Posted by: Dignan
Mobile gaming - 04/02/2011 23:04
Originally Posted By: JeffS
One of our TA's has this and he loves it. He spends most of our meetings playing "Fruit Ninja".
I really wish I could understand the appeal of that game. I find it extraordinarily dull. It's essentially a single game mechanic.
Not that Angry Birds is the deepest gaming experience I've ever had, but at least there's some variety.
Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: Dignan
the speed benefits of Froyo, which are actually quite substantial.
A friend of mine has a Droid: the original. It was updated to Froyo ages ago, but he commented that he didn't see much of a performance benefit.
Turns out that not all Froyo builds got the JIT that we got with our Nexus Ones. I don't know why. Maybe CPU architecture? Anyway, the Droid didn't get it. There's, unfortunately, no reason to expect that other Froyo builds did. I mean, I'm sure some did, maybe even most, but definitely not all.
Wow, that's troubling. That might actually be the first thing I've heard that genuinely sells me the problem of fragmentation. I didn't consider it an issue before, but if this is true, that's a huge problem. The JIT was an astonishing improvement, IMO, and it worries me that not all phones with Froyo are getting it!
Man, sorry, Tom. I really do want to hear about and discuss your Windows Phone 7 experience. Perhaps if you share some early thoughts?