I can make a case for the necessity of stock 60 FPS. I almost converted a friend of mine to make the switch from his iPhone 3Gs to the Evo. But after playing with my Evo (stock at the time), he kept complaining about how choppy things were.
I had no clue what he was talking about, since most of my experience up to that point had been exclusively the Evo. But once he handed over his iPhone, I immediately saw what he was talking about. The UI was perfectly smooth, and it tracked your finger very precisely. In a word, the presentation was simply POLISHED. Granted this is a largely cosmetic issue, but it goes a long way toward the overall presentation. And I have no doubt that the average Joe, who could care less about tech specs and rooting were to play with a stock Evo and any iPhone side-by-side, they'd say the iPhone was so much "faster."
I played with the Samsung Epic 4G yesterday. It is super smooth with excellent finger tracking. Why do HTC phones have to settle? I really hope that HTC's next flagship phone is not nerfed like this.
Whatever reason HTC had for making the decision to cap the FPS, the Evo devs have PROVEN that it wasn't a necessary decision, as evidenced by netarchy's FPS fix that's in pretty much all custom ROMs now. Therefore, HTC should not have to make the same decision again for a future phone.
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