Speedy is a benchmark utility for PalmOS based devices.

Speedy performs three resource taking routines (calculation, memory access and graphical display) to measure the real performance of your device.

Speedy is especially useful in different cases :
- to check that your PalmOS based device behaves and performs like it should;
- to see the impact of CPU down/over-clocking upon your device's performance;
- to see how a specific software or hardware modifies your device's performance;
- to really compare different devices and benchmark them.

Your device's performance is ranked on several charts against baseline measurements of other common PalmOS compatible devices. Speedy reports both a CPU frequency and a relative index (100% is for the Palm Vx at 20 MHz).

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Revision History

7.1 (05/31/08)

• added benchmark values for the Palm Centro device
• added partial benchmark result for the GSL Xplore M28 and M70
• added the best ever obtained benchmark on a device after overclocking, this was on my own Palm Tungsten C using Lightspeed. Would you succeed to get a better one on another device, please let me know
• added explanations in the Devices screen (i) about what the used abbreviations ([-], [*], [P], [L], [f+], [WM], [66%] and [100%]) mean

7.0 (03/24/08)

• added detection of Speedy running in the StyleTap Palm OS emulator for Windows mobile devices (www.styletap.com)
• added benchmark values for the HTC S710 device (Windows Mobile 6.0 for Smartphone), running Speedy inside the StyleTap platform
• added benchmark values for the Palm Treo 755p device
• updated the benchmark value for the Palm Treo 680 (the previous reference record for the Graph Test was 0.1 sec too pessimistic on the average)
• refined the number of devices' counter, it was previously counting twice the same device when this device could have benchmark results in portrait or landscape modes (for example, the Palm TX was in this case)
• added a bunch of exotic devices in the database, even if no benchmark results were ever provided for them, so as to have an exhaustive database of Palm OS based devices in Speedy's knowledge base

6.4 (09/03/07)

• added full details of benchmark value for the Handpsring Visor Neo
• added one-handed navigation feature
• fixed default button in the Detail Device and the Advertisement screens
• added a new paragraph in the user manual, about how listening to music running in the background affects the device's performance and how Speedy helps evaluating it

6.3 (12/02/06)

• added benchmark values for the Palm Treo 680 device

6.2 (09/18/06)

• added benchmark values for the Palm Treo 700p and Aceeca Meazura devices

6.1 (11/14/05)

• fixed a bug from version 6.0 that would cause a very bad crash in some rare cases ; upgrading from version 6.0 is highly recommended
• added high resolution icons in the Detail Device screen
• a few other minor cosmetic changes in the About Box

6.0 (10/26/05)

• Massive review of the source code, which was quite required after more than 4 years of patching Speedy upon each new version
• the application's Saved Preferences were also "revamped", Speedy will from now on remember your selection of devices and your [last] and [saved] results when upgrading
• MANY OTHER UPDATES

5.2 (06/06/05)

• added benchmark values for Palm LifeDrive and Garmin iQue 3200
• source code optimization (~2% decrease of the program size) and slightly faster initial program loading.

5.1 (05/11/05)

• added benchmark values for Palm Tungsten E2 and Tapwave Zodiac 2
• changed benchmark values for Palm Tungsten E because they were not correct (overestimated)
• added bookmarks in the user manual (PDF file) for easier browsing through the documentation

5.0 (03/14/05)

• added a new {No device} selection to allow choosing less than 5 reference devices to display and compare your device with
• Speedy now unactivates pen interactions when running the benchmark routines so as not to distort benchmark results (available for devices with Palm OS < 5 only, as PACE for Palm OS 5 considers the "system use only" related API calls as NOPS, i.e. No OPerationS)
• added benchmark values for Fossil Wrist PDA, Sony Clié N760C, Palm VII (1st generation, simple DragonBall processor) and AlphaSmart Dana Wireless, and partial benchmark information for IBM Workpad (10u), IBM Workpad (20X), IBM Workpad (40U), IBM Workpad 2 (22X), IBM Workpad 2 (30X), IBM Workpad c3, IBM Workpad c500 and IBM Workpad c505
• in a search to be exhaustive, I added some 50 devices to Speedy's database, even if most of the new devices come with no benchmark data so far
• given that there are now some 126 devices in Speedy's database, I upgraded the source code to sort and list all devices automatically and, therefore, ease my work for future upgrades!
• Speedy now reports the number of devices with full benchmark data, partial benchmark data or missing benchmark information
• even though so few people donated for Speedy so far (and I think that this is a pity given the number of downloads and of people using it... see the Donate paragraph in the readme file), I updated the donation URL