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Chitika: iPhone 5 Passes Samsung Galaxy S III in Web Usage
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I'm responding to the post Mr funny man. It is a forum right? I know your the type of person that got stuffed in lockers in highschool with that big mouth of yours.
I think the difference is that most folks are NOT tech enthusiasts. Those who who are not and buy iPhones tend to use them more as smartphones. Those who are not and buy Android are generally using them as dumb phones. This correlates with Apple's high customer satisfaction ratings and high retention ratings. Folks who are actually using the devices are pleased with them and have become accustomed to how they work. Those who are just making phone calls and sending text messages have zero platform loyalty because they can do that with any phone.
The only folks I know who love Linux are tech enthusiasts. A good portion of these kind of folks would love Android. There are many tech enthusiasts like myself who prefer iOS -- not for customizability but for ease of use, ease of upgrades, long-term support, and to have a phone that is powerful without complexity (I tinker enough in my day job). If you rewind to the 25-year-old version of me who installed every distro of Linux, then I would probably be trying out Android because I tinkered more back then and you can't tinker as much on iPhone. But the busier 38-year-old version of me with three kids and other responsibilities wants something completely seamless.
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All I can say to Samsung is that it doesn't take a genius to have known this would happen.
One thing for sure: majority of iphone owners has no freaking clue about electronic tech or how the phone works even compared to other Android phones.
Fact.
Fact.
What post are you replying to? Because this thread is about web usage - not about how long it takes to get an iPhone.
Elude? You want me to avoid it? To evade it?
The point is, you see, that this story is at worst unimportant and at best an interesting talking point. What got you so wound up, exactly?
"I must say, I find you responses unnecessarily confrontational. Do you need to be so aggressive?"
Sound familiar?
I tease... because I know you can take it.
Tell me about it. But what about this?
With (some of) the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone 5 finally toning down, it’s time to clear our heads, let our egos rest, and try to objectively answer the age-old question – is the new iPhone better than all Android phones?
We Android enthusiasts surely took a beating in the iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 drop test, which showed almost beyond the shadow of a doubt that Apple’s new device is stronger and sturdier than our “king.” Still, not all of us are incurable clutzes that drop their phones from five feet high, so other things might help tip the balance back in our favor.
Like the battery life. We’ve complained time in and time out about the lack of long battery life superphones, with the worthy exception of Motorola’s Razr Maxx. Still, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has managed to stand out of the crowd a bit, so we were very eager to see if the Phone 5 could undercut it in that department, too.
Thankfully, the good guys from British website Which? came to our rescue, with one very thorough battery life test pitting the Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5 one against the other. The battle involved other, more lightweight contenders, too.
I don’t know exactly how familiar you are with Which? tests, but these are one of the most trustworthy around. Not only are those guys very experienced in performing tests based on hard facts and data, but when talking about battery life they go the extra mile and broadcast their own 3G signal. That way, all phones start off equally, with no outside elements impacting the autonomies.
That said, let’s see how have some of the best smartphones around performed in the test:
Samsung Galaxy S3 – 359 minutes in web browsing, still the king
There isn’t much we can say other than kudos Samsung! Six hours of browsing with screen brightness set to maximum on a 4.8-incher with a 2,100mAh battery? Wow! Just wow!
Apple iPhone 5 – 200 minutes, dis-ap-point-ing
Fanboys have praised the heck out of Apple for increasing the iPhone’s screen size, but here’s the reverse of the medal. The 4-inch 1136 x 640 screen and the new Apple A5 CPU drain this baby’s juice in only three hours and twenty minutes of web browsing, which is a terrible result, being just at over 50% of S3’s autonomy. Burn!
Apple iPhone 4S – 208 minutes, poor, but more honorable
Now that has got to sting. The 4S’s battery lasts 8 minutes longer than the iPhone 5’s, despite being one year older. The explanation? It’s pretty simple, actually. In its quest to make the new iPhone thinner than before, Apple only equipped it with a 1,440 mAh battery. This is almost identical to the one on the 4S, but the one year old iPhone has a smaller screen with a more modest resolution that drains the juice out of the battery slower. Regret “upgrading” yet?
