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hello everyone it's jeff Farina with pocket now calm we're back for another video featuring the motorola flipside so far we've unboxed the device we've shown you the hardware of the device we've even gone a step further to show you the software the device which is the motoblur you i scan over android 2.1 well now we're going to actually test the motorola flipside against another mid-range android device from a competitor the samsung transform so let's get the race underway alright and we're back in one of the first things you want to get out of the way before we get started are the availability of these two devices the device on the right is the motorola flipside and that is available on AT&T the device on the left is the samsung transform and that is a sprint device both these are android 2.1 devices in both our mid-range android 2.1 devices now another aspect is that the motorola flipside has a 720 megahertz processor it's an omap processor with 512 megabytes of ram now the samsung transform as an 800 megahertz processor with 256 megabytes of ram so there's a little bit of a difference there we'll have to see which one outperforms the other now you're probably seeing different screen variances as well they are both on automatic so that's just showing the difference in the sensors there all right and with that we're going to start a test that we run quite often and that is the gameplay test and we're going to actually use raging thunder which is an app available from the market on both these devices to see how well it's going to run okay so now we've started both the applications up now as usual we're going to do our best to actually show you the gameplay performance while trying to steer with the accelerometer on both devices we're going to start here single player for both and it's give me the same exact track we're going through the quick race now I'm going to take note of here the samsung transform screen definitely looks different from the flip side it's also much larger so at the same time we're going to our best to actually start these up and now we're going to play don't see how the performance is now right off the bat you can see the beam flip side which is on the top of this test it's running much better than the samsung transform the transforms on the bottom and the framerate is pretty much horrendous you can see it almost looks like the transform is not even really doing much here it's skipping frames it's tough to keep up the whole night guys I'm actually going to put these two down and I'll zoom in a little further so you can see I let them sit still give me the judge for yourself he transform is definitely having an issue with the frame rate whereas the flip side seems to be playing very smoothly now that's most likely because of the RAM on the flip side which is lacking on the samsung transform now for our next test we're going to a browser comparison or a browser speed test we're going to actually take both these devices and navigate to pocket now calm and we're going to see which one is able to do so faster they are side by sides that will give us a direct comparison let's go ahead and press pocket now here at the same time now it seemed to register the actual click faster on the flip side so this is the pocket now mobile site what we can do is we can actually scroll down to the bottom here to get the link for the desktop version and we'll go ahead and press at the same time now and again it's noticing the click faster on the flip side it's actually registering that we've actually touched the screen in a faster manner however it doesn't what the transform is pulling ahead at least right now the transform still looks to be ahead it's already scaled and these browsers do appear to be loading differently yep and the transform seems to be definitely pulling ahead it seems that it's definitely going to win this race here however on the progress bar they're very close to one another now this is probably going to be all in the eye of the beholder if you want the website to already have been scaled to fit your screen as the transform is doing that's more ready to go if you will whereas the flip side is loading the raw page it's not scaling it's not on Zuma ng so you can just do all the unzipping and the moving around your own that may be a faster method but we'll have to see which is able to actually load faster here alright in the battles over the transform has won it's already zoomed out we can already move around as you can see here the scrolling isn't exactly the smoothest we are able to at least navigate we're going to go ahead and wait for the flipside to finish its work and we'll test the actual navigation in terms of the smoothness okay now the flip side is also finished loading it took about an extra 30 seconds on top of the transform which isn't exactly the most impressing of times but now we're going to do is we're going to try to navigate so first we're going to zoom out here with the flip side and see which one is able to navigate faster now if you look at some of these side ads and these top ads it appears that the flip side is actually playing them in motion whereas the transform is not now that made one of the reasons why the flip side is loading things slower now let's go ahead and try have occasion here all right let's do them actually one by one so the transform as we said does seem to be somewhat choppy it definitely does work though it's very usable now the flip side more or less the same story it does seem to zoom in much faster this actually seems a little smoother let me transform overall and there's a little jumpy toward the end of the zoom but overall it's definitely seems smoother than the transform especially in zooming now for our third and final test we're going to run the typical YouTube comparison as well in the nest test we're actually going to load the pocket now video YouTube channel if we're going to play the same video and see which device is actually able to stream and process the video faster so let's go ahead and print up the channel first pocket now video see which one's faster doing this again the flip side seems to recognize the click faster however these samsung transform did load the site it's so faster and let's go ahead and click on the very top one the iphone 4 hands on it's an older video and oldie but a goodie and as you just saw it appears that once again the flip side recognized the touch from our finger much much sooner but the transform is actually able to play the video faster in terms of the frame rate they both appear to be doing very well they both look very clear so it seems that the processor of the Samsung transformed 800 megahertz processor did make the transform the victor there what the flip side was not far behind so there you have it the slower processor of the flip side does make it somewhat slower in rendering webpages and rendering video but when it comes to the gameplay as you saw the flip side is definitely the clear winner and that's likely because of the 512 megabytes of RAM that it has over the Samsung transforms 256 megabytes of RAM and that's going to do it for our comparison and test video our next and final video will be our final word and final review on the motorola flipside which features motoblur so be sure to stay tuned for that video as well as the written article on pocketnow.com as always thank you very much for watching everyone please leave this video a thumbs up and we'll talk to you soon