Hardware, operating system

As I have already mentioned, Flame is a bit old guy now and this can be seen on the OS: Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition. It is said that WM 6 Professional is also available, but only unofficially, so installing it leads to the warranty becoming void. Fortunately the hardware compensates for this nuisance: 520 MHz Intel XScale PXA270 CPU, 128 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM (user space: 1720 MB for storage, 82 MB memory), GoForce 5500 graphic accelerator. This is typically the wow category; it’s worth being called a unique phone. As for games, the nVidia graphic chip is not the best choice and for energy saving a PXA310 processor would have been better, but anyway, the brute force is still given, so the overall picture is just fine.

After turning it on I sadly observed that the system is not as fast as I would have expected it to be. There is no problem when scrolling in the main menu, but starting up applications takes up quite a time, even returning from standby lasts 2 seconds. Unfortunately speed tests further support my statement.

Looking at the results of Asus P735, equipped with a similar processor, Flame’s results are disappointing. We’re not talking about a few percents of difference – the processor is three times slower, the same is true for the memory, the file system and unfortunately for the graphics performance too: what does the GoForce do, may we ask by right. I can only hope that only optimization – that is the lack of it – is the trouble, which can be corrected with a newer ROM, but I could not verify this.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!