Ten Most Powerful Smart Phones

The Ten Most Powerful Smart Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 5th, 2009

Forbes reviews The Most Powerful Smart Phones:

Most phone processors have speeds of 300 to 620 megahertz. These days, there are dozens of smart phones at the upper end of that range (512 and 624 megahertz). Several phones, such as the Asus 565, Samsung Jet and Toshiba TG01, are even faster, clocking in at 800 megahertz or, in the case of the TG01, one gigahertz, making them more powerful than early computers. In fact, some of the fastest phone processors, like Qualcomm’s one-gigahertz Snapdragon, are also being used to power lightweight netbooks or smartbooks.

Different phones are fast at different things, making speed comparisons between devices difficult. BlackBerrys are standouts with productivity applications; the iPhone shines on the Internet; the Palm Pre is known for multitasking between various applications, and the Samsung Omnia HD is a high-performance multimedia device. “It’s not just about raw processing power, like in PCs,” says In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor. “These are very complex system-on-chips.”

Their list of powerful smartphone includes;

• Asus P565 (review): An 800 megahertz processor with 128 megabytes of RAM.
• BlackBerry Bold (review): The AT&T device has a 624 megahertz processor and 128 megabytes of memory.
• HTC Imagio (review):: Most of its phones, including its latest, the multimedia-focused Imagio, use Qualcomm’s 528 megahertz processors.
• IPhone 3GS (review): the 3GS’ processor runs at 600 megahertz, compared to 412 megahertz in previous model
• Palm Pre (review): Palm chose Texas Instruments’ 600 megahertz OMAP 3 platform to provide the necessary horsepower.
• Samsung 360 H1 (review): A 600 megahertz processor helps the device keep up with the constant stream of information.
• Samsung Jet (review):: The company says the device’s 800 megahertz processor makes Web browsing faster and improves video playback.
• Samsung Omnia HD (review):: A 600 megahertz processor helps the device process images and HD multimedia quickly.
• Sony Satio (review): A 600 megahertz processor
• Toshiba TG01 (review): The fastest phone in the world, based on processor speed, may be the Toshiba TG01. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform, which has a 1 gigahertz CPU.

The HTC Touch HD2 — or whatever it will be called — also packs a 1GHz MSM8250 (Snapdragon). It features HSPA with up to 7.2Mbps, a 4.3-inch multitouch display, integrated FM radio, 5 megapixel autofocus cam, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Rumor has it that T-Mobile UK could be joining O2 in offering the beast.

Motorola’s Android-based CLIQ uses a Qualcomm 7201a processor at 528 Mhz, with 512 Mb of flash memory, 256 Mb of RAM and a microSD memory card slot, coupled with 1 Gb of memory for user data.

Of course speed is only one consideration. Price and battery life are at least as important.

Meanwhile, AT&T has already announced two of its own Windows 6.5 phones, the HTC Pure ($149.99), a keyboard-less smartphone, and the HTC Tilt 2 (299.99) with a keyboard and 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor.

source : dailywireless.org