Hardware, speed
The device’s operating system is Windows Mobile 6 Professional, while the CPU is a 200 MHz TI OMAP 850, and I can safely say that it’s outdated. Not speed is the only reason, but 3G/HSDPA support is unavailable in devices using this architecture, due to hardware limitations, so the fastest data transfer that can be used is EDGE. As a positive aspect we can only mention low power consumption, but in the era of new Qualcomm CPUs and 1500-2000 mAh batteries I think this is no reason for using old OMAP chips.
There is a serious issue with the memory too, as RAM is only 64, while ROM is 128 MB large. This is really a shame on its own, but the loads of pre-installed software only add to the problem: we have only 17 MB for storing programs, while the size of the dynamic memory is 19 MB. There is 745 MB of free space on the included memory card, but this is no compensation for the ridiculously small amount of memory for running programs.
This time we’ve been testing the machine’s speed with two software, besides the good old Pocket PC Mark we have also used VsBenchmark 2007, that you could have seen in the review of E-TEN X650. By using two programs we can provide an even more authentic base for comparisons. Here are the results:
| Pocket PC Mark v1.03 | VsBenchmark 2007 | ||
| Dhrystone Benchmark (CPU) | 57.72 | Graphics | 901 |
| Whetstone Benchmark (CPU) | 2.52 | Others | 1056 |
| Memory Benchmark | 314.24 | JPEG | 870 |
| File system Benchmark | 81.94 | Games | 784 |
| Storage Cards | - | Sound | 1081 |
| Graphics Benchmark | 93.86 | Final | 938 |
There’s not much to say about Pocket PC Mark results, the device received the expected, quite low, marks. Results from VsBenchmark can only be compared to the previously mentioned glofiish phone as of yet. Asus is at least 50 percent behind in every test, the highest difference is in the JPEG test results, as marks for P527 are a mere 20% of X650’s, which has a Samsung CPU.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
