[maemo-users] N900/Maemo 5 review

[From: Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Mark <wolfmane at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Good luck with that. The processing power on these things is
> deliberately modest, at least partly because there is a very valid
> power conservation issue, and Java can be sluggish even on a fast PC.
>

This is a myth.

I've run Java apps on ARM CPUs since I first used the HomePod internet
radio/mp3 player FIVE YEARS ago.

Heck, PalmOS on my Palm Centro with the IBM J9 VM runs Java ME apps just
fine, including the GMail Java client.

The Centro runs a ~ 300Mhz ARM9 based CPU.

FC
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