I never said I didn’t believe you. I just said I didn’t know if that was a good time or not. Calm the hell down.
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iPhone X Beats Samsung Galaxy S9 in Benchmarking Tests
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I never said I didn’t believe you. I just said I didn’t know if that was a good time or not. Calm the hell down.
This is spot on. DeX does everything that made iPad desirable to Corporate. It has the added security of being a separated OS so employees aren't installing Apps to the same place they install Android apps.
And a correct response. Developers will already have their workflow in place. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is going to give up their current way of working to switch over to coding on DEX on a phone.
I still haven't seen any evidence of the Galaxy S9, let alone the Note 8, being decimated/annihilated/destroyed by the iPhone X.
All I've seen is anecdotal posturing and assertions.
The speed tests kinda just wipe your, almost trying too hard, arguments away.
lol.
All I've seen is anecdotal posturing and assertions.
The speed tests kinda just wipe your, almost trying too hard, arguments away.
lol.
Not a big deal. Old 2013 Sony Xperia Z can do 18 simultaneous channels with Audio Evolution Studio app so any recent device can handle 24+ channels. Ui24R is supported along with tons of other USB devices.
http://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/technology/usb-audio-driver
Reality is you'll run out of memory on the iPhone before running into any channel limits.
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Actually it is a hardware limitation.
S9 can’t record more than 5 min at 4K60fps.
iPhone X/8/8plus don’t have that limitation.
Kind of lame.
Note 8 couldn’t record 4K at 60fps at all.
You should know benchmarks has nothing to do with Real world usage. all the top flagships are as fast as each other. it's a matter of secs with them all after all.
"I tried figuring out if the seven minute thing looked right" sure does sound like you were questioning it. Hence the proof.
I meant right as in “is this the normal amount of time? Is it faster than normal? Slower?” I know nothing about video rendering. 7 minutes could be great for all I know or terrible.
Yes, like the other two guys, you did not catch the sarcasm. It’s a horrible, annoying feature.
I’ve had auto join WiFi off since day one, as I never saw the point. So that’s not an issue for me.
You can still turn off WIFI in settings.
Think of the control centre widget as a shortcut to ‘standby/disconnect’ and use force touch on the Settings app icon as a shortcut to ‘off’.
I make the same test on my iPhone X 256GB and I get completely different scores. OS is iOS 11.2.6
Oh yea that's right!!! You speak for the majority of the people that actually do work on there phones.
Please just stop.
DeX in the next 2-3 years will complely get rid of chugging a laptop around.
And you speak for the majority of developers?
The original DEX was a failure. This one will be too. If it ran Windows then I could see it having a shot at being successful. But running an OS that only a tiny number of users in the world use (developers who code on Linux and don't care about having a fast machine, and don't already have an established workflow environment) is not how you "completely get rid of chugging a laptop around".
This is the very definition of a niche product.
Only if you remote into your corporate desktops, otherwise dex not useable for me. I’d rather carry around my sp4.
But those comments won’t bear out over time, except maybe for a few users.
You can run windows on dex
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That's how most of not all Corporations want to run.its way more secure and controllable that way.
My roommate can log into his Putnam investments computer with my computer and uses his laptop all the time to do work outside of work and he is logging in VM to use his corporate account
Well true about that. Many different solutions for access to corporate assets.
However, noteworthy about windows on dex is not native and is either emulated or uses DAAS. Either way no standalone usage.
Not full Windows.
We can come back to this in a year and see who was right and who eats crow.
I've been an iPhone X owner now for four (count them) whole days. I switched from a Galaxy S8 plus. Things I've noticed:
TLDR; I'm glad I switched. For the most part the iPhone X experience is vastly superior to the Galaxy S8+ experience. There are a few annoying niggles.
/edit - no chance anyone reads this!
/edit2 - fixed a typo at the end where I said S9 instead of S8+ by mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
- Call quality is far better on the iPhone than on the Samsung. I thought my house was on the edge of coverage because I could only get decent reception in the kitchen and even then it would break up. Now I get crystal clear reception everywhere in my house. It's like they built a new cell tower on my street.
- The app I use most is Audible. On my Samsung it would appear to time out after about four hours, such that when I got in my car after a day at work it would not automatically start playing. I would have to get my phone out, unlock it, open the app, press play. Although the Samsung has more memory it appears that iOS handles audio threads much better.
- Audible on iOS has an 8 minute sleep timer (perfect!) whereas on Android the shortest is 15 minutes which is too long. Why the difference? Obviously this is neither Samsung nor Apple's problem but it affects my experience and that's what matters to me.
- I miss the headphone jack! Why did they remove it? Aaarrgghh!
- The S8 charged a lot faster than the iPhone. I've not had the iPhone long enough yet to determine whether the battery lasts as long under normal usage but I need to change my behaviour around charging. The charging speed was a big plus for the S8+.
