HTC Explains: EVO 4G 30FPS Limitation Due to HDMI Hardware
The HTC EVO 4G is one super smartphone, so owners were none too pleased to find out that their handset capable of frame rates reaching towards 60FPS was capped at 30FPS by software restraints. Many have wondered why this is the case, and the answer given by a representative at an event promoting the HTC Aria is pretty straightforward: yes the phone is capable of higher frame rates, yes the 30FPS cap is a software limitation, but the cap is only in place due to hardware limitations on the part of the EVO’s HDMI-out.
While you will never be able to get more than 30FPS out of your device when connected via HDMI regardless, HTC would need to release an update that could turn the cap on and off based on the presence of an HDMI connection in order to get the full frame rate out of the EVO. Then again, that’s what the Android hacker community is for…
[via BGR]