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Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing
redkemper writes with an excerpt from BGR.com of interest to anyone in the market for a new phone: "Samsung's Galaxy S 4 might not offer much in the way of an exciting new exterior design, but inside, it's a completely different story. The retooled internals on the U.S. version of the Galaxy S 4 were put to the test by benchmark specialists Primate Labs and the results are impressive, to say the least. The Galaxy S 4 scored a 3,163 on the standard Geekbench 2 speed test, just shy of twice the iPhone 5's score of 1,596. That score was also good enough to top the upcoming HTC One, the Nexus 4 and the previous-generation Galaxy S III."
sgs 3 is better than iphone5 in that chart
Considering this is the US version with Qualcomm chips, the results for the international one with Exynos should be even better.
I've had two smartphones now, the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream, and the Samsung Galaxy SII. It's not about the phone speed, it's about the applications and the connectivity. If my wife's Palm T|X was a phone and had the ability to synch to a server automagically like Android does with Google's applications, she'd probably still be using it. Having the web is nice, but having the e-mail, calendar, contact list, music player, e-book reader, camera, picture viewer, and calculator are what make the device so useful. For me, it's a tool first and foremost, and the toy gadgets aren't what make it why I carry it.
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The iPhone is definitely not cutting edge technology, despite what some people believe. The iPhone is more the tried and true stuff, although I think most people use it for the software, not the hardware. However, for those who like power and fun in their pockets, the S4 is the bomb.
You mean like they did, right in the article? It comes up just shy of iPhone 5.
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http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s4-not-cyanogenmod-support-174322/
Reports are coming in that Cyanogenmod will not be spending any resources on Galaxy S4. None. They've complained that the Galaxy models are too hard to keep working. The strange thing about it, Cyanogen works for Samsung on their Android Team.
Question is, will that affect your decision to buy or not buy the Galaxy S4.
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holy crap
is there any software that actually takes advantage of this? there are only a few games that take advantage of the iphone 5's graphical power
not like most people are going to dump their S3 or iphone 5 and run out to buy the S4 just because it gets better numbers
i know someone who is going to buy the Galaxy S3 this week if he gets if for $99 on T-Mobile. he doesn't need the S4's power and price
...those birds will look TWICE as angry on a Galaxy S 4 as they do on an iPhone 5? IN!
Wow, now it's fast enough to run Crysis 3! Oh wait...that's right, it's a phone. Apps are written for the slowest Android devices for the biggest marketability so that speed means nothing and does nothing but waste battery life. Maybe it can process photos faster with a built-in app or something faster but who cares? Most people run 3rd party apps the vast majority of the time. I would much, much, much rather see a doubling of the battery life than a doubling of the processor speed.
Ummm... Blackberry....
Seriously, all of the other vendors, with perhaps the exception of Microsoft, have been focused on home users, not the enterprise. So, I guess the answer should be Microsoft, but Blackberry still has the better enterprise solution.
what's the killer app for increased CPU?
why do I need such a powerful computation engine in my pocket? the main use I see is if it gets to be good enough to be a desktop replacement and I can just dock it to a big screen. But until then having more cpu or GPU isn't going to let be surf the internet faster or type e-mail faster or even give me longer battery life. THe existing ones already play HD movies so the frame rate threshold has been reached for highly satisfactory video.
SO what's the killer app for increased CPU? playing halo? Nice but not a killer app for a cell phone I think. I just can't think of anything in terms of compuational horsepower that I would like my cell phone to do that it doesn't do now and for which the cell platform is the right place to do it. I need help with my imagination I guess.
For me the thing I need on my cell phone is vastly more battery. Why? Well aside from the obvious of longer charge time, you could probably vastly increase the communication rate and reliability by broadcasting more power. You could certainly increase the amount of time you would be tempted to use video (battery consumers).
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umm samsung and apple
BB might own the super secret enterprise market, but most of it is gone. apple and samsung are more than good enough for most corporate email
Microsoft is sort of a funny one: their attempt to push Windows Mobile devices into Blackberry's market back in the day was largely a failure, and is totally dead now; but did manage to win 'Activesync' enough support among enterprise admins as the 'Hey guys! we are totally kinda, sorta, adequately endurable compared to BES!' alternative that devices from Apple and the droid crowd that support it were able to absolutely brutalize Blackberry in ways that Windows Mobile was never able to, and Windows Phone seems to be making a rather tepid attempt to.
I've got an old Nook Color (800MHz single-core A8) lying around, it's still perfectly OK for most everything I do on a tablet, except HD video (I don't game).
I think OEMs are mis-aiming. Better battery, louder sound, more rugged design... would be more interesting to me than octo-core with bells on.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
BES was always a half-assed and expensive solution to the regulatory problems US corporations have with email.
End-users send HIPAA/HITECH/SOX/GLB/FDA-regulated material with their phones (for legitimate reasons or just because they are end users) so having the mail transit a server at RIM headquarters was a regulatory non-starter (stupid enterprises did it anyway, and most did not get caught so how stupid were they really?). So the big boys bought BES servers and we hacked their existing email systems up to support the extra mail hub.
But BES, while it kept your sensitive email on a system you controlled, also usually exposed a Microsoft host to the Internet on at least one port. That's something one generally wants to avoid, and while Microsoft's SUS automagic updating makes it a lot less risky than it used to be, and you can put some transparent firewally stuff in between, why would you want all that complexity? (answer: because the CEO has a bloated ego and wanted a blackberry just like his rivals. But now he has an iPhone).
Today you just use iPhones and Androids. It's no harder to secure them than it was to keep a BES server up to regulatory requirements in a US zaibatsu. And the whole process has always been driven by the egos of corporate officers anyway, and now those same officers are measuring their relative penis length with iWhatsits and Androids, not Blackberries.
And the scores scale linearly, so you can just divide the scores of the new Samsung quad core by 2 to get a rough comparison with the iPhone 5. This gives an estimate of SIMILAR single-threaded performance between the two.
There are variations not handled by the simple comparison method (e.g. bandwidth-limited scaling of more cores, or clock turbo/throttling depending on number of cores used), but it's a pretty quick and fairly accurate comparison.
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what's the killer app for increased CPU?
You won't ask those sorts of questions next time you're trapped in your car, upside down in a snowbank, and that Space Heater App is the only thing standing between you and grim death!
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