Wizard / Qtek 9100 streets ahead of M5000?

[Guest xspyda]

Tonight, I have been tinkering with an M5000 (straight out of the box) and am not at all impressed!

Ok, so why am I posting in the Wizard forum? Well, apart from not wanting to upset the many happy M5000 users, it does have relevance as I would like to know how the Wizard / Qtek 9100 compares with it as I am shortly to receive one.

Can anyone who has either the K-Jam / Vario or Qtek 9100 PLEASE assure me that it is nowhere near as sluggish as the M5000? Also, it MUST be a hell of a lot nicer to use as it will be going back if not.

I think you get the idea now how much I hated the M5000, right?!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

The Wizard is nowhere near as sluggish, bizarrely.

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[Guest xspyda]

,Nov 16 2005, 00:14]The Wizard is nowhere near as sluggish, bizarrely.

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Good man, that's what I was hoping to hear! :-))

Edited November 16, 2005 by xspyda

[Guest afhstingray]

very strange considering the processor speed of the universal is about double lol.....

and i read a few reviews saying while playing windows media in the background it does slow down considerably

however for the responsiveness of the system, i think this proves the universal rom still has work to be done on it

[Guest allydent]

People get very hung up about the processor speed of the wizard. The difference is in the clock speed, not the number of calculations per second, or the type of processing.

Take Intels and AMDs for PCs. The AMDs clock over a gigahertz slower for similar performance levels, due to differences in processor design and enhanced floating point operation.

Modern processor design, especially in companies like TI and ARM etc who focus on CPUs for devices that aren't PCs, rely less on clock speed for advancement and more on better features and design, and taking more standard software processes and making them hardware based.

So although the wizard has half the processor speed of say the older magician, I've not heard anybody say it performs badly, or can't run processor intensive applications like games or media decoding.

I'd be interested to see what the actual data is for calculations per second of the type used in phones under different kinds of usage. For example, does the wizard over-perform or under-perform mathematical operations like playing mp3s? Or graphics intensive operations like games? Does the processor have good hardware focus on these types of usages, enhancing overall performance beyond that of the faster clocked older chips.

If anybody knows where to find this info, please post it or pm me.

[Guest afhstingray]

yes yes i know that but a few reviews said they noticed sluggishness when playing mp3's and surfing the net at the same time

so im curious too

and because of that processor, the battery life is KILLER!!! (im jealous :D)

edit: there is a glowing review of it on the gadgeteer today by a guest reviewer, but since its his personal device, im not too sure if its just a little biased :)

anyway all in all, the wizard gets my recommendation of "best ppcphone to buy" at the moment. cos not everyone can agree with the massive m5000

until the xda atom comes out that is, i think that will take that title from the wizard (unless a keyboard is needed) because most people would value the fm radio and incredibly small size better than the keyboard

Edited November 17, 2005 by afhstingray

[Guest Rob.P]

I was worried about the size of the wizard all the way up until it arrived, was surprised once I had it in my hand, only slightly bigger in width and deepth compared to a C500.

I was looking forward to the XDA Atom, but now I'm not so sure, the keyboard that I thought would never get used is a godsend, I did I cope without one before I don't know.

[Guest DancingMatt]

Can't the SANDRA software suite run benchmarks of PDAs etc? Sure it can for some smartphones?

So perhaps we could use that as a start and benchmark our own? (Our, meaning yours, I haven't got a Vario yet...)

[Guest Emad]

Wizard runs movies and emulators slower than the universal. For multitasking etc its usually fine to leave stuff in your memory.