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Absolutely no idea why people care about benchmarks any more? The top phone is always going to be one upped by the benches by a phone coming in next 2-3 months. It is ridiculous. Just buy an Android which has good custom dev support and after sales support. HTC doesn't have both, and are retarded in their pricing in India. Heck they dont even do any ads for Indian TV anymore.

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So some tasks to be done on my nexus 7 today :

 

  1. Unlock Bootloader (will wipe the tab completely :(, no way to create nandroid backup)
  2. Root
  3. Get custom recovery
  4. Setup multiboot
  5. Get stock rom as primary
  6. Install ubuntu as secondary

Lots of work to do.

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Nexus 4 is JB 4.2.2. Most of the benchmark apps don't even support it properly.

 

PS - My Nexus 4 benches 22000 on Antutu. (Custom ROM).

 

The N4 also has aggressive thermal throttling by default which lowers benchmark scores. You'll remember AT benched the phone after putting it in a freezer and it performed far better than in normal temperature. Putting any custom rom on it will 'unlock' it's benchmark potential.

 

It might be easier/less overwhelming to program regular apps using NDK (You can choose how much you segregate between Java and C) or should be considered as another option as well.

 

Yep. I can't imagine any reason why one would jump into kernel programming directly.

 

So some tasks to be done on my nexus 7 today :

 

  1. Unlock Bootloader (will wipe the tab completely :(, no way to create nandroid backup)
  2. Root
  3. Get custom recovery
  4. Setup multiboot
  5. Get stock rom as primary
  6. Install ubuntu as secondary

Lots of work to do.

 

The good news is rooting will take 10-15 mins. I watched the ubuntu video and I wasn't particularly impressed though.

 

Also sounds like the HTC One camera will be heavily dependent on the software. I wonder if that will cause problems for custom ROMs that don't incorporate this 'ultra pixel' camera technology in it. I imagine running cyanogenmod on it for example would mean it gets relegated to just another 4MP camera.

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Nexus 4 is JB 4.2.2. Most of the benchmark apps don't even support it properly.

 

PS - My Nexus 4 benches 22000 on Antutu. (Custom ROM).

 

The N4 also has aggressive thermal throttling by default which lowers benchmark scores. You'll remember AT benched the phone after putting it in a freezer and it performed far better than in normal temperature. Putting any custom rom on it will 'unlock' it's benchmark potential.

 

Ah, yes! That's actually the main reason for the scores on stock.

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Swype is seriously dead

They were the one coming with the innovative stuff, yet they never though it was worth being in playstore or come out of beta in 4-5 years.

The only thing it has going against Swiftkey is the price, apart from that Flow is awesome.

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Somehow I still rate Swype over swiftkey flow. Although it is in beta phase, but the accuracy in Swype is way better than flow. I have used flow ever since its first beta came, updated each version but still came back to Swype.

Flow doesn't have dictionary, it fails to remember previous entered words, at least most of them.

 

 

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