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Today Windows Phone 8.1
released for developer preview and I immediately upgraded. I was happy to discover The "Siri Killer" assistant Cortana is equally capable in doing text-to-speech as the old system, which is all I previously used. The notification center is yet another new feature I don't really need on account of live tiles, but the central location to find alerts is handy, and the quick toggle buttons at the top are nice for bluetooth/wifi battery savings. Project my screen is so far my favorite new feature, displaying my phone on my projector for mobile games feels excessive, but I'm worth it! The Wi-Fi Sense feature caught me off guard when I connected to a hotel network and it started accepting the agreement. I was convinced Steve had hacked into my phone and was downgrading me to iOS but then the internet connection completed and I remembered it was a feature. Amazingly, the upgrade seems to have
increased the benchmark score significantly.
UPDATE:
Looks like Cortana is a snoop. After granting her access to my email, she told me about
Lisas flight and told me it was
time to leave for a reminder I setup.
With the release of
Basemark OS II for Windows Phone,
a true cross-platform fanboy brag tool finally exists. I immediately
rated my Lumia 928 only to have it crushed
by the Senators
iPhone 5 and Myrns
iPhone 5S.
Fortunately someone already
posted a video of the Nexus 5 crushing both the iPhone 5 and my once yearned for Lumia 1520 so I had something
to throw back in their faces. My use of the word "crush" and "crushing" are of course appropriate because even 1 point of difference is enough to warrant a fanboy escalation (and I can always fall back on
"that isn't a perfect run, x factor was slowing it down!"
With my
HTC 8X approaching it's 6 month anniversary,
my hunger for a new device was growing. The recently launched
Lumia 928 was not helping, but
I promised myself I was going to wait until it either came in red or was reduced to a free upgrade. I clearly can't keep promises to myself, as a trip to the local
Verizon store pushed me over the edge. The inevitible salesperson attack was quick, as the store was mostly empty. Before I could get out "just browsing" he pulled out his own
HTC 8X and asked where I got my red one. The embrace was quick, but tender. I whispered "thank you" in his ear as he held me for a brief moment. Composing myself, I took several "hand seizure" photos,
proving the stabilized lens on the 928 was indeed a miracle, with the Xenon flash freezing time as advertised (no blur whatsoever).
Sadly, the glossy "brick" chassis felt like it was going to slip out of my hand at any moment, and was nowhere near as comfortable or secure as my 8X in my hand. Assured the LTE SIM did in fact control the
CDMA pairing with the network (no more calling Verizon to switch phones) I took the plunge and got my $25 app store credit via NFC on the way out (yes, a Windows Phone NFC gift card exists in a Verizon store).
The
obligatory benchmark confirmed it has the same SOC guts as my 8X, with double the storage and the amazing camera as the only major upgrades.
The OLED screen had a few
interesting options as well as the "glove friendly"
touch settings. The lame "Beats Audio" my 8X
advertised was more than compensated for with a full
equalizer and "Dolby Audio" branding, which I'm sure is just as amazing as "Beats" was.
The famed
Nokia apps were also now at my disposal instead of
locked out of my reach. I conclude with the
system info screen, and the hope I can get used to the slippery finish.
More than a year ago, I
benchmarked my collection of WP7 phones. Since then, I've been growing my crack habit and now have a
total of 11 dummy display phones, and 5 actual phones. Fortunately, I've come to my senses and sold Lisa's old Samsung Focus Flash along with the Lumia 520 I picked up for $150 (now that I have it I know why it's only $150). Before they departed, I created an
updated benchmark to help me feel better about my loss. I was shocked to find the Lumia 520 had the fastest GPU before remembering it only renders at 800x480 instead of the 1280x720 the 8X chugs through. The Trophy is still the saddest Gen1 hardware, with the Flash/900/800 all running almost identical thanks to fairly identical chipsets. With my Lumia 928 just around the corner, another fanboy orgy post is sure to follow soon.
Today my
HTC Windows Phone 8X finally arrived; bringing dual 1.5Ghz processors, 720p screen, NFC, 8MP camera and LTE speeds.
AT&T managed to lock down my first choice of the Nokia Lumia 920 (for now), but Verizon did manage to get wireless charging added to the 8X as an apology.
The
8X benchmark claims the new phone has a CPU over 5x faster and storage memory over 3x faster than the ancient
HTC Trophy it's replacing.
It's also nice to finally have
LTE speed, but after months of waiting for this upgrade I'm not as excited as I thought I'd be. The WP8 OS has a few new features, but
surprisingly lost group SMS and bluetooth SMS support. Verizon also managed to cripple the new wallet by not providing a secure SIM, which means NFC payments are on hold until they decide to stop being jerks.
Hopefully the next update fixes some of my disappointment, as WP is still my phone OS of choice, but I fear I'll never be that excited teenage girl again when it comes to new phones.
