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  • dcyli - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Nice, I never thought that the viewing angle would play so much in slates.
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    What's up, my friend. But yeah, viewing angle is huge. That shot of the Gal Tab vs Viewsonic is taken from my vantage point on my desk. The Viewsonic is pretty awful as far using away from you goes. If you go more than 15deg off center in either direction, you get shafted and everything washes out.
  • BuddyRich - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    This is something Apple doesn't get enough credit for, that being their very nice IPS screen. Hopefully another company implements one in their tablet offering, though most seem to be going with the AMOLED.

    For the full review I hope you add a few more existing games into the benchmarks to further test the tile-based optimizations vs. Nvidia's architecture and of course doing the browser and usage tests with stock UI vs. Viewsonic's custom one (though I think you mentioned you would be doing just that).
  • B3an - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    They're right in going with AMOLED. It has even better viewing angles than IPS, better contrast, and blacks that are as black as you can possibly get as the pixels are just turned off for black.
  • melgross - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    I don't see companies going for AMOLED screens for tablets for some time, because of the price. At least another year. Of course, if you consider something as small as the Streak to be a tablet, then we may see some sooner.

    But I'm not so impressed with any of the AMOLEDs so far because of their low brightness, and inability to work outdoors on a bright day. My friend's Samsung is tidally washed out no matter how bright he makes the screen. A couple more generations and that may be solved.
  • therealnickdanger - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    You'll never run into a person that intentionally holds his device in direct sunlight. Every human being I have encountered even since the first laptops were built, regardless of screen technology, always seeks refuge from direct sunlight via different angles, shade, indoors, or cupping a hand over the display.

    I think your expectations are strange. We'll likely never see a display technology that looks the same in broad daylight as it does in a controlled environment. Sure, some displays are brighter than others in daylight, but I have yet to see one that wasn't viewable to the point where usability was threatened. I have both OLED and LCD phones and I've had no issues reading text or viewing pictures in direct sunlight. Sure, I notice a difference between the two, and certainly between indoor and outdoor, but I don't enjoy viewing LCDs in direct sunlight any more than OLEDs.

    If they can improve it, great, but hopefully not at the expence of what make OLEDs so attractive in the first place.
  • kmmatney - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    There are times when its hard to avoid the sun - like trying to use your GPS in the car, on a bright day. Here in Denver, we have a lot of bright days, and this is often in important issue.
  • Zan Lynx - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    Transflective LCD is pretty great in direct sunlight.

    I still have a Sharp Zaurus that is excellent for reading ebooks outside. I can turn screen brightness to the minimum and read for several hours.
  • melgross - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    Every single human you've met? What about the non humans then? Strange way to put it. I've seen several AMOLED phones, and none of them were worth a damn in the sunlight. Every review of those phones says the same thing. I'm scrptocal when someone says that their's works well enough for that reason.

    Yes, no one deliberately holds their phone in direct sunlight. But sometimes itmcan't be helped, and cup g your hand over it rarely helps much. But, these are tablets we're talking about. No matter how big your hand is, it won't help on these screens. Even the small 7" tablets are too big for that, and the 10" models are much too big.

    I'm certainly not saying that they should be the same in the sunlight as indoors. For you to assume I did is odd.

    I do expect that at some point, when efficiency allows much higher brightness levels in AMOLED displays, we will see them working much better outdoors. But now, they are much dimmer than the best LCDs. Again, you can check the reviews and comparison tests. And it's brightness that determines how well a display will work outdoors.
  • taltamir - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    in addition to be better contrast, better viewing angles, better blacks etc... it also takes 1/3 the electricity and is a lot lighter and thinner.
  • melgross - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    Right now, AOLED displays don't use any less power than do LCD displays. That's a myth. It's also why most devices that use them tend to go for darker backgrounds. In the future, we'll have more efficient AMOLED displays, but not yet.

    AMOLED displays are also subject to more problems due to heat. Sometimes they turn off outdoors when it's too hot.
  • synaesthetic - Monday, December 20, 2010 - link

    AMOLED displays actually use significantly MORE power when displaying predominately white images, such as webpages.

