I'll be a day one purchase if its performance is anything like what I've seen in the videos. I'd love to see Apple have to innovate a bit for their 2nd gen to compete.
Blackberry Playbook
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I'll be a day one purchase if its performance is anything like what I've seen in the videos. I'd love to see Apple have to innovate a bit for their 2nd gen to compete.
aaronspink
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Depends what market you are looking at. BB still has the #1 share of smartphones and generate more revenue for carriers than any other device. They are also the most secure option still.
If nothing else, they'll have the government/security conscious market wrapped up for the foreseeable future. Things like iOS/Android/WP7 don't cut it in the security department atm.
aaronspink
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I wouldn't really say that the BB is a niche market. I think it is more appropriate to look at it in terms of new submarkets within the smartphone market. android/iphone/WP7 isn't really moving into the BB market. There was a lot of analysis when Apple first released the iphone that it wasn't so much taking over the existing market for smartphones but creating whole new markets.
That's extremely impressive indeed. I noticed at 7:40 that the 3D demo on the right was very choppy until they made it fullscreen (i.e. presumably stopped rendering the other demos at the same time), but even that happens in a very smooth way (i.e. the rest of the interface and scrolling isn't slowed down one bit)!
Question: I've never done any ActionScript development. Anyone know a good IDE for Mac? Seems you can't do it in Xcode. I'd like to make a playbook app. Flash Builder isn't free, and I'd prefer free. I'm not a huge fan of Eclipse, but I think it can do ActionScript 3 with the right plugins.
It will be cold day in hell when you can.
Okay, so Lazy8s mysteriously said "OMAP4 it is, then." on the first page, and now you're saying that as well... I've heard rumor for OMAP4 elsewhere; does anyone have an actual source on this?
How many other Cortex-A9 SoCs are ready? Tegra 2, obviously. Just because the video had it running IMG demos doesn't confirm that it uses IMG chips, unless it's confirmed they won't run on Tegra. I'm not trying to dispute the SoC, I'm just looking for the most concrete evidence possible I can present to show it isn't Tegra 2.
as it is a imgtec demo it all almost certainly use PVRTC for textures
imgtec gpu cores are the only ones that supports PVRTC rite now
and the playbook has already been confirmed to have dual arm a9
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omap4
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/08/rims-blackberry-playbook-purportedly-using-a-1ghz-omap-4430-pro/
OMAP4430.
There, no more suppositions
OMAP4430.
There, no more suppositions
Well seeing in that demo how it runs the PVR demos it would be a cold day in hell when T2 would be able to run the shader views demo with that kind of performance and even more so with other 3D applications in parallel. SGX has a distinct advantage over the competition with post processing; there are two demos based on that on IMG's website.
I always suspected IMG had a shady realtime-raytracing 'other side', but now I know it ;p
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Raytracing?
Is the windows demo actually doing raytracing?
I had that demo in my i8910 (Symbian^1), never imagined it was raytracing.
Is the windows demo actually doing raytracing?
I had that demo in my i8910 (Symbian^1), never imagined it was raytracing.
Ok and here comes the layman's dumb question: what has post processing with ray tracing in common?
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The guy in the video says the windows demo is real time raytracing.
He could just be babbling marketing BS with no knowledge of raytracing whatsoever, though..
Mike Lazaridis, apparently ; )
