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The iPhone 5 is out in the wild, well, under NDA in the hands of reviewers at least, but it’s apparently made a quick appearance on Geekbench, just to test its mettle a little. It clocked up a score of 1,601, which totally annihilates the iPhone 4S with its puny 631 score, and even tops Android’s best.
We heard that Apple’s new A6, which forms the iPhone 5′s beating-heart is a custom bit of silicon, and it certainly looks like Cupertino’s worked a bit of magic here. We won’t know precisely how the iPhone 5 performs until the reviews are out, and the phone is the hands of the many, but it certainly looks promising, if this is a genuine benchmark.
Has Apple just thrown down the gauntlet to the quad-core Android beasts like the Samsung Galaxy S III, and even Google’s own Nexus 7? If so, this means war on the processing front. Let’s just hope batteries get the same attention too; what’s the point in a phone that’s more powerful than a supercomputer, if it only lasts 35 minutes? [Geekbench via AppleInsider]
Isn’t it only a tiny bit better than the S3? Not exactly blowing it out of the water better..
Agreed. iPhone5: 1601. GS3: 1560.
And I do rather love it when Apple fanboys suddenly change stance from “it’s not about the power of the phone, it’s all about the USER EXPERIENCE” to “OMG DUAL CORE A6 IS LIKE THE MOST POWERFUL THING EVAR” based on a single (rumoured) stat.
I will just leave this here.. http://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks
Which has a Galaxy S III showing a score of 1628.
Unless i’ve completely forgotten how to do arithmetic in my old age, that’s better than the iPhone.
I wonder if Giz are going to bother to update the story, or will they just carry on slobbering all over Apple?
Giz has a pretty poor record on updating factual inaccuracies in their articles. Sensationalism was one excuse previously given for this.
‘Bittys’ LOL Lovin’ that name…
ya, someone at Samsung didn’t like how this was going, so they faked the scores probably with overclocking and just now submitted new scores….
they are really funny, seriously… they copy the design, the software, and now the benchmarks… i wonder if Apple can ammend the complaint :0)
notice the date on the score “update” when samsung or some fandroid fake in a new score….
when i read it, it was one hour old…. Hehe .. seriously i am really laughing out loud… people are giving me funny looks….
czzzz…..
hey now they have a score of 1755, it is amazing how fast Samsung can upgrade their hardware
) now milk is coming out of my nose… come on you fandroids, why stop at a fake 1755, why not go for broke, put in there a score of 10,021… sounds better too….
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Ha! I guess the article I read (and presumably the one Sam read) was out of date…
More importantly how is a note out crunching a one x? I have to go gloat now!!! mwah ha ha haa
What you have to realise is that the iPhone is the complete package, yes power is good to enhance the performance of the device, power on its own is useless if the user experience is poor as with Android. The power, user experience, the content available via download, Apple has all fronts covered. ,Android is fragmented, no consistency, poor show…
For risk of trying to get a reasonable answer what part of the user experience is poor with Android?
The only times I’ve used iOS its been to attempt to provide support for people, one person’s iOS5 update has left her phone crashing every time she opens the contacts app (Yes a disappearing app is a crashing app) and another very basic user was confused with her emails not deleting from her iPad because the “Confirm delete” button wasn’t immediately obvious to her, unlike a dialog that says “Are you sure you want to delete this?” like windows would show.
iOS certainly isn’t perfect neither is Android, but opinion “the user experience is poor as with Android” is just that, an opinion.
In my opinion the lack of widgets is poor, but then I’m technically capable of moving things around and playing with functionality, not the market Apple primarily aim for with iOS.
Reliability, I want quick response, things to work no hassle. I have always got this from iOS devices, on the one X I can’t say the same, the wife’s moto defy goes the same way, things open then crash, devices often does not respond. The apps just aren’t as polished on Android either, compare like for like and you will see the clear difference.
As for customisation, I do this after jailbreaking, the basic iOS is fine for normal users, they really can’t go too far wrong with it due to ease of use, Android is more challenging for basic users though. Jailbreaking allows me to introduce a host of features which give me what I require, people often don’t look into the advantages this brings prior to ruling out an IOS device.
Well I can’t say for other devices, but neither of my Android devices had ever crashed (old LG Optimus One and a Galaxy S2).
There will always be crappy android devices and apps after all it comes together with the open* environment. I don’t really care since the most used apps are good on both.
*not all that open but much more than iOS since Google and Apple have very distinct philosophies about such matter.
