HTC Glacier leaks out in GLBenchmark database, boasts really high scores
By Sean Hollister 
posted August 3rd 2010 10:08PM
posted August 3rd 2010 10:08PM
posted August 3rd 2010 10:08PM
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@ok old news again You're holding it wrong.
@ok old news again
ok dude... i live in cupertino ca, and im an all apple guy, but you seriously take it too far, google is still my neighbor, and i care for my neighbors.......
@ok old news again you get your free bumper yet?
@ok old news again you, are, a, DOPE!! Just say nope to the dope!
@ok old news again
Didnt you say that was OS X? You need to make up your mind man.
I understand being enthusiastic about WP7. But wait till its released before marking your allegiance in stone. You may regret it.
@zevobh But this post gives no information about anything? Post makes no sense, but I'm sure the phone will be leaked soon, honestly the android news is getting a bit out of hand, more than it used to be with apple
NOTHIN BEATS THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S POWER VR 540 :)
@Hell Angel yah, and there's only 2 oses so android is technically the ugliest, but only one is ahead
@That guy 2
It's running android and it's the same old snapdragon processor we've come to know and expect..... NEXT!
@spartandre217
The article stated that it was running the new dual core Snap Dragon CPU, how it that the same old one?????
@ok old news again
Only a bunch of me too iToos want stock anyway. Who needs personal preference when you brain is too numb from staring at an empty signal bar to make a choice.
@zevobh Yeah.. looking like I got an upgrade for the N1. I would dig this if it rocks a 4" super amoled screen, plain vanila android.
@ok old news again
How do u know the glacier isn't going to be a wp7?
I bet it will be a bit slippy(as bear grylls would say)
@pjs
I call BS on it being dual core because android simply doesn't support it at this point in time.
Unless you specifically design applications and an OS to use multiple cores then it's a waste of time, energy, money and CPU cycles.
Furthermore, if it was dual core, why is it still running slower than hummingbird?? Anyone?
@ok old news again
How's not having a smartphone working for ya scro?
@spartandre217
How can you know that Android will not support dual core?
I heard that Android 3.0 will release at the end of the year. It seems that you have some details on Android 3.0 so could you give us some information.
@spartandre217 Exactly. I'm thinking HTC should be trying to work with samsung and get some hummingbird processors instead of dealing with Qualcom, because if this is indeed a Dual Core processor, it's pretty lack luster, and so is it's "new" GPU.
@Hell Angel Why do you think he is an Apple fanboy? The world is not binary.
@Rockchan
Read what I said again please FFS. I said AT THIS POINT IN TIME!
If the device is already running android-- which it does
Is already in a benchmarkable state--- which it is
Then how is it going to be running 3.0 at release??
Any takers on this question?
@zevobh A graphics benchmark test deals with the GPU, not the CPU.
Discussion about a dual-core snapdragon is therefore irrelevant in this context.
@darkazure
I can bet money it ain't dual core.... If Qualcomm only began sampling the dual core processors to customers earlier this year then there is no way it's gonna be going mainstream less than 6 months later. Not a snowball's chance in hell. If anything this'll be a smaller 45nm process running at slightly higher clock before it's dual core.
And the GPU is pretty lacklustre I agree.
@Herr Synnberg
Go to the link for me please and look at what that "statistic is specifically testing and tell me if that says anything about GPU, go on.... please.
@zevobh
damn when i read the title, i was hoping it would be a WP7 phone, since HTC really hasn't said anything about their launch devices to be honest. But knowing that its openGL based, points more to android. If i remember correctly, WP7 as a platform isn't doing openGL but is instead sticking with DirectX
@spartandre217
Exactly, I agree with you, if it was dual core, it would have killed everything.
@Plazmic Flame
I know my processor and benchmark stuff :-)
@ok old news again
I boycotted twitter, try again d0uche
I do use the talktome widget to translate my voice w/ the touch of a button from my home screen though.
I really like being able to longpress my search button and do google searches(no question goes unanswered)
Oh and with that same longpress I can navigate to places to hang out with humans.... you probably wouldn't know much about that though
@ok old news again
Oh and weren't you the one calling others narrow minded for assuming what you use?
The twitter comment was baseless and immature.
Twitter! You're lucky I can't crawl through this computer and kick your a$$. Twitter!
