Disqus
Steve tackles this issue in an editorial over at All About Symbian.
I can’t help but notice that you’re comparing a 3 GHz x86 chip with a 200 MHz OMAP processor. Apples to oranges doesn’t even come close to describing that comparison. I acknowledge the fact that there are many things occurring at once in the OS, but it still doesn’t mean I should have to wait for the screen to reflect the action I inputed on the keypad. Processes aren’t being prioritized correctly.
I hope you attend the "Evening with S60" event in London so you can try a S60v3FP2 device for yourself. It’s honestly just as fast as S40, if not faster. I wish I could’ve tested it with the transitions turned off, but honestly I wouldn’t even bother disabling them. They’re so subtle that Mikko had to point them out to some people.
He was running FP2 on a Nokia 6290, it has a 348 MHz Freescale processor. Did that have anything to do with it? Probably.
I’ll wait until Nokia sends you a FP2 device to review to see what you have to say the about perceived performance. It certainly was one of the first things I noticed.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
