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It's interesting how these "tests" were all that mattered back when Apple had an upper hand.

I can simply make in interface with no animation and suddenly the cpu become faster right?
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Are you really comparing Anandtech with 15 years old “Don’t forget to subscribe and hit the like button” guy?
 
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For seniors I still recommend iOS since too much versatility and too many features can be confusing. Android is better for the tech savvy that use their phone like a computer. If you don't know or care about DeX, emulators, Kodi, torrent clients, background multitasking, split screen multitasking, PiP, unix shell, etc. then Android for phone isn't for you.
Almost nobody cares about any of that, no matter what their age. And there are plenty of tech-savvy users who aren’t phone geeks. They also don’t care about those features.

None of those features drive volume sales of Android. Price does.
 
If you're unlocking your phone, you're about to take your eyes off the road while driving...you have at least a few good points here but they're lost to an obvious bias and outright misinformation.

Fingerprint/Touch ID can be unlocked by feel without taking eyes off the road and navigation is voice driven. Face ID is dangerous in this regard.
 
Fingerprint/Touch ID can be unlocked by feel without taking eyes off the road and navigation is voice driven. Face ID is dangerous in this regard.

You know what else is dangerous? Using your phone at all when you’re driving. It doesn’t make a difference if you’re using your phone to unlock it with a fingerprint or face ID, _leave_your_phone_alone while you’re driving on the road, that’s called simple logic.
 
You know what else is dangerous? Using your phone at all when you’re driving. It doesn’t make a difference if you’re using your phone to unlock it with a fingerprint or face ID, _leave_your_phone_alone while you’re driving on the road, that’s called simple logic.

It's only dangerous if you're challenged. If unlocking phone by touch without taking eyes off the road is dangerous then you shouldn't be allowed to use radio, powered windows, shifting gears, etc. Still stands that Face ID is dangerous in comparison since it requires taking eyes off the road.
 
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If unlocking phone by touch without taking eyes off the road is dangerous.

It certainly is. Using your smart phone regardless if it has a fingerprint sensor or Face ID is by choice, neither one of these manufacturers would advocate using your phone while driving, so the logical thing to do for your safety and everyone elses on the road, _leave your phone alone_, which I realize I’m repeating myself again.
 
It certainly is. Using your smart phone regardless if it has a fingerprint sensor or Face ID is by choice, neither one of these manufacturers would advocate using your phone while driving, so the logical thing to do for your safety and everyone elses on the road, _leave your phone alone_, which I realize I’m repeating myself again.

Stay off the road if you're challenged and can't operate car controls without taking your eyes off the road. Better yet take public transportation or get a taxi.
 
Here comes the lies already. The Snapdragon 855 has been decimating the A12 Bionic in every speed test other than 1 or 2 that were probably manipulated for Apple to win. Come on Mac Rumers. Keep the honesty please.
Except for the things that matter like single core performance and performance/watt.
But then again, you're only here to b***ch on Apple and tell the world how great the S10 is so why look at facts..
 
I can simply make in interface with no animation and suddenly the cpu become faster right?
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Are you really comparing Anandtech with 15 years old “Don’t forget to subscribe and hit the like button” guy?
Yes. It’s more “scientific” than “let’s see how fast an app opens”.
 
You missed some things.

- Qualcomm vs Intel baseband radio
- 1080p vs near 720p
- OLED vs LCD
- virtually same display area while being physically smaller
- better battery life without near 720p compromise
- 128GB base storage vs 64GB
- micro SD storage expansion vs none
- better future proofing with 6GB vs 3GB DRAM
- 3.5mm audio jack vs none
- additional wide angle camera vs none
- reverse wireless charging for earbuds/watch vs none
- included fast charger vs slow charger
- included accessories vs none
- IP68 vs IP67
- more versatile OS with much fewer restrictions
- nicer design and build quality that doesn't look Fisher Price
- more convenient fingerprint biometric that doesn't require taking eyes off the road while driving

Let's not forget it's also less expensive. Unfortunately you can't take a comparison review on this site seriously. I didn't even need to read it to know it was going to be incredibly biased. The XR has face ID, iOS and maybe the A12 processors is better? Honestly haven't looked at any speed test comparisons.

iOS vs Android to me at this point a is subjective, personal preference and how locked you are in the ecosystem (more so Apple as can pretty much live in the Google ecosystem on an iPhone/Mac).

If you are indifferent about the operating system/ecosystem the S10e has the better overall specs and features vs the XR. Unfortunately for Samsung and other Android device makers it's hard to get Apple users to want to switch.
 
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It's only dangerous if you're challenged. If unlocking phone by touch without taking eyes off the road is dangerous then you shouldn't be allowed to use radio, powered windows, shifting gears, etc. Still stands that Face ID is dangerous in comparison since it requires taking eyes off the road.
As a cyclist (both pedal and motor), I would reeeeeeeally appreciate if more people would NOT have their phones in hand at any time while the car is running. Too often do I see/experience near accidents.

Regardless of the method to unlock the phone, its really what comes after the unlock that concerns me most.
 

I know that the A12 is faster and more power efficient on paper, but that’s why I find it a bit surprising that the latest Android phones still seems to beat it. Is it due to longer animations on the iPhone?

Also battery life on the iPhones doesn’t seem to affected by the power effectiveness of the A12 if I remember the graphs I’ve seen from tests on Anandtech correctly, what would be the reasoning for that? The argument for the good battery life in their IPhone XR review came from the display being “different” (low res I guess) not as much the A12 being power efficient (although they did credit that too):

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13912/the-apple-iphone-xr-review-brilliant-battery-life/5
 
What a stupid article. Value of content = 0.

