is there a big drop off between the curve and the storm i wanna get a bb but i am not a huge fan of touchscreens and would love the bold to come to verizon. but i might have to settle for the curve how fast is it i don't want to be stuck with old technology.
If you want other opinions, I suggest posting in another forum. This particular one is for Curves (and since you're comparing to the Bold), I'm sure you'll find other opinions on the Bold forum. As you can tell - us Curve lovers, LOVE our phones! :-)
I've been pretty satisfied with my 8330 Curve from VZW. I went to an ATT store to check out the Bold. It's faster than the Curve. The image gallery loads faster and the applications screen loads faster. Many of the applications load about the same speed. The only way you could tell the Bold was faster is if you already own a Curve. I'm still getting compliments on my Curve.
Some factors affecting the speed of smartphones will be network speed (2G, 3G), processor speed, screen make up, flash ram vs. volatile ram. and OS design.
Any phone working on a 3G network will be faster than 2G if all other factors are the same. However, just like in an office LAN, network traffic speed will be affected by the number of users on the network.
I don't know the speed of the RIM processors, but I doubt you will notice any difference among models. It comes down to a "look and feel" issue. At some point, the hardware is faster than we can humanly notice or acknowledge. Therefore, any faster hardware won't make a difference in use.
Volatile Ram devices (if there are any in smartphones) will be faster than flash ram (although I have not looked at this in awhile so there may not be any real look and feel difference), because flash ram is essentially physically written to like a hard drive, whereas volatile ram merely needs to be refreshed. Of course if you lose power, you lose everything in ram.
It doesn't matter how fast your device or network is, if the screen hardware is slower, it will be the controlling factor. It's another look and feel issue.
Back in the good old days of of 486 and early pentium processors, processor speed actually meant something. Today, available RAM and graphics throughput are more important than processor speed.
but not nearly as fast as my iphone..
