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> On 27/01/11 14:24, Ray Rashif wrote:<br>> > The closest to Linux is the N900. Then you have the Androids.<br>> <br>> Yep, the N900 is really the only serious option I know of. Android <br><br>The N900 feels like a computer with a GMS chip bolted on. It feels like home,<br>SSH login, bash/tcsh, all the usual tools, easy to root and get access to CPU<br>clocking options and if you don't might putting PA into a hissy fit then you <br>can get right at the ALSA drivers and get low latency audio.<br><br>Android, on the other hand, feels like a phone. It does have the capacitive<br>rather than resistive screen so you don't have to hammer away like the N900,<br>and you get multitouch thrown in there. Pretty cool for audio although the<br>Google Dalvic code does tend to confuse pointer co-ordinates at a rather<br>surpisingly high rate.<br><br>> It sounds like Android 2.3 has new APIs that provide lower-level audio <br>> access capable of realtime performance, but there's only one phone out <br>> there running 2.3 today (Google's new Nexus S), and I haven't seen <br>> much/any talk about Android music apps updating to the new APIs yet anyway.<br><br>So the going rate is that OpenSL was not intended to reduce latency, just to<br>remove the effects of garbage collection when using a Java thread. Have not<br>tested this since, as you note, it is not really readily available.<br><br>Regards, nick.<br> </body>
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