iPhone 5 GeekBench Results

EGSonikku writes "The iPhone 5 has been benchmarked using the GeekBench tool. According to the results, Apple's claim of 2x higher performance over the iPhone 4S seems accurate. The results show the iPhone 5's A6 CPU is dual core and clocked at 1.2GHz, and is paired with 1GB of RAM. Despite the fact that the Samsung Galaxy S3 has a quad core CPU at 1.4GHz, and twice as much RAM, it seems the iPhone 5 is faster than the S3, or any other Android handset." Meanwhile, Samsung has launched a marketing campaign that compares some of the hardware specs and features between the new iPhone 5 and the GS3.

With that much power under the hood

[__aaqvdr516]

Since it is faster than all the other phones I can get all my phone calls done faster. That's the way it works.

Plus, all the video encoding gets done that much faster while I text and drive.

Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner?

[Zuriel]

And, of course, there's the indestructible Nokia [iseeahappyface.com].

Re:I made a mistake in the story write up...

[mactard]

Isn't that what the Slashdot editors are for?

Re:WGAF?

[noh8rz10]

I'll link to this comment when you crow about android phone X beating the iphone 5 on geekbench score.

Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner?

[exomondo]

I have dropped my caseless iphone 4 and 4s at least 5 times each (yes I am clumsy) without breakage. It is not fragile even with glass on both sides. The main way gorilla glass is broken is a drop on to concrete, even asphalt seems not to do it at hand height. Almost half the people I work with have the iPhone 4 or 4s, out of maybe 10 phones I have seen one broken from a drop. I have had Samsung phones that break on the first drop and Erikson that took only a few drops. None of my Moto's ever broke from droppage.

My iphone4 fell out of an ultralight onto a construction site where it was run over by a steamroller and it was fine, but a cotton-wool ball touched up against my samsung and the screen shattered.

Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner?

[Plumpaquatsch]

And the thinner/lighter formula has been just that.

Except 'the new ipad' where it was thicker and heavier.

IOW, Apple is bad for making their devices thinner - unless they make them thicker, then that's evil.