iPhone 5 GeekBench Results 470
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.
Re:WGAF? (Score:0, Interesting)
Going for the S3 (Score:5, Interesting)
I've decided that my next phone (soon, I hope) is going to be the S3. I'd been holding out with my iPhone 4 for a while, waiting (like many others, I suspect) to see what Apple would wow us with for the iPhone 5. Needless to say, I wasn't that impressed, though to be honest, part of me really didn't expect to be, given that there are only so many innovations they could have come up with. What could they have done? An even bigger screen? NFC? A phone you could roll up? The first two would hardly have been groundbreaking and the latter is tech that doesn't really exist yet.
Still, at the end of the day, I'm sure I could be happy with the 5, but I'm ready to play with a new toy. I've never had an Android device before, but got a chance to play with a tablet and some phones over my vacation, and I liked what I saw.
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I'm going for an S3 (Score:3, Interesting)
(Grrr, thought I was logged in.)
I've decided that my next phone (soon, I hope) is going to be the S3. I'd been holding out with my iPhone 4 for a while, waiting (like many others, I suspect) to see what Apple would wow us with for the iPhone 5. Needless to say, I wasn't that impressed, though to be honest, part of me really didn't expect to be, given that there are only so many innovations they could have come up with. What could they have done? An even bigger screen? NFC? A phone you could roll up? The first two would hardly have been groundbreaking and the latter is tech that doesn't really exist yet.
Still, at the end of the day, I'm sure I could be happy with the 5, but I'm ready to play with a new toy. I've never had an Android device before, but got a chance to play with a tablet and some phones over my vacation, and I liked what I saw.
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Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner? (Score:5, Interesting)
Comparing apples and oranges (Score:3, Interesting)
What does this all mean? Generally, that the high-end [USA] Android phones perform easily as well as the new iphone 5.
I don't know that I'd draw any conclusions, given the two devices run totally different OS's, the software written for them is in two totally different languages... I know some software for Android is written against the NDK but lots of it is not, is it fair to compare that against all the iPhone apps that are native?
Re:Android logo? (Score:5, Interesting)
Thats just to pour fuel on the flames Slashdot seems to be degenerating to flamebait, remember when stories were generally interesting and not just to annoy various factions. Hearing the same comments repeated gets boring after a while.
Any way good on apple at bringing a more powerful iPhone to market. So how good are the next generation android phones going to have to be, to compete against this latest generation iPhone.
See this is where the battle for market share should be fought not in the court room.
Odd conclusion... (Score:5, Interesting)
Needless to say, I wasn't that impressed
Why? It is in fact very impressive hardware; it's simply the case that most of the details about it were leaked beforehand.
I do not know what aspect of the phone would fail to impress compared to current top-end Android phones unless you were into huge screens. The main thing I wanted was a great camera upgrade from the iPhone4; the iPhone 5 has an excellent camera. It runs iOS apps quite quickly, and has a somewhat larger screen without being physically huge.
I just don't understand the pure spec-based comparison that takes place without consideration of what software you might want to run...
OS change doesn't bother you? (Score:5, Interesting)
I know I have a lot of money tied up in software for my phone. Whether it be remote control software, or specialty apps which are only available for a premium, or just games I paid for - there's a $100-150+ in software I would have to re-buy. I don't want to have to think about switching my media management over. Not that iTunes isn't a steaming pile of shit on Windows, but I've finally gotten it to work acceptably (most of the time) with my 80+GB of music, 400+GB of movies, audio and ebooks, podcasts, etc. I'm sure there are better managers, but the number of hours required to switch that stuff into another management app just makes my insides curl. I'm doubly tied as I have an iOS tablet.
At this point, the "competitor" from Android would have to be pretty fucking amazingly better to make it worth while to switch, and while the S3 is very nice and there are things about it I like better, it's hard to find a reason for the extra expense and time to switch.
Not everyone. (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't have a case for my 4S, I didn't have one for my 3GS, and I didn't have one for my original iPhone, which I got from my brother when he upgraded to a 3G. My brother also is on his third phone and doesn't use a case. In all that time only one's ever fallen on the ground. My friend asked to hold it, and immediately dropped it onto a concrete floor when I handed it to him. It was the original iPhone. It put a small dent in the corner of the case, but it didn't really damage it. I'd hardly call the device fragile.
The population of iPhone owners seems pretty evenly split between people with cases and people without. I certainly appreciate a device that looks good and feels good in my hand. I'm not really concerned with breaking it since I look after my things. A lot of other iPhone users are the same.
Re:Check your countries. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sorry, I can't find the text you mention as "from the linked article". Can you please point out where one of the linked articles says that?
The only thing I could find is this page [primatelabs.com] saying that the A6 running at 1.02 GHz scored 1601, while this chart [primatelabs.com] says that the average Galaxy S3 running at 1400 MHz gets a score of 1560, i.e., the S3 scores slightly lower even though the clock runs 37% faster.
What am I missing?
Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner? (Score:5, Interesting)
I have a friend who dropped her iPhone off the kitchen counter and that impact shattered the glass. She's done this twice, once with an iPhone 4 and once with an iPhone 4S. I think I'll take my chances with a better-constructed device.
Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:WGAF? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's like with PCs. Smartphones are so fast nowadays that whatever you buy is good enough to do 90% of the things people want a smartphone to do. So even a 100% speed increase is no compelling reason to upgrade for most people.
Re:WGAF? (Score:5, Interesting)
This might be because samsung is marketing a dual core and quad core phone under the same brand, despite the obvious difference in capability. That is, without a doubt, my biggest gripe with Samsung in the industry. A Galaxy S III should be the same everywhere, or failing that a Galaxy S III DC, or QC should be clearly the same everywhere. Having different versions of the same product is unnecessarily confusing.
Re:WGAF? (Score:5, Interesting)
Odd considering the dual core snapdragon S4 is faster than the quad core one in almost every single benchmark. Only the really parallel ones (Which face it, never happens on a smartphone) pull ahead, and even then, just.
Re:Going for the S3 (Score:4, Interesting)
Uh. You do realize that you just completely contradicted yourself. If Samsung is making chips for Apple in Texas, then it's really Apple and iPhone buyers supporting that manufacturing, not Samsung phones. That article you linked to About A6 chips in fact is very complementary to Apple.
Re:You cannot compare specs directly (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not sure if you are familiar with what garbage collection actually does....
I can tell you are not if you think the GC is free. I'm not sure you understand what ARC does either if you think the cost the same. Since I spent a decade in corporate IT development working with Java I think I understand both Arc and garbage collectors better than you.
They don't have to be. The fact you can run multiple apps at a time means multiple cores can be utilized.
Yes, I can also do that in iOS. But most of the time the CPU will be idle even with background tasks running (for instance a music player will simply have fed data into an audio chip and be waiting until more data is requested), and it still means the primary app you are trying to run will be slower than it could have been had it used as many available cores as possible.
It also means worse battery life if your computations take longer than they could have if they used idle core time.
Watch where that stone is going sir (Score:3, Interesting)
Look, I think the Abercrombie shirts are silly as well, but only because who loves Abercrombie enough to tell you you should go there?
But think twice before you laugh at them. You are saying you have NO t-shirts from bands? No t-shirts with beloved science fiction characters, say perhaps Star Wars?
Again I can't see advertising Abercrombie myself but I cannot really say anything against the practice because I do have band t-shirts and other shirts advertising commercial entities I like. It's not just that you are paying to advertise for them, it's that you are indicating to others you are part of a community... (although again, Abercrombie? Is there such a thing as an Abercrombie community?)
And who cares? (Score:5, Interesting)
Meanwhile, no matter the hardware specs, iOS will keep being more responsive and iOS phones will keep getting software updates for years after launch. Clock speed and number of cores has stopped being relevant even in phones (it's not really relevant on the desktop any more as well) already.
Note: i've owned two Android phones before switching to iOS.
Re:Odd conclusion... (Score:4, Interesting)
I'll take the bait, what app do you have on iphone that there is no equivalent functionality within the android market?
iPhoto for one. I use it for review of DSLR images since I can quickly zoom to 100% on a 15MP JPG file to make sure focus was correct in specific locations.
It's also very lame but twitter clients are better. It annoys me that it matters at all to me but it does.
There are also some specialized weather apps like Dark Sky that I like. (though it looks like you will be getting that particular one [kickstarter.com] eventually).
There are a LOT of interesting photo apps. There are some on Android but I don't think at the same level of functionality.
I have a MINI Coper and the MINI Connected smartphone integration is IOS only at the moment and has been for years (that one I think is silly on their part).
Possibly Android has astronomy apps as good as Hidden Sky and Star Walk, but I'm not sure...
Also a ton of interesting drawing apps, like Paper to pick a recent example. I know Android has some drawing apps but I'm not sure they are at the same level.
There are others I'm sure, those are just what I use most often...
Just in general if any mobile application comes out you know there will be an iOS version at least, and maybe or maybe not an Android version.