    My Samsung Vibrant gets pretty great battery life when doing almost anything except browsing the web. Combining the high power usage of the 3G modem and the Super AMOLED displaying a lot of white, I watch my battery indicator tick down by 1% every 2-3 minutes!

    And this is with brightness one notch above the minimum setting.
  • neutralizer - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    The NookColor has an IPS screen as well.
  • zorxd - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    you know that some other smartphones, such as the Moto Droid, have an IPS display too?
  • Lonyo - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    After buying a TN LCD monitor with landscape and portrait modes, and trying to use it in portrait modes, it became very apparent to me how terrible some LCD panels can be.

    I can't believe anyone would use a screen with terrible viewing angles on a device which could potentially be used in either orientation regularly. For me, the terrible viewing angles on my monitor don't matter much because 99% of the time I use it in portrait mode, but on a tablet it's unacceptable.
  • nikon133 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Makes perfect sense to me. On laptop/netbook, no matter if you hold it on desk, or on your lap, you can always change screen's angle independent to the surface computer is sitting on. But with tablet, screen is always in the same plane as the surface. In addition, keyboard and screen are always in the same plane for tablets - another reason why viewing angle on tablet will always have to compromise more than on laptop.
  • Chloiber - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Should't Sony's SLCD be an option?
    It looks really awful. I think viewing angles are much more important on tablets than smart phones. Smartphones are right in front of your head anyway most of the time, but with tablets it's a whole different story

    Tegra2 performance looks nice, especially compared to Hummingbird.
  • strikeback03 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Personally, poor TN screens even on featurephones drive me nuts. The one redeeming feature of my HTC Diamond is the screen quality, even though it is small.
  • per.lundberg - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    "The Nexus One is roughly 50% faster than the EVO 4G with the same processor, which is probably due to the Sense UI overlay on the EVO instead of the completely stock UI on the Nexus One."

    Can this claim be verified? If it's true then thats a BIG difference due only to the UI.
  • tipoo - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    That is pretty surprising. I think there is a way to go back to the vanilla Android interface, is there not? Doing so and running that test again would verify or dismiss that claim easily.
  • xipo - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    after looking the way the Google Nexus One performes with an old Snapdragon QSD8250, one can only wish there where a Google Nexus TAB :D that would be a mayor win... because clearly the hardware is worthless without proper software optimization.. so, you should update this charts as soon as the google nexus S comes out.
  • Ben90 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    If the Linpack algorithms are the same. An overclocked i7 system is over 1000 times faster than these tablets. Obviously you would expect an i7 system to be faster, but it just puts it into perspective.
  • metafor - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Linpack implementations on desktops also use Intel's optimized SSE library. A similar NEON implementation should show significant improvements.

    Also, the memory subsystem on desktops is ridiculously fast compared to a smartphone.
  • name99 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    There is a NEON-optimized LINPACK as part of iOS 4.

    It would have been nice if someone had bothered to investigate this issue to get some numbers for it. If only there were some way to search the internet on this subject ... Oh wait...

    There is a Linpack app on the iTunes store that is a very thin wrapper around the Apple code. Running it on my iPad, I get 38.67 LINPACK Mflops/s.
  • name99 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Actually I read the Linpack report incorrectly. The mean result (averaged over 50 runs) was around 41.8 Mflops/s. The number I reported was simply the result of the very last run.

    There was quite a bit of scatter in the results, with the fastest coming in at just under 50 Mflops/s. I'm not sure quite what is happening here --- the most obvious assumption is OS scheduling and interrupts, and that whatever timer is being used to calculate the results is tracking wall time, not process time.
  • metafor - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    The comment was regarding scores on Android phones. Also, those are quite low if they truly take use of NEON. But the A8's FPU isn't known for speed.
  • name99 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    Jesus dude, the article is titled First Look at Viewsonic TABLET.

    And regardless of how bad Apple's NEON LINPACK may be (it apparently matches Google's implementation in that they get comparable results on comparable hardware) the fact is the implementation exists, which is more than can be said for some phones.