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neither of my Android devices had ever crashed
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ya, and none of the dog owners around here walking their dog off leash have ever seen their dog crap in someone’s yard either…. i think the most common comment is “my dog has never done that” amazing how that works, while the homeowner’s clean up dog crap….
Well I can’t do anything about it if you don’t believe me…
Yes, I would think iOS would be more reliable, because mainly there is one device to make work rather than many manufacturers and many devices, this certainly has its advantages.
As I said, I’ve now witnessed iOS go wrong, I couldn’t fix the contacts problem, from Google it looks like she needs to factory reset not great, she now wants a blackberry (god knows why!)
I’ve got to disagree with you on apps though, I think considering how many devices and Android developer has to support there’s going to be bugs, this isn’t down to Android but the developers and their testing, Apple aren’t perfect as they haven’t managed to make iPhone apps scale for iPads well, (beyond that aweful zooming) I guess for fear of breaking things.
My colleague has a One X, HTC screwed up massively on Sense, making the user wait a few seconds for the bottom bar to disappear before the app drawer appears. Another has the Samsung S3, its not impressive enough to make me want it just because its the newest. I’ve got a Galaxy Nexus with Jellybean on its a definate improvement in smoothness, I’ll wait a while longer for hardware I want in an upgrade.
TC789 I can’t fault your comments, at least they are based on first hand experience. You will always get a reasonable answer if it is a reasonable question put across in a reasonable manner.
My sentiments exactly brother. I will probably get jumped all over for this but you speak a massive amount of sense which is rare on this site.
If they jump on you, let it go over your head. Sy what you think, they need accept opions from others, if they can’t then thats just Tuff.
You really shouldn’t have to jailbreak the device. A basic user may not have the knowledge to do this to ios and they are stuck. Android is far from complex in my opinion. As with any person on a new phone there is a learning curve. If i picked up and iphone now i know many features would seem alien to me.
Bottom line for the “Basic” user android has more customisation options.
Fact is my dad in his 70′s can use an iPhone, very easy to swipe left or right, he can use the tv remote also, but not much else… I can say the same for many others who struggle with Android. For example on Android the settings can be all over the shop, on iOS everything is in one place, for a novice user this makes a big difference.
Jailbreaking is not an issue, it’s bait like tinkering with my PC in years gone by over clocking the CPU, or adding parts to the motor to make it that little bit faster or attractive… It’s all good fun.
Well I would disagree with androids settings being all over the shop. Little section called Settings. Its all there.
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iOS certainly isn’t perfect neither is Android, but opinion “the user experience is poor as with Android” is just that, an opinion.
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then there are a lot of people with coincidence in their “opinions”…..
a typical galaxy review: but don’t trust this guy;… go read some more.
why does this sound familiar about Android? and so often?
CNN review June 20th
“The bottom line is that while all of Samsung’s software features on the S III aim to impress, and several display great ambition, too many of them suffer from frustratingly poor execution. Thankfully, you can just skip this stuff and enjoy the hardware. Samsung is still offering top-of-the-line performance here, and the Galaxy S III is more capable than many of the other phones on the market, even if it’s a bit clumsy.
But as a whole package, the S III simply doesn’t feel like a finished product. It could use more polish, more thought, and a more elegant user experience.”
Android doesn’t inspire a religious like following, You aren’t ever going to see a person queuing for an Android phone, I hope.
I think there are improvements to be made to Android, and I have no loyalty to one manufacturer I just buy what’s best at the time and remove whatever UI they’ve added on top of the stock one.
I could find you many people’s opinions about how disappointing the 4S announcement was (with all the 5 hype at the time) did that stop a million preordering it? no. I could also find you peoples opinions saying the lack of a back button on iOS devices is a real stupid idea but in equal measure its a good idea, its all relative.
As a techie, I don’t take mainstream news like CNN reviews of gadgets seriously, if you read the DailyMail’s iPhone 5 review you’ll see just how many commenters suggest its a paid review, of course it could just be written by a big iPhone fan and I can’t dispute the new one is better than the old one.
Well, 40+ points used to be a big deal. Maybe not so much these days, what with the iPhone 5 being 1000+ more than the iPhone 4S (that took me by surprise).
But not as good as the SIII in the link shown above, although mightily impressive if true.
Aren’t most of these Benchmarks a bit biased anyway?
For sure, and who knows if that’s stock Android, or even iOS for that matter?
