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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Barry Collins
How long does your phone take to boot?
David Fearon recently lamented the fact that, from the moment he presses the power button, his bleeding-edge PC takes a staggering seven-and-a-half minutes to doing anything vaguely useful. Well, I’ve begun to notice that today’s so-called “smartphones” are becoming similarly sluggish.
I own a reasonably bog-standard Nokia N73. In the smartphone world, this is the equivalent of a 2:1 from an ex-Polytechnic, as compared to say, the first-class honours from Oxford that is the Apple iPhone. There’s a mere smattering of non-core applications installed on the thing – the Opera Mini browser, the Gmail mobile app. No antivirus software or anything else that could potentially interfere with the boot process.
So why on earth does it take 50 seconds to get from pressing the power button to a phone that can actually, well, phone? I always turn my phone off at night to save battery and stop random drunk idiots waking me up at 4am in the morning, when they dial the number their mate Carl had 12 years ago. But should I wake up one night to find my house burning to the ground with only my mobile in reach, I’ll be suing Nokia for the 50 seconds it took my phone to kick into life, display a gruesome welcome message, and blast out that infuriatingly twee jingle, while my family are busy choking on the fumes.
And I bet the N73 isn’t the worst offender, either. Let us know how long your phone takes to wake up using the comments feature below.
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May 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Nokia E65 = 35 seconds
May 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Motorola Z8 18 to 24 seconds depending how you count them. 18 from the point the screen shows a stupid animated logo; 24 from the point your finger rises from the power-on button. The Z8 has the most annoying power on I have met: you have to press the red off-hook button for several seconds, but it gives no sign of having agreed to turn on until several seconds after you let go – and when you have the phone open (as you have to to get it to turn on) the pressure you exert on the button will either move the phone partway closed (aborting the turnon) or make the battery cover flip open on the back (at least the battery doesn’t fall out).
I loved the RIZR’s ergonomics but the bluetooth range was silly – the Z8 isn’t a RIZR upgrade and the Symbian menus are grindlingly condescending, not to mention dog slow in action. My Siemens SX1 is more usable!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Samsung D900 = 23 seconds
May 13th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
85 seconds for my O2 XDA Steller! And I wouldn’t say I have that many non essential startup items! Damn WIndows Mobile, can’t wait to replace it with an iPhone 2 next month!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
HTC Touch = 54 seconds. Also using Windows Mobile…
May 14th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Nokia 3330 – 8 seconds
I used to think it was slow…
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