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Originally Posted by EtherealRemnant
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The Android app is pretty cool just because it shows that there is actual TRUE hardware acceleration running on the device. You can touch the globe and spin it faster, in a new direction, etc.
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This is obviously still a really early pre-alpha release but I'm impressed with how far its come in such a short time and I'm really excited to see the full power unleashed on our devices and others in the near future!
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The spinning globe screen IS pretty cool, however this is not hardware acceleration at all.
The titan is capable of something as simple as a texture-mapped spinning sphere in Windows Mobile as well.
In fact, if you've ever tried to run Quake on your Titan, you'll find that you can have smooth graphics with far more polygons on the screens before it starts to slow down, and simple 3D games like Wolf3d and Duke Nukem actually play as smoothly as they did on PC.
check out this video from the Tilt playing these games:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jBQco1NoE7Y&feature=related
Remember, the tilt has the same CPU speed and hardware acceleration problems as the titan due to the Qualcomm chipset.
That spinning globe proves NOTHING, sadly. In fact, if you touch the screen while spinning it, you'll notice that the display slows down to almost a crawl (a problem with our device drivers that was demonstrated at HTC Class Action's website by playing Quake with touchscreen controls). You have to remember that Android/Linux here needs Windows Mobile to run, which means that it is relying on certain underlying components like the SD driver, Sound driver, input and display drivers, etc... So since there aren't HW accelerated drivers for WM, Android won't "magically" have them.
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Originally Posted by taxilion
all we really need, though, is someone with some linux kernel development experience and a mogul handheld to spend some time on it, and I can see this as becoming a full blown fully usable replacement OS.
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Yes, but we need to also break free of our reliance on the already-considered-problematic WM drivers for our chipset. If someone were to create drivers for our hardware that did away with all the slowdowns and hangups that plague the current HTC handsets, we'd have a solid winner as an alternative.
(On a side note, I played with a Treo 800w for a day to do a review on the device, and I have to say I forgot how smooth WM can be with properly configured HW and SW)
Then again, if we had proper hardware acceleration available, we could apply the same thing to WM and the whole thing would really be a moot point...