    Are you so desperate to hate Apple that you need to clutch at straws like this? There are plenty of real things to criticize in the iOS world without being just stupid.
  • metafor - Monday, December 13, 2010 - link

    I believe you're the only one who's mentioned Apple.

    My comment was about Linpack on Android and how (since it runs on a VM), it doesn't utilize NEON. As you so pointed out, a native implementation on the same processor (Hummingbird) produces better results.

    Still, the end results are quite low compared to what could be expected from the hardware, suggesting further software optimization is necessary before a comparison to the desktop.
  • Genx87 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    It will be interesting to see how much power this consumes. I suspect the i7 system may consume 1000 times more power as well ;)
  • synaesthetic - Monday, December 20, 2010 - link

    Much more than 1000 times, actually. :)
  • warisz00r - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    It daunts me that a well-known manufacturer of quality desktop LCDs cannot put the same quality on their tablets'.
  • caballist - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Viewsonic aren't producing these, apparently they are a rebadge of the Malata zPad.
  • SandmanWN - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    That must be it. I have a Viewsonic TN panel on my desktop and its definitely one of the best TN panels you can get. The viewing angles are great and the lighting is spread very evenly. But this pad being reviewed is obviously not cared for to the same degree.
  • xype - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    It does seem plenty fast in the benchmarks—but if the UI is indeed slow/sluggish, doesn't that invalidate it when you actually hold it in your hands? If hardware accelerated UI is only coming in Android 3.0, the manufacturers are making a mistake trying to rush to market only to leave a bad first impression, in my opinion at least.

    Also, if it's indeed a consumer gadget, "loading the stock Android UI onto the X Tablet" shouldn't really factor into the verdict (of the review that's to follow), or?
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    That's a function of the skin that Viewsonic put on top of Android, not Tegra 2's actual real world performance. Seriously, the skin makes a huge difference, my G2 feels blazing compared to basically any and every other Android phone, I'd bet until the Nexus S starts shipping I won't see a smoother Android device.
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Also, as far as hackability factoring into the review, I figure that most Anandtech readers would be interested in it. It's not that difficult to do, and if it can take an almost unbearable device in stock form and make it acceptable to use, that's definitely worth taking into consideration.
  • xype - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Oh, don't get me wrong, I was talking about the verdict in the "average consumer" sense. I know that most people around here are interesting in a complete review—ROM flashing, overclocking, water cooling etc is what makes geeky stuff fun.

    It's just a question of whether the Tablet—without the flashing—is really in a state that actually makes sense in the market. The Tegra 2 is super fast, no doubt about that. I'm just constantly wondering if none of the manufacturers realizes that they're making a bad impression where it counts, namely with Joe Sixpack.

    Apple is selling the iPad as a "magical device". If their "competition" is making products where you have to spend time doing arcane (to most people) stuff to get it working decently, won't that just play into Apple's hands?
  • jtsmall - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    I agree with your UI comments. TnT is gastly, so much so that though I understood and have been waiting on the Tegra2 to appear I almost returned my copy after the first week - even considering the amazing price of $380.

    Once I had work the stock TnT time dust and grasped the xda-developers experiences I rooted and installed T T Lite 2.2. What I experienced can hardly be expressed. The G tab nearly jumped out of my hands. The speed up is awesome. Everything runs superfast.

    Launcher2.0 and the stock Android UI completely erase the initial negative impression. Viewing angle is just fine in my hands but of course YMMV.

    I say two thumbs way up.

    PS. DIY may note the connections and space exist for an additional 512 MB RAM, an LTE radio
  • jtsmall - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    (cont) probably a 3G radio and GPS space unpopulated.

    It is the same weight and thickness as the iPad, tho the iPad looks thinner to my uncalibrated eye. I like the widescreen ratio for reading in portrait orientation. But I do wish it was 1024 x 768 or more resolution - but it's not a deal breaker for my use.

