Well, OLED and LCD ppis aren't quite comparable like that, since you're comparing four subpixels each with three each. Leaving aside actual visual perception (which you can't do in practice), you'd have to theoretically multiply OLED ppis with 3/4s.
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Well, OLED and LCD ppis aren't quite comparable like that, since you're comparing four subpixels each with three each. Leaving aside actual visual perception (which you can't do in practice), you'd have to theoretically multiply OLED ppis with 3/4s.
Lol not really. By the time the difference between 3gb and 4gb ram becomes relevant, in about 10 years time, both the XR and its direct successor will be past their sell by dates
Though the Dex experience is suboptimal, I can easily envision an iPhone that switches effectively from iOS when handheld, then to full-blown MacOS when used with monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Maybe it’s three years out but of course it’s completely feasible, technically. Obviously it isn’t going to match a higher wattage CPU in sustained performance. But it would be well suited to MS Office-like, bursty and other less demanding workloads. (Similar to the 12” MacBook.)
It's not relevant if I use or not. My answer was in general.
I have been following Dex's development closely and Samsung made some nice improvements with this feature taking in consideration it's newest iterations.
Here's a nice presentation of it.
In my opinion right at this moment, reaching a no compromise Ram limit is more relevant in terms of usability and future proofing than 10-15% bumps in CPU performance. CPUs have been more than fast enough for years.
I hope iPhones 11 will have at least 5gb ram. It will make it a better device.
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I have no complaints about my current XR. Not in speed, RAM, screen res. iOS 13 added basically a nice 3D Touch replacement and that was the only real thing other than universal Portrait Mode that I missed. I’ll be keeping my XR for probably another full year and will wait for the 2020 iPhones to launch with updated design.
For anyone interested, Geekbench 5 launched today and is free on iOS until 10th Sept.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geekbench-5/id1435082259
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geekbench-5/id1435082259
and if mercury is in retrograde?
Who needs them to!? Affinity has had their products out for awhile now and they are awesome. I have to think the only reason Adobe even announced it is because Affinity was starting to eat their lunch.
Affinity releases a fully baked product and Adobe scrambles to play catch up. Seems to me they didn’t have anything ready to go.
Standalone Apple Watch already exist when it debuted with Series 3 using cellular capabilities.... You can easily keep you’re iPhone at home while answering calls or text when traveling away from home. I do it as much as I can... I highly doubt Apple creates a Apple Watch that isn’t tied to the iPhone.
Think of it as iMessage, whereas it locks users to the iPhone... Apple Watch tied to the iPhone, gives a similar approach to iMessage... locks in the user.
As Apple usually doesn’t increase RAM capacity gratuitously, I think we can assume there’s a reason for the bump. (AR glasses anyone?)
1GB is no longer supported, and 2GB isn’t long for this world either. At ten years, I think perhaps you overestimate the lifespan of 3GB.
Yeah, I would've said the same thing 1 or 2 yrs ago, but then I got an SE (as an upgrade from a 6, just because of the form factor). It feels almost as big, but the screen feels a lot smaller. I prefer a smaller phone for when I ride my bike (shirt back pockets are kind of small) or when I commute to work, but this one, at least to me, it's not worth it. It's a good phone, it does everything I need it to do, but I feel like I'm losing something, like there's not enough phone. I bought it because I like the design, but I don't think it's a good phone to use in 2019.
I feel like this has bee done for years and years and Apple is still making a fortune with it. Android OEMs have sat and mocked Apple and we’re still here talking about what if’s.
I did a week with the Note 10+ and it is a fantastic device but it lacks in several key areas. Using android auto resulted in a mixed bag of stability, sometimes features would work and sometimes critical things would not. App response to presses on the touch screen felt a bit laggy, some apps buttons just didn’t work.
It’s still a great platform and a great device but I don’t think there is going to be much shaking in the smartphone market in the next two years that is going to force an exodus to android.
5G is useless to 99% of people at this point and even on the note 10 it requires another $150 to upgrade to the phone that has it.
Id rather see Apple put more of an emphasis/resources on reducing power consumption than increasing speed.
I read somewhere that Microsoft skipped windows 9 because of a bunch of hard coded system checks in random legacy software that would look for “windows 9X” and then configure accordingly assuming they were running on either win 95 or win 98. This could have led to major compatibility issues with legacy software so they just moved to 10 instead.
I have run some benchmarks, purely CPU based, where an iPhone XR beat an iMac (quad core 3.2 GHz) by a considerable amount, both using all available cores (2+4 vs. 4). The iPhone XR reduced clock speed earlier, but was still faster.
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The iPhone X phones are all quite expensive, so if you could attach a monitor, mouse and keyboard and have a full desktop computer would make absolutely sense. Or imagine something looking like a MacBook, but just having screen, keyboard, mousepad and a slot where you plug in your phone. (With a desktop, it's fine to have the phone on the table, but with a laptop-like design, you'd want the phone stashed away in a safe place, so you can use just the laptop).
I think this might all become reality once Apple has a good number of iOS apps optimised for desktop use. Currently this is "optimised for desktop on x86-64/macOS", but once that's done they just add another switch "optimised for desktop on arm/iOS".
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It wouldnt be xr if ram is 6gb lol
And if they put 6 gb in xr 2 then 11 will have 8 right ??
Which doesnt seem right
I'd prefer 400 DPI if it came for free. It doesn't. The 400 DIP isn't worth the difference in cost to me.
The XR replacement won’t be OLED. It’s LCD, and it would have 4 GB, while hopefully the OLED “Pro” models would get 6 GB as rumoured.
Yeah me too. Looks like they've reset the 'benchmark' as it were.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
Same for Android
https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks
That’s the new Geekbench 5.
They updated their website yesterday. MacRumors posted about the release today.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/03/geekbench-5/
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iPhones have been FAST ENOUGH for at least five years. Not sure what else can be done except get better efficiency and battery life out of chips. People use phones primarily for social media, taking pictures and texting.
So this year the war is all about pictures and video.
So prepare the trolls for disappointment and the usual Apple is doomed meanwhile Apple will continue to take in their billions as usual.
iOS 13 is going to be the star of the show this year. That alone is giving up to 2X performance on devices.
So this year the war is all about pictures and video.
So prepare the trolls for disappointment and the usual Apple is doomed meanwhile Apple will continue to take in their billions as usual.
iOS 13 is going to be the star of the show this year. That alone is giving up to 2X performance on devices.
Yes, sorry it should have read “5nm SoC ” for 2020.
Performance should increase by 15% handily.
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