And many of this articles comments aren't any different. Essentially Apple fanboys aren't any different than Android fanboys except Android fanboys have dozens of high end devices to get overly excited about every year.
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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU
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And many of this articles comments aren't any different. Essentially Apple fanboys aren't any different than Android fanboys except Android fanboys have dozens of high end devices to get overly excited about every year.
its then one hell of a processor...the point here is that iphone 5 is indeed a better phone then s3 as opposed to what all samsung lovers are crying.
The really funny thing is that based on this benchmark all of the incredibly ignorant Andriod fans are saying 'WHAA it came out after the Galaxy S3', I guess they don't realize Apple releases (1) phone a year, and Andriod has about a million coming out a year. OBVIOUSLY Andriod should generally have the higher powered chips, you complete IDIOTS. So yes, there will soon be a more powerful Android device, it means nothing when you look at how frequently they are released compared to Apple's phones.
That's almost as powerful as my G5 tower. SO not fair! A telephone should never be as powerful as a desktop workstation! 
The dual-core iPhone 5 beat the S3 with 4 cores
No. It doesn't even beat the 2-core version of the S3:
Iphone 5 (1601 points):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1030202
Galaxy S3 4-core, 1GB (Non-US version) (1847 points):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/998950
Galaxy S3 2-core, 2GB (US version) (1683 points):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/884649
wow just wow...
i have an iPhone 4S and this thing has 0 lag, instant app open/close, and is fast as heck.
i can only imagine what the iPhone 5 will be like with raw processing PLUS 4G
holy crap.............
i'll be hard pressed to upgrade though...i'm holding onto my unlimited 3G data plan with a death grip
i have an iPhone 4S and this thing has 0 lag, instant app open/close, and is fast as heck.
i can only imagine what the iPhone 5 will be like with raw processing PLUS 4G
holy crap.............
i'll be hard pressed to upgrade though...i'm holding onto my unlimited 3G data plan with a death grip
i have a MBP an iPad and 5 iPhones and now im on Android and this makes me an Android Troll? HAHA
No it just makes me far more experienced and balanced than 90% on this forum.
This makes me feel so sad about my iPhone 4S.
I'm stuck with this hunk of junk for another year!
(Kidding, I still love it... I'm just envious of those that will soon have something worth loving so much more.)
Better phone? Even if it's faster (although there is proof that it might not be faster) it still may not make it better. Since their performance is comparable, what makes a phone better here is personal preference.
Its not hard for iPhone to score nicely when iOS is such a primitive mobile OS. Add the fact that it doesnt have multitasking and theres no reason for it to score low.
Disable all your background tasks, remove all widgets getting on the iPhones level and then post your results.
The scores don't tell you what the settings were on the phone. You can inflate the Galaxy's scores if you disable power management (killing battery life) and other background services, like notifications. But few are actually going to use their phone with those settings.
iPhone5,2 GeekBench score with a sample set of 1. FRONT PAGE NEWS!!! Let's get a larger sample set before we call the presses!
And now think ahead of time. Read carefully: a DUAL-core with a fully custom Apple architecture, based on the ARMv7 core, beats (not by much, but still) a QUAD-core Tegra 3, which is a very powerful mobile SoC. This theoretically means that 1 Apple ARMv7 core equals 2 Tegra 3 cores. So-knowing Apple- they will continue to tweak and boost performance of those cores. Apple knew these benchmark numbers well before we did, so they knew that if they wanted to equal or outperform the competitor's SoC, they only had to build 2, very powerful cores in that A6 chip. A quad-core would only use more power, thus lowering battery life. When the battery technology gets better, Apple has a lot of headroom to jam in more high-performance cores, while still remaining good battery life.
Very impressive. I really don't know how adding more cores in a cell phone actually helps. This isn't a power hungry server or anything.
That's not how phones operate in the real world.
Apple's "fake" multitasking is a feature for me, not a lack of a feature. I like that it intelligently allocates resources automatically.
Why should I need to close a bunch of programs to get my phone to work? I just want it to work.
Your post reminds me of using a PC, where you have to constantly monitor background tasks and bloatware. I don't want to do that. That's why I have a Mac. I don't want to constantly monitor what's going on in my phone. I want to unlock it, have it work for a minute, and then put it back in my pocket.
I don't ever want to think about background tasks. That's just an extra level of stress. THIS IS A PHONE, not a car or desktop computer.
Likewise the will be probably iPhones scoring more than 1600 pts. Nevertheless, just the fact that dual-core iPhone can measure with a quad-core competitor is impressive. It's all about engineering, dude.
You dont have to do that on Android either. But at least you can background applications you want to continue running and no frozen into RAM. iOS doesnt have the option
Sorry but next gen Arm A15 is here already and at 1.7ghz its going to blow the A6 out of the water.