Press Release
Enables independent
performance testing and comparison of the latest
Symbian smartphones
Espoo, Finland - May 9,
2007
Futuremark Corporation,
the industry leading provider of system
performance analysis software and services for cell phones, handhelds
and PCs today announced the general availability of SPMark for Symbian
OS v9.
SPMark for Symbian OS v9
is the most comprehensive benchmark for modern
smartphones. The product works on the latest Symbian OS(tm) devices,
and enables users to professionally measure and compare performance
across various smartphones and workloads.
SPMark gives an easy-to-understand SPMark score for
Symbian OS v9
smartphones which is fully comparable with scores obtained from other
supported devices running the same software. The benchmark is
immediately available in 2 different versions:
* Free end-user/consumer version that includes 3D gaming and
theoretical tests for 3D performance evaluation
* Pro version that additionally includes system tests for
Symbian
applications (e.g. calendar and contacts database), customizable test
runs and a battery test.
SPMark for
Symbian OS v9 is a new product in the SPMark series of
Symbian OS benchmarks. The first product, SPMark04, was released in
2004 and supports
Symbian OS v6.x, v7.x and v8.x smartphones.
Both SPMark for
Symbian OS v9 and SPMark04 contain the same system
tests, making it easy to compare the two results.
"Mobile operators, mobile media and even consumers can now use our
SPMark for
Symbian OS v9 benchmark to measure and compare the
performance, usefulness, and power consumption between a wide range of
smartphones including the latest
Symbian OS phones from Sony Ericsson,
Motorola, Nokia, LG and Samsung", said Petri Talala, Vice President,
Mobile Business for Futuremark Corp.
"Increasingly, consumers are choosing high performance phones with rich
multimedia application support for cool graphics.
Symbian is working
with the industry to enable mobile handset manufacturers to use the
latest and greatest graphics and multimedia acceleration technology"
said Mike Whittingham, Vice President, Ecosystem Development for
Symbian. "Futuremark's SPMark enables the whole industry to evaluate
the performance and usefulness of new hardware with the real-world
application content and system level tests that will be appearing on
Symbian OS v.9x smartphones."
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