC or will it depend on the flavor of HC that comes from HTC?

 

[shadohh]

It is natively supported in honeycomb.

It is not an HTC special.

 

[S Prime]

It is natively supported in honeycomb.

It is not an HTC special.

Isn't the GPU integration with the UI a major claim of the I-Pad and I-Phone ?

 

[bouncing]

Isn't the GPU integration with the UI a major claim of the I-Pad and I-Phone ?

I don't think apple advertises tech so much as experience, but yes, the iOS devices make heavy use of hardware acceleration for all their wizardry. And android does too increasingly.

 

[shadohh]

GPU hardware GUI acceleration is why iOS and Windows 7 mobile are buttery smooth.

This is also why android is so clunky and can stutter at times.

Isn't the GPU integration with the UI a major claim of the I-Pad and I-Phone ?

 

[tungchuan]

I was a little worried when going from a duo core playbook, to the flyer...so far she's runnin pretty briskly, but will honeycomb be too much for our Flyers?

i am still waiting for the honeycomb, this is the reason why i am buying flyer. What takes them so long???

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

I don't think it will, but the amount of bugs in Honeycomb will surely overwhelm you. (It already got me on a SGT 10.1 Tab which is why I has a Flyer)

 

[Wobblin30]

i am still waiting for the honeycomb, this is the reason why i am buying flyer. What takes them so long???

Having owned a Xoom, trust me we are better off waiting for HTC to get it right then pass on some half baked OS.

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

Truer words have never been spoken

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[crazie.eddie]

I agree with the past few comments. Don't get too excited with Honeycomb. I own the Motorola Xoom (Honeycomb) and the HTC EVO (Gingerbread). I can't run over half of my important apps on the Xoom, which is why I'm planning to buy the Flyer/EVO View and considering of selling the Xoom.