On May 25, 2007, at 9:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 25 May 2007 13:37, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
The software seems a lot worse than the hardware at the moment.
Every
reaction to user input is slow. The GUI is quite pretty but the
speed is
worrysome. What CPU is going to be in the upcoming faster version?
I would not be surprised to hear the emphasis is on the hardware, as
sofware
can be field-upgraded and customized, the hardware cannot. Perhaps
not the
best example, but a similar thing happened/is happening to the
GP2X linux
mobile gaming console, the hardware differences among production
runs were
not that much different, software OTOH improved quite a bit
compared to
the
not really impressive first releases. As I said, not really
surprising in
There is a small core team at the moment that's working on the 'vital'
phone applications.
The problems with speed are not inherent - simply that very little
work
has gone in to optimising the existing software, most work is going
into
adding essential features, and moving on to new broken bits as soon
as it
works, even though it may not be as fast as would be liked.
Let me also add that the reason the hardware is getting better faster
now is because the coreteam is working on the hardware. At the
expense, of the software ;-)
Once we get this hardware shipping we can finally all concentrate
more time again on software.
-Sean
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