Why does the HTC HD Mini appear so much quicker?

[shure2]

Hi,

watching a review of the hd mini on pocketnow it seems that sense is soo much faster than what we have (inc cooked roms).

The processor only has a bum of 70 off mhz and a bit of extra ram but can the performance be solely down to better memory mapping or can we get hold of this sense and port it to wvga?

review:
http://pocketnow.com/software-1/video-htc-hd-mini-sense-ui-walkthrough
(source: pocketnow.com)

 

[wearefree]

I think it has something to do with the "half-sense". For example, the photo tab doesn't auto rotate when the phone is rotated. HTC must have removed some of the features of the version of sense in HD mini to make it run smooth.

 

[orb3000]

Wrong section, please move

HD Mini has it´s own section where you can discuss

 

[jsd2]

HD Mini has it´s own section where you can discuss

you sure have a lot of posts, and a lot of respect to you, but that answer you gave startled me quite a bit.

The man obviously is making a statement in a rhodium forum that his rhodium can't keep up with a phone that's similarily spec'd. He's trying to figure out why, and I'm sure other rhodium owners, like myself, are trying to figure out why as well.

Sorry if i'm stepping on any toes. Maybe his question is perhaps dumb (i don't think so), but I think he's definitely in the correct forum.

 

[jdwrrzmm]

The Mini has a much lower resolution, too.

 

[DeathmonkeyGTX]

Fewer pixels=runs quicker.

 

[petard]

It isn't purely 70MHz more, the processor is better in other ways. The Snapdragon at 1GHz is more than twice as good as the Rhodium's running at 528MHz.

 

[stevedebi]

It isn't purely 70MHz more, the processor is better in other ways. The Snapdragon at 1GHz is more than twice as good as the Rhodium's running at 528MHz.

It is not a snapdragon, it is a Qualcomm MSM7227 running at 600 Mhz.

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2122&c=htc_hd_mini_htc_photon

 

[stevedebi]

Hi,

watching a review of the hd mini on pocketnow it seems that sense is soo much faster than what we have (inc cooked roms).

The processor only has a bum of 70 off mhz and a bit of extra ram but can the performance be solely down to better memory mapping or can we get hold of this sense and port it to wvga?

review:
http://pocketnow.com/software-1/video-htc-hd-mini-sense-ui-walkthrough
(source: pocketnow.com)

Faster processor (Qualcomm MSM7227 / 600 Mhz)
More memory, particularly RAM @ 512Mb.
Smaller screen, less to draw.