April 18, 2006
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Why Windows Mobile 5.0 Is Slower Than Previous Versions

As people have acquired Windows Mobile 5.0 devices and upgrades, many of them have noticed that these devices are a bit slower than previous Pocket PCs.

Until now, most people have chalked this up to this operating system's switch from using RAM for long-term storage to using Flash ROM for this task. Accessing Flash ROM is inherently slower than RAM.

But a recent posting on the Windows Mobile Team Blog by Mike Calligaro says it is a bit more complicated than this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/03/16/552996.aspx
via http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12164

Why Persistent Storage is a Good Thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/07/14/438991.aspx


 
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Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:59:05 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Actually, I can second that.
Last Winter, I was playing with Qtek 9100 and I updated the ROM to WM 5. Since then I experienced things lags/gaps while I was talking to the person, I got a lot of dropped calls, sometime the phone would just freeze on me with minimal usage.

I just mainly used it for checking emails/sms/and phone calls. But that thing use to freeze on me almost every day and I had to do a soft reset.

BTw that was my second wm device, first one was sx66. Same story with that one as well.

However, if you go with Treo700W (which unfortunately came out for CDMA folks) ...Palm people got MS to do lot of ROM modifications...even though I haven't had any first hand experience, the device seems to be lot stable...relatively!

Motorola Q another WM enabled device will be hitting NA in coming months. It will be coming on CDMA tho :( once again sad for us GSM folks...words out that verizon (cdma provider) is cracking whip both on morola and ms to get it right the first time!

We'll see. WM enabled devices have great potential... but its microsoft they take time to get things rt the first time. For now I'd go with Symbian OS 9.1 - relatively stable and if you know how to code - you could even develope your cellphone applications.
Vakul
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