Card Speed (Palm OS) tests the Read / Write speed of a PDA with any SD Card. You will be much happier with your PDA / Smartphone if it is responsive. An SD Card that Writes / Reads fast is part of a good experience. Any file movement to and from the Card is affected. Applications that are data intensive, like audio and video, are most affected.
The Audacity applications are good examples. Audacity is a voice recorder. Audacity can be configured for several different audio formats, but if a traditional WAV file format is chosen, the data captured and resulting files can be very large. To save on internal memory, these files are usually written directly to the SD card. If you have a slow card, the data writing can't keep up and bits of audio are lost. This results is audio that sounds "fast and choppy".
The "Test" button performs 3 basic tests. Writing data in 32 bit chunks, writing data in 8 k byte chunks, and reading data in 8 k byte chunks. We recommend running the test four times. Make sure the results are consistent. Try the tests with an empty card and also with the card nearly full. Make sure you get consistent and good results.
All Files are written to the /VFSTiming/ folder on the card. The "Delete" Button will delete all the files in the /VFSTiming/ folder.
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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The top of the screen displays:
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Color and high resolution devices are supported.
This software only supports Palm and Sony devices with Palm OS version v3
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Other Software by developer «Audacity Audio»:
Audacity DVR - Personal Edition for Palm OS Audacity DVR - Personal Edition for Palm OS - The Audacity DVR Personal Edition is a PDA software application that turns your PDA into a great voice recorder. It even records phone call using the Treo 650. It can also function as an audio alarm clock.
The following features are included:
Easy one-handed operation using navigation button
Audacity DVR Professional Version (Palm OS) Audacity DVR Professional Version (Palm OS) - Includes Audacity Digital Voice Recorder Professional Edition and Local Audacity Manager - Single Author Edition, (LAM-S)
Runs on Palm Tungsten T, T2, T3 & C Models, Treo 600 (with updated firmware), Treo 650, Zire 72 and LifeDrive
Over 85 hours of recording using compression on a 256 MB SD Card
Card Speed (Pocket PC) Card Speed (Pocket PC) - Card Speed tests the Read / Write speed of a PDA with any SD Card. You will be much happier with your PDA / Smartphone if it is responsive. An SD Card that Writes / Reads fast is part of a good experience. Any file movement to and from the Card is affected. Applications that are data intensive, like audio and video, are most affected
