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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU
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To be honest I would t worry about the performance of the cpu it hardly matters in an iphone anyway. It's so locked down you barely get to use full power anyway. The OS uses pre rendering to get its ui performance and cpu might only really load a Web Page slightly quicker than before.
Personally I use my S3 to run emulators of old consoles on my TV with hdmi out and also play blu ray rips off the S3 which require serious horsepower that not even my Ipad 3 can do with jailbreak.
So on the iphone you can't do any of that so it won't matter. Apple says no
What? Same price. Starts at $199 with contract in the US.
And you don't pay just for the hardware. You're paying also those talented and creative engineers at Apple. You're paying their hardwork since 2005. You're also using their 1 billion server farm for FREE without ads. Etc etc
How is this not innovation? They've engineered a processor specifically for iOS, while continuing to enhance the build quality that has yet to be matched by a competitor device. This phone screams innovation. The level of hardware they've put into such a thin and light device is amazing. They will likely sell 50 million by year's end.
Geez!!! More powerful than the 4S and iPad 3 COMBINED. Camping out at the AT&T store by my house Thursday night. Will probably be too excited to sleep.
This is almost 3 times faster than the 4S.
Amazing... Apple, just amazing.
The S3 is coming off the chart in no time.
Amazing... Apple, just amazing.
The S3 is coming off the chart in no time.
well anodised metal and aluminium generally cost more than plastic yah
Plus don't forget the years worth of design compared to the overnight slap together s3 and also iOS developed by Apple and not google 
i thought that was called the s3 lte in korea as well? with sammy having so many versions of a similar phone if its not just called the s3 i didnt include it. the s2 is even worse when it comes to models but i think there are only 2 only called the s2 so the others i dont group in with it which without me mentioning that i could see how you thought i didnt know about it. but thanks for the correction anyway to most users it is helpful.
Don't forget that the performance of each core is felt much more easily than the Geekbench since not all tasks can take advantage of more cores. For instance loading an app. Thus the speed improvement will be noticeable.
In any case very impressive results from a phone that's smaller than its predecessor in volume.
Galaxy S3 hardware is somewhat fragmented. Depending on your region and carrier, a Galaxy S3 might have Exynos (quad core A9) or a Qualcomm S4 (dual core Kraits). The Exynos one scores about the same as the iPhone 5 while the S4 comes a little short. Plus some of Galaxy S3 have 1GB of RAM while others have 2GB.
I don't see it mentioned here but the Geekbench in Android can be greatly affected by the power setting and all the other options being turned on and off. So it's not an exact science to compare an Android phone and iPhone using only Geekbench.
In any case very impressive results from a phone that's smaller than its predecessor in volume.
Galaxy S3 hardware is somewhat fragmented. Depending on your region and carrier, a Galaxy S3 might have Exynos (quad core A9) or a Qualcomm S4 (dual core Kraits). The Exynos one scores about the same as the iPhone 5 while the S4 comes a little short. Plus some of Galaxy S3 have 1GB of RAM while others have 2GB.
I don't see it mentioned here but the Geekbench in Android can be greatly affected by the power setting and all the other options being turned on and off. So it's not an exact science to compare an Android phone and iPhone using only Geekbench.
Your methods. The ones that respond to events.
From the docs:
You respond to events that are generated by the service, you are not "hosting" the service in your app.
Are you sure your Samsheep room mate is in a coma from you or in a coma from having an epiphany against his SamReligion
Lol what innovative new features? Inferior maps service. Small screen with poor colours. Faster cpu with a locked down OS and no file system access. Crap battery that can't be removed. Poor storage options that are very overpriced.
It's thin? The only thing I like to be thin is my girlfriend. My phones have never been fat
Your post started so well then it just went downhill pretty quick... And im an iphone user
From now on when Samsung release their next product and start comparing it to the year old iPhone 5 saying how Apple is so far behind. We can just remind them of this date. When an Apple product releases within a month of a Samsung product. The Apple product will always win
Fair enough, but at least Apple gets what is in the iPhone right.
Sure others can throw everything on the table and claim their phone has more but usually you're just left with a messy pile.
Geekbench scores very a lot depending on how the phone is configured the international galaxy S 3 scores as high is 1800 +.
I will let you know soonAre you sure your Samsheep room mate is in a coma from you or in a coma from having an epiphany against his SamReligion
I think the US varient is Dual core, international is quad.
I'll wait until the iPhone 5 is actually released before believing the results. Either way, it highlights how a well optimized architecture is better than higher clock speeds.
Just wondering you have heard of the term jailbreak? I will help you we will call it rooting. Last I checked android phones do not come rooted and they do not come with access to the OS by default. You must root it much like we have to jailbreak.