Sam I never normally moan about the clickbait articles. I have come to accept them as your journalistic duty on this site, positioned in the market as this is.
But this article is really, really extra lame.
For starters, these numbers are totally out, the source you linked says something different, and even if what you had said had been true, “blow everything out of the water” is just… well you get the point.
You might as well just make stuff up, that’ll get clicks too. For a while.
Sam if you’re going to be as level headed as in this comment, why put such a stupid sensationalist headline on an otherwise barely newsworthy article.
Call me picky but most people would check this before running the story in the first place.
Plus more power = more battery power consumed.
I don’t think a PHONE needs all that power, even though smartphones are basically tiny PCs now. What’s required is optimisation of the software so it runs more efficiently. The same thing could be said for Windows 7.
Take Formula 1. They don’t keep putting bigger and bigger engines into the cars to make them faster each season. They make more economical use of that engine by making incremental improvements to the aerodynamics and overall weight of the car.
Improving the engine (or hardware in a computer) is only half a solution, and an expensive one at that.
Thank you captain obvious. But if you are going to start a pissing war, at least get your facts straight first.
?? I wasn’t trying to start any kind of war.
What facts did I get wrong? If it was specific F1 facts I don’t care, they change the rules way too much and it was purely an analogy.
No, all these articles started a pissing war. With facts that were not true.
Wise words you do speak…
SG3 got 1,628 I thought?
Gizmodo what the hell are you talking about? Its a tiny increase on the SIII and that’s to be expected. The S4 will beat that and then the Iphone 5S will beat that. Yawn!
what fools write for this site?
Having just run the same test on my SGSIII (granted it’s running JB via CM10 rather than stock), but 1706 > 1601…
Typo – that should read 1786!
Second. Well actually mine got 1912, I posted screencap somewhere in here.
I’m running stock everything
I spotted
There are some issues (albeit no-one’s quite sure what they are yet!) with Project Butter in CM10 especially on the SGSIII, so things are prone to eating memory and processor a little more than they should do.
That said, it’s still damn quick!
Wait, Sam, go and look at the website you’ve linked.
“Blows it out the water.”
The S3 has a score of 1628. If we’re gong to be really picky, and it may not make any difference whatsoever, but I wouldn’t call that being “Blown out the water”, anything but I imagine.
So a phone with a dual core processor and 1GB RAM, beats a phone with a Quad core processor and 2GB RAM? I think that is what has taken people by surprise.
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it.
Actually you have your stats wrong. The S3 comes in two variants – either the LTE-enabled US version, which has a dual-core Snapdragon and 2GB RAM, or the International version, which has a quad-core Exynos and 1GB RAM.
Oh, and if you actually *read* the comment you’re replying to, you’ll notice the author quoting a score for the SIII of 1628. Which is higher than the reputed 1601 for the iPhone5. So in other words, it didn’t “beat” it.
Except that I didn’t say it beat it. It’s just a shame to see people so defiant when it comes to admitting a “lower spec phone” on paper is actually doing pretty dam well.
Do you even read what you type?
“So a phone with a dual core processor and 1GB RAM, beats a phone with a Quad core processor and 2GB RAM?”
I clearly see the word “beats” in there.
Apologies, that’s what comes of reading your reply whilst typing my reply. It comes pretty close. So you have got to at least hand it to Apple. Somehow they get a lot of power from those “low spec” chips.
Agreed. It’s pretty good engineering – but then that was Samsung doing the engineering, wasn’t it?
Samsung built what Apple designed.
So does that mean Apple run on what Samsung built? You and Taf are complete toasters. Stop posting.
You can’t build something without designs. How about you stop posting?
Why are mummy and daddy yelling?!
Haha, I don’t mind being called a toaster, been called far worse, besides I like Toast nearly as much as posting on here, won’t be giving up either..
I sure if someone else could build it, Apple would have moved the manufacture elsewhere. We all know they don’t like keeping all their eggs in one basket.
Now a comment like that I totally agree with. However, I’m not sure whether that is a huge trap for me to fall right into.
But no one saw it like that when it Gizmodo wrote an article about Apple moving away from relying on one manufacturer.
Nope – no trap to fall into – honest. Due to Apple’s sales figures it would be crazy to use one manufacturer to do all of a component unless you had a very very healthy relationship and a great deal of trust. But even then things can go wrong and it buggers up the whole supply chain. You only have to look what happened to hard drives when Thailand got flooded.