    One should note the connections: USB, miniUSB, headphone, microphone and microSDHD plus an expansion port that is said to supple 1080p and other connections via a dock to be released. And amazingly the stereo speakers actually work.

    the G tab may look like a frog at first take, but make the needed changes and you have a prince. But perhaps most importantly, it is here and now at a fair price.
  • IntelUser2000 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Could you guys say what the browser was used on the comparisons? They make a HUGE differences, just like Android builds do. At least add firefox comparisons or something. Back up claims with facts please!
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    The stock Android 2.2 browser?
  • IntelUser2000 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    "44 Whr lithium ion battery"

    I think you got this wrong. The best way to calculate WHr is by looking at the battery directly. From other sites I hear its 3.65AHr with 7.4V, which equals 27WHr.
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Yeah.....I really don't know how that happened. My bad, fixed.
  • DigitalFreak - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    I've had one for a couple of weeks and agree with Vivek's assessment. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about the screen, though some folks swear turning it upside down gives better viewing angles.

    If you are comfortable flashing ROMs, there are a couple of really good ones on XDADevelopers that change everything back to the stock Android 2.2 interface. You can also add the full Market, Flash, etc. Once Viewsonic releases the source, I expect even better ROMs.
  • VivekGowri - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Yeah, based on our latest sources, the next generation tablets are going to reach my door on a tidal wave.
  • Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    $400 is not a budget tablet. It is a disgrace. These guys are going for margins higher than Apple.
  • vol7ron - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Maybe you touched on this, but where is the iPad figures?

    I know you're using the iPhone 4 for it's new hardware, which is good, but let's compare apples to apples. You can't touch on the better quality screen and not show the performance numbers of the tablet devices. Phones are vastly smaller than tablets, thus there should be less work on the GPU and less dependency on RAM, which could impact the performance. Keep that figure in there, but also show the iPad.

    Also, IMO the only two tests that really mean anything is the JavaScript, which the A9 seems to excel at and the MFLOPs, which the A9 doesn't even top the list. Perhaps the Lincraft is one of the tests that don't take advantage of CPUs capable of handling multiple threads? If that's the case, it's understandable, but otherwise we this thing should be getting more MFLOPs.

    I'm looking forward to the battery life figures.
  • sirsoffrito - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    "let's compare apples to apples."

    Oh...

    I get it.

    You made a funny.
  • metafor - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    I'm surprised Tegra 2 did as well as it did in Linpack at all, what with the lack of an FPU and all.
  • michael2k - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    The iPhone's resolution is 960x640, and it has an 800MHz A4 and 512MB of RAM, so it isn't actually all that far off from an iPad in the first place, other than screen size, brightness, and battery, none of which were tested here.
  • melgross - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    I agree. Since this is a TABLET, and not a phone, it would have been nicer if it were compared to the iPad, rather than to the iPhone, which also has the chip running at 800MHz, rather than the 1GHz the iPad runs at.

    And, also, yes, battery life tests are very important. The three things that seem most important is screen quality, snappiness or sluggishness, and battery life. My iPad, with its Cortex 8 never seems sluggish. The screen is excellent. And the battery life is also excellent. How do these tablets compare in all three areas?
  • jtsmall - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    I'm seeing 10+ hours in use and nil drain in sleep.
  • DukeN - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    This would be appreciated - though I'm fairly confident the (max)ipad will trail in similar benches across platforms.
  • melgross - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    That lame name hasn't been funny since before the iPad actually came out. Is that the best you can do?
  • Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    It has always been funny, but not as funny as a bunch of dumb yuppies wiping their hoohas with $600 pads and then throwing them away 6 months later for the latest in slave wage gadgetry.
  • melgross - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    I guess you're a redneck with no money, but a lot of jealousy then.
  • enderwiggin21 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    The literal definition of "flood" says:

    1a. a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land; also : a condition of overflowing

    2. the flowing in of the tide

    3. an overwhelming quantity or volume; also : a state of abundant flow or volume —often used in the phrase in full flood
  • semo - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Those mobile device makers need to get a clue stat! Hopefully tablets highlight the problem and possibly lead to better notebook screens too
  • xipo - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    after looking the way the Google Nexus One performes with an old Snapdragon QSD8250, one can only wish there where a Google Nexus TAB :D that would be a mayor win... because clearly the hardware is worthless without proper software optimization.. so, you should update this charts as soon as the google nexus S comes out.
  • Fritzr - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link

    Literal means "as written" lierally "in strict accord with accepted definition"

    Flood means a large volume of X. When X is omitted, water is assumed. "A flood" is a deluge of water. "A flood of X" is a deluge of X. In context, flood and flooding can refer to other things by default. for example forum flooding does not refer to a suddent inumdation of the forum by water, if not explicitly declared, it defaults to large amounts of information or posts appearing suddenly. Deluge, rain and inundate are used in a similar manner.

