Geekbench 2 iPhone Review

You may already be familiar with Geekbench on your Mac or PC.
Geekbench basically runs a series of tests throughout your hardware
and then conducts results which forms an overall score. This score
reflects the power and potential of your hardware and software
integration ability basically, kind of like the BHP on a car.Geekbench
is probably the most trusted benchmark out there, so it was quite
exciting to see it land on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The App is very
simplistic in the way Primate Labs chose to designed it and once
launched you are met to say hello with your system information listing
the processor, amount of memory, OS and model number.Then you run the
benchmark test which takes about ten seconds and it presents you with
your final score and lists in great detail the specific tests that
were carried out. Before running the test you should make sure that
there are no other Apps running at the same time alongside Geekbench
so it gives out the fairest score.I tested Geekbench on both my iPhone
4 and iPod Touch 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen. The scores were very interesting
with the iPhone 4 being the highest which was pretty obvious but the
iPod Touch was no slouch and lagged behind just barely with a score of
285. I submitted each score to the Geekbench database which is another
cool little feature this App has and found that my iPhone 4 and iPod
Touch 3rd Gen were faster than many many other computers like Dell's
and HP's (granted they were about 4 years old) but it's still very
impressive to see how the mobile world is moving so fast especially
Apple.Overall I do like Geekbench for the iPhone and iPod Touch but
thats probably because i'm a little sad and like to know this kind of
useless information. The price is the only let down with it being
$4.99. It should be more like 99c or free and Primate Labs could make
up the money by distributing iAds within the App.