@ok old news again
Ok, what about this post I am typing right now, from the Motorola Droid, A STOCK android phone, and you're crazy to think Android is uglier than WinMo, I know you're a WinMo fanboy, i guess you haven't heard of HTC Sense for the HD2 I guess? 6.5.3 is the ugliest OS I've ever seen.
Get out of here, nobody likes trolls.
@ok old news again I can't wait for gingerbread to come out!
@spartandre217 GLbenchmark is way more dependent on GPU performance because you can look at the current crop of processors and see that performance in almost entirely determined by the GPU core your phone has. Which is why Snapdragon powered handsets fair so badly against phones running the latest PowerVR based GPUs.
@ok old news again
Yeah the black background with grey squares. Beautiful stuff
Maybe you can change the color of the squares!
@GuniGuGu Considering HTC is switching to SLCD because of Samsung's shortages.. I doubt it will have an S-AMOLED screen.
@spartandre217 GLBench is a GPU benchmark, not a CPU benchmark. The thing has dual CPU's not dual GPU's.
@ok old news again
Sorry but WP7's UI is horrible, I'd take Android's customizable UI over WP7's fugly UI any day of the week.
@ok old news again: seriously? I'm looking forward to Windows Phone 7 as well, but current gen Android phones (2.x+ running Snapdragon) are far from jerky, or unusable.
If you want to mock something trying to pretend to be a smartphone, try the Blackberry Torch.
@Plazmic Flame
TEGRA 2 is DUAL CORE.
AND IM WILLING TO BET IT WILL KILL ANY DUAL CORE SNAPDRAGON OUT THERE.
BELEE DAT!!!
TEGRA 2 ONLY ON WP7. YAY HALO MOBILE. YAY MICROSOFT. YAY ME.
FCUK iPHONE. ANDROID IS COOL THOUGH
@ok old news again
"ugly UI!!"
hmmmmm... so let me get this straight... Apple still is stuck with pop-up notifications, lack of widgets, JUST NOW doing backgrounds, and blocks of icons... yet Android is the ugly duckling?
"point is: noone except virgin nerds like you care about widgets"
Hmmmmmm...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/canalys-android-takes-q2-smartphone-market-share-lead-in-us-wit/
mm hmmmmmm... go oooon
@ok old news again comments of a failing troll
@ok old news again Please, PLEASE STOP! You're making us Microsofties look like IDIOTS! Yes, I love Microsoft and, yes, I hate the iPhone. I'm not a big fan of Android, either. But I'm not sitting here making the same stupid, lame-ass comments about Android's UI. Ok, you don't like it. BIG F**KING DEAL! GET OVER YOURSELF! You are, by definition, a TROLL! You've posted the SAME COMMENTS over multiple accounts! GO BACK TO THE BRIDGE FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, TROLL!
@techdaemon
I thought open GL tested the ability of a chipset to render things using the open_gl API's as far as I saw the scores for different areas of testing such as CPU re-skinning would be dependent on CPU speed and all that.
Those scores are definitely CPU dependent unless you say otherwise?
@rmbrown09
I'm sorry, but you are a complete dumbass to think that WP7 can easily comeback, and be better than Android and/or iPhone. It's going to take a while for that happens. Until then, shut your gotdamn mouth you raging fanboy.
@Gillz123
oops sorry mrbrown09 i was replying to "ok old news again",
@Gillz123
oook sorry about the name, 'rmbrown09'
@aschettler
Can you read the signs??
Look over there. It says "Do Not Feed The Trolls"
If you all ignore him (s)he'll go away.
@spartandre217 The CPU is far from the bottleneck in GLBenchmark. OpenGL does not render in the CPU but GLBenchmark does have an option to offload skinning to the CPU.
However, since it is a *rendering* benchmark, the bulk of the processing is in the GPU pipeline. For reference, look at the Apple iPad vs the Samsung Galaxy S.
Both have the exact same 1 GHz Hummingbird CPU, but the Samsung has a significantly faster PowerVR 540 GPU.
@zevobh
yeah and the Galaxy S beats it down with a single core lol, Go Vibrant!!!
@ok old news again
and the Samsung Galaxy S beats it down with a single core, awesome!
@ok old news again You have a lot of faith in a company that brought us such hits as the Kin... Please Engadget ban this douche.
@ok old news again
Who uses the media player anyway nowadays?.... Pandora & Spotify rulez...