    Unabridged dictionaries recognize this form of usage and document it. Abridged dictionaries by definition are incomplete with their editors making conscious choices as to words and definition that will not be included.

    Since the definition states a large amount of X suddenly appearing especially in a place where there was no X, flood was being use literally.
  • VivekGowri - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    Guys, this is AnandTech, not the Merriam-Webster forums. Seriously. Though, I do appreciate the fact that unabridged dictionaries support my metaphorical usage of the word flood.

    I still like the "tablets being shipped to my door via tidal wave" idea though, that sounds like fun.
  • therealnickdanger - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - link

    Will you be surfing on said tidal wave? LOL
  • digitalzombie - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    I love your critiques, it's very honest. I'm waiting for a handon review on the Ink Notion to see if the build quality is up to snuff before I buy it that and waiting for tegra 2 perhaps. I also love the tadbit on the IPS screen of Apple. I've seen a lot of people complaining about how much the iPad cost but I never see a good hardware remark that can some how justify the expensive price...until now.

    Anyway, thanks for the review! Anandtech is the only gadget blog I trust entirely ^_______^.
  • MentorSage - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    The Norton Ink looks like the tablet to get. It's definitely the most innovative and uses a Pixel Qi Transflective liquid crystal display & Nvidia Tegra 2.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgRBC47SAo
  • GnillGnoll - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    Vivek,

    Is it possible to get some more details on how the benchmark results were measured? E.g. which OS version was each device running, which benchmark version/build was being used, any benchmark specific settings?

    Was "Quake III Arena" actually kwaak3 or some other Android port? And which timedemo and quality settings did you use?
  • nanosec99 - Friday, December 10, 2010 - link

    I purchased the G-Tablet about a week ago for $379 from Sears. I really didn't know what to expect, because I've never had the opportunity to use a tablet before.

    I currently own a Nexus One. I am very happy with it, and with the Android OS.

    When I saw that the G-Tablet came with 2.2 version of Droid, I just had to have it. The author is correct. The UI that Viewsonic stuck on it is fairly easy to use. I do like it, but it does make the tablet seem less responsive. I will more than likely flash my G-Tablet to run the native droid 2.2 without the Viewsonic UI. Most of the forum posts I have read state users enjoying the tablet even more after flashing the OS.

    As far as the viewing angle is concerned; it really didn't bother me that it has a limited viewing angle because I don't use the tablet laying flat on a table. I normally just hold it in my hands.

    I installed Flash last night. (It is a little slow, but works ok) I play Zynga poker for an hour or so. I've installed the Kindle application and have been reading one of my books. It makes a decent e-reader plus you can still surf the web and play games.

    I have no regrets with my purchase and look forward to tinkering with it in the future.
    I know iPad owners will say that the iPad is better. (I do like Apple products) I just hate that Apple locks down their OS. My thinking… If you pay $500-800 for a product, you should be able to do anything you want with it. Just my 2 cents!
  • melgross - Saturday, December 11, 2010 - link

    You can always jailbreak it if you really want to. That's not much different from what some people here are doing to this to get it to work better.
  • MonkeyX - Sunday, December 12, 2010 - link

    The viewing angle "issue" is a plus to me when you think about privacy.
  • batmanuel - Sunday, December 12, 2010 - link

    In its stock form, it's basically unusable. The UI is incredibly laggy, and with no Market you can't download the apps you really need to make it shine. It really takes an Android hacker to make this device work. For regular consumers, it is a big bag of fail that is going to be a lump of coal in the stocking of anyone who receives this as a gift. The Galaxy Tab and iPad are an order of magnitude better than this device out of the box.

