iPhone 6s Bests Samsung's New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed Test

[brendu]

Also XDA has an in depth performance review corroborating the findings in the video above. Yet, heavily funded sites like the Verge give it a 9/10 performance score....

I gave up on the verge awhile ago. The site is crap, the articles are liberal political garbage half the time (which is fine for a liberal political site... not so much a tech site) and the pandering for Apple and Samsung products is sad.

 

[mejsric]

Bitmap quality is usually lower along with low 750p resolution on the iPhone 6/6S resulting in smaller files to load so without knowing the bitmap quality differences it's another reason the test is meaningless.

Hahaha lol, btw are you using magnifying glass when playing games?

 

[brendu]

This is not even remotely scienftiic and to somehow connect this so-called test to real-world use case scenarios is pure hyperbole. Fact is, Samsung just makes better hardware and software. Samsung's hardware has more cores and more RAM. So I have to think these tests are just false.

The one so-called advantage the iPhone 6s has over the S7 is 3D Touch, a so-called feature that adds no additional level of interactivity or pratical usability. You can compile a list of everything 3D Touch offers and it still wouldn't matter. OLED is a higher priority than 3D Touch. A bigger battery is a higher priority than 3D Touch. Smart Scroll is a higher priority than 3D Touch. It just saddens me that Apple wasted years of resources for something so stupid as 3D Touch. Ooh, I can now interact on z-axis interfaces. How is this revolutionary? It's like adding a 5th wheel to a car.

There has never, ever been a time where I've personally wished I could press harder on an interface element. Never.

So the way I see is the iPhone is clearly inferior to the S7 and Android in every single category. Don't be so quick to be guilible that Apple's stupid so-called custom chip has some advantage over Samsung's superior chip.

What are you on? Did you watch the video? Samsung software is better?? If you want to go by numbers alone then an 18 wheeler has way more horse power than a Miata but the Miata is much faster off the line and has a faster top speed. According to your logic that is impossible!

 

[ValO]

Lol, the typical drivel in a Mac forum to boost oneselfs ego even more.

Let's all just disregard 2016 technology and look at how fast an iPhone 6S can open 14 apps.

* 750p display
* non-IP68
* 4.7" display
* pathetic battery life
* no wireless charging or fast charging
* no expandable memory
* no curved glass
* 2nd class camera and sensor
* Apple Pay that works at 1% of places
* no NFC access
* no VR support
* no real multi-tasking
* pathetic camera features, no dual camera modes, low resolution front camera
* no LED notification indicator
* no dual app modes
* no one handed modes
* no EVS calling
* no dual LTE/Wifi download aggregation

The list goes on and on...but let's not even look at this list of things missing - we'll just enjoy watching how an iPhone 6S destroy a Note 7. LMAO.

Yeah, but the note 7 is a slow ass machine

 

[44267547]

Other than the items in your list which are simply wrong or obviously daft comparisons (why compare the size of the display to the 6s instead of the 6s plus?), I see you left out the fact that if the Note 7 can't even outperform a 6S, imagine what the 7 will do to it.

Don't take it too hard, man. Performance is just not Samsung's strong suit (see http://www.xda-developers.com/with-...delivers-embarrassing-real-world-performance/ , since I'm sure you think anything from an Apple site is biased). Their phones aren't all bad, but they sure know how to extract UI lag from even the best of SoCs... Maybe they could trade some of the more value-less items from your list for some optimization.

I couldn't have said it better than myself. Pure awesomeness!

 

[stopthenonsense]

XDA Developers had a pretty condemning report of the Note 7. For an $850+ device, that is pathetic.

I bought one on pre-order. Got it a day early on Thursday. I returned it on Saturday morning (called support at 5am and it was in the mail that afternoon). Sadly the TMo rep I talked to said I wasn't even the first one to return it. It was a beautiful piece of crap.

 

[bbbb4b]

Do you remember Apple PR when they launched "retina" displays? I'd say they disagreed with you. Besides, in case of Note 7 high resolution is required for VR. Since Apple/iPhone don't have this feature, higher resolution is less critical. But iPhone users can't have VR experience.

