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Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

tunelabguy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:24:03 +0200

Actually this may be good news to me. One of the problems with Windows Mobile with my application (professional piano tuning) is that you only get about 5 hours of running time out of the battery. If a slower CPU speed can translate into longer battery life, and if I can get my application to work under the slower speed, then maybe a piano tuner can use the program all day long on a single charge. That would be good.

Robert Scott
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

rbrunner — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:20:36 +0200

I got the impression that on average the clock speeds of the ARM processors in Symbian phones are a little lower than for the Windows machines, but for various reasons the CPU speed advantage (sometimes double the speed) often does not translate into a comparable overall speed-up.

Even tasks that just calculate things without any I/O might be influenced by the speed of the memory interface as strongly as by the CPU speed itself.

I read more than once that some versions of Nokia's Communicators are a little sluggish, with CPU speeds of only 150 MHz, but other models seem to be ok in general.

Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

tunelabguy — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:51:32 +0200

Quote from: Bobbee Tec

...Generally speaking, you'll quickly discover that Windows Mobile is *FAR* slower compared to Symbian.

What about the phones themselves? I have a Windows Mobile app that I would like to port to Symbian phones. It is CPU bound by extensive signal analysis code that has nothing to do with the operating system. Most Windows Mobile devices are 200 MHz to 500 MHz ARM processors. What about the phones that run Symbian?

Robert Scott
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

chitransh_chetan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:35:56 +0200

I don't know about the real device, but ya, the emulator is really slow one. The event handling is very slow, we have to wait till the first event get finish, unless it will just negelect that event.

Currently i am testing my application on emulator. As i found that there is some speed issue with the Windows Smartphone Emulator.

BR
Chetan

Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

Bobbee Tec — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:09:14 +0200

Are you using an emulator, or real phones when you're trying those things?

You need to compare real phones, and then look at the speed of the processors on those phones, how much memory they have, etc. etc.

Generally speaking, you'll quickly discover that Windows Mobile is *FAR* slower compared to Symbian.

Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

chitransh_chetan — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:16:52 +0200