T-Mobile’s put up a brief little holding page for the phone its calling the T-Mobile G2, confirming that the phone we’ll almost certainly end up calling the HTC Desire Z comes with an entirely new range of processor – which it’s calling Scorpion (this, we assume)**.
Initial reports of there being an 800Mhz processor inside the G2 are leading some to accuse the new HTC-made Android phone of being “slow” – but the chip is actually an entirely new thing with a new GPU. So should in fact be “faster”. Here’s T-Mobile’s description:
Brace yourself for blazing-fast downloads, browsing, and search. Stop waiting around for Web pages to load and open up the throttle on the 800 MHz Scorpion processor
And hopefully it’s more efficient. Here’s T-Mobile’s weird scorpion-based image:
Nice use of free clip art there by a major international corporation. Always good to see.
**Apologies for the complexity of that paragraph. Hopefully you all sort of got the general meaning.
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A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
MrChaz
/ September 2, 2010If I remember rightly..
Scorpion is the codename for the CPU in the Snapdragon chipset. So that is a slower CPU than the N1 for example in clock speed.
It looks like that it does have differences if it is an MSM7230 based thing – it’ll be 45nm rather than 65nm so there should be power and heat savings (so more battery life). Also 802.11n support.
It’ll also be sporting a better GPU I think (Adreno 205 rather than 200) which apparently has 4x the performance and even hardware accelerated flash but that’s all from the internet…
k0zmic
/ September 2, 2010Yep Adreno 205. I want to see some benchmarks to see how it compares to the Galaxy S, then if it’s a similar speed I’d be happy to purchase it.
Nedjo
/ September 2, 2010MSM7x30 is much faster SoC compared to the first implementation “Scorpion” microahitecture – QSD8x50 aka “Snapdragon”!
MSM7x30 has WAY faster GPU – Adreno 205, and additional onchip L2 memory!
25% lower frequency is really no issue, especially when you know that most of the time Snapdragon works at 768 MHz, and only in high load situations like benchmarks on 1 GHz!
Here are the specs of two chips:
http://developer.qualcomm.com/dev/gpu/processors
Thanks to L2 cache, 800MHz MSM will be faster compared to updated Snapdragon – QSD8x50A at 1.3 GHz!!
k0zmic
/ September 2, 2010Interesting, I wonder when in 2011 the 220 will come out? If it’s around the first or second quarter I would wait to see if it’s coupled with Gingerbread. I reckon the 220 will come in around a year’s time or maybe 9 months at the earliest.