Hardware, operating system, speed
The handset has the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, we currently have no information about an upgrade possibility to 6.5. The CPU is a 533 MHz Samsung S3C6410, which is based on a 65 nm ARM1176JZF-S core. This is a CPU that has nice Egy specifications, which hasn’t been previously used in handsets, but we will from now on, and only in other Acers. The CPU can be scaled from 533 MHz-800 MHz, so the one in X960 is clocked at the lowest speed. Its interesting feature is that it has hardware 3D acceleration, it supports OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL 2.0 and D3DM, while its raw calculation is speed is four million polygons/second. The number of Windows Mobile devices with hardware 3D acceleration is very low, so there is no software support, which means we won’t really see this feature of X960.
The new device has 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, which is filled with programs, so there is not much free memory left: we have about 80 MB for storing programs and only 30 MB for running applications.
Let’s see the benchmark results:
| Pocket PC Mark v1.03 | VsBenchmark 2007 | ||
| Dhrystone Bench. (CPU) | 126.74 | Graphics | 2602 |
| Whetstone Bench. (CPU) | 7.55 | Others | 1642 |
| Memory Benchmark | 951.17 | JPEG | 4573 |
| File system Benchmark | 585.56 | Games | 1261 |
| Storage Cards | - | Sound | 1906 |
| Graphics Benchmark | 47.03 | Final | 2396 |
No matter the hardware 3D acceleration, it seems that the new Samsung processor is not good enough for the VGA display, at least that’s what the really low score of Pocket PC Mark’s graphical benchmark says. During everyday use I didn’t feel the handset that slow, although it’s no speed champion either. Fortunately screen changes are fast and have no lag, but it happened quite frequently that the handset was “thinking” about something and I had to wait a couple of seconds for something to happen.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
