Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2007-11-14 , 22:39
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#158
Originally Posted by bakerbaker View Post
the only thing id like to see on a n900 is a much stronger cpu. id like to be able to start/run applications faster than the 3 yr old palm tx [..]
They start faster on PDAs because on PDAs the applications are in memory already. On the TX it's non-volatile memory, but still. PDAs use memory as storage, and PalmOS has execute-in-place. That's why such PDAs can start applications instantly. The N800 must first copy the application code from storage (even from flash it takes some time) to memory before it can be run.

If you want to compare the speed properly then you must leave the application running on the N800 and then measure how long it takes to de-iconize it. Because, this is very close to what a PDA actually does when you 'launch' it.
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