[ptx]

Back in 2008 when Android phones were first released, there was a blog post[1] about Dalvik's (lack of) performance and I decided to try it on my Sony Ericsson K800i[2], which was released in 2006 and ran Java ME apps (and miraculously even had an "app store" even though Apple wouldn't invent it until 2008).

The microbenchmark in the blog post ran in 922 milliseconds on the Google G1 (a.k.a. HTC Dream), or 520 without the assignment in the loop. On my K800i the corresponding numbers were 190–220 ms and 135–165 ms – although I had to scale the size of the buffer down from 1228800 to 1100000 elements due to lack of memory, but scaling the results up by that factor the K800i was still 3–4 times as fast as the G1.

Hardware-wise the G1 should have been much faster. It had an ARM11 at 528 MHz and the K800i had (I think) an ARM9 at somewhere around or below 200 MHz.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20091123074004/http://occipital.c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K800i

[signal11]

Hey, a fellow K800i owner! I loved that phone, used to run Gmail on it (J2ME app). For its time it also had a pretty good camera. As far as I remember it didn't have a headphone jack though, just some weird proprietary headphones.