The lesson here is apple did it because it's the right thing to do for the experience, even in the absence of a benchmark or marketable spec
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iPhone 5 Touch Screen Twice as Fast as Android Touch Screen
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I have, I do and they are not, sorry. I'd wager you are easily open to suggestion.
"iPhone 5 Touch Screen Twice as Fast as Android Touch Screen"
A device is quicker than a operating system? Its either IOS vs. Android or iPhone vs. S4 or N4 or whatnot.
Let me guess, a Diesel car is quicker than Audi.
A device is quicker than a operating system? Its either IOS vs. Android or iPhone vs. S4 or N4 or whatnot.
Let me guess, a Diesel car is quicker than Audi.
That may be, but it may also pick up as they put up the next two updates, which will be filled with little tweeks. Remember, the 4 was the least phone they allow to use iOS 7.
I'm suggesting that the responsiveness of my HTC One is such that I have no noticeable lag.
If I have no noticeable lag on my HTC One, then the 5S being twice as fast is of no bearing to me whatsoever.
Here's the deal with smartphones:
Yes they're smart, yes they're capable. But you make phone calls, send texts and emails, use facebook, listen to music play games, watch porn and generally dick around on the internet on them.
We're at a point where diminishing returns is kicking in, and technological advancements are being used to justify obsolescence and new models being brought out to milk consumers whilst bringing little to no real world usability improvements. The touchscreen on my iPhone 4S was perfectly fine, no noticeable lag. The touchscreen on my HTC One is perfectly fine, no noticeable lag. The touchscreen on the iPhone 5S is twice as fast? Don't care, I already have no noticeable lag.
These threads get more childish by the day. Talk about kindergarten, mine's better/faster than yours. I thought I'd left all this behind many many years ago.
P.S. I think jaymzuk has just about nailed it with little more that needs to be said. As someone with plenty of Apple kit I myself am embarrassed by this type of childish boasting.
P.S. I think jaymzuk has just about nailed it with little more that needs to be said. As someone with plenty of Apple kit I myself am embarrassed by this type of childish boasting.
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I have noticeable lag even on my iPhone, so I suppose people are not equally receptive to the lag. I play online games, I can even notice 30ms lag, let alone 100ms, which is quite a long time in the world of games.
You do realise, that you using a HTC One, will not notice lag on an iPhone 5 because it's twice as fast, but it doesn't work like that the other way around, to me those devices feel slower, and sluggish. Agawi just showed us exactly why.
Whats the point of having all those suppose high end specs if the experience is less than mediocre.
However I went from a 4S, which for the purposes of this comparison I'll assume has the same touch responsiveness of the 4 (85ms) to one that is slower (121ms), and have not noticed any more lag.
I don't really care who comes out on top in these benchmarks. If lag is noticeable and impinges on my experience, then it's an issue. If it doesn't, then I don't care which device is faster.
Dismissing touchscreen responsiveness on a touchscreen device seems desperate and misguidedI felt embarrassed by this feature. When all that someone can come up with is screen (a) is so many "milliseconds" yes that's right "milliseconds" faster than screen (b) then you know the opposition is clutching at straws and is really worried.
It is features like this that make Apple look totally ridiculous and paranoid. If it was my company I would not want this type of comparison to be drawn. It makes one look like that's all you've got in your arsenal.
I have never owned an android device but when I have used someone else's the lag was noticeable and very annoying. I guess if you thought that was normal it would be ok. Just watching the lag when someone is swiping through their washed out pictures is painful to me.
I don't think most people are gloating. I think they are expressing their discovery of something they always experienced but couldn't put their finger on - so to speak. And yes sight and touch can distinguish time differences at this scale.
Eh, I got rid of my computers and just render with an Android device. It does HD encoding about 1000X as fast and the 5 inch screen with the higher PPI than an iPhone is better for watching movies so I got rid of all my big screen TV's. Everyone just huddles around the phone and they say the difference is just so much better.
Google went to the year 3013..... I think; with their time machine to nab Android so it is pretty advanced.
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Please post a video of you doing this then we can time you.
I won't be doing that but I may upload a sound clip wich demonstrates two sounds separated by 100ms. The point is, that it's much more noticable than you think, and if you try this you will clearly see that it's possible, perhaps not in a continous burst, but did't say that either.
Half a second is 500ms, half of that 250ms, I guess you can sort of see that it's not as fast as one may first believe.
There's quite a difference between a 10th of a second and a 20th of a second, especially when making rapid inputs such as typing. You may not notice it but for many these numbers confirm what we've experienced between devices.