Speedy Go! Not As Speedy As Gonzales

why are you associating his app with the accelerometer hardware in the phone – they have nothing to do with each other.

accelerometer: hardware device, a sensor that detects acceleration. typically a micro electro-mechanical sensor (MEMS) device using tiny little known masses on springs connected to electrodes to measure the relative resistance of that spring as the mass exerts force on it due to the affect of acceleration. ie: when the sensor accelerates in some direction, inertia causes the mass to ‘stay at rest’ but eventually be pulled along by the spring, when the spring stretches this effect is measured and the acceleration can be measured.

accelerate/accelerator/acceleration: to speed something up. to increase the velocity or rate. any item, object, process or mechanism to cause such increases in velocity or rate. the observation of this increase in velocity or rate.

so, “display acceleration” has nothing to do with an “accelerometer” existing or being used in a device. now, an accelerometer may be used to modify the visual display of a device, ie: display rotation due to device orientation – but this is ancillary and an arbitrary collision of nomenclature. to the extent that the rotation of a display (automatic or otherwise) may be accelerated, the above referenced application is relevant.

all of this was written with a fair amount of alcohol roaming about in my brains – so if it comes across as crude or rude, sorry. just felt this stuff needed to be said. in the end my sentiment is mostly, “meh, why was the application confused with the sensor”?

btw: i have no idea if this app works, i’ve never tried it. i’m certainly not trying to defend it. as a computer engineer, the only way i can see to accelerate the display, as they claim, would be to make some very fundamental modifications to the OS or hardware. sure, these could be done with, say, a firmware update. but a 3rd party developer doing this? i would think the symbian signed security would be intended to prevent such changes being made by any application not installed via a hack. just my thoughts.

why are you associating his app with the accelerometer hardware in the phone – they have nothing to do with each other.

accelerometer: hardware device, a sensor that detects acceleration. typically a micro electro-mechanical sensor (MEMS) device using tiny little known masses on springs connected to electrodes to measure the relative resistance of that spring as the mass exerts force on it due to the affect of acceleration. ie: when the sensor accelerates in some direction, inertia causes the mass to ‘stay at rest’ but eventually be pulled along by the spring, when the spring stretches this effect is measured and the acceleration can be measured.

accelerate/accelerator/acceleration: to speed something up. to increase the velocity or rate. any item, object, process or mechanism to cause such increases in velocity or rate. the observation of this increase in velocity or rate.

so, “display acceleration” has nothing to do with an “accelerometer” existing or being used in a device. now, an accelerometer may be used to modify the visual display of a device, ie: display rotation due to device orientation – but this is ancillary and an arbitrary collision of nomenclature. to the extent that the rotation of a display (automatic or otherwise) may be accelerated, the above referenced application is relevant.

all of this was written with a fair amount of alcohol roaming about in my brains – so if it comes across as crude or rude, sorry. just felt this stuff needed to be said. in the end my sentiment is mostly, “meh, why was the application confused with the sensor”?

btw: i have no idea if this app works, i’ve never tried it. i’m certainly not trying to defend it. as a computer engineer, the only way i can see to accelerate the display, as they claim, would be to make some very fundamental modifications to the OS or hardware. sure, these could be done with, say, a firmware update. but a 3rd party developer doing this? i would think the symbian signed security would be intended to prevent such changes being made by any application not installed via a hack. just my thoughts.

You are correct when pointing out that the accelerometer don’t have anything to do with the rotation of the display other than sense when to rotate.
I off course meant the moment you see the display being turned or when the transition is shown, in this moment the Speedy Go! application should have accelerated the display, this should for instance have shortened the time from when you saw the display in landscape to portrait mode and so on.

The N95 have a built in 3D graphic chip and should easily be able to rotate the display and such. The addition of boost gained by using the application should therefore without a doubt be remarkable.

When I tested this on the N95, the completely opposite happened. It took longer time to rotate the display, transition from you press the menu button till the menu comes up was slowed down and basically the framerate dropped to a critical level where you got the feeling of being in “bullet time”. Now looking away from the display, I couldn’t detect the claimed “overall speed boost” either. One can argue that it was due to the slow framerate but this essentially pulls down the whole user experience.

Obviously as you said to really gain an acceleration of the display it would have needed modifications to hardware and that the N95 was slowed down mean the application visualizes this somehow and conflicts with the 3D graphic chip.
Now while I might be unlucky with the N95, it is listed as being a compatible handsets and the application should therefore act accordingly as advertised.

You are correct when pointing out that the accelerometer don’t have anything to do with the rotation of the display other than sense when to rotate.
I off course meant the moment you see the display being turned or when the transition is shown, in this moment the Speedy Go! application should have accelerated the display, this should for instance have shortened the time from when you saw the display in landscape to portrait mode and so on.

The N95 have a built in 3D graphic chip and should easily be able to rotate the display and such. The addition of boost gained by using the application should therefore without a doubt be remarkable.

When I tested this on the N95, the completely opposite happened. It took longer time to rotate the display, transition from you press the menu button till the menu comes up was slowed down and basically the framerate dropped to a critical level where you got the feeling of being in “bullet time”. Now looking away from the display, I couldn’t detect the claimed “overall speed boost” either. One can argue that it was due to the slow framerate but this essentially pulls down the whole user experience.

Obviously as you said to really gain an acceleration of the display it would have needed modifications to hardware and that the N95 was slowed down mean the application visualizes this somehow and conflicts with the 3D graphic chip.
Now while I might be unlucky with the N95, it is listed as being a compatible handsets and the application should therefore act accordingly as advertised.

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I have an N97mini, awefull slow machine! the first few times it didn’t realy speed things up but now: first ran Ramblow to kill all active background apps then speedygo told me speed of my phone is 425 normal, 1071 with boost on?? didn’t believe it ’till I tested it. photo browser with couple of 100 pics now opens in 2secnds !! amazing , don’t see how it’s done but thanks speedy app. SO I think it works on an N97, or is this just a placebo effect? :p