Gadgetory

hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to do some real world speed tests against three Android devices that run completely different processors we have the google nexus one which runs the snapdragon processor from Qualcomm running it one gigahertz the Droid X from Motorola is running a 1 gigahertz texas instruments omap processor and samsung captivate is running samsung hummingbird processor also clocking in at one gigahertz this is the same processor that's being used on all galaxy s smartphones that are being released now and into the fall so let's get to it okay so in this particular video like I said we're going to focus on real world testing so number one we're going to see which starts up faster number two we're going to see which does better browsing the internet rendering pages number three we're going to compare the performance of Google Earth the Android application because it's very CPU and GPU intense and then we're going to do streaming video over YouTube to see which performs the best so starting off let's turn on all three devices at the same time if possible and see which one starts up first so they all have power buttons in different places so this may be a little bit difficult to coordinate but I'm going to kind of move them around so that I can do that okay so there they were pressed at the same time or within at least a second of each other let's see which one starts up first i'm a fast forward in the video so that you don't have to wait for the buddha all right and they're all going through their startup animations and we should be into the android operating system in a moment okay somebody wait up nexus one is first followed by the captivate and it looks like the droid x is going to come in last and it announces its presence okay so let's start off with the test and i should mention that i've got froyo installed here on the google nexus one it provides a little bit of an advantage but of course these two devices are going to be upgraded to froyo later this year so everyone can expect to have that so let's unlock all the devices and we're going to start on the internet we should be connected to Wi-Fi I'm going to give them a minute to settle down because usually they download some emails and it slows down the device so I'm going to wait about a minute before jumping into the test alrighty great and we're ready they're all connected on the same Wi-Fi network so I'm going to launch the browsers and we're going to try to go to the same website at the same time to get a feel for which device pools in the website fastest renders it then we're going to flick around on the page to see which does the best job that's scrolling around okay so we've got pocket now here I'm going to try to get them at the same time and they're all for the exact same time let's see which one is fastest they're all very fast devices ok so the captivate actually just crashed the browser so we're going to have to open that back up but the droid x beat out the google nexus one let's get back into the captivate browser that is very strange that that actually happened so we'll jump right back in a pocket now hopefully we won't crash this time ok we're back with the captivate loaded pocket now this time without crashing so let's just flick down the page gently and get a feel for performance in terms of scrolling and it looks like the captivates actually the smoothest the droid x is also very smooth nexus one is a little bit choppy here so let's zoom in and we're going to click on one of these permalinks so you can get a sense for how smoothly they zoom all pretty darn good I will try to get the headline at the same time here and we'll load these ready set go okay that went at the same time let's see which loads the page first so the droid x one before alright and so the captivate in the droid x finished at the exact same time the nexus one is struggling a little bit with the final elements of the page okay and the nexus one finish let's go to another website and stumble go to engadget.com on all three of the devices to see which loads first okay and they're off to go to engadget let's see which which loads first and okay droidx finish first followed by the nexus one followed by the captivate so far the droid x has come ahead two times the captivate one time and the nexus one has hasn't won yet so let's flip flip down the page these are longer pages than what we saw previously device went to sleep here and see how smoothly the scrolling is and you can see that the captivate definitely has a little bit of an advantage over definitely the nexus one the droid x is extremely smooth as well which is nice to see so in terms of web browsers and performance they're all very good it looks like the captivate and the droid are faster than the nexus one running froyo and especially the captivate has extremely smooth scrolling but the droid x isn't far behind in terms of that so let's bounce into another application this time we're going to go to Google Earth which as mentioned is a very GPU and CPU intensive application so we're going to see how these different processors handle the graphic intensive pneus of Google Earth so let's find it and we're going to try to launch it at the same time so we have it here here and here let's try to get it at the same time okay so here we go and it looks like the nexus one is going to go to somewhere in Africa okay well what I want to do here is search for a particular location and just kind of fly to the area so let's go to Paris try to do it the same time or as close to the same time as possible you can kind of get a sense for the animation and the graphical prowess by how smooth that this flies around very smooth on the captivate a little bit choppy on the nexus one very smooth on the droid x let's fly to another location and then we will jump in to the next test here testing the speed of these different devices so this time let's go to Australia ok so they're all typed in let's search for Australia try to do it as evenly as possible and we're going to fly away a little bit choppy on the droid x very very smooth on the captivate and we have stopped here in australia overall all these devices perform quite well on in the Google Earth application but particularly the the droid x and the captivate do a particularly good job let's do one more just for good measure we're going to fly all the way across the world to New York okay we're and hit the Go button and you be the judge this time of how fast these these go so very nice indeed so that's the end of this test google or test it looks like again with the droid x on the captivate are a little bit faster than the nexus one in being able to render the graphics on this google earth program now we're going to jump into the YouTube application try to play back some video and see if there's any difference in how smoothly they play back at how fast they buffer okay and here they are youtube applications okay we're to search for videos from pocket now just so that we can play back the same video across all devices and let's see what we have here now it's very interesting to note here's the difference in screen resolution these two devices have the same screen resolution 800 down at 480 across so we're seeing the exact same amount of screen data on the bottom we see fanuc alpha 2 or 3 fennec alpha 2 or 3 but because the droid x has an additional fifty four pixels down i know it's not that big of a deal you can see a little bit more of the one below okay so what we're going to do is click on this video here we'll try to start it at the same time and see which buffers the first first second third and in terms of which video is playing back the smoothest they all look pretty much the same as they're playing in the highest quality possible through these applications what is different is sort of the playback quality the captivate looks the best the best blacks you it also looks quite good on the AMOLED display and then the droidx looks a little bit washed out so I'm gonna let you look at the videos for just another second to see if you can notice any difference in the video playback you ponies so overall there is really no clear winner here we have the nexus one which started up the fastest we had the captivate and the droid x which were fastest in web browsing and smoothness of scrolling let me have the captivate which was slightly ahead in buffering a video on youtube so it's really inconclusive these are all very well performing devices that feel quick on a day to day operation if you want us to test something in particular between these three devices which all have different processors please leave a comment below the video and we will try to oblige thanks for watching and please thumbs up the video if you liked it that's it for now