    The only bright side is that these are almost certain to be clearanced out for cheap sometime in January, so those of us who want to hack this into usability will probably be able to for $200 or less in a couple of months.
  • TareX - Sunday, December 12, 2010 - link

    Thanks for including the Quake III results. I too, have read the Hummingbird's GPU "easily" destroys the Geforce ULP Nvidia chose for Tegra 2, I think the source of this rumor is this guy: http://smartphonebenchmarks.com/forum/index.php?/t...

    Comparing the Tegra 2 to Orion, he says:

    "Tegra 2's CPU core will be competitive but its GPU appears to be weaker than even PowerVR SGX540. Heck, even Qualcomm's Adreno 205 may outperform this GPU. On the plus side, Tegra 2 is already available on the market NOW, and smartphones based on Tegra 2 will appear during Q4 of 2010. (Read this article for more details on Tegra 2). Samsung, LG and Motorola have announced their intention of producing phones based on Tegra 2 so far."

    How depressing. I'm glad it wasn't true.

    However, I'm quite disappointed that you hadn't managed to mention the battery-friendliness of Tegra 2... That was the main reason why I would get a Tegra 2 phone instead of an Orion one. Orion seems to have a crazy fast GPU, that isn't battery friendly.

    If Tegra 2 can accelerate 1080p HD flash embedded in the browser without a hiccup (as shown in numerous youtube videos), I don't really think I'll ever need Samsung's crazy fast GPU (which they said was 5x faster than Hummingbird's GPU).
  • djgandy - Monday, December 13, 2010 - link

    You'll probably find that Quake 3 is CPU limited rather than GPU limited. It's not exactly a GPU intensive benchmark.

    Something more up to date with shaders would have been a better pick to stress the GPU.

    The tablet has a clearly superior CPU and probably has more memory bandwidth amongst other things you can put in the larger form factor.

    Intel have shown actual Quake 3 running at far higher than both these scores on GMA600

    http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/05/intel-...
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3696/intel-unveils-m...
  • GnillGnoll - Monday, December 13, 2010 - link

    I don't think Quake 3 is CPU limited, since it's running faster on a Galaxy S which uses the same Chip as the Tab. (As a side note, the chip is called S5PC110, *not* Hummingbird. Hummingbird is the name of the CPU core optimised by Intrinsity which is also used in Apple's A4).

    However, AnandTech really need to explain how they got their results. Running demo four on kwaak3 with default settings I get 46 fps on a new Galaxy Tab.

    Also, Quake 3 is hardly a shining example of modern OpenGL ES code, so I doubt it is indicative of "real-world gaming performance" on an Android tablet any more than Neocore is.
  • djgandy - Monday, December 13, 2010 - link

    Well it is more likely memory bandwidth than CPU, however I suspect that the A9 is more efficient with less memory bandwidth too.

    Still I can't understand how the Galaxy Tab performed so poorly on quake, the results don't fit with other performance results for the chip.
  • joncat - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - link

    Does the adreno in the snapdragon even use tile based rendering? As far as I knew, tile based rendering is an exclusive to powervr chips, as in the hummingbird, not a qualcomm technology.
  • therealnickdanger - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - link

    Literally silly.
  • ganeshpr - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - link

    How do I get to the second page of this article? I get the same page always.
  • djsully - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Wondering if you think that Viewsonic / Flextronics might add a SIM slot and a second microSD slot to the next version of the Tegra2 powered G Tablet.
    The Qualcomm powered ViewPad7 "little brother" has a SIM slot, and the iPad has a 3G version available, so this seems like a competitive mis-step by Viewsonic. As it's Android based, its a "no brainer" to include a SIM slot.
    T-mobile would like to see it I'm sure ;-)
  • Breslavets - Friday, February 4, 2011 - link

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    If I try to lay it flat on my desk and use it like my iPad or the Galaxy Tab, it’s basically impossible to see anything on the screen.
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    Galaxy Tab hasn't IPS screen.

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