So the original iPhone used the same processor as all these phones. Nobody complained about them being slow. Perhaps it has more to do with Dalvik being particularly slow:
Also the iPhone doesn't multitask user programs. A lot of the sluggishness people may see in Android is because of background processes. Also dalvik is a virtual machine so it isn't going to perform as well as a native OS (though it does pretty well for a VM). The G1 was clocked lower than the iPhone 3G, so that may also be a reason.
However in general I don't believe the iPhone/iPhone 3G really blew away the existing Android phones in speed. It was the 3GS and Palm Pre that did.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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So the original iPhone used the same processor as all these phones. Nobody complained about them being slow. Perhaps it has more to do with Dalvik being particularly slow:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html
Yes, but that was two plus years ago - eons in handset time. People compare current phones with current OS's.
Actually I did point out that it was slow in my review :)
"There are many complaints that you can levy on the iPhone, it's too slow, expensive, it can't do X Y or Z..."
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3027&p=28
Something I reiterated when the 3G launched the following year. Just like Atom, ARM11 is "good enough" for many users but by no means is it fast.
Take care,
Anand
Also the iPhone doesn't multitask user programs. A lot of the sluggishness people may see in Android is because of background processes. Also dalvik is a virtual machine so it isn't going to perform as well as a native OS (though it does pretty well for a VM). The G1 was clocked lower than the iPhone 3G, so that may also be a reason.
However in general I don't believe the iPhone/iPhone 3G really blew away the existing Android phones in speed. It was the 3GS and Palm Pre that did.
Plenty of people complained about them being slow.