Introducing Word Lens, for Android

Re:Introducing Word Lens, for Android by mtgx on Friday July 06, 2012 @12:02PM (#4208311)

I'm not surprised. It has a very slow processor, and for this kind of processing you need a lot of power. In fact, I think the (original?) developer of Word Lens said he first made it in Assembly to make it fast enough even for an iPhone 4.

Plus, your phone is also on the ARMv6 architecture, and for the kind of optimization they need to do, they didn't want to bother with that older architecture.

For the record right now I have a phone with a similar processor as well, but planning on switching to a Nexus this fall.

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Re:Introducing Word Lens, for Android by jeztek on Friday July 06, 2012 @02:25PM (#4209007)

Yep, that's correct, critical sections of the pipeline are coded in assembly. Also, Word Lens only works with Android devices that have NEON support.

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Re:Introducing Word Lens, for Android by abecedarius on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:13PM (#4210357)

That needs to be explained somewhere obvious. On the market page it only tells me the app is incompatible with my device, giving me no clue what to get that would run it (except for the OS versions, which my device satisfied).

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Re:Introducing Word Lens, for Android by jeztek on Friday July 06, 2012 @10:48PM (#4210548)

We considered publishing a list of minimum requirements but we encountered phones that for whatever reason wouldn't work even though the hardware met the minimum requirements. For example, the Nexus One and HTC Evo both had low frame rates despite adequate hardware.

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