No wonder iPhone works so fast …
I’m a Nokia and Sony Ericsson smartphone user and would love to see them using the CPUs that actually cross the 400 Mhz border. At the moment, Nokia is using ~320 Mhz CPUs for their flagship models – N95 and E90 Communicator, while Sony Ericsson goes for even less-powered – a ~210 MHz CPU. Is that enough? NO!
The story doesn’t end there. With the exception of the Nokia E90, Sony Ericsson P1i and Sony Ericsson W960i, all other Symbian OS based smartphones have less than 100MB of RAM (actually most of them have less than 50 MB of RAM available). Meaning, that multitasking works only on smaller apps — try loading some complex page in your web browser, your gallery and a camera app and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Don’t get me wrong — I love Symbian OS, I just don’t like its licensees’ idea of using the uber-optimized mobile OS to put less memory or a slower CPU in the smartphone. Yes, some of them come with a dedicated GPU, but that doesn’t help much in most cases. C’mon Nokia, Sony Ericsson and now Motorola — you can do better than that. Show us what you got!
In the meantime, bravo goes to Apple for making the iPhone one of the fastest devices on the market — at least in terms of speed of the built-in CPU.
[Via: Engadget]
Update: Stefan here, I just had to put this little snippet in when I saw Dusan’s post. The CPU inside the Apple iPhone is reportedly the Samsung S3C6400, a processer I saw 3 months ago at the S60 Summit in Madrid. Does it mean Nokia is interested in using it? Maybe. Does it mean other manufactures using the S60 licence might use it? Maybe, but we don’t know. Here is the reference board that was on display running Symbian:
