HTC promises Qualcomm drivers!!

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The Director of HTC promises drivers for the Qualcomm phones!!
http://www.htcclassaction.org/respon...ate_20080214_2

And for the dutch readers here, on tweakers .net, a dutch ICT website (in dutch ofcourse) 8-P says:
http://life.tweakers.net/nieuws/5190...oestellen.html

Guess we'll just have to wait and see, but this is good news.

The display drivers really are incredibly sucky on the Qualcomm devices.

I am starting to believe in miracles...

Do you think that they'll unlock gps and wifi??

Originally Posted by Billokko

Do you think that they'll unlock gps and wifi??

Why should they.. they didn't promise GPS nor WIFI, only a state of the art peformance monster. Guessing that IF they would provide us with WIFI (and maybe GPS), that would be with WM6.1

They nly gonna optimise drivers for the processor and the gpu(ati) wich result in better performance in video's and scrolling and such.

Since they did'nt announce gps and wifi with the release of the dual, the wouldn make a driver for it.

gr. bram

So We have accelerated GPUs in our Niki's? without drivers though?

Kurt

Originally Posted by rumble291

So We have accelerated GPUs in our Niki's? without drivers though?

Kurt

Most of the HTC product line with the Qualcomm MSM7200 have accelerated video processing. However it isn't used. In any of them. It was first noticed (I think) on the Kaiser.

Try an action game that uses the touch screen, and you'll see the problem. I put Tomb Raider on mine, and start her moving, alls fine. Try to touch the screen to turn the character, and the frame refresh rate drops through the floor.

They've used software graphics "acceleration", ie. the drivers do NOT make use of the hardware available on the phone.

Originally Posted by rumble291

So We have accelerated GPUs in our Niki's? without drivers though?

Kurt

Yup, the qualcomm msm 7200 is a all in one chip that features:

- 400mhz processor
- Gps
- Wifi
-Gpu(ati)

in our duals the only driver we have is for the processor, so we arent using the gps wifi and gpu.
HTC announced that the dual hasnt support for wifi and gps so we must live with that becouse we knew we hadn't.
BUT htc dit also announce in their press release of the dual that is would use the full capability's of the msm 7200(except for the gps and wifi).
Since the framerates drop when watching video's, playing games or scrolling in internet explorer, they dont use the gpu inside the chip but a sofware acceleration wich is generated by the cpu.
so instead of using the gpu they extra ballast the cpu for graphic acceleration.

Stupid htc.

gr. bram

Originally Posted by Quentin Gran Torino

The Director of HTC promises drivers for the Qualcomm phones!!
http://www.htcclassaction.org/respon...ate_20080214_2

And for the dutch readers here, on tweakers .net, a dutch ICT website (in dutch ofcourse) 8-P says:
http://life.tweakers.net/nieuws/5190...oestellen.html

Seeing is believing....