Richard Leggett on New Media

Eric D. threw up a very interesting point in his latest blog post. Asking whether there is a way to accurately emulate the performance of a lower powered, slower device such as a mobile phone.

I did a quick couple of tests using the latest Flash Lite emulator and a combination of an FPS speedometer, capabilities test, and a couple of apps designed to slow down your computer's CPU for emulating old DOS games. Check out the results, posted in the comments on Eric's blog.

It was interesting to see the Flash Lite emulator is in fact limiting FPS, and I do believe CPU speed. Also interesting was that the capabilities test we created ran quicker in the Flash Lite 2.0 emulator than it did when published as a desktop profile (Flash 4), in particular, the prime number test.

If anyone has any other ideas to try, or some further insight please add it to the comments over on the blog.