Appendix D: Designing Applications for Windows CE Platforms

Comparative performance

Table D-1 lists comparative performance characteristics of Smartphone and Pocket PC devices. Pocket PC Phone Edition devices have performance advantages of the Pocket PC with the functionality of the Smartphone.

**Table D-1: Device performance comparison**
Pocket PC	Smartphone
Faster processor	Slower processor
Persistent RAM backed up by storage battery	Permanent flash storage, but less RAM
On standby when not in use	Idle when not in use

Because of the generally weaker performance characteristics of Smartphones, design Smartphone applications to be tolerant of slow storage and to avoid saving too much data, especially persistent data.

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