In addition to using the Venue Pro in a
variety of everyday usage scenarios, we also conducted some formal
performance testing to see how well the handset compares to other
smartphones. WP Bench is a performance-oriented benchmarking application within the Windows Phone 7
Marketplace. To date, it's one of the only effective ways to test the
small-but-growing stable of WP7 handsets. We've compared CPU, Data and
GPU benchmarks below with the Samsung Focus and HTC Arrive.
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Overall, the Venue Pro ranks fairly well compared to the Focus and Arrive, falling only a bit behind in some tests. The upside is that the Venue Pro comes out slightly on top in a few. The real takeaway here is that none of the first-wave WP7 devices are drastically different than any of the others, particularly from a performance standpoint. This is primarily because so many WP7-based smartphones on the market currently employ the same 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon platform.
