Comments on: iPhone is powered by 620MHz ARM CPU! What are the Symbian OS handset makers doing?

By: James

James — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:50:29 +0000

It is very likely the iphone has a 3D. the ARM chip that is built into the iphone supports and ARM Mali200 coprocessor. Which is a very powerful feature rich 3D chip. In my opinion it’s making ATI mobile chips look old fashion as ARM’s chip is a complete new architecture designed for mobiles. where the ATI chips are based on their Desktop big brothers. I do hope the iPhone has the ARM Mali200 chip, as it formidable design. 2xPSP me thinks.

ARM Mali200 in action
youtube.com/watch?v=UWCVZiYr1Sw

iPhone has a ARM11 + 4 other ARM chips
youtube.com/watch?v=VINkyUbKylY&NR=1

By: dusanb

dusanb — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:03:21 +0000

I see your points, but on the other hand when I start a demanding application on my N93, it simple closes other apps? It doesn’t even ask me!

For instance I’m running a Nokia Podcast app and am in the midst of listening of a sound file. Then I start Tomb Raider game, and guess what – Podcasting app is no more!

I agree that Symbian OS is well optimized. But on the other hand, Nokia DO put more RAM in the E90. Also Sony Ericsson P1i and W960 have more memory.

Symbian 9.5 promises a lot. But we still have to see a device running under Symbian 9.3. I would love to see both Nokia and Sony Ericsson announcing new, more powered devices tomorrow. But I guess we’ll have to wait for that…

By: NADEEM

NADEEM — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:51:51 +0000

Dont know y u all r discussin this..
just try to run Windows Vista on a pentium 3.. it will slow.
same applies here
symbian OS is not a memory hog. and require power less then Apples Iphone OS require.
second take is .. New version os Symbian (9.5) is much faster (reports)
so there is no way to compare two diffrent device with diffrent OS.
Nokia will come with a faster processor (Report)
but OS should also be tweaked to use that.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:54:53 +0000

Get an iPhone, you won’t be disgusted

By: dusanb

dusanb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:26:47 +0000

Now you got everything wrong.

Nokia E90 rocks! It’s too bulky for my taste, but it’s the fastest Symbian phone to date. Plus, it has more memory than any other S60 device.

Still, it’s your call.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:16:07 +0000

I was about to go buy the E90, however after reading this report I will either wait until Nokia comes out with an upgrade Arm 620MHz CPU or buy the iPhone instead. Frankly I’m disgusted at Nokia for pulling this on us. This is their flagship model and they come up with an underperforming CPU!!!

By: PlayerKill

PlayerKill — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:00:42 +0000

I totally agree with you, Dusan!

The CPUs and RAMs in Nokia S60 phones really blow and multi-tasking isn’t so fast as a result.

I hate this, a lot. Nokia (and SE) should be less stingy and give us faster CPU and more RAM. If apple can put a CPU twice as fast as Nokia can, it really shows how stingy Nokia is. >_>

I hope S60 phones will have better performance.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:42:22 +0000

It does not run the full Mac OS. The iPhone runs its own version – just because applications like Safari have the same name as the full-fledged Mac OS X version does not mean they are one and the same. Still, the interface is fantastic!

3D gaming, here I come! Good info Dusan!

By: dusanb

dusanb — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:41:54 +0000

ARM’s site suggests that “the ARM1176JZF-S processor also features an integrated floating point coprocessor, which makes it particularly suitable for embedded 3D-graphics applications.” In the other words, it may not have a separate GPU, but it should be able to pull some 3D gaming.

By: James @ The Creative Life Blog

James @ The Creative Life Blog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:39:33 +0000

This is very interesting . . . It gets me wondering about the gaming potential of the iPhone (and future S60 phones), surely the iPhone is faster than a PSP? Does it have hardware 3D stuff – I guess it must.

By: William

William — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:48:07 +0000

But it runs the whole Mac OS