why did ms underlock the spv and e100 not not mitac and mot?

[Guest kingdom master]

why would microsoft allow the spv and e100 to be underclocked when the new motorola and mitac are much faster processors it doesnt make sense?

will they voyager be faster? i would have thought so.

kingdom

[Guest morpheus2702]

Posted from my SmartPhone! Is it actually anything to do with MS and an underclocked processor? Isn't it more to do with HTC choosing to use a particular chip at the time, and a year down the line better processors are available? Make sense or am I talking out my arse?

[Guest spacemonkey]

You have it bangon morpheus.

M$ don't dictate chip or speed for hardware devices, they just said it needed to be ARM based. HTC chose to use a StrongARM chip running at 133Mhz, and look at the battery life we got.

A later phone manufacturer chose to use a Intel XScale chip at 200Mhz, it's all about what they can buy, when they can get it to market and getting it to work in a viable device (as in balancing quick enough against battery life, etc)

[Guest amo]

Plus, I didn't think the processor itself was underclocked - it just ran two processors. One for the gsm and one for the actual wince side of the phone? (Correct me if i'm wrong)

[Guest Will]

correct amo!

Will

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[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Other than the screen size/tech and keyboard layout, MS are only concerned with the software side of the phone (surprising that, them being a software house and all :))