The hottest phone in the summer battle it out
PC World delved into four of the hottest phones available this summer–the Apple iPhone 3G S, the Nokia N97, the Palm Pre, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G–to see how their hardware and software stacked up.
| Apple’s iPhone 3G S boasts a ARM Cortex A8 microprocessor running at 600MHz with 256MB. Last year’s iPhone 3G sported an ARM 11 CPU running at 412MHz, and it carried 128MB of RAM.
How do the others compare? The N97 has an ARM 11 processor running at 434MHz with 128MB of RAM, the myTouch has a 900/2100MHz processor with 288MB of RAM, and the Pre has a TI processor running at 600MHz with 256MB of RAM. It’s hard to gauge those specs side by side, given the phones’ very different operating systems and their varying processor classifications. In my usage, though, I found the iPhone 3G S and the myTouch 3G the most responsive of the bunch. |