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Originally Posted by shaggylive
the processor is only one piece of the phone. there are many other areas that performance can be gained, including software/drivers
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I agree that drivers and software can be optimized - However, as this community knows, the graphics performance on most HTC phones since at least the Mogul/VX6800 has been atrocious, easily surpassed by previous devices. This pitiful performance has been traced to the fact that devices which use Qualcomm MSM series processors are doing all video rendering in software, with no hardware acceleration whatsoever. From my understanding, Qualcomm charges the manufacturer (HTC) extra to either include the graphics accelerator hardware or the needed drivers, and for whatever reason, HTC is unwilling to pay these fees.
I know that the community had some limited success porting a 3D driver for our phones from another manufacturer (Samsung?), but this does not address the terrible 2D performance (watching scrollbars fill in, waiting 5+ seconds for the screen to rotate after sliding the keyboard in or out, extremely slow program responses such as severe GPS lag while in a moving vehicle, etc..)
I know that custom ROMs can improve this situation somewhat, but they cannot eliminate it, and usually any speedups that they are able to effect come at the cost of either less battery life or less functionality. A phone with proper 2D and 3D graphics drivers would not have to make these tradeoffs, and graphics performance would not be an issue.
Can someone post some kind of evidence from the released versions of the TP2 showing how they have managed to speed the phone up? If it's just software optimization (and not drivers), then the speedup will be all but worthless, as most people will move to load a lot of software on their phones. They are after all being promoted as a mobile office, if not a netbook/laptop replacement. As soon as the default software configuration is changed by more than a minor amount, I bet those optimizations will go out the airlock.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited about the TP2, and in fact I have a $150 upgrade credit waiting to spend on it - But I don't want to get it and find that it still has the horrible performance of my TP1. (Which, even running the latest Energy ROM, is crappy, considering how powerful the phone is hardware-wise. Using my TP1 is like watching a V-8 being forced to run on 2 cylinders.)