I'm sure you mean "slow, laggy" VR, right? Because that's what has just been proven in this demo.

 

[spiderman0616]

I gave up on the verge awhile ago. The site is crap, the articles are liberal political garbage half the time (which is fine for a liberal political site... not so much a tech site) and the pandering for Apple and Samsung products is sad.

They don't pander to Apple at all. Every article they do about Apple is hate hate hate.
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I'm sure you mean "slow, laggy" VR, right? Because that's what has just been proven in this demo.

Google Cardboard works just fine with my 6s.

 

[AppleScruff1]

I thought specs and tests didn't matter?
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Any user should care more about this test than any other test.

Because Apple won?

 

[bbbb4b]

This is so ***** funny. First Samsung squuezes a gazillion useless pixels way beyond the retina threshold into their "flagship" phones just to please their spec-adoring fanbase, then these same sSheep complain that a performance comparison with another flagship with a reasonable amount of pixels is "unfair".

Just to spell it out slowly and cleary to you and your ilk: hardware design, especially in mobile devices, is a game of compromises. Something's gotta give. The android vendors frantically cram their spec sheets with stuff because they have no other way of differentiation from one another. Now go salivate at the specs and live with the ****** software and general performance.

Best comment I've seen in a long time. Thank you.

 

[polbit]

You lost 90% of this forum when you said "objectively" mate lol

Sorry, I don't know how that slipped out!

 

[iTom17]

I have friends with Galaxy phones and it pains me to watch them when they want to show me a photo or an app. I wonder how they can be happy with such a laggy experience, but they seem blissfully unaware that it's a problem. Maybe they think that's how mobile devices are supposed to work. I was recently asked to take a picture of a family using their Galaxy 6. There was no shutter button to be found. They told me to just tap the center of the screen. So I did. The phone clicked and I handed it back to them. It turned out that I took a picture of my leg as I handed the phone back. I didn't know that after I pressed the shutter, I had to stand stock still for several seconds before it actually took the picture. I guess I'm spoiled by how quickly the shutter on my iPhone works.

You know, now that you mention it: my friend upgraded his Galaxy S4 for an S6 not so long ago. He did experience a speed bump. But what he didn't tell me, and what I did notice myself when he was playing a game I have too on my iPhone (Simcity Buildit) it was utterly slow. It lagged the whole time. Now, I don't mind a bit of stutter if it doesn't occur too often. But I saw constant stutter on his S6. That's bad. I feel bad for him, since he payed a lot for that phone of course. But I didn't tell him, because he didn't seem to mind it at all.

Guess that because he's gotten used to it or something. He had the same with his S4, so I don't think he notices. Although he has seen how it performs on my iPhone 6s, but maybe he just doesn't want that fight about what's better and what not. I know he's the kind of guy who always says "both Apple and Samsung make great phones", so I'm gonna give this one to him because he doesn't dislike iPhones at all.

But that still makes me feel bad for him. If you buy a phone that's less than a year old, you expect it deliver world-class performance, right? Or am I saying something stupid now? Of course, iPhones get slower too. But not after one year. At least, I haven't seen that so far. iPad 3/4 maybe, but that's all.

By the way, it's not just in terms of 'smoothness'. I also noticed how the S6 of my friend constantly reloads apps after short usage of one or two other apps. And that S6 has 1 GB RAM more than my iPhone 6s. Just shows how badly Android, or more specifically TouchWiz, handles memory management. Can't get over how bad it is.

Before anyone is going to say: "but you haven't used an Android phone yourself, so your argument is invalid", I do have a Nexus 5X. Great device, not going to deny that. But even with stock Android its RAM management is bad. It has the same amount of RAM as my iPhone, but there is such a major difference in how quickly apps reload. That's one of the reasons why I stopped using the Nexus. Stock Android is nice, but there's so much work to do in order to make it truly competitive to iOS in terms of performance.

