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iPhone 6: size comparison with Android phones
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Since you still are human, I'm just stating something evident ...
But I know from other discussion that every droid owners is ready to argue that he need to look at his 5" smartphone from 5" of distance
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Ah, ok, so your ranking based on your opinion ... Very interesting.
I prefer to rely on an objective tech site like anandtech.
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Anandtech is probably THE BEST tech site on the web.
Not just one of the best, but The best ....
Anyway, the original point was that there is a design property that Apple follows and they aren't going to simply break those principles.
It is weird that you identify Apple as bad design, when out of all the other companies, they are recognized for meticulous detail and design...
As for their computers, they've settled on a great design they love, although their growth has stunted recently and people are mirroring what they have done. So we may very well see a change in the upcoming MBA. But for the iPhone, it is still the most recognizable phone and sales are still growing.
No you won't. And if you do, don't buy the new iPhone. Nobody is making you upgrade.
How do you know? Have you tried? Also the rumor is a 4.7" AND 5.5" iPhone 6. If it was that big a deal, you'd get the 4.7" model. You just sound like one these Apple people that just like to complain to complain w/o knowing what you're talking about.I'm also a runner, and I usually run with my iPhone in the armband .... Very comfortable to do that with a 5.5" device ... Indeed
Displaymates shootout seems to be faulty as they seem to have recieved a Cherry picked pre-calibrated model from Samsung, no other review have been able to verify or get anywhere close to the measurements that Displaymate got on their model. Take a look at Anandtech's measurements for instance.
But that doesn't really relate to whatever you or I was saying now does it? I commented on the matter of higher PPI and pixel density, this is a point where Displaymate does not mention or claim the Galaxy S5 to be superior in any of their comparisons? They even list the PPI of the red and blue to be 343 instead of the proclaimed 441. And they also listed the iPhone 5 / 5S as the best display panel of the mobile industry before they tested the Galaxy S5 so it can't really be that bad, can it?
I have never claimed that AMOLED does not feature some great contrast, true dark black levels or anything. I simply commented on the fact that people seem to believe the Galaxy S4 and S5 to have such a higher PPI and a much more dense amount of pixels compared to the iPhone 5 / 5S when it clearly does not.
In your opinion is the best mate
imo the best review are from people with similar usage or first hand experience; technical stuff are crap imo but I'm just a dba maybe that's why I don't care lolNot for the sake of change, man... it's for the sake of keeping up with 2014 standards, and bazel-less phones are becoming the norm (rightfully so!).
99% of the waffle spouted on here is opinionated rubbish passed off as facts.. when in Rome.....
because some people were talking about it:
one of the main reasons iOS devices are often smoother than android devices is that iOS stops rendering ANYTHING as soon as the screen is touched.
easy example? try loading a website with a lot of images. while some images have appeared and some have not, just touch the screen and scroll a little bit. as long as the finger is on the screen, the page will never continue to load and never finish to load.
android will continue to render the site even when you are scrolling
so yeah, android devices may need additional RAM to make up for that. my nexus 5 with 2 gb of ram however is not slower than an iphone 5s.
and to those saying that the galaxy s3 or s4 dont have a higher pixel density than a 5s: you are fighting over who comes in second or third. not that it actually matter after a certain PPI, but fighting about who has the larger invisible penis is fun, right?
one of the main reasons iOS devices are often smoother than android devices is that iOS stops rendering ANYTHING as soon as the screen is touched.
easy example? try loading a website with a lot of images. while some images have appeared and some have not, just touch the screen and scroll a little bit. as long as the finger is on the screen, the page will never continue to load and never finish to load.
android will continue to render the site even when you are scrolling
so yeah, android devices may need additional RAM to make up for that. my nexus 5 with 2 gb of ram however is not slower than an iphone 5s.
and to those saying that the galaxy s3 or s4 dont have a higher pixel density than a 5s: you are fighting over who comes in second or third. not that it actually matter after a certain PPI, but fighting about who has the larger invisible penis is fun, right?
You're right, it's 2014 and it is still the most recognizable phone in the world...
But to recap, M8 has large bezels, GS5 increased its bezel sizes, the XZ has large bezels...
