Comments on: Nokia’s New N97 Flagship: CPU Mhz Isn’t Everything http://blog.taptu.com/2009/05/04/nokias-new-n97-flagship-cpu-mhz-isnt-everything/ Taptu makes it faster to find and share mobile-friendly stuff. It's the free alternative search machine, tailor made for mobile phones. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason Harris http://blog.taptu.com/2009/05/04/nokias-new-n97-flagship-cpu-mhz-isnt-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-45023 Jason Harris Thu, 14 May 2009 18:06:17 +0000 http://blog.taptu.com/?p=939#comment-45023 Good points Paul. I think it's a combination of OS and clock speed, but not clock speed alone. Good points Paul. I think it’s a combination of OS and clock speed, but not clock speed alone.

]]> By: Paul M http://blog.taptu.com/2009/05/04/nokias-new-n97-flagship-cpu-mhz-isnt-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-45014 Paul M Thu, 14 May 2009 14:49:11 +0000 http://blog.taptu.com/?p=939#comment-45014 Whilst in the world of desktops the "megahertz myth" has finally collapsed and people now work on synthetic benchmarks, people still look a the clock speed of their smartphones and complain or boast. there's a world of difference in performance between different ARM processors. For example, the Marvell (formerly Intel's XScale) PXA270 in some devices needed 30 to 50% higher clock speed than the TI Omap 24xx processors. the operating system can also make or break a device's performance - remember how Palm and their lowly Motorola 68000 based processors with sub 40MHz clock speeds would best PocketPCs (er, Windows Mobile) running at 200+ MHz? Whilst in the world of desktops the “megahertz myth” has finally collapsed and people now work on synthetic benchmarks, people still look a the clock speed of their smartphones and complain or boast.

there’s a world of difference in performance between different ARM processors. For example, the Marvell (formerly Intel’s XScale) PXA270 in some devices needed 30 to 50% higher clock speed than the TI Omap 24xx processors.

the operating system can also make or break a device’s performance – remember how Palm and their lowly Motorola 68000 based processors with sub 40MHz clock speeds would best PocketPCs (er, Windows Mobile) running at 200+ MHz?

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