- Unlocking is *much* faster on the iPhone. FaceID is much faster than Face Unlock (and more secure).
- Pausing/playing Audible is a lot easier. On the Samsung I had to double-tap the screen which sometimes woke the device but oftentimes didn't. Then I had to swipe the clock out of the way to get to the audio controls (not easy when you're in the shower). Then click play/pause. On the iPhone I do a light tap which always wakes it, and the audio controls are right there front and centre.
- The "soft" home button on the Samsung was temperamental - sometimes it worked, sometimes it just triggered whatever GUI content was under my finger. So to play safe I ended up having to swipe up from the bottom to get the controls, then press the home button. Now I just swipe up from the bottom.
- Sound quality through the onboard speakers is much better than the Samsung.
- There are apps I can finally use that I use day-to-day on my other devices (like Things 3 - I *love* having that on my phone now.)
- It still works with my Samsung Gear S3 watch! For the most part. I never used my watch to reply to emails and so on so I've not lost any functionality I actually used. I think the Apple Watch is hideous and I'd rather strap a dog turd to my wrist. No offence, Apple.
- I love the better integration of voicemail on the iPhone.
- Animojis are tons of fun! But I've never sent one to anybody and probably won't. Maybe I should have got an iPhone 8. /edit - Ignore that last bit. I just sent one to somebody (who has an Android phone).
- Android was a better at handling global settings like font sizes. My eyesight is pretty crap these days so I have to crank the font size up. In most cases on the iPhone this is fine but things like the book list in Audible (tiny!), BBC news app etc. simply ignore the setting and go their own (too small to see) way. The Android ecosystem is more consistent across apps.
- iTunes still sucks. Hard.
TLDR; I'm glad I switched. For the most part the iPhone X experience is vastly superior to the Galaxy S8+ experience. There are a few annoying niggles.
/edit - no chance anyone reads this!
/edit2 - fixed a typo at the end where I said S9 instead of S8+ by mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
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So you said you switched from an S8+ and telling us the iPhone X experience is superior to the S9?I've been an iPhone X owner now for four (count them) whole days. I switched from a Galaxy S8 plus. Things I've noticed:
Anyway, if you read all of that, thanks! Have an ice-cream or something.
- Call quality is far better on the iPhone than on the Samsung. I thought my house was on the edge of coverage because I could only get decent reception in the kitchen and even then it would break up. Now I get crystal clear reception everywhere in my house. It's like they built a new cell tower on my street.
- The app I use most is Audible. On my Samsung it would appear to time out after about four hours, such that when I got in my car after a day at work it would not automatically start playing. I would have to get my phone out, unlock it, open the app, press play. Although the Samsung has more memory it appears that iOS handles audio threads much better.
- Audible on iOS has an 8 minute sleep timer (perfect!) whereas on Android the shortest is 15 minutes which is too long. Why the difference? Obviously this is neither Samsung nor Apple's problem but it affects my experience and that's what matters to me.
- I miss the headphone jack! Why did they remove it? Aaarrgghh!
- The S8 charged a lot faster than the iPhone. I've not had the iPhone long enough yet to determine whether the battery lasts as long under normal usage but I need to change my behaviour around charging.
- Unlocking is *much* faster on the iPhone. FaceID is much faster than Face Unlock (and more secure).
- Pausing/playing Audible is a lot easier. On the Samsung I had to double-tap the screen which sometimes woke the device but oftentimes didn't. Then I had to swipe the clock out of the way to get to the audio controls (not easy when you're in the shower). Then click play/pause. On the iPhone I do a light tap which always wakes it, and the audio controls are right there front and centre.
- The "soft" home button on the Samsung was temperamental - sometimes it worked, sometimes it just triggered whatever GUI content was under my finger. So to play safe I ended up having to swipe up from the bottom to get the controls, then press the home button. Now I just swipe up from the bottom.
- Sound quality through the onboard speakers is much better than the Samsung.
- There are apps I can finally use that I use day-to-day on my other devices (like Things 3 - I *love* having that on my phone now.)
- It still works with my Samsung Gear S3 watch! For the most part.
- I love the better integration of voicemail on the iPhone.
- Animojis are tons of fun! But I've never sent one to anybody and probably won't. Maybe I should have got an iPhone 8.
- Android was a better at handling global settings like font sizes. My eyesight is pretty crap these days so I have to crank the font size up. In most cases on the iPhone this is fine but things like the book list in Audible (tiny!), BBC news app etc. simply ignore the setting and go their own (too small to see) way. The Android ecosystem is more consistent across apps.
- iTunes still sucks. Hard.
TLDR; I'm glad I switched. For the most part the iPhone X experience is vastly superior to the Galaxy S9 experience. There are a few annoying niggles.