"N810 is ARM11, Pandora is Cortex-A8. Dual-issue, so twice the IPC of the
N810. Java should run as well as it does on a 1Ghz or so Atom."

System speed is based on more than CPU power.  Android runs around 50%
faster on Corttex-A8 machines than it does on the N810, this was the basis
of my comparison.  Number-crunching apps should be *more* than twice as fast
on the Pandora, since besides the better CPU the bus speed is higher.

If Java and Flash both run well on Pandora, then that puts it well ahead of
other machines of the same size/price range; the N810 runs Flash well but
Java is painful, the Apple i* products are OK with Java but Flash hardly
exists.

David


> "...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur."
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, David Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>   4.3" screen?  WAY to small.  $330?  With the Nintendo DSi at $169, it's
> probably stillborn.
>
>
>
> The screen on my N810 (also 800x480) is surprisingly readable, thanks to
the
> resolution and brightness.  Based on the hardware, the openpandora box
> should be up to 50% faster than the N810, depending on software
> implementation and memory bus; this might not be fast enough.  Java in
> particular is very slow on my machine (though Flash is surprisingly well
> supported).
>
> David
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