There should be a shortage of Qualcomm's MSM7x27 line of chipsets in 2010... They should have stopped using them in smartphone-class devices by now. It's like 3 year old technology at this point, which is like eons in tech years. Smartphones need hardware that can keep up with the software, dammit! ^_^
@Levi The MSM7x27 series is a huge leap from the 528MHz MSM7200 series. The processors themselves are clocked slightly higher, have architectural enhancements such as an FPU, and have a much more powerful GPU (the same GPU as in the QSD8x50 Snapdragon).
@metafor It's like me to make these mistakes because I don't take the time to make sure I'm not confusing things :/ So this line of processors isn't the same line that's in most HTC Android phones? Excluding the N1 and Droid? I've used a buddy's MyTouch and another buddy's Hero (Sprint), and they are just not snappy enough for me. From readin previous charts and articles, I was under the imression that all Android phones up until the Droid was released had the same processor, the crappy Quallcomm 5xxMHz.
If I'm wrong, please correct me. I hate being wrong, especially when I post something based on the wrongness -_-
@masta vaan Oh definitely true dude. The proof is in the Snapdragon. It's not a million light years ahead of what came before it despite the fact that they generally have higher than 2009's average clock speed in smart phones. Thing is, the difference between those Android sets and sets like the 3GS and Pre is huge, so I really have grown to hate those Quallcomms, whichever series they are.
@metafor Not true, actually. The 7x27 is not running a Scorpion core, I think you're thinking of the 7x30. 7x27 is still ARMv6, albeit with a lot of improvements over the ARMv6 of previous Qualcomm CPUs.
The whole line-up consists of the $60 Amps in-ears and $100 Tracks on-ear headphones, which both also come in slightly souped-up and pricier HD variations at $100 and $130, respectively.
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There should be a shortage of Qualcomm's MSM7x27 line of chipsets in 2010... They should have stopped using them in smartphone-class devices by now. It's like 3 year old technology at this point, which is like eons in tech years. Smartphones need hardware that can keep up with the software, dammit! ^_^
@Levi The MSM7x27 series is a huge leap from the 528MHz MSM7200 series. The processors themselves are clocked slightly higher, have architectural enhancements such as an FPU, and have a much more powerful GPU (the same GPU as in the QSD8x50 Snapdragon).
@coolbho3000
Same CPU core as Snapdragon 8650 as well, just underclocked.
Almost all devices within the last year with enough computing power to run Flash are ARMv7 devices -- short of Atom. It has been since Cortex A8.
@metafor
It's like me to make these mistakes because I don't take the time to make sure I'm not confusing things :/ So this line of processors isn't the same line that's in most HTC Android phones? Excluding the N1 and Droid? I've used a buddy's MyTouch and another buddy's Hero (Sprint), and they are just not snappy enough for me. From readin previous charts and articles, I was under the imression that all Android phones up until the Droid was released had the same processor, the crappy Quallcomm 5xxMHz.
If I'm wrong, please correct me. I hate being wrong, especially when I post something based on the wrongness -_-
@Levi
im not sure about all this processor stuff either, but i know for sure that clock speed isnt everything
@masta vaan
Oh definitely true dude. The proof is in the Snapdragon. It's not a million light years ahead of what came before it despite the fact that they generally have higher than 2009's average clock speed in smart phones. Thing is, the difference between those Android sets and sets like the 3GS and Pre is huge, so I really have grown to hate those Quallcomms, whichever series they are.
@metafor Not true, actually. The 7x27 is not running a Scorpion core, I think you're thinking of the 7x30. 7x27 is still ARMv6, albeit with a lot of improvements over the ARMv6 of previous Qualcomm CPUs.
Yes. The older Msm chips all used Arm11 core. With the 7x27 series coming out, that'll be replaced by the Scorpion CPU inside Snapdragon