GreeneComputing » Nexus One http://www.greenecomputing.com Android News and Apps Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Nexus One with Froyo takes the Lead at 40.099 MFLOPS http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/03/15/nexus-one-with-froyo-takes-the-lead-at-40-099-mflops/ http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/03/15/nexus-one-with-froyo-takes-the-lead-at-40-099-mflops/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:31:21 +0000 Nacoma http://www.greenecomputing.com/?p=185 We’ve had two different Nexus One phones with four good Top 10 Linpack runs.  The best being 40.099 MFLOPS!  Looks like some Droids need to do some catching up.  I’m fairly certain that these are not bogus runs, since I’ve added some anti-cheat mechanisms to the most recent release.  Still some funny results do occur when you overclock. 

So is it Google teasing us??

As cyanogen said via twitter  “Linpack #4 is an N1 running Froyo. Cheaters”

And of course, TheDudesAndroid said “***shakes fist at userid****”

]]> http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/03/15/nexus-one-with-froyo-takes-the-lead-at-40-099-mflops/feed/ 3 Linus is a Happy Camper http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/07/linus-is-a-happy-camper/ http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/07/linus-is-a-happy-camper/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:56:20 +0000 Nacoma http://www.greenecomputing.com/?p=141 It finally looks like Linus Torvalds likes his new phone.  Yes, that Linus, the one who started Linux.  Guess which phone he likes…

iPhone – No
Droid – No
G1 – has one, didn’t like it.

He just bought a new Nexus One and he likes it.  He said in his blog:  “I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn’t enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge.”

]]> http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/07/linus-is-a-happy-camper/feed/ 0 Nexus One Background Videos http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/05/nexus-one-background-videos/ http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/05/nexus-one-background-videos/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:36:22 +0000 Nacoma http://www.greenecomputing.com/?p=138 Google has put together an interesting YouTube video site with daily videos showing some of the background on the design, display, testing and manufacturing of the Nexus One.  This is all part of the Nexus One channel showing links to some partner and howto videos.

]]> http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/02/05/nexus-one-background-videos/feed/ 0 Nexus One #### It! http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/01/23/nexus-one-it/ http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/01/23/nexus-one-it/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:19:41 +0000 Nacoma http://www.greenecomputing.com/?p=108 One feature displayed when the Nexus One was rolled out was the ability to do voice recognition in any text input.  The phone is supposed to listen to what you say and convert it to text.  From what I’ve seen and heard, it  does a fantastic job.  Only one small little glitch.  It filters out curse words.  REALLY!?  According to Reuters when a reporter was sending a message inquiring about a buddy’s whereabouts is transcribed as “Hey #### where are you? 

So is Google getting politically correct?  Not according to them: “We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent,” said Google.

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Too bad George Carlin isn’t alive, he’d have a field day with this one.

]]> http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/01/23/nexus-one-it/feed/ 1 Google at the crossroads: a review of the Nexus One http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/01/15/google-at-the-crossroads-a-review-of-the-nexus-one/ http://www.greenecomputing.com/2010/01/15/google-at-the-crossroads-a-review-of-the-nexus-one/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:09:14 +0000 Nacoma http://www.greenecomputing.com/?p=104 Arstechnica has an insteresting review by Wayne Lau of the Nexus One.  Wayne says; “The Nexus One is the best smartphone on the market at this point for general use. Its speedy specifications, excellent hardware design, marketplace full of applications, and direct Google support ensures that there are no other phones currently out there that match it overall. While there are some devices for particular needs, such as more robust push email from Exchange, or having a hardware keyboard, or a more integrated overall experience, the Nexus One is the standard that other devices should be measured by.” 

Speaking of standards, I noticed a nice little graph comparing performance of a couple of phones:

Wonder where he got that app?  :-)

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