• Android 2.2 Froyo 4 times faster than 2.1 Eclair

    Android 2.2 Froyo 4 times faster than 2.1 Eclair

    Techtree News Staff, May 12, 2010 1847 hrs IST

    Nexus One loaded with Froyo shows the processing power bump

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Google is planning to release its next major update - Froyo - for the Android OS later this month. The Android Police are bunch of lucky folks who got the Android 2.2 Froyo build on the Nexus One phone for testing. This Froyo build also has Adobe Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed and tests proved that the Froyo is four times faster than the Eclair.

Android Police have tested the Android Froyo and Flash Player 10.1 using the Linpack benchmarking tools. According to the Linpack tools, Froyo scored a whooping 37.5 MFLOPS processing power. The same phone loaded with Android 2.1 Eclair update scores around 6.5-7 MFLOPS. A clear 450% jump in the processing power but not to forget that Nexus One has brilliant hardware inside with Snapdragon CPU.

Google is expected to announce or release the Froyo update at the upcoming Google IO conference on May 16-18 at Google Headquarters.



Here's a video by Ryan Stewart, Adobe evangelist showing the Flash Player 10.1 goodness on Nexus One loaded with Android 2.2 Froyo.

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(8) Comments
Thomas
,NYC, on May 15, 2010 11:54 AM
Is there Apps to SD? thanks!
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Anonymous
,d, on May 14, 2010 09:11 PM
I WANT SNAPDRAGON effing droid
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Somebody
,Somewhere, on May 14, 2010 07:47 PM
Sorry, but the tests do NOT say that it is 4 times faster. It says that FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS IN JAVA are 4 times faster.
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Robin
,Barcelona, on May 13, 2010 06:44 PM
Only for (thigh) program loops, like the used benchmark program real life improvements are not nearly like that.
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Simon
,New Haven, on May 12, 2010 10:22 PM
You need to really understand the test. It is for VM only. So all the native apps are not affected. Android 2.2 Froyo is not 4 times faster than 2.1 Eclair. It is that the VM of Froyo is 4 times faster than the VM of Eclair. Which is good. But you obvious have no idea about the test and your article totally exaggerate the results.
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weeks
,urban, tx, on May 12, 2010 07:58 PM
I want
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Lucas Shaffer
,Phenix City, AL, on May 12, 2010 07:49 PM
Super fast! Love the "start up" pic. Got any more?
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Daetrinnn
,Huntington Beach, on May 12, 2010 07:08 PM
A 450% increase means that it is actually more than _five_ times faster. 7 mflops x 5 = 35 mflops.
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