Not all Windows Phones created equal? Samsung Omnia 7 loads games much faster that HTC 7 Trophy

November 1, 2010 | By Surur

Thanks JiN for bringing this very interesting video to our attention. The video shows the HTC 7 Trophy on the left and the Samsung Omnia 7 on the right both loading the same game, RetroSpace.

In the test the Samsung Omnia 7 consistently beat the HTC 7 Trophy, with the Omnia taking around 5 seconds and the Trophy around 11-12 seconds, more than twice as much.

The slower load times, a consistent complaint of reviewers, may be due to HTC’s use of internal (and inaccessible) microSD cards, versus the NAND modules use by Samsung, but of course we can not be sure at this time.

Is this another reason to love the Samsung Omnia 7, despite its one impediment? Let us know below.

Edit: There are many commenters who are saying the low battery condition on the HTC handset may be the problem. The uploader of the video on YouTube responds:

Battery life does not affect the loading time. I have a fully charged Trophy next to? me now and the loading time is exactly the same. JonthanYong

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged htc 7 trophy, microsd card, samsung omnia 7, video, windows phone 7

efjay

You guys are already coming up with excuses for HTC when faced with evidence that they just make crappy hardware! Amazing!!

Sharkaat

This HTC device has critical battery. True/False? K tnx bye.

OOOO

this looks to be HTC faulty hardware again. Really pathetic, htc basically rushed these phones out…

At least samsung seems to have worked on it.
http://twitter.com/yunchikan @yunchikan

i would love to see a comparison with the omnia and the focus. just to see if its the NAND / SD card problem
la Noormohamed

hmmmm NAND Vs Class 4 think we all know the answer

Lennard

are you sure it's class 4? aren't HTC using class 0 cards?

Sharkaat

One word for this video – battery.
Zulu

What a shame. Rerun the test with normal battery and then we can truly see the difference.
efjay

Dont know about you guys but when my HD2 is low on battery it still runs at normal speed. But lets keep the excuses rolling….
Pedro de la Riva

*** Any comment on this from HTC would be interesting. ***
Greg

Oh my god, HTC making shit phones !! Now THAT's a news !!

ekadoken

yeah, it really is surprising to find many people think htc produce great quality phones.

Sharkaat

I wouldn't mind having another video though.
Johnny

I would like to see different speed micro sd cards on that test.
Lennard

I would go for the samsung focus if i was on ATT….but I'm on tmobile so I can only get the HTC7
Lennard

you missed the fucus
Zulu

Actually the Htc's have a SLCD. The LG has a basic LCD.
chmun77

Luckily I have been betting on Omnia 7 from the very beginning….
hAl

Has anybody confirmed the Trophy 7 has a microSD card in it?
Strangerx

They could have done a lot better for launch. I'll wait a year for my WP7 phone as the current offerings are a big joke.

/rant
Lennard

yeah I would like to see this too.