 

[Quu]

Kinda sucks for Samsung to be beaten by a year old phone like this and by so much. Samsung should really be looking at this and wondering where they went wrong and what they need to change as this phone is very expensive and not very competitive.

If Apple keeps up their trend of 50% performance improvement with every A chip then the iPhone 7 will be around 50% faster than even this result..

 

[pacalis]

I don't get it. My wife upgraded from a GS3 to a iPhone 6s and the iPhone seems laggy. If it wasn't for the kids being able to facetime her, she would have switched to a GS6 which I have. And honestly, the GS6 seems way faster for real world use. It must be the pixels the GS7s are driving that's causing the peformance lag.

Let's see what the 7 looks like - I'd like to go back to an iphone.

 

[McCool71]

A bit odd that there is no focus on one of the massive differences that probably has an impact on several of the apps: The screen resolution

Around 1 million pixels on the 6S vs 3,6 million pixels on the Note 7. Quite a few games use higher resolution textures when the device supports it, increasing the loading time significantly.

 

[keithtae]

Luckily I bought the note 7, look at how ugly the iPhone is.

 

[bxsonic]

Can't wait to see the comparisons with iPhone 7

 

[brendu]

They don't pander to Apple at all. Every article they do about Apple is hate hate hate.

I guess I hadn't noticed since I stopped reading awhile ago. They used to sing the praises of all things Apple. Maybe Samsung has some influence now. Either way that site is crap and no one should read it without an ad blocker on.
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Luckily I bought the note 7, look at how ugly the iPhone is.

So you care more about your phones looks than it's performance? I guess that's okay. Enjoy it..

 

[Tech198]

I suppose if u'r that worried about a 1 minute increment time-frame then u haven't got any free hours left in your day. No doubt the media will cause a big stir over this... People will freak out "OMG!! I can't believe it", people will be starting to do cartwheels round the office etc.

No big deal.

 

[Eggtastic]

Well, this is unwelcome news.

I was at Best Buy yesterday and was blown away by the design, screen, etc, that the Note 7 edge had. I am due to upgrade this fall and am pissed about the minimal changes (which are subjective to everyone, I get it) that appear to be coming for the iPhone 7.

I had a Samsung Galaxy s3 long ago, and it was a great phone for a while but started acting up big time. I am just bored of iOS and was hoping to switch to try something new and give Samsung a second chance. Of course, the damn apple ecosystem is always something to consider.

I'll give it until the new launch and decide from there.

 

[gaximus]

Pointless test TBH when no one uses their phone like that.
Still it does show how apple optimizes the hardware and software.

It seems like samsung phones always lag behind when loading games for some reason.

I don't see how testing the speed of opening apps is a pointless test. Almost everyone I know uses their smart phone to open apps

 

[Pentium]

That's really embarrassing..and its all what matter in day to day use...
and the story gets worst...usually TouchWiz devices lag more and more with use...like after 3 months...u feel that u need to do a hard reset..

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

I don't see how testing the speed of opening apps is a pointless test. Almost everyone I know uses their smart phone to open apps

I know that opening apps on my iPhone 6 is sometimes slow and I wonder what it is doing. I don't sit in a lab running synthetic, ridiculous tests though, to be honest. Nor does anyone really care enough to dump their Samsung and spend another $1000 on an iPhone 6S, just so their apps can open 0.1 seconds faster.

Lets put some reality in your argument.

 

[McCool71]

I don't see how testing the speed of opening apps is a pointless test. Almost everyone I know uses their smart phone to open apps

That is true. But not a bunch of apps in a row without using them for something before opening the next one.

Most people jump between a handful of core apps each day, meaning that apps that have already been opened earlier that day (or actually since you last restarted your phone) will be available immediately the next time you need it without having to be loaded into memory.

It would have been very interesting to see a 'round 2' comparison where both phones have had every app opened at least once before. I think the result would have been quite different.

 

[techiebug]

I'm done with Samsung for good. Recently they release some really fancy hardwares. But real life experience is far behind the iphone. Im using the Note 4. Worst thing is the longer you have the phone, the laggier it is. All because of Touchwiz.