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Update: YouTube member richardlai noticed that all 3 devices are running at a different resolution on the And3DBench.

A friend of mine asked me to run a few benchmarks of my Evo to compare so I made this little video and discovered a similar issue that the Evo may have faced:

As you can see from the Video, in the FPS2D benchmark and the An3DBench benchmarks the Dell Streak doesn’t go over 30FPS at all.

Dell Streak:

• FPS2D result: 29 fps average
• An3DBench – Multiple Lights: 29.22 fps
• An3DBench – Keyframe Animation: 29.20 fps

Archos 5 Internet Tablet

• FPS2D result: 49 fps average
• An3DBench – Multiple Lights: 43.97 fps
• An3DBench – Keyframe Animation: 49.83 fps

Nexus One:

• FPS2D result: 60 fps average
• An3DBench – Multiple Lights: 53.59 fps
• An3DBench – Keyframe Animation: 60.38 fps

I’m not sure if it is a 30FPS limit on the streak but from what I’ve seen here, it may be the case.

Here is a little gallery of pictures of my new Dell Streak comparing it to my iPod touch, Nexus One and my Archos 5 Internet Tablet.

The Streak is an extremely slim device but feels a tad large for phone use. For web browsing the larger screen is perfect and produces good colours. Only the AMOLED screen on my Nexus One looks better but the Streak has the advantage of better visibility in sunlight.

Compared to my Archos 5 Internet Tablet, the streak is faster and more stable than Android on the Archos. Both run Android 1.6 so there is no advantage over the other except for full support for Android Market on the Streak with copy protected apps. Only the non copy protected apps show up on my Archos with the Android Market hack.

Overall I’m impressed with the streak and having 1,664MB of app storage avaiable compared to my Nexus One’s 196MB and my Archos 5′s 138MB means that the Streak will have plenty of storage for apps. The included 16GB Micro SD card leaves plenty of room for media too.

I’m very happy with it so far!

Hardware shown:

• Apple iPod Touch 32GB (In Belkin case)
• HTC Google Nexus One
• Archos 5 Internet Tablet
• Dell Streak

Sources: Dell Streak o2 UK, Dell

It seems that there is a little damage control over the recent iPhone 4 signal issue revelation when the phone is held (quite normally) in the left hand.

According to Engadget, Steve Jobs has responded to the issue citing that people are to “Just avoid holding it the wrong way” and another post by MacRumors also cites that there are “Other Mobile Phones With Similar Signal Loss Issues”

I decided to put this theory to the test as I’ve seen countless comments saying that the iPhone 3G or 3GS has the issue as well as the Nexus One (neither of which I have experienced during the 12 months of iPhone 3g ownership nor on my Nexus One).

As you can see from my video, my wife’s iPhone 3g performs better in hand and my N1 with it’s GPRS connection has no bandwidth degradation whatsoever.

The silliest thing about this “holding it the wrong way” affair? See for yourself…..

An xda developers member has posted the link to the newer FRF72 build of froyo for the Nexus One.

I’ve just updated my N1 from frf50 build and it went fine. No noticeable changes yet thus far.

More: xda developers

This is technology bliss for me.

Currently we’re driving up the M25 with my Nexus One navigating us to our destination with my wife driving. It is also acting as a portable hotspot for my iPod touch.

FroYo + iPhone OS = win.

Rovio have posted a quick video of their excellent game, Angry Birds running on Android (A Motorola Milestone to be exact).

Angry birds is one of my favourite games on the iPhone/iPod touch and it’s great to see it coming to Android. A must buy for anyone with an Android handset!

It seems that for the first time, smartphones running on Google’s Android OS have outsold the iPhone for the first time in the U.S.

Google’s Android-based smartphones accounted for 28% of smartphone sales, while the iPhone accounted for 21%, according to market research firm NPD.

I can think of MANY reasons for this. The iPhone is only on one US carrier (AT&T) and is at the end of its product life so sales would be naturally down (in my eyes) as more people will be waiting for the next generation iPhone.

It’s still quite an achievement for Google and the Open Handset Alliance but I suspect things would have changed back to the iPhone at number 2 once the next gen iPhone is released!

Source: Yahoo News

I just found this via an AppBrain recommendation but Dolphin Browser HD seems like a very capable browser for Android!

It has some nice features such as:

• Versatile Add-ons
• Multi-touch Pinch Zoom
• Thumbnails Flick Menu
• Tabbed Browsing
• YouTube Downloader
• Gesture URL Commander
• Bookmarks Sorting

I’m going to spend some time with it and see if it is worth changing from the default browser to Dolphin. If you want to try it out or for more info, check the link below!

Source: Dolphin Browser

I’ve been looking for a decent solution to sync my music onto my Nexus One from my Mac and was using DoubleTwist to do so. DoubleTwist works fine but I thought I’d see what else is out there and found iSyncr for Mac OS X on the Android Market.

iSyncr for Mac OSX

Once installed, you run iSyncr and it puts a Mac OSX compatible app on the root of your SD card. Next, you mount the SD card and run the app from the SD card on your Mac and it presents you with the following screen:

Choose which playlists to sync.

This screen lists all your playlists and lets you choose which playlist to sync with your Android phone. I chose my Nexus One playlist and proceeded to sync my playlist. (continue reading…)