GPU acceleration in Honeycomb, it has it.

[NikolaeVarius]

Take it with a grain of salt if you want, but apparently 3.0 has full hardware acceleration.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914

Andoird 3.0 adds hardware acceleration.
Status: Released
Owner: romain...@android.com

"It is for real. Android 3.0 allows applications to turn on hardware acceleration for all rendering operations."

So yeah, Hardware acceleration in android now. Wooo.

 

[QueBert]

now? Honeycomb isn't coming out anytime soon.

 

[destrekor]

And so far, there hasn't been any discussion regarding Honeycomb and regular phones.

For tablets, yes, and that's one of the things I've been thinking about: tablets better have full hardware-acceleration.

But... how long until phones get that feature? So far, Honeycomb has been heralded as the Android: Tablet Edition flavor.

I certainly hope Honeycomb reaches the smartphone segment, but I'm expecting we'll see a real branch in the OS: tablet versions and smartphone versions. Hopefully the achievements of Honeycomb trickle down into a near-future release of a smartphone OS version, if indeed they go that route.

Either way, I want this feature dammit. I just hope it's not too far away. Gingerbread is like, a phantom in the smartphone world, unless you're one of the lucky few at this point.

 

[LostPassword]

I'll be happy if if they can release gingerbread for phones other than nexus s.

 

[Yuriman]

Either way, I want this feature dammit. I just hope it's not too far away. Gingerbread is like, a phantom in the smartphone world, unless you're one of the lucky few at this point.

Or you have a phone with an unlocked bootloader.

 

[Bateluer]

Gingerbread has GPU acceleration too, just on transitions and animations though.

Still, wonder how long it'll take XDA, Cyanogen Team, Phoenix Devs, etc to backport the full acceleration to the phones.

 

[destrekor]

Or you have a phone with an unlocked bootloader.

Well, I don't have Gingerbread on my Moto Droid yet.
I guess there might be non-beta releases of 2.3 floating around in various forms, but so far CM7 has not been formally released for the Droid, or any devices that I know of (outside of the Nightlies releases).

 

[Yuriman]

Well, I don't have Gingerbread on my Moto Droid yet.
I guess there might be non-beta releases of 2.3 floating around in various forms, but so far CM7 has not been formally released for the Droid, or any devices that I know of (outside of the Nightlies releases).

LGB is out, the accelerometer and keyboard lights are still iffy but it's generally a faster and more stable ROM than anything Froyo already. UD should have his 2nd RC out soon, and when it is, I'm going to make it my daily driver.

 

[destrekor]

LGB is out, the accelerometer and keyboard lights are still iffy but it's generally a faster and more stable ROM than anything Froyo already. UD should have his 2nd RC out soon, and when it is, I'm going to make it my daily driver.

When parts of the hardware-set are not functioning properly, I'd hardly call that more stable.

There are nightly releases of CM7 for a few phones (CyanogenMod 7 = gingerbread), and while the majority of things work, I'm not biting on something like that yet. I'll wait for Final/Stable releases - for as much as I use my phone at times, stability is key. And I like to have all the features my phone came with.

I'm not saying there's anything bad/wrong with getting all the latest beta releases, it's just not for me.

Now, I'm still mulling over whether to jump into the Froyo fun on my nookcolor. They've had a week or so of progress/success (more or less... ) in the move to getting a true ROM on the internal memory (previously, Froyo has been running entirely on microSD).
My phone, I feel it's critical it can be considered stable.
I think my nookcolor is forever going to my playtoy. Besides the fear of completely bricking it, I'm not worried about losing stability in the short-term since I'll always have my phone on me, so important things can still get done.