What’s the first thing you do when your phone updates itself to a new version of the OS? You BENCHMARK THAT ARSE, which is exactly what a user over at Androidpit (via XDA Forums) has done to his newly updated HTC Legend.
The interesting thing here is the way the Android 2.2 enhanced Legend manages to sneak in ahead of the Android 2.1 powered Samsung Galaxy S. Now, we know the art of mobile phone performance benchmarking is a strange world filled with arguments and counter-arguments, but still…
… it’s great to see that even low-spec phones like the HTC Legend can be given a new lease of life thanks to Android 2.2.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
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?
MarkG
/ November 15, 2010The Legend being “low spec” is a myth, purely based on the clockspeed on the box. The reality is (and people should know this from the desktop world) clockspeed is not really relevant these days..
Also it’s not just the Legends CPU, it’s dedicate GPU also beats the pants of a HTC Desire…
http://www.glbenchmark.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=glpro11&showhide=true&certified_only=1&D1=HTC%20Legend&D2=HTC%20Desire%20(Bravo)
Anonymous
/ November 15, 2010In turn the ZTE Blade with Froyo (Orange San Fransisco) beats the 2.2′d Legend. Ah, victory is sweet :D
Simon
/ November 15, 2010Not quite. The ZTE Blade gets about 903 running the leaked debug build of 2.2 and it’ll get higher scores once a release rom is available. Not surprising really as both phones have the same CPU/GPU.
MarkG
/ November 15, 2010No it doesn’t
http://www.glbenchmark.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=glpro11&showhide=true&certified_only=1&D1=HTC%20Legend&D2=HTC%20Desire%20(Bravo)&D3=ZTE%20Blade
Simon
/ November 15, 2010No it doesn’t what?
Both the HTC Legend and the ZTE Blade are powered by a 600MHz MSM7227 CPU which has an in-built GPU core.
I’ll just leave this Quadrant report here which I ran on my Blade running 2.2. http://twitpic.com/374glv
Gary C
/ November 15, 2010Crikey, there’s an official 2.2 for the Blaze Francisco on the way?
Simon
/ November 15, 2010The phone is being released in China with Froyo. We already have the engineering build of this ROM working with some small issues but once the phone is available in China we’ll obtain a dump of the system and package it up for EU customers.
In a short period of time the Blade has 4 custom 2.1 ROMs and 3 custom 2.2 ROMs (based on the leaked engineering rom). A port of CyanogenMod 6 is currently in development too.
And back on topic, a friend of mine has just updated her Legend to 2.2 on Vodafone and is very happy that the issue with SMS ordering has been fixed at last.
Anonymous
/ November 15, 2010since the Desire and N1 are the same speed (without froyo i assume) we can assume that a froyo Desire is the fastest android phone (with the N1) ?
Nice. <3 my HTC Desire.
Nizzy
/ November 15, 2010since the Desire and N1 are the same speed (without froyo i assume) we can assume that a froyo Desire is the fastest android phone (with the N1) ?
Nice. <3 my HTC Desire.
Sgs Roxors
/ November 16, 2010This article its funny because it had to mention ‘ standard’ because the galaxy s on 2.1 with lagfix installed scores over 2200
sukalp
/ November 19, 2010@Roxors
Yeah my Galaxy S with the lagfix scored 2300 in the quadrant benchmark even without overclocking.