I know this is on the front page now, but this fud doesn't fly in the alternatives section
I'd love to believe you people, but it just doesn't match my personal experience. There is just something about the animations in Android that scream lag at me the second I touch the screen. It's been this way for me since the beginning. While I have no problem with Android, there is some sort of "smoothness" that iOS has that just doesn't exist on Android, IMO.
and there's the crux.. "from the beginning".. how long ago are we talkin.. 2, 3, 4 yrs ago.. there's is nothing laggy about a htc one. An LG g2 etc.. ignore cheap droids.. at least compare ones with a similar price point, u may be pleasantly surprised
I have an N5, I've run stock, paranoid, and cataclysm ROM's; the N5 is not nearly as fast as the 5S at many tasks. And it is not as smooth. I'm sorry, it just isn't. I use them both side by side every single day and at some points in the day I get frustrated with my N5 and just pick up my 5S to perform the same task quickly and without stutter or lag. Of course disabling animations in developer options help but does not completely alleviate the lag (especially in the touch response input arena).
Additionally I've owned every iPhone as well as Every Nexus G1, N1, Nexus S, N4, and N5 (with the exception of the completely botched Galaxy Nexus) as well as a few HTC (older ones though, not the One series) so I'm definitely not speaking from a small sampling of Android devices when I say that I've never had an Android device that is as smooth as Android enthusiasts have often claimed. Never... Not with any amount of ROM flashing or Kernel flashing have I come close to the level of touch responsiveness and general speed of operation as the iPhone of that same generation.
Some Android phones have powerful hardware for sure. Octocores and 4gigs of RAM. And yet it still feels laggy to me.
For once in your life actually use an iPhone for awhile. Browse the web, run apps, look up documents, etc. Then go back to your octocore android phone with 4gigs of ram and yet it still lags. Applications crash all the time. One phone will get the newest game while your 1 year older phone doesn't (fragmentation). You can only get on average 1 update for your phone. Where apple you can get the update when it comes out.
Explain to me how that is? Because I'm just going to say that iOS is the better operating system. I want the best and the iphone is the best. Do I want larger screens? Yes. I'm not going to sacrifice quality and the best operating system for a larger display however.
I'm sure you are getting plenty of negativity towards this post. But I actually have a Nexus 5 and a Nexus 7 (2013) and no longer own a single iOS device. Even on the latest hardware and software directly from Google, there is still noticeable lag.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18979226/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18979411/
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Totally agree. The fact remains, Android is still laggy whether fandroids will admit it or not.
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There is hard proof to support Android lag in my links above.
From the article by Anandtech you linked to:
"Overall, I’m quite pleased with the display. The AMOLED display in the Galaxy S5 is finally equivalent to LCD displays in color accuracy and peak luminance, areas that LCD used to be the best in. Throw in the incredible contrast that AMOLED has always had and the ability to toggle between wide color gamut and accurate color, and I would say that AMOLED is finally equal, if not slightly better than LCD. With a few more iterations, I wouldn’t be surprised if I were to write that AMOLED is clearly superior to LCD."
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They aren't the norm or even close to being so.
Bezel-less is the darling of online concepts that could never be manufactured or structurally sound, but in the real world bezels are still very much present and growing as companies add stereo audio, water durability, and new sensors.
There is LG and the G2 but they did move the buttons to the rear or the device to get the bezels down.
Sorry, I tried turning on the phone by pressing and holding but it didn't work? Did I miss something? or would you like to say wake from sleep?
-Aww, as if power and volume button could not do it or different method? Instead lets use two hand from top to bottom to take screenshots.
-I am sorry, if you say, multitasking is "super simple" when double tapping home button as in (big circular home button), you must be on iSteroid.
-Must any comments not defending Apple bring about Android or the competitor? Just for the sake of it, I do play with Android devices but do I like them better than Apple (Yes and No) some things are better while others are not.
Like there arn't thousands of videos on youtube depicting iphone lag {even new iphone's with iOS 7}.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQC_W0c-C8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6fRMy0zHoI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY-KuPhC0Y0&t=2m37s
I use both android and iOS {android phone, ipad} and to pretend that android has a lag problem while iOS doesn't is disingenuous at best. You admit to not owning any iOS products currently maybe that's why you feel that the lag is so bad on android, I can however say in my experience {owning both} they both suffer from lag through it's so minor in both OSes these days it's barely noticeable {to me}. Thinking back to early android's {Wow they were awful} and the iphone 3GS {after iOS 5} now that was lag.
I have a Nexus 5 and I bought a 5s on launch day. I ended up keeping the Nexus 5 because I made money when I sold my 5s. But make no mistake, the 5s was without a doubt much smoother than my Nexus 5. Opening apps, scrolling, basic navigation, taking pictures, everything. Android still suffers from basic lag. And that previous post showing a nearly full second delay before Android did anything after being touched is what I see quite often. Never had that happen on my 5s.
Same I have never experienced any lag on my Nexus 7 (2013). You see it but I don't on my unit. How did this start anyway?
Nobodies eyes are the same. Just because one person doesn't see dropped frames doesn't mean frames were never dropped.
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