Hardware, speed
The inside of Asus P320 reveals lots of clumsiness from the designers. There is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional running on a 200 MHz TI OMAP 850 CPU. This chipset is really outdated now, it doesn’t support 3G due to hardware limitations, it’s quite slow but at the same time it doesn’t consume too much power – although it doesn’t need much less than currently used, popular Qualcomm solutions that have double the clock speed. ROM is 128 MB large, RAM is 64 MB, we have 22 (!) MB free for storing data and 27 MB for running programs, which is a shockingly low amount. Although the storage capacity can be expanded, but we still need some internal memory for installing programs, as cabinet files are first copied over there by ActiveSync/WMDC. Asus P320 was the first handset where I couldn’t install VsBenchmark, there was just not enough space, no matter I have installed a 2 GB microSD card.
Fortunately Pocket PC Mark ran without problems, here are the results:
| Pocket PC Mark v1.03 | ||
| Dhrystone Benchmark (CPU) | 66.74 MIPS | |
| Whetstone Benchmark (CPU) | 2.51 MWIPS | |
| Memory Benchmark | 337.03 points | |
| File system Benchmark | 73.95 points | |
| Graphics Benchmark | 102.51 points | |
Based on the benchmarks the handset is at about the same level as HTC Touch, that has similar hardware. During everyday use I have seen slowdowns a couple of times, I had to wait too much for program launches, but scrolling was surprisingly smooth, I have no idea what the manufacturer did with this part.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
