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iPhone 6s Bests Samsung's New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed Test
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Apple's design would be better if there were less bezels. Just too much wasted space but luckily they will be fixing this next year.
No, I'm saying devices with 2GB RAM don't have the Safari refresh issue. Still there's plenty of 1GB devices that aren't sluggish. iPad Air 2 was released in October 2014, so almost two years ago, not one.
Fair enough. Still terrible. Considering how cheap RAM is, and how much profit they make, it boggles the mind that Apple has just started putting a measly 2Gb, when clearly 1Gb wasn't up to the job. Equally that they'd sell a 16Gb phone with no expandable storage, yours for CHF759. Crazy stuff.
So, the best post of this entire thread only has 12 likes? While other posts like "iPhone is faster than any android phone with less cores, hurr durr" have 30+ likes? The most embarrassing thing here is me realizing AGAIN that iOS is not a true multitasking OS, while Android is.
I used to switch between iPhone and Android every year, always getting the latest flagship. But that changed after I got the Galaxy S5. Good phone, for a time....then all the problems started settling in. Got the 6+ and decided to never look back. I'm all Apple from here on out.
Y'know, it's funny. Android fans will tell you how superior their phones are and yet year after year the iPhone continues to lay the smack down. They go on and on about how over priced the iPhone is, yet the top of the line Androids just don't hold up. They're just not very good phones when you get down to it. They try to win you over with half baked features that no one uses more than once. And if something happens to your phone? Good luck.
Android is just too risky to invest in. I've learned my lesson. The Walled Garden is a paradise.
Y'know, it's funny. Android fans will tell you how superior their phones are and yet year after year the iPhone continues to lay the smack down. They go on and on about how over priced the iPhone is, yet the top of the line Androids just don't hold up. They're just not very good phones when you get down to it. They try to win you over with half baked features that no one uses more than once. And if something happens to your phone? Good luck.
Android is just too risky to invest in. I've learned my lesson. The Walled Garden is a paradise.
And that is important to how many people exactly?
Look around you and see just how people are carrying out 3-4 concurrent tasks on their Android smartphone? Very few, if any. It's cool to theory craft and come up with some extreme scenario, but the reality is that most people will not be doing those things in the aforementioned example.
iOS lets people multitask where it counts (for most, it's playing music in the background while using some other app). Most people will be hopping from one app to another, and that is where 2 faster cores really shines.
However, a subsequent test was also carried out with the Note 7 resolution set to 720p and it still was out performed speed wise. I think Samsung's poor optimisation of the SD820 is more to blame than anything else to be frank. But there is certainly a measure of mountains being made out of molehills on the forum.
The Note 7 may be slower at loading apps (fractionally) but it can do many things that the iPhone simply can not, such as multi-window, pen input, themes, etc.... Whether the extra features found on the note 7 are worth more than the difference in loading speeds is subjective, but either way if you were in the market for a phone with stylus - there isn't much better than the Note 7. But folks will continue to bicker around this regardless.
iPhone 6S Plus renders at a similar resolution to the S7 so a test against that phone would have been fairer, but in all honesty I don't think it'd make that much difference.
Even in the processor intensive tasks where screen res will make little difference, such as the Lapse It program in that video, iPhone is still miles faster.
Just three little remarks. This is a performance test, not a specs comparison. The Galaxy Note 7 actually wins on the spec sheets. There was no iPhone and no Galaxy, when you allegedly still cared about their specs 15 years ago. Other than that, fine buy what you like.
Ok but, not doing intensive processing tasks on a phone most of the time and the Note 7 is still waterproof, had wireless charging, and an OLED screen. Just pointing out that in the real world, those things would usually trump processor speed under a significant load.
All very nice, but I wish Apple cared about desktop performance as much as they do telephone speed. Desktop PC performance is so far ahead of both the iMac and the Mac Pro now it makes Apple hardware a very hard sell for pros. The Mac Pro in particular should be the fastest, most no compromise system on the planet. In reality it's years out of date and lacks even modern OpenGL drivers, let alone Vulkan. It's a sorry state of affairs.
LMFAO
The shear stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze.
Hey....I have this bridge I want to sell. Connects upper and lower penninsula of Michigan. You could even charge tolls for crossing. Can let you have it cheap.
Sorry I apologise, I got the wrong end of the stick.Sorry, it wasn't my list - someone posted it earlier on and I called it a load of BS so we are in the same boat here as I agree with you 100%
The only reason I posted it again was someone asked me which points out of the original list I thought were rubbish, so I posted it again. Should have put it in quotes, so I apologise for the mix up.
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Nope, The Note 7 6 GB RAM version will not destroy
Samsung Exynos 8890 will still be fastest mobile processor in the market until Galaxy S8 comes out
I wonder if your able to uninstall iOS 10 and instal Windows 10 mobile on the iPhone 7 will it still run smoothly?
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Reminds me of this chap. He sold the Eiffel Tower despite not even owning it.
Twice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
I get these random calls. Some Pakistany guy telling me my Windows computer is sending error messages to the Microsoft technical assistance office. He wants to help me correct the problem. All I need to do is get on my Windows computer and follow his instruction. He keeps asking me to press the Windows key on my keyboard.
Should I go out and buy a Windows computer so next time he calls I can press the Windows key? All I own right now are Macs.