Video: Boot time comparison: All generations of iPhone vs Nokia Lumia 800 (v 2.0)
This is a video to show the boot time of the Nokia Lumia 800 against every version of iPhone (It’s hard to tell the difference between them).
There isn’t much significance to starting up quickly (other than not having to wait long if you’re one to turn their phone off in fear that silent might not be enough). These are the kind of tests I’ve been doing for a long while since my ancient S60 phones, mainly as a mark of progress (especially between firmwares). I appreciate quick boot times on my devices, e.g. laptop, if it’s not already in some kind of hibernate mode.
This video completes the boot time comparison made by iClarified with an additional contender: the Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5, which beats even the very last iPhone 5 in terms of boot time.
Please note: This video is a second version of another one published 3 days ago. It has been remade to fix a small fps conversion error present in the previous version (the iPhone part was treated as if it was 30 fps, when it was 24 fps). That involved it being displayed faster than it should, and therefore showing a wrong boot time measurement for the Lumia (which was displayed correctly, at 30 fps). Nokia Lumia 800 boots in 18 seconds, not 22.
That means that the difference with iPhone 5 is even greater !!!
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love to see comparison between Lumia and non-Nokia WPs
710 is faster
star tac is faster
Wow, that most stupid comparisons .
More appropriate comparison is when the phone is usable. Lumia still be best in that. I know for sure Windows 7 boots in 30 sec but not usable for next 2 minutes till it loads all it’s services. So 2 minute 30 sec is really what matters.
You need to bring in your phone for repair, mine is usable the same instant the live tiles become visible. Only telephony network connection might take a few extra seconds on top of that, but WiFi is active even before the tiles load.
He said Windows 7, not windows phone
Have you heard anything about SSD?
With SSD hard drive your Windows 7 boots in 30 sec and is usable in 5 seconds.
And with SSD windows 8 boots less than 10 sec. On diffrent PCs from 2-10 sec.
MeeGo boot time 5 minutes LOL!!!!
You might be trolling, you might not be, either way you’ve hit upon an important point.
Although it turns on quickly, the N9 is pretty poor for anywhere between 2-30minutes depending on how long it’s been switched off for.
I went away for 3 weeks taking my N8 for camera/maps and left the N9 at home (don’t have a roaming micro-sim so the phone’s next to useless abroad).
Got back, switched it on and it took 30mins to resync my GMail – internet was pretty much unusable during that time as the Sync Progress Bar crawled across the screen pixel by pixel.
Have noticed this before when (despite it being such a great OS and all) I find the N9 has been sat at home for a week or so, unused and switched off. On turning it on, Meego is REALLY bad in terms of updating everything. Generally I leave it for 15-30mins, it nearly always stalls telling me it can’t finish syncing Gmail or whatever, I reboot and all is fine.
Contrast this to WP7.5 which is up and running in seconds (my wife has a Lumia800) or the N8 which although a little sluggish for the first 60 seconds post boot is generally ready for action shortly afterwards.
The only phones that seem anywhere near as slow as the N9 are friends’ HTC’s / Motorolas which take a good 5 minutes for obvious reasons. Without Sense / Blur bloat, it’s not clear why the N9 should take so long.
In terms of Windows7 boot time – mine boots from an SSD in 15-20seconds – as long as my wife hasn’t been playing with it. Whenever she resets Skype and Citrix to start automatically this pushes boot time up to over a minute – quite revealing where the bloat is I would say – those two apps tripling the time it takes for the machine to be usable…
Your install sounds like a mess (God knows what you’ve been doing), do a clean flash & get some other pointers at TMO, it will turn your N9 into a new phone.
do I have to do hard reset?
my N9 kinda slow
As if it’s even a meaningful/relevant metric, you shouldn’t have to reboot your phone EVER, on the N9 you rarely have to (unless your messing around a lot).
Some platforms you simply can’t get by w/o rebooting once /wk or so, this is not the case for Harmattan.
Would be more interesting to see how fast the wp8 devices will boot up. It isn’t such a surprise that an minimalistic os like wp7.5 cn boot up that fast. I would rather wait a little longer and get some of the missing features instead.
How about having a real filesystem? Being able to do simple tasks like downloading any kind of file or uploading a photo within the IE?
still the n’s 1100 is quickr..