HTC One X – 226 minutes, better than the iPhone, way behind the S3
Here’s another bittersweet result for HTC’s hero device, which shows that the Taiwanese were very close of making it, but did in fact struck out. The One X can handle its browsing for almost four hours, which is way behind the S3, but still ahead of the iPhones.
Sony Xperia S – 276 minutes, the most pleasant surprise
Though the One X performs decently in Which’s test, the Sony Xperia S wins the silver. The 4.3-incher was released way back in February, but can still hold its own with over four hours of autonomy, despite not being equipped with a very generous battery (just a 1,750 mAh unit). Not bad, Sony, not bad at all!
Missing from the test: Motorola’s Razr Maxx, Samsung’s Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2
The average (based on 99 tested phones): 193 minutes
What do you guys think about the test’s results? Do you think they’re accurate? Could the Samsung Galaxy S3 be so far ahead of the competition?
well that was quick.
According to all those gs3 adds, the old folks and non hip 20 somethings must be tearing up the internet with the out of date iPHone5
/sarcasm
According to all those gs3 adds, the old folks and non hip 20 somethings must be tearing up the internet with the out of date iPHone5
/sarcasm
As an iPhone user I'm struggling to think of a way this information is at all relevant to me. iPhone owners use the web more than Android owners. Big whoop. They probably use a ton more data, too. More big whoop. They probably buy more apps too. Big...you get the point.
Let me know when more iPhones are sold than Android. THAT will make for an interesting discussion.
Let me know when more iPhones are sold than Android. THAT will make for an interesting discussion.
wow...you sure put a lot of effort into that response.
Either way, the problem with the gs3 is android as the OS. That is the one thing most of you androids seem to miss.
I own both an Android phone and iPhone.
I think the one thing most Apple iPhone users miss is actually using an Android phone for any length of time vs "trying" it at a store. Or "trying" a friends. Or relying on internet fodder.
Have you used Jellybean? If so, for how long? Just curious - you know - since it's such a "problem."
When you compare apples to apples, ie: (any $200 smart phone vs iPhones) IOS is killing android.
But you already knew that which is why you are including all the cheap android phones in your numbers.
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Yep. sure have and still have the same opinion. I have also used wp7.5 phones. And I like those better than android and I am looking forward
to trying out the wp8.
I think am not stuck in either camp, but IMHO the order is IOS6, WP7.5, then android.
Because they are hacking, geeking, flashing their ROMS and so on instead of actually using the phone?
The figure about the map data doesn't surprise me one bit. I've had mine since launch day and haven't experienced any problems with it, I even travelled from Orange County to San Francisco last weekend and used it the entire time we were in SF to get around and had no problems.
Tech blogs and publications love sensationalism and blowing things out of proportion. Everything is a "-gate" now. "Antennaegate", "Scuffgate", etc. Now, for people who had problems with the iPhone 4 antennae to the point where they couldn't make calls, or people who've needed maps for directions and have been let down by it, that's a legitimate complaint. But if your iPhone 5 getting a scuff on it or your favorite pizza shop not showing up in Maps is the biggest crisis in your life right now you need to seriously sort out your priorities.
Tech blogs and publications love sensationalism and blowing things out of proportion. Everything is a "-gate" now. "Antennaegate", "Scuffgate", etc. Now, for people who had problems with the iPhone 4 antennae to the point where they couldn't make calls, or people who've needed maps for directions and have been let down by it, that's a legitimate complaint. But if your iPhone 5 getting a scuff on it or your favorite pizza shop not showing up in Maps is the biggest crisis in your life right now you need to seriously sort out your priorities.
Report it and move on. I haven't had any issues at all and I have been using it all over the eastern US since the early beta days.
I've had more issue with google maps during that period, but that didn't make me hate google maps.