My love of benchmarking, which has given me so much nerd ego boosting over the years, was at an impasse with my
Windows Phones. While web-based benchmarks assure me my browser is sub-par, I was at an impasse for deeper hardware comparisons. Today,
AnTuTu benchmark (yes, also hilarious) launched on Windows Phone, and it allows me to compare with fandroids (albeit not EXACTLY as they mention WP7 doesn't support all the same procedures for testing). Regardless, I can now get crushed by all kinds of dual-core wielding phones that should easily
outdo my numbers. The built-in "different algorithim than you" excuse has me covered if I lose.
UPDATE: Excuse has already been used, Marco
kicked my ass.
Last week, with the pending
Nokia Lumia 900 launch looming, I conned Lisa into upgrading her AT&T feature (dumb) phone to my precious. Verizon still has no other options for Windows Phones so I must live my dreams through Lisa's account. It arrived today and I of course
benchmarked my army of Windows Phones immediately. Lisa has been using the Focus Flash as her secondary phone for several months now, refusing to embrace the smartphone era fully. I could see the social apps sucking her resistance away and knew it was time to strike, but I stopped short of using mind games to get her to choose the Focus as her new phone. In the end, the luscious 4.3" AMOLED screen that dazzled me from day one is what put her off of it, preferring the smaller form factor. Overjoyed, I hugged my new Nokia and drifted off to sleep dreaming of skipping through meadows holding hands with my new friend.
Not satisfied with just
benchmarking my computer, I discovered a new way to compare mobile devices with my friends across platforms and operating systems. Enter
Browsermark, which runs a group of performance tests that determine how fast you can run javascript. Clearly the speed of javascript parsing is enough to determine the worth of a device (and therefore the person who owns the device) so I proudly display my 22201 result and await confirmation I'm not as skilled in javascript parsing as my peers.
After concluding my
ASUS G50V was merely an impulse buy I had no actual use for it, it was sent back to the eBay it came from. This left me with a spare 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD to benchmark on my
primary system. While my Win7 performance index went from a 6.9 to a
7.2, the
benchmark only noticed a 2 MB/s
improvement. Amazingly my RAID still holds it's own against the current SSD drives. Should I make the mistake of buying another 60GB SSD I'll of course RAID them and undoubtedly beat the crap out of it.
My GeForce 8800GT has served me well for
almost 3 years, but a
recent deal on a GTX 460 combined with it's position as number 8 on the
GPU performance rating (just below a $400 card) forced my hand. The upgrade
effectively doubled my GPU score, confirming the belief that the GTX 460 is the new 8800 GT in terms of bang for your buck. Windows 7 also seems to appreciate the new card as my
graphics rating has gone up
significantly. My peer pressure campaign at work successufully got everyone on my team to upgrade as well, making the GTX 460 the new hotness.
If you want to fit in with the cool kids, it's time to make the switch.
After the original Morlock encouraged my madness by
benchmarking his own RAID, it was decided we would re-bench using a new tool. Not satisfied with just a simple re-bench, I decided to install my latest
motherboard deal at the same time. While the controller on the
new motherboard actually
slowed down my
RAID setup, the increase in CPU and memory speed has me sold.
Sadly, there is no longer a
core for everyone since it was cheaper to put the old CPU back in the server and retask the 6 core beast to my new system. If it wasn't clear I just don't care about the people on this server, it should be now.
And of course, the
mega awesome animated compare link
My holdout for an SSD RAID died today after a sweet deal on 2
Velociraptors came across my deal feeds. With SSD prices staying well above $1/GB almost 2 years in, I don't see them falling to affordability anytime soon. Add to that my
power suck every time I turn on my 4 drive RAID array and you can see how spending $300 for 2 300GB
VelociRaptors makes sense. The power savings alone should have the upgrade paying for itself in 23.6 years! Having completed reality warp, it was time to
benchmark the upgrade and eliminate my buyer's remorse. Sustained read almost doubled from 126.1 MB/s to 236.9 MB/s with burst rate now a crazy 2,467 MB/s. I credit the 2005 era SATA 2.0 3Gb/s interface upgrade from my previous 2001 era SATA 1.0 1.5Gb/s. This means in 2015 I should finally be in position to afford a SATA 3.0 6Gb/s solid state RAID at which point I'll finally be able to extract all the porn on the internet in less than an hour.
My dream of mega-fast storage for my
primary machine was
realized not too long ago. It was so fast, I had to
upgrade my CPU to keep up with it. I was confident my storage speed was cutting edge until I installed a
Seagate Barracuda drive into my
media machine today. I of course immediately ran a
benchmark comparison and discovered the single new drive had a higher burst speed than my dual-drive RAID.
This was not surprising since the new drive was SATA/300 vs. the SATA/150
WD Raptor drives in my RAID, so the bus capacity between processor and the new drive was double that between processor and my RAID drives. For burst speeds at least, 7,200RPM really is faster than 10,000RPM if it's stuck on a SATA/150 short bus. However, since I don't access files sequentially on my hard drive, the higher random access should net me better real-world performance. Interpreting the results this way also enables me to adjust reality back to the belief that my RAID is a mega-fast storage device unparalleled by any non-SCSI setups. The transitive property wins again!
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