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  • ImSpartacus - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    Does the choice in SoC mean that we'll see ICS on the RAZR soon?

    I'm interested to see if the performance numbers might change when/if ICS hits the device.
  • Paulman - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    I didn't know that Android/Gingerbread 2.3.5 already has significant speed improvements over the older Gingerbread. This means that the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE (for example) which should be shipping with at least 2.3.5 can be expected to regain the browsing benchmark performance crown from the iPhone 4S!

    Potentially other Galaxy S II handset owners could update their phones for the speed improvement as well (they may have to use CyanogenMod or whatever for the time being).

    Yay. Take that, iOS 5 :P (not hatin' - it's still a good OS/platform)
  • mongo lloyd - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    I've had official 2.3.5 for almost two weeks on my international SGSII.
  • mongo lloyd - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    I get 3385 in sunspider 0.9.1, so no dramatic improvement.
  • JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - link

    It's also worth discussing that the performance of your SGSII was already bolstered by a backing store and other improvements for speed. We don't know what black magic Motorola has put into their browser but we can't wait to go digging.

    Jason
  • kebab77 - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link

    Older versions of Android use a single core, hence the speed difference.

    Anandtech appear to have failed to notice that iOS devices skip one of the benchmark tests in Browsermark and so it is completely pointless quoting the Browsermark results on Apple devices!

    http://www.bestsmartphone.com/2011/10/11/browserma...
  • *.jpg - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    I would like to see how the EVO 3D fared vs. these other phones/tablets in the benchmarks.
  • anandtech pirate - Monday, October 24, 2011 - link

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/4416/hands-on-and-be...
  • PWRuser - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    Bootloader is confirmed encrypted motofail
  • webmastir - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    encrypted & locked are two different things, fyi

    it's locked.
  • fearsjohn - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    just ran the benchmarks on my lg g2x rooted with cyanogen on it.
    in rightmark i got 89255
    and 2600 on the sunscript.
    cyanogen is using 2.3.7 right now and that is not overclocked at all on my phone.
  • SilthDraeth - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    So I ran Sunspider only on my original Galaxy S Epic 4g. It has SyndicateRom Frozen 1.2

    Default Android Browser scored 6100 something.
    Firefox scored 2546

    So huge difference.

    Running Aurora version 9.0a1 (I assume, because phone just prompted me to update to a2)

    So, huge disparity in browsers on even a last gen device.
  • JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - link

    Javascript performance, which the sunspider benchmark tests, is very engine specific. So on the same hardware with no other changes two different browsers will have vastly different speeds, you've felt this if you ever opened Gmail in IE 6, waited, said 'forget it,' downloaded Chrome and opened Gmail in it before the IE 6 window loaded. ROM builders know this and so they pour a lot of time into enhancing the browsing experience, if you've ever wondered why software companies try to poach ROM modders it's this, there ability to tenaciously and fervently eke out performance from their devices. So, these scores are caveated by the fact that the browsers performance isn't indicative solely of processor performance but rather processor and engine. What this really then serves to do for us is show the user what experience they will get when they buy this phone and open up the browser, and in that way the benchmarks are useful.

    Jason
  • tipoo - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    I'm interested to see how its SoC (OMAP 4, right?) compares to a Exynos and the Apple A5. I think it only uses a SGX540, which isn't bad by any stretch but its a bit dated and far behind the Mali 400 in performance.
  • JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - link

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/4413/ti-announces-om...

    This implementation of the SGX540 is most likely the same as in the Bionic and as such its GPU performance is third behind the A5 and Exynos. Granted it's a distant third but it's still enough for most users. In terms of raw processing power, don't expect vast differences.
  • Tanclearas - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    My HTC G2 clocked at 1.3GHz running Cyanogenmod 7.1 holds up way better than I anticipated.

    SunSpider - 2540
    BrowserMark - 79329

    Maybe I'll bump it up to 1.5GHz to check some benchmark results. I haven't had any issues with 1.3GHz, and everything runs well enough at that speed that I haven't even bothered trying anything higher.
  • F-Link - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    Get the link to watch the Google/Samsung event online this evening: http://bit.ly/ofpvBR
  • solipsism - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - link

    Is it 7.1mm on the thick edge where the camera is or 7.1mm along the back panel? If it's the former then how thick is it along the back panel, if the latter then how thick at the camera?
  • JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - link

    We don't know how thick the camera lump is yet. In the hand, though, it wasn't huge, it's certainly thinner than the lump on the X2.
  • Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - link

    How about this:

    http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=32387...

    My iPoop device has a hellacious time loading that page. It loads on my pc just like any other page. Takes about 2 seconds to fully load. But on one of these crappy mobile devices, it takes at least 15 seconds to load and damn near makes it overheat.
  • RabRabRab - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - link

    Well my OG Droid got a 4168 on the sunspider benchmark, so im pretty proud that the OG can still do just fine against most of the mid-tier phones out today. Long Live The OG.
  • ol1bit - Friday, October 28, 2011 - link

    Man, I am really digging this phone. The only thing that could stop me is if the Droid 4 or the Galaxy Note had close release dates. I know, strange combos, but so be it.

    Droid 1 owner still.

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