If I was Apple, I wouldn’t want to be reliant on one manufacturer. Especially one I was currently involved in the courts against. I know there is the arguement that Samsung need Apple, but do they really. I don’t think either of them need each other, but its in the interests of both companies that they have some form of business relationship.
For all we know these fights might be all a hoax to keep us talking about those two specific brands. We’ll all hear in a years time that they have settled out of court. For what they are paying in lawyers fees, they have more people talking about them than they would if they were to put some posters up somewhere. And most people who are die-hard Apple / Android won’t change O/S anyway.
Apple designed the chips, the phone, and the software, and all the hardware… they have several manufactures build it for them, including Samsung… which is what Samsung is good for… building other peoples hardware….
gee i wonder where they got the idea to copy from …. hmmm…..
now they are even copying benchmark scores, by going in and faking those…. great job samsung.
The dual cores seems to be a lot better optimised than quad core. The new Sony Xperia phones, have a dual core that apparently outperform quad cores. Of course, I got this whilst trawling through a nerdy phone forum so make of that what you will.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?q=galaxy+s+iii
Remind me again how the iPhone’s score of 1601 beats the SIII?
One didn’t do very well. It got -125269128
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/977070
Samsung galaxy didn’t beat it, Samsung didn’t like how this was going so they went in and changed the scores… notice the date on the change of the score, and notice it changed several times, as people posted scores, suddenly the score was even more than they posted, several times from fandroids faking the score, i’m surprised they stopped in the 4 digit area… is was looking for them to crack the 5 digit number… the bigger the lie the more people are willing to believe it.
amazing how Samsung’s hard self upgrades like that :0)
So ‘Apple Insider’ claims that the phone beats out every android phone by processing power, Are you sure they ain’t owned by apple because it seems likes its one of them ‘claims’ again.
I just ran the benchmark on my One X and got 1501. Damn, I’m so blown out the water that I’m going to go and pre order the iPhone 5 right now…
Really? ‘Blowing out of the water’?
GSM Arena, who tend to be a teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeny little more balanced in their reporting, said:
‘As for high-end Androids, Exynos 4 Quad and Tegra 3 based phones like the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X manage to outperform the iPhone 5 if they are running Android Jelly Bean. Under Ice Cream Sandwich, the performance of the One X drops down to the levels of the iPhone.’
The results are nothing short of amazing – the Apple A6 chipset has two custom cores rated at 1GHz with 1GB of RAM and it easily stands up to quad-core Cortex-A9 and dual-core Krait designs running at 1.5GHz.
(From GSM Arena)
Hey soul sister! I see a lot of hatred here, usual suspects :-O numbers arnt everything, arnt anything. neither is the phone… It’s what it’s users use it for, and how they use it. I know we are geeks here but so much hatred for a device.. I LOVE IT! Kill the popular things.
It’s just so cool to mock the flock.
And it’s so easy and so much fun to ‘mock the flock’ because they always, always bite.
It works both ways my friend
Those droids are drooling over what they can’t have right now
They don’t want to admit Apples device is superior which they know deep down to be true, hence the words of hate for apple…
Taf, I know this may be a stupid thing to ask, but is there any chance that you could restrict your obvious love of Apple products to a reasonable level. Claiming that Android users are “drooling” over the iPhone 5 and theat they “don’t want to admit Apples device is superior which they know deep down to be true” is just sillyness.
You know deep down Darrell you really want to be iOS’s bitch… we’re here for you Darrell when your ready to come out
You aren’t helping cc
Yes he is.
I’m just trying to help Darren realise what he knows he has to do… JUMP OUTTA the Droid Closet.
Now you’re just trying to annoy me.
Darrell you could as a family member to swap phones for a day… See how you get along fella.
None of my family have iPhones as far as I am aware but seeing as I rarely see them the suggestion is impractical anyway. If Giz want to be do an article where 2 open minded people switch phones, I would be happy to take part.
If only we could find 2 open minded people!? where to look. Hmmm.
Fucked if I know, these comments are probably not the best place.
I used to have an abject hatred of apple devices – borne out of using macs for various music projects over the years (love logic audio, not the mac so much).
I’ve adopted android as my mobile OS of choice as it makes logical sense to how my mind works (or doesn’t work as some might say).
Whilst I would consider myself a bit of an android fanboy, I don’t really have many bad things to say about iOS – some of the features and ways of doing things are a bit alien to me, but in essence the thing is exactly the same in terms of the physical handset and firmware.
what would aggravate me is being tied to apple for content.
