Well, if you have been rooting 2nd generation Android phone, you will find that enabling Data2EXT, like what Samsung has been doing since S1, achieve higher I/O score quite a lot. Even HTC Legend with Data2EXT score is 1.4k or so.

It really boils down to what you want. Samsung S2 is indeed the fastest and most responsive of them all. Tried Sensation and the usual Sense really slows down things a little bit. Once you get rid of Sense, I would say pretty similar score, since they share the same internal A9, just different manufacturers.

Build quality wise, Samsung S2 is really plastique but Im sold on the performance of the device.

Hey, do you understand benchmark at all? Tried 3DMarks2xxx before?

Finish faster does not mean its faster. It might be less thing to benchmark compared to the other. In raw computing power, take less time = faster but you can also be fast if you have one or more less thing to test. To see the real result, one need to look into the result. It has different scores for CPU, GPU, Memory, I/O etc. Samsung S2 has Data2EXT enabled, thus having one more thing to test, which lead to inflated scores.

See here for better explanation.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...342&postcount=5

Both are 1GHz processor and if you compare the CPU score only, not much different. Memory score does have some difference but if you look at the green bar, there is where Samsung and Motorola leading most of the time. Thats where the ROM I/O comes into play. I think having a portion of the ROM/SDCard partition, formatted with standard EXT file format of Linux speed things up a lot.

This post has been edited by andrekua: Aug 16 2011, 08:53 PM

I just came back from 1U and gets some time with it (I hate HTC after they phailed to offer GB for Legend).

At first, I dont really see the 3D and was suspecting something is amiss. Anyway, I went ahead and launch NFS Shift. I have to say WOW, thats pretty cool. It really felt 3D even without glass. Just one small problem... yeah, and not related to my HTC hatred. Seem like if you move your head/handset ever so slightly, you start to see the RAW 3D images which is basically a ghost image which create the 3D effect. This left me wondering, how do you game with it if you have to line your eyes in the perfect angle to get the 3D effect?