Blows my mind how the authors of this crap are able to pad out 100s of words without actually saying anything.

Let me summarise this post in 1 sentence.

Which do you prefer, let us know in the comments section.
 
As a cyclist (both pedal and motor), I would reeeeeeeally appreciate if more people would NOT have their phones in hand at any time while the car is running. Too often do I see/experience near accidents.

Regardless of the method to unlock the phone, its really what comes after the unlock that concerns me most.

Suggest people learn to read and understand what a car mount is. Fanboys just trying to distract from the subject of Face ID is more dangerous since it requires taking eyes of the road to unlock vs fingerprint/Touch ID that doesn't. Anyone who claims they haven't used in-car navigation is lying. Mounted voice activated GPS is legal except Face ID should be banned.
 
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This is phone vs phone, PS would be useless on a screen this size, as for productivity on an iPad without mouse, file system, true multitasking, support for 3rd party accessories etc it's more like a proof of concept than an actual productivity pc replacement and it will stay that way as long as Macs exist. Apple wants you to buy both at the end.

It’s also OS vs OS and ecosystem vs ecosystem. And iOS is way ahead when it comes to Apps that can utilize a modern SoC.

Photoshop will absolutely come to iPhone. Not because people would actually want to do their primary work on an iPhone (you wouldn’t), but because you could make those last minute changes clients are always requesting without having to be at a computer.

But this is about more than Photoshop. It’s about the fact Android tablets are both garbage AND dead. Google has all but abandoned them, there’s no more “tablet optimized” section in the Play Store (which was empty when it did exist), none of the OEMs bother making high-end tablets and developers aren’t bringing any useful Apps to them.

Meanwhile on the iOS side Apple makes actual performance oriented iPads along with specialized X versions of their processors with substantially more power than the iPhone versions. They’ve also made significant upgrades to iOS for the iPad. This, in turn, has driven development of even better Apps.

And this is how the computer industry has always worked. Developers always push the envelope with features that stress CPUs and GPUs while manufacturers of those keep coming out with faster and faster versions. And the cycle continues.

At least on iOS it does. The iPad is like a bridge. An App (or feature) that was once on a Mac comes to the iPad and then to the iPhone. Everything trickles down. Just like features such as video editing required $100K workstations, then came to your home PC and can now be done on your phone.

There’s no equivalent “bridge” on the Android side. If their tablet market wasn’t so pitiful you’d likely see the same development pattern happen there as well.
 
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Any phone with a headphone jack is by default the better phone.

Also; MicroSD card slot is a huge bonus and the fingerprint scanner right on the power button is the most obvious and logical place to put it.
It allows me to use throw away Apple headphones, which are very nice connected to a Samsung or other headphone jack. I dumped both of these overprice pieces of crap and now use a Doogee S60 until my S80 is delivered. If I worry about having my sellphone stolen, I just park my car on top of it.....
 
It's only dangerous if you're challenged. If unlocking phone by touch without taking eyes off the road is dangerous then you shouldn't be allowed to use radio, powered windows, shifting gears, etc. Still stands that Face ID is dangerous in comparison since it requires taking eyes off the road.
I like you! We should be a team!
 
It’s also OS vs OS and ecosystem vs ecosystem. And iOS is way ahead when it comes to Apps that can utilize a modern SoC.

Photoshop will absolutely come to iPhone. Not because people would actually want to do their primary work on an iPhone (you wouldn’t), but because you could make those last minute changes clients are always requesting without having to be at a computer.

But this is about more than Photoshop. It’s about the fact Android tablets are both garbage AND dead. Google has all but abandoned them, there’s no more “tablet optimized” section in the Play Store (which was empty when it did exist), none of the OEMs bother making high-end tablets and developers aren’t bringing any useful Apps to them.

Meanwhile on the iOS side Apple makes actual performance oriented iPads along with specialized X versions of their processors with substantially more power than the iPhone versions. They’ve also made significant upgrades to iOS for the iPad. This, in turn, has driven development of even better Apps.

And this is how the computer industry has always worked. Developers always push the envelope with features that stress CPUs and GPUs while manufacturers of those keep coming out with faster and faster versions. And the cycle continues.

At least on iOS it does. The iPad is like a bridge. An App (or feature) that was once on a Mac comes to the iPad and then to the iPhone. Everything trickles down. Just like features such as video editing required $100K workstations, then came to your home PC and can now be done on your phone.

There’s no equivalent “bridge” on the Android side. If their tablet market wasn’t so pitiful you’d likely see the same development pattern happen there as well.


And, don't forget, iOS now comes standard with COPY and PASTE, instead of NTFS and exFAT support and support for all those nasty old avi, divx, mpg, wmv, etc., etc., video formats your movies of the kids older than 2 are made in.
I plug my 4TB NTFS-formatted hard drive into the convenient USB port and watch anything I want with Potplayer for free.
 
Except for the things that matter like single core performance and performance/watt.
But then again, you're only here to b***ch on Apple and tell the world how great the S10 is so why look at facts..
You all do that actually. I literally said Adobe Express works better on the iPhone. So I call a ball a ball, and strike a strike.
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That video features the exynos version of the s10 haha you need to pay better attention

It’s not even disputed by android-focused sources that a12 is faster than 855
So what you're telling me is that you need more evidence? I mean I can provide more if you'd like, but you would still dig up a BS excuse. Lol
 
I just want three things from this year's XR.

128GB starting capacity at $749, 4GB ram and an additonal ultra wide lens.
 
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