I absolutely hate itunes and want to destroy it with fire. (this from experience using it of course)
“Literally blow everything out of the water”. Need I make the obvious comment here ?
And all that money we spend on our navay, we should just have half a dozen iphone 5s and be done with it.
Poor journalism Sam, shame on you.
You read the article, gave it your time, can’t be that bad then.. I liked it.
Next time you go into a restaurant and they give you food poisoning, I’m gonna point you back to this comment
Hahah
Great analogy!
By all means do, I have a strong stomach, never had food poisoning before. If a place looks dodgy I won’t enter, if food is not fresh, I send it back, not likely to happen…
Shame on him? Little bit extreme. Attention grabbing headlines promote sharing and promote interest, along with comments…
“Iphone 5 benchmark loses out to Samsung by a whisker” would have been equally grabbing and more accurate!
In Sam’s defence, Samsung Galaxy S3′s biggest edge has now been considerably blunted out.This would give the market leading iPhone, the full potential to blow everything else out of the water.
The Android crowd will argue this, they need to Accept the facts, the new iPhone 5 is on a different level…
I wonder Taf how many of these android users have actually used IOS as a main phone, had the full experience prior to bitching about Apple…
It’s good to try everything out prior to making a judgement…
You forgot to log into your other account again.
Damn them cookies. Wai they make them so tasty?
Come again, I have one account only, I got something to say… I say it. No need to hide like a little bitch.
Haha, yeah it does seem pretty obvious that you post on two accounts now.
Also feast your eyes on http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?q=galaxy+s+iii
So everyone reply to own message is doing the same… I think not.
So Taf is your real name and you are not posting this anonymously on the internet, hiding like a little bitch?
Hide never, little bitches get eaten for breakfast..
burned!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9548287/Apple-iPhone-5-orders-top-2-million-in-24-hours.html
Excuse me?
Taf, I think you’ll find that most of us have actually used an iPhone as a main phone, I’ve had the original, 3G and 3GS so please don’t be so bias dude.
I’m confident in saying that I have no interest in going back to ios. Apple bother me.
Also, it does seem like you forgot to sign into a different account lol.
It’s standard practise, I always reply to myself. If you been here long enough you will no that…
so replying to yourself and calling youself by name…nope I’m not falling for it
Fall don’t fall… Don’t hurt urself.
Of course. there will always be something faster just around the corner, plus Android has the ability to be tweaked to make it much faster, and there’s Jelly Bean too, but on the face of it, Apple’s started a spec war, kinda. Maybe Cupertino’s feeling the heat of the Tegra-packing crowd?
What I wanna know, though, is just hope powerful Qualcomm’s S4 Pro quad-core chip will be, because its dual-core chip is mighty impressive.
thisthisthisthisthis. The 40-point lead just isn’t enough with how quickly Android phones are updated, and from the videos I’ve seen of the iPhone 5 doing things in Maps, it’s hardly as responsive as my One X running JB.
I will be doing some comparisons this week, between my One X and my iPhone 5 when it arrives…nwill let you know what I honestly think… Even if the one X wins, to me it’s the overall experience that attracts me to iOS.
One X on stock or modified ROM and kernel?
So the iPhone 5 is almost as fast as a £159 nexus 7.
OMG!!
Only a complete idiot would try making calls on a nexus 7…
Not really devices you should be comparing.
It was a comparison of grunt that has stuck in my mind over the last few days, because I’ve read articles on the cost of parts for a Nexus 7 (£140ish) and on what an Iphone 5 parts cost (£103ish). One is a smart device with phone functionality and one a small tablet, that overall can’t be compared like for like. But what really stands out to me is that Apple are deeply focused on profit margins rather than making the best device they can at the best price – and while that is fair play it appears for this that Apple are settling of something other than 1st place.
If I was Apple right now I’d be making a massive land-grab, and would fully understand the concerns of not getting that land-grab at this important stage. They have $100b+ in the bank and Android have 500m devices with 1.3m extra everyday, so Apple need to get 100m iDevices out on the market like yesterday – they should be practically giving iDevices away right now to get some real leverage. But it appears the wider interests regarding the company status and share holders is more important than getting the results that are needed today. I would be deeply worried if I held shares in Apple, I wouldn’t be selling today but I’d be aware than it looks like Apple are becoming far less significant, and in all likelihood Apple need to increase sales at a drastic level over then next 12 months or I’d need to look to move my investment elsewhere.
Apples revenue does not stop at the point a device is sold as with the likes of Samsung. The company makes far more money through selling Apps and other content than Google play does… Apple is going to shrink, it only going to get bigger. It takes a brave man to bet against apple…
Not going to shrink*
We all know this taf. That is my point why they need to be practically be giving handsets away. I’d say the hard cash from a new iPhone is important but not as important as active users plugging into Tunes and Apps over a few years. And 10 million less devices sold is therefore $2b in lost revenue from apps and tunes. Surely you can see that if a company has 50% of its profit based around one product line how the contraction of that market will have a deep impact in current profit and future services – a snow ball effect.
But my point isn’t so much about Apple shrinking, but remaining the same size as the market moves on beyond them. Over the last 12 months they did not expand sales – profits increased, shares increased but their unit market contracted on a whole. Another 12 months of that stagnation will see the overall profits fall and share price tumble, they can turn that around with some serious direct action, even if they have failed to turn it around with pure innovation.
Realistically this time next year we are talking about a smart device market of 1 billion activate users, even a huge 50m devices is but just 5% of that potential trillion dollar profit market.
This.
I think they need to either drop the price or up the power. I mean really up the power. Make what would unequivocally be the BEST smartphone out there, and back it up with their stupid amount of money in the bank.
My thoughts too. Seriously needed a killer device at the top price, fail. Or release a standard device at an amazing price, fail. Either or both, yet neither have been done – they are asking for serious trouble over then next 12 months.
Where did you find one for £159???
That’s how much the 8GB model is direct from Google:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb
Yeah I’d rather have a phone that’s half the price and is on par if not more powerful than the iPhone 5.
Practically theft.
Does anyone have any benchmarks on the dual-core LTE variant of the Galaxy SIII? I wonder if that’s what the Americans are comparing to the 4G-capable iPhone 5. That would be a more direct (if a little gimped, admittedly) comparison.
No, but I don’t know where these numbers come from.
My S3, which I haven’t messed with in any way:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2448jd0.png
(You should probably make the title a little less ostentatious)
I rest my case, the new king of Smart Phones…
Good grief, you really are the most blinkered Apple fanwhore I’ve ever encountered. And that’s saying something. I hereby pledge to ignore the fuck out of you here on after.
http://net.onextrapixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hook.jpg
Haha, you have a point. I just get so… ANGRY!
Taf is actually a hardcore Android user. This is all just part of his comedy routine showing the absurdity of blatant iPhone fanboyism
Now now magic, you know the truth. I give every OS a chance, Android included. The One X is going to the wifey come Friday…
Yeah yeah whatever, you can try but won’t be able to resist, accept it…
All this hating is making me come over to the Taf-Side. Who’da thought Apple could design something so edgy and controversial, something so divisive that it completely polarises the opinions of tech blog commenters (By polarise, I mean everybody hates it)?
I’m with you buddy, Think Different….
http://i50.tinypic.com/2448jd0.png
My Galaxy S3 (stock, unrooted, out the box)
Blows the iPhone 5 out of the water
Think you need to wake up. And what’s more, it’s not just about specs, apple delivers on all fronts…
I’m sorry, you just posted a comment on the iPhone 5′s benchmark scores, using it to validate your comment on the iPhone 5 being the best.
I’m just saying that it doesn’t out-benchmark the top Android phones. Not based on this…
Based on the article above it does… I see no mention of actual Android benchmarks above. Only that they have been blown out of the water. Also the test need to be done side by side under same conditions to confirm which is the superior, I know which one I would back..
“Side by side under the same conditions”. Right. I just showed you my phone, running normal shit, all my usual apps open, got 1912 on geekbench2. That is a much higher number than 1601.
The only stat we have so far on the iPhone says it’s worse. Surprise surprise you back the iPhone based on subjective feelings.
Things that Apple delivers on (eventually):
Copy and Paste (late)
3G (late)
High-res screen (late)
Bigger screen (late)
Notification bar (late)
Turn-by-turn navigation (late)
Things that Apple doesn’t deliver on:
Having the worlds most advanced mobile operating system (TM)
Siri
Being able to choose a keyboard like Swype
Being able to choose any app that isn’t allowed by Apple
Resistance to wear and tear
Removable storage
Price
Don’t even get me started on Android failures… Could go on forever.
To mention just a few
Apps that don’t work
Updates that never arrive
An out of date phone as soon as its purchased
Inconsistent buggy user experience
A crappy pos system
Security flaws which may never get fixed if the manufacturer does not address
Apