Today's mobile phones have now about the same processing power as what PC's had some ten years ago, and apparently we see them growing more powerful and faster. Thanks to the technology today, it is possible to use more sophisticated and faster applications on our phones. Until recently, applications used on mobile phones were traditionally limited to the general use of our phones like calendar, ring tones and contact lists. However with the improving hardware and software technology today, the applications being developing for mobile phones are increasing and these applications are getting even more similar to their relatives in PC platform.
Today's smart phones have around processors of 100-150 MHz, 4-8 MB memory and 4-64 MB storage. Screen resolution and dimensions are naturally smaller than that of PCs; Series60 devices have 176*208 pixels, and UIQ devices 208*320 pixels. Popular manufacturers like ATI and NVIDIA started to present 3D graphic accelerators for mobile phones which a number of PDA manufacturers have already started integrating into their products. . This technology was not present for PC's until the last decade. Another development has been in multimedia applications, which again did hardly exist in last decade's PC's. Phones have gone through a similar process like PC's did. But unlike the PC, a camera has been added to smart phones. Generally smart phones, unlike PC's are compared among themselves according to their features instead of performance. The main reason for this is obviously that smart phones have relatively static components that PC's. For instance, it is not yet possible to replace a smart phone's processor in order to have a better performance. Replaceable components are limited to memory cards. So the best you can do to increase your phone's performance is to buy a faster memory card suitable for your device.
hardwaremania
Jul 10, 2004, 01:26 PM
