Testing

In reaction to Matthaus Krzykowski’s article Yesterday, Google shrank the feature phone market with Android 2.2

Matthäus, you do realize that

a) 450% speed increase is in computational heavy code only? GUI calls and image compositing was native before, it won’t be accelerated
b) the only thing that is being accelerated is the Dalvik Java VM. Dalvik runs interpreted Java Code as opposed to modern Just-in-time compilers. “Modern” is relative of course JIT for Java has been around since 1997.
c) the old Dalvik VM was horribly slow. It has been measured to be as much as 100x slower than native C Code.

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html
http://occipital.com/blog/2008/11/02/android-performance-3-iphone-comparison/

Also, the lack of speed isn’t what makes a feature phone cheaper. It’s the whole package, especially the screen.

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