E-TEN glofiish DX900 - dual-SIM mohican

Hardware, operating system, speed

We are used to that E-TEN handsets are usually based on Samsung’s actual chipset, and DX900 is not different, as its CPU is a 533 MHz S3C6400 processor. The manufacturer didn’t install very much memory, we have only 40 MB free of the 128 MB RAM available for running programs, and the 256 MB ROM has a bit over 100 MB free. The operating system is of course Windows Mobile Professional 6.1, but it’s important to note that according to some rumors Acer will provide an upgrade possibility for 6.5 as soon as it is launched.

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E-TEN devices always had two problems. The first is that their Samsung chipset wasn’t good enough for nicely handling the VGA resolution display, which resulted in a rather stuttering performance. The other has been that the manufacturer barely installed any memory, even though that’s where they have put all the default applications, so there always has been a lack of free memory. Unfortunately I have to report that both are true for DX900 as well, the first is even more serious than before. The handset, even in spite of the theoretically powerful hardware, is damn slow, it has happened quite frequently that after issuing a command I had to wait about 5-10 seconds, which makes me think if it is usable at all. I’ve been curious if it’s a non-final software that’s installed on the phone, or we’re having some weak hardware, so I ran the usual test applications. Here are the results:

Let’s notice the graphics benchmark results of Pocket PC Mark, which would have a good chance for the “worst results ever” award, and it’s another explanation why DX900 so incredibly slow. Of course we can still hope that a new driver improves the situation a bit. Other results of PPC Mark weren’t great either, and VsBenchmark gave a final score above 2000 marks only because the sound system result was very good – but besides that we won’t be astonished by the device.

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