“Any speed shortcomings in Apple’s iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan yesterday,” Suzanne Tindal reports for ZDNet Australia.
“‘The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple,’ Intel’s director of ecosystems for its ultra-mobility group Pankaj Kedia said at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan. ‘The shortcomings of the iPhone have come from ARM,'” Tindal reports.
“The comment followed statements from Shane Wall, Intel’s VP, mobility group and director strategic planning, platform architecture and software, ultra-mobility group, on the device’s lack of oomph. ‘Any sort of application that requires any horse power at all and the iPhone struggles,’ he said,” Tindal reports.
“The discussion came after Wall’s keynote. ‘If you want to run full internet, you’re going to have to run an Intel-based architecture,’ he had said, claiming that Intel processors achieved two to three times the performance of ARM equivalents,” Tindal reports.
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[Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
Obviously smarting from not being able to get into iPhone and also from being dumped for NVIDIA’s much more powerful graphic chips in Apple’s new MacBook, Intel sounds like they’re due for an attitude adjustment right about now. And Apple has just the guy to deliver it.
Oh, and when my 1G iPhone had the problems discussed here, I deleted ALL the apps, rebooted, then completely reset it, and like was said, added only a few apps at a time.
I now have 60 native and added apps and links on 5 screens.
Very seldom have a problem.
How ’bout that Briefcase app?
Much easier than Air Sharing, but maybe not as stable.
I think Safari would crash less often if the iPhone had more powerful processors. Same goes with Mail and all the other apps.
@ victor
“The IBM G5 is a lot faster than any Intel processor, do you want to put it in an iPhone????”
Absolutely! Then I could use my iPhone as a hair dryer too!
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‘If you want to run full internet, you’re going to have to run an Intel-based architecture,’
So is this why we don’t get Flash on iphone?
I reloaded my iPhone last night and today everything but the mail issues seems to have gone away. So for now it looks like the iPhone is like my Windows computer and needs a regular purge and rebuild. I don’t have the same issue with my Mac and both are running a variant of OS X.
Hmm… can the Chinese even pronounce Ultra Mobility Group?
Jeff
Try deleting the offending mail account on your iPhone. After a few minutes, add it back. This helped fix my .Mac problems awhile back. Might work for others types of mail accounts.
(this is assuming it is synced somewhere else)
GMail has a different problem I hear.