May i remind you that the iPhone 5 is 7 months old? And just because the S4 has these great benchmarks doesnt mean it's a powerful thing, or innovative.
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May i remind you that the iPhone 5 is 7 months old? And just because the S4 has these great benchmarks doesnt mean it's a powerful thing, or innovative.
I doubt it. Apple could easily make the fastest phone but will not if it significantly reduces battery life.
Agree. I'm not a gamer - so while speed is nice - I'd rather have an efficient use of resources and longer battery life.
I'm stick rocking my original iPad because although it would be nice to have the cameras - for my individual use case, there's been little reason to upgrade thus far.
Sick of seeing the statement about "yet to see an android run as smoothly as ios."
When was the last time you really used one. I have an iphone 5 and a Galaxy S3. The Galaxy is every bit as smooth as the iphone. Iphone has some cool animations that run well so it seems so smooth. Android has animations if you want them.... and they run smooth as silk.
bottom line. Ios has limited choices and does those choices well. Like a PC, Android has many ways to skin each cat. You can navigate to where you want to go by many routes. So it is more flexible but more complicated. It is harder to start up using an Android...but once you get going, you can go so much farther. If you really use your phone for limited use and aren't at all tech savvy... get an iphone! But stop with the lack of smoothness. Android is smooth as silk
When was the last time you really used one. I have an iphone 5 and a Galaxy S3. The Galaxy is every bit as smooth as the iphone. Iphone has some cool animations that run well so it seems so smooth. Android has animations if you want them.... and they run smooth as silk.
bottom line. Ios has limited choices and does those choices well. Like a PC, Android has many ways to skin each cat. You can navigate to where you want to go by many routes. So it is more flexible but more complicated. It is harder to start up using an Android...but once you get going, you can go so much farther. If you really use your phone for limited use and aren't at all tech savvy... get an iphone! But stop with the lack of smoothness. Android is smooth as silk
Nope.
Transition effects are chopper and slower on the GS3. Even using the home button has tangible lag on the GS3
lol at all these exaggerations and assumptions about android, it's like hearing high school girls talk about about other girls
Again, it just isn't true. I have no lag as I currently sit here with my GS3. Zero lag. Zero chop... Zero. You are just projecting an experience with an old android or making it up. It simply isn't true. I hit my home button and it instantly goes to the home page, no different than my iphone.
Thanks to those above who defended me... but this isn't opinion. A phone is choppy or it isn't. I am a power user. My phone has tons of stuff on it... taxed to the max. It isn't ever choppy.
And I am not squinting at my smooth screen because I can see it!!!!
Yeah, that's what club android has been saying for years, and every update they then clamor to say their lag problem has been "fixed"
It's ok. People should buy what they want. The information is out there for the people to decide with it what they want. I appreciate all these benchmarks but they only influence a small part of my buying decision. Speed/Tech only goes so far because it get outdated by next year.
... and don't keep rehashing the same excuses over and over. iOS is stale and needs a revamp. Apple iPhone hardware needs innovation too.
yep. Android had a slow start. But you can say all the blah blah you want. It doesn't lag. Stop at the phone store next time and try a gs3. You have to be honest with yourself at some point. You'll have to trust your eyes.
Like I said, I own both. I have a GS2 (doesn't lag but has some bugs), a GS3, an iphone 5, an old iphone 4s.... and an ipad1. I am not relying on history. I am relying on my experience using the phone since your last wishful post.
I haven't seen anyone clamor to say lag has been fixed in generations of android.... moving on. the future is here. sorry.
That's why I sold my gs3 and got an iPhone 4S. Seeing the gs3 lag, at all, with such a better CPU than the iPhone made me bat crap crazy mad.
Looking at the s4 videos, I'm happy I switched to iOS....s4 features look like poorly done gimmicks. Sort of like the apps that seem cool, but wind up deleted minutes later. Especially the air wave scrolling....pitiful.
Yup. Just like my 6 year old MacBook runs OS X more snappily than my crazy fast home built windows runs windows 7. Optimization is everything.
What about the Nexus 4 and upcoming 5? I believe their integration of software and hardware is tighter as its a pure Android device?
I have no idea how did you get your conclusion as the difference between iOS and Android is so clear.
I have a Note 2 which has better Hardware and newer OS 4.1 than S3. Initially, I feel the Note 2 is quite smooth, but after observing it closely, the animations clearly lags than iPhone 5 even iPhone 4s. I have wrote animation code for both iOS and Android platforms, so I know what I am talking about.
I have to admit Android is better OS in many aspects, especially its openness and flexibility. But when comes to performance, Android is not even close to iOS.
Honestly Android devices have, this last couple of years, always used stronger CPU but they remain mostly useless stats since apps don't tend to be optimised or complex enough to leverage those chips.
The real new that make this device a good iPhone contender is that it finally sports a decent GPU, the same family as those in Apple devices. (mostly proving that Apple choosing to focus on Graphics performance was the way to go)
Now what I really want to know (while I'm not interested in Android devices whatsoever) is if the big.Little chip manages good energy efficiency performances? This last couple of years Apple, thanks to its optimised iOS, has had better efficiency in power usage (the reason why other platform tend to have larger batteries), Apple then developed swift in order to avoid using big.Little ARM implementation, I'm curious to know if that was a waste of money or a clever development step.
The real new that make this device a good iPhone contender is that it finally sports a decent GPU, the same family as those in Apple devices. (mostly proving that Apple choosing to focus on Graphics performance was the way to go)
Now what I really want to know (while I'm not interested in Android devices whatsoever) is if the big.Little chip manages good energy efficiency performances? This last couple of years Apple, thanks to its optimised iOS, has had better efficiency in power usage (the reason why other platform tend to have larger batteries), Apple then developed swift in order to avoid using big.Little ARM implementation, I'm curious to know if that was a waste of money or a clever development step.
This is not surprising considering that the iPhone 5 has a dual core chip. I still feel though that the iPhone 5 still provides a more fluid experience in terms of the GUI and other general uses than some of the Android products I own. I find that my Nexus 7 still lags every now and then when scrolling through the pages of the home screen or flipping through the pages of the app drawer. My Galaxy Nexus also has a dual core chip and shows more signs of lag than my girlfriend's iPhone 5.