Official HTC EVO Review Thread

**TheBundo** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-28-2010, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by xSD

Snapdragon, believe it or not, isn't the primary reason it's booting up faster. Just sayin'

That's for sure. The Evo boots up in 1 minute, my TP2 can drag on for well over 5 minutes before Sense is running and it is fully responsive. Yet the processor on the Evo isn't even twice as fast. It's the Android, to be sure.

**Cicatrize** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-28-2010, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

That's for sure. The Evo boots up in 1 minute, my TP2 can drag on for well over 5 minutes before Sense is running and it is fully responsive. Yet the processor on the Evo isn't even twice as fast. It's the Android, to be sure.

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

**TheBundo** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-28-2010, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

Yeah, and also the fact that I has a load of start-up programs in the TP2, like Automatic Call Recording. I wouldn't mind slowing down my Evo's startup time some to get a working program that does that.

**bedoig** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-28-2010, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

Ya, the Scorpion/Cortex A8 core in the Snapdragon is much faster than the crappy old ARM11 core in the MSM7XXX's. Clock speed doesn't tell the whole story either (even though it is nearly double), with the new cores supporting newer ARM instruction sets.