HTC Passion

**Dave12308** · 11-14-2009, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by jlevy73

That is quite interesting. From the videos posted it really didn't look any faster than the Droid.

Well, the Snapdragon is based on the Cortex A8 like the OMAP is; so could it be that it's not actually running at 1000MHz, and is underclocked? Maybe they ran into battery issues at 1000MHz, that is quite a high clock frequency for a mobile phone battery. I know alot of spec sheets say Snapdragon 1000MHz, but it could be they are just going by the max speed of the processor. Shipping speeds in actual devices may vary, I know the one in the Acer Liquid A1 is supposed to run at 768MHz.

Also, the Snapdragon is quite capable 3D-wise, its GPU specs are:

High-performance 3D graphics – up to 22M triangles/sec and 133M 3D pixels/sec

The version for netbooks is even more powerful, running at up to 1.5GHz with the following 3D specs:

up to 80M triangles/sec and 500M+ 3D pixels/sec

**olta777** · 11-18-2009, 05:15 AM

Here is a quote by blackmannx on 11/15:

This device is a beast. If only it had a physical keyboard I would make it my daily device.. I can only say that the phone is in testing and doing quite well. Battery life isnt great but that mainly due to the fact that its pushing Sense UI which has alot of things going on.. Hopefully they will optimize it to get the best of both worlds.. otherwise under clocking may be the only solution.

WOW!!! I can't wait