“Nokia pays attention to the information that Symbian is slower than its competing operating systems” – said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President in Nokia’s Devices software organization.

 The Futuremark’s independent performance testing was revealed at S60 Summit held on May 28-29 in Barcelona. According to the results of the testing Symbian gave a good account of itself in 3D graphics accelerating, but yielded to Windows Mobile 6 and Linux in 2D and mp3 decoding tests (See the table below).

	HTC WinMobile 6	Nokia N93i Symbian 9.x	Nokia N810 Linux
SPMark score, Overall Score of Performance	2392	4951	3734
3D score, Overall 3D Performance Score	176	6852	138
System score, Overall System level Performance Score (basic usefulness score)	4688	1518	12586
3D Game Test, Frames / second	1,72	72,28	0,62
3D Fillrate, Mtexels / second	0,73	27	0,66
3D Polycount, Ktriangels / second	8,96	549	13,23
2D Image, Frames / second Performance of 2D Image Drawing Operations	174,26	64,19	67,85
Image scaling, Bitmaps / second Performance of Image Scaling Operations	85,17	6,2	89,23
JPEG Encoding, Kpixels / second Performance of Image Covertion/Encoding Operations	1334,20	1228,06	1498,39
Contacts, Contacts / second Basic Contacts Application Test from Performance/Usefullness point of view	17,88	11,17	41,67
Calendar, Events / second Basic Calender Application Test from Performance	15,42	7,52	N/A
Disc Access, Files / second Performance of memory (file open/save/delete) operations	25,77	38	830

  “Different operating systems have different capabilities and this explains the results. This does not mean that there is a need for radical changes in Symbian. There are other ways for speeding up the performance. We plan to add hardware acceleration for 2D graphics and decoding MP3 music. We need this since we are looking to empower our handsets to play hundreds of hours MP3 music.” - stated Mr. Williams.

 Besides, a question was raised as to the company’s plans to support the symmetrical multiprocessing technology (SMP), as one more way to improve the performance and provide flexible power consumption at the same time. “We have been working for a while on SMP support.” - noted Mr. Williams.