Google's Nexus S, A Look At Gingerbread

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Google's Nexus S, A Look At Gingerbread

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 1, 2011 @07:29AM from the center-of-the-candy-house dept.

MojoKid writes "Google's Nexus S smartphone has a lot of interesting features, but the one that attracts the most attention is the fact that it ships with the latest version of the Android smartphone operating system, version 2.3. Otherwise known as Gingerbread, this OS is said to be the fastest version of Android yet. In addition to Gingerbread, the Nexus S touts a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, and 16GB of internal memory. Its network performance numbers turned out to be relatively impressive as well."

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Really? by Drathus · 2011-03-01 07:35 · Score: 5, Informative

The phone has been out for almost three months now.
Way to be current.
1. Re:Really? by Drathus · 2011-03-01 07:38 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Oh, and I've had Gingerbread (2.3.2 currently) on my first gen Droid for about a month now thanks to the folks at CyanogenMod. So even if this were a piece about the OS alone it's still horribly old news.
2. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-01 07:40 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Nice Slashvertisement - note the user's profile link, and the site both in-article links point to.
3. Re:Really? by Drathus · 2011-03-01 07:48 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  No, it hasn't.
  It's been out for the Nexus One for about a week. The summary clearly says the Nexus S. Which has had Gingerbread since it launched in December.
  And as I noted in my reply to my own post up there, I've been running Gingerbread on my first-gen Droid thanks to 3rd party ROM makers for about a month. So even if it's Gingerbread only, it's still not news.
haven't seen a bigger advertising campaign by korkakak · 2011-03-01 08:40 · Score: 1, Informative

my n8 from which i am currently posting can do hands down 9mbps in wifi networking @ speednet.net let alone gprs. So please spare us with the google's white knight there is *better hardware*
Re:Still horrid for audio by GooberToo · 2011-03-01 09:41 · Score: 4, Informative

According to this thread, the new hardware specifications provides 10ms "low latency." The "45ms" number is the number bring thrown around to get people upset without actually knowing what that number means.
Basically, 45ms allows for the audio pipeline to already be filled, and remains filled, and perhaps (likely even) by other applications. That's hardly unreasonable. The 10ms number, AS PROVIDED BY LATEST HARDWARE SPECS, means the pipeline is available for immediate use. For dedicated applications, which largely covers the low latency audio demands of current developers, the 10ms number is what everyone actually wants, and seemingly is provided.
Meaning, existing hardware may or may not be able to satisfy real "low latency" demands, but, new hardware will.
It appears Gingerbread really does address low latency demands, however, it also appears existing hardware (drivers) are not capable of doing better. Looks like things are looking up for next gen hardware and low latency audio requirements.
To summarize, android hardware requirements define two audio latency numbers which pertain to your complaint. One is continuous audio. The second is warm audio. The first is for a continuously filled audio pipeline; seemingly from any source. The second is for an empty pipeline. The former requires 45ms. The later requires 10ms.