Over on our sister site, All About Symbian, there's a video by me benchmarking a common set of smartphone operations. The idea is to explore how different hardware and platform configurations differ in terms of the speed of getting between applications and doing certain things. I realise that Windows Phone doesn't have true multitasking, but the OS can still be speedy - I'd be interested in any times set for the benchmark by Windows Phone owners.

From the article:

Here are the steps I plucked out of the air to do. Note that you don't have to do them in exactly the same order as I did!

1. Unlock your phone's screen
2. Swipe to another homescreen (or, if you're on an iPhone, another page of applications)
3. Take a photo of something in front of you
4. Launch any music application of your choice and start a track playing
5. Check your email, open one of the emails up full-screen
6. Check your Calendar, see what you're doing on the 17th of next month
7. Check for your latest Twitter mentions
8. Share the photo you took earlier with the world somehow
9. Return to your homescreen

A fairly common set of smartphone actions and ones which should be easy enough on every single phone platform these days. 

For step 2, either swiping to the main applications list or swiping down to tiles further down will probably suffice, I think, since Windows Phone doesn't have multiple homescreens as such.

How did you do? Comments welcome here or on the original article.