[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
I recently downloaded and installed the Kanged ICS CM9 4.0.3 onto my old Droid 3 and I must say I was extremely pleased. I didn't bother running any benchmarks to compare, as I feel they really don't gauge the devices performance anyways. The hardware specs for the Droid 3 if anyone is not familiar Ti Omap 4430 @ 1ghz power vr sgx 540 512 MB of RAM. I am positive thanks to the refinements along w/ the hardware acceleration all the transitions/scrolling were buttery smooth. I will make a list of the general applications that I've noticed transitional/UI lag in.

Notifications

: Sadly this still makes scrolling/transitions lag.

I used the 2 major launchers Go launcher Ex and ADW launcher Ex. The stock launcher was alright, as well as nova but I wasn't too fond of them.

Go launcher

: About the same performance as you would have on a GB device. Go launcher is generally smooth, but a few stutters here and there in the app drawer. I don't think it has been designed yet to support HW acceleration.

ADW Launcher EX

: Here I was blown away... Easily seemed like 60 + fps at all times for screen switching app drawer with no modifications. I did 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 and it still maintained the same quality of scrolling in the app drawer. All the drawer types even the vertical 4D were silky smooth, and showed no instances of performance degradation. Scrolling wallpapers w/ widgets on the screens no stuttering/lag BUT a slight fps degradation, I'd say it drops to mid 40's to low 50s. BUT if you use the static wallpaper it maintains the 60 fps performance. I know ADW does support HW acceleration, and I'm sure the scrolling wallpaper performance will improve.

Browser

: The stock browser does show improvements in the pinch to zoom as well as scrolling on flash intensive sites (i loaded up desktop youtube) while not quite as fluid as iOS it has drastically improved. I'd say it has improved to acceptable levels! I think we can expect to see those same gains even on the modified HTC browser. I went to the martisphography website which was discussed in this forum? Or was it another? It was stated it is a good test to see how smooth scrolling will be with graphically intensive websites since there are tons of high res photos. That or the poster was just trying to promote that website LOL. Pinch to zoom was great on a non flash website. Pinch to zoom exhibited the same performance regardless if i was zooming in on text or pictures. Although when flinging through the pictures it did slow it down and there were stutters. Same thing does occur on the stock GB browser on the Rezound. Only chipset I know that effectively navigated through that site on the stock browser (even on GB) is the exynos. Although on Opera browser the D3 and the Rezound had no issues flinging through the pictures without any lag/stuttering. But it was a bit smoother on the D3 with ICS, perfect I even dare say! Guess both stock HTC and Google browser still have those small kinks they need to work out.

Market

: The starting page of the market I noticed does stutter a bit when you scroll through it on most GB devices. But on the ICS D3 that was completely nullified.

Touch Input

: Has also greatly improved on ICS.

I really don't know if this post is informative or not. Just thought I would throw something quick together to help ease some peoples minds. I know some are tethering between the Rezound and the Nexus. I can easily say now that ICS is the ONLY advantage that the Nexus has. If the D3 a device with has lesser hardware specs can run the OS, our apps and anything we do with our devices the way it was meant to be... Just imagine how it will be on the Rezound, even a sense based one will drastically improve our user experiences. If there are apps you want me to run or websites, heck anything to see if it runs better on ICS. Just drop a request in this thread if it will help put your mind to ease. Thanks for reading.