Funny how people here are throwing Consumer Reports under the bus. Last year when Consumer Reports said the iphone 6 plus was not prone to bending EVERYONE here on MR praised them. Now this year they are worthless. Funny how the wind blows sometimes.
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Are you returning your Samsung chip iPhone for a TSMC?
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Very true.
As of today, Consumer Reports is worthless while "tech blogs" (aka unknown youtubers conducting totally uncontrolled tests looking for clicks) are the Holy Truth.
Lol....
Just received my iPhone 6S.... And of course I got one with the Samsung-chip.
Don't care what others think. Apple sells products at a premium price, so I demand the best product also. That's why I'm returning it linea recta! OCD or not!
Don't care what others think. Apple sells products at a premium price, so I demand the best product also. That's why I'm returning it linea recta! OCD or not!
And a best product is what you got, since Samsung chip is identical to TSMC...
returning a perfectly working unit is plain silly.
Just great. 😵
Thanks for helping to assure that Apple starts charging us restocking fees.
Thanks for nothing. 😱
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What a ridiculous thing to do. I hope the next one you get has a Samsung chip too so that you'll never be happy with it.
I bought a 6s plus about a week ago, checked chip, was samsunged.
Uninstalled app, got 8 hours of sleep that night and continued on with life.
You people are just nitpicking and extremely OCD
Uninstalled app, got 8 hours of sleep that night and continued on with life.
You people are just nitpicking and extremely OCD
You do realise that the A9 isn't just a cpu - it's an entire smartphone system on a chip, and it's the entire smartphone that CR are testing. This is helpful because if you ever buy an iPhone, you'll discover that it's actually very difficult to use the cpu on its own. Inconveniently, it doesn't come packaged separately.
Frankly I'd rather have the Samsung chip, with the more efficient smaller 14nm die process.
I would think that Apple can always easily software-throttle down that faster speed CPU and even out the benchmarks.
I would think that Apple can always easily software-throttle down that faster speed CPU and even out the benchmarks.
Why? Because I don't take this kind of ******** from Apple? Even the Apple employee said it was a ridiculous situation!
It's easily MORE ridiculous to keep exchanging phones over a chip with insignificant differences, and potentially driving up EVERYONES restocking fees!
ESPECIALLY over the amount of trouble and time you're going through to do it!
He probably said that because he's got a bunch of people returning phones for no real reason. Otherwise, I suspect he wouldn't give a flying fig about what chips are in the phones.
In other news... All these returned phones (keeping in mind that MR is a small subset of iPhone users) will join the pool of refurbished phones in the near future. Guess what happens to the odds you'll be getting a Samsung chipped phone if anything happens over the life of your 6s(+)...
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relieved my 6s has tsmc. glad I don't have to decide what I was going to do if it was samsung, considering the cost of the iphone I probably would have been dissappointed, whether or not I'd just live with it is another question
Yeah it's a shame you got the worse chip (according to Tom's hardware and a few other sites). Still, probably not worth swapping it. Probably.
yea I read those too, you are neglecting the articles/evidence in favor of tsmc though.
As you are neglecting those in favour of the Samsung chip 🙂
The fact is, 99% of the articles in favour of the TSMC are based on one synthetic benchmark (geekbench). Virtually all the real world testing points to them being equal, and various others give the edge to Samsung - even geekbench gives samsung the edge on speed.
But who are we kidding. You'll believe what is most convenient to you as a TSMC owner 🙂
I bought it on sunday going in hoping for tsmc fwiw
the articles on samsung not being fully 14nm with larger interconnects was bothering me, articles talking about tsmc's 'greater' fabrication process WRT a9 production make me lean tsmc. the fact that tsmc is rumored for 100% a10 production too
I really dont want to argue about this, have a good day man
TSMC produced virtually all the A8, that meant precisely nothing for A9 production; these contract decisions are all around keeping suppliers on their toes and driving prices down, not the quality of the product which is all within the same tolerances.
You've been seduced by the hive mind, but that's ok. You'd just better hope you don't ever need to swap the phone out 🙂
Samsung chip on 6s plus
Over 11 hours usage, gaming, Facebook messenger, Safari. 80% of it on data roaming for Rogers extended range service with 2-3 bars
Not complaining one bit about that
Could have easily pushed for 12 hours usage as I still had 7%
Also never used low power mode
Over 11 hours usage, gaming, Facebook messenger, Safari. 80% of it on data roaming for Rogers extended range service with 2-3 bars
Not complaining one bit about that
Could have easily pushed for 12 hours usage as I still had 7%
Also never used low power mode
I doubt the Apple employee even said what he claimed. Soon almost all replacements will come with the Sammy chip! 😛
looking at all the evidence we've got, i've decided i don't care about this anymore. the geekbench test is the only test with a significant difference. other tests show minimal or no difference, so, as many as you have mentioned, since like most people i don't run the geekbench battery test as part of my real world day, i don't think i'll be affected 😀. sure, there may be a significant difference in geekbench, but so far no-one has been able to replicate that in any "real world" test (that i've seen). also, not meaning to attack this community, but all i'll say is it's interesting how some people react on here when anything apple makes is criticised, and some of you really fit the "iSheep" stereotype. just saying. anyway the iphone is a great device and that we can all agree on 🙂.
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