Hmmm
I wonder why Nokia decided to put a weaker processor? than they could have into their flagship phone(s) 9500 & 9300?
Granted faster processor = possibly higher battery drain, but they could have made the battery slightly beefier, with only a slight size increase.
Afterall the two new 3G phones, the 6630 & 6680 both have 220mhz processors in them!?
Unless the Texas Instruments OMAP 1510 inside the 9500/9300, clocking at 150mhz is a more powerful beast than an ARM9 running at 220mhz?
Anyone know possibly why the choice in processors?
Xoio
Clock speed of processor does not equal speed of device in real-life use.
With a battery operated mobile device it is also a balancing act between power consumption and performance; faster clock rate = more power needed = shorter usage time.
And a higher clock rate implies also greater heat dissipation (more wasted power + higher tolerances required of components, more difficult to to manage without making the device too hot to the touch).
And with the 9500 there are also other rather power-hungry components (large display, WLAN, Bluetooth + of course the cellular radio) which usage time has to be "maximal" as well.
Anyway, only the original hardware designer (or whatever team did it) really knows for sure why exactly they decided to pick just that processor and run it at just that speed. They are not likely to reply here, I suppose. 😉
There are usually several reasons why this might be the case, including:
- designing a communicator is a lot harder than a Series 60 phone. Series 60 phones tend to be evolutionary compared to the revolutionary designs of Series 80 phones. Hence the 9500 has probably been in the development process for 2 years, where as the Series 60 phones most likely can churn out a new model every 9 months. Hence the choices of CPUs 2 years ago may not be as good as the choices today.
- BOM cost. Its all about the BOM. The 9500 has a whole bunch of very expensive hardware, with the screen topping it all. One way to claw back this price (remembering USD 1 at the BOM may equal USD 4-5 at the customer end), is to reduce the spec of the phone. Also, as these devices sell a crap load less than Series 60 phones, some of the items will not achieve the same economies of scale.
xoio wrote:Hmmm
I wonder why Nokia decided to put a weaker processor? than they could have into their flagship phone(s) 9500 & 9300?Granted faster processor = possibly higher battery drain, but they could have made the battery slightly beefier, with only a slight size increase.
Afterall the two new 3G phones, the 6630 & 6680 both have 220mhz processors in them!?
Unless the Texas Instruments OMAP 1510 inside the 9500/9300, clocking at 150mhz is a more powerful beast than an ARM9 running at 220mhz?
Anyone know possibly why the choice in processors?
Xoio
I will only like to ask one question to you what do you want ot do with the 9500 if you have a faster processor???????
because the battery life is grate and its because of the 150Mhz processor..... my Palm T3 used to die on me after a long day.... and i have to slow down the processor to 142Mhz to make it last longer....
For the processing of data received via Wi-Fi it is too slow, I'm afraid, and the engineers of Opera drew the attention of their counterparts at Nokia, they do not seem to have listened...
Don't tell me that some of the parts could not have become lighter to free space or weight to be used for a more performant battery (the current one is much lighter and smaller than that of the 9210) if needed. I hope Nokia read these threads and will really make of the Communicator Series their flagship with no compromise.