The Official Nexus S Thread

GNS is £430 on CPW now - totally getting one when I'm back in the UK (£550 was way too much). Dual core etc. is nice, but getting the latest Google updates ASAP is more important imo. Battery life seems really good from reviews as well, which I'm guessing the first generation of dual core phones won't be (can you current GNS users add to this?).

Cheers,

Su
 
Wicksta said:
This is a fallacy, dual core phones will be better on the battery.
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More transistors on the same 45nm process?

The problem is that phones are primarily at 0% load. Therefore the sleep state usage is more important than being able to finish a task more quickly. Also you don't really run "tasks" on a phone do you? You watch video, play games, use gps etc. There is no "task" to be finished more quickly like you do on computers.
 
I updated and then installed flash and its green with sound also. probably this is an iplayer problem because everything else that uses flash plays OK.
 
ghost101 said:
More transistors on the same 45nm process?

The problem is that phones are primarily at 0% load. Therefore the sleep state usage is more important than being able to finish a task more quickly. Also you don't really run "tasks" on a phone do you? You watch video, play games, use gps etc. There is no "task" to be finished more quickly like you do on computers.
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Huh? I run loads of tasks on my phone, from syncing Facebook, mail etc. to uploading all my photos automatically as soon as they are taken. I even use a thing called 'Tasker' which runs certain tasks depending on my location/time of day. I also play a lot of games/emulators and with a better dual core CPU and GPU than my Desire has I'll be saving a lot of battery there.
 
A temporary fix to try from the XDA forum:

Go to google.com and in the URL bar, type; about:debug then hit go.
Not much happens but press menu button/more scroll to bottom, hit settings and scroll to bottom, you should have some extra settings, tick the box at Normal Rendering and click on UAString ,choose Desktop. Exit and that's it. BBC Iplayer will now play without a green screen. Enjoy..
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This has been hit and miss for me.
 
Wicksta said:
Huh? I run loads of tasks on my phone, from syncing Facebook, mail etc. to uploading all my photos automatically as soon as they are taken. I even use a thing called 'Tasker' which runs certain tasks depending on my location/time of day. I also play a lot of games/emulators and with a better dual core CPU and GPU than my Desire has I'll be saving a lot of battery there.
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Using a data connection isn't really a task for the cpu. On a PC when you are downloading, a dual core processor isn't more efficient.

Games and emulators will most probably max out your cpu anyway (giving higher performance). Secondly even if it didn't and the cpu was smart and scaled the speed down appropriately what makes 2 cores at 50% speed anymore power efficient than a single core at 100%. Finally I doubt any apps are multithreaded.

Like I said, the 0% load state is far more important imo. A dual core processor based on essentially the same tech cannot possible have a lower idle rate of consumption.

You haven't thought this through. You don't use a mobile and leave it to transcode video etc. Those type of environments are the only places where a dual core processor is more power efficient i.e. where a task has to run till completion rather than you dictating how long it runs.

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To make things simple, just think about when a q9650 is more power efficient than an e8400. Then which of those things do you actually do on a mobile?
 
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LOL there is a Gingerbread Easter egg. Go settings/about phone and tap Android version rapidly a few times and this appears:

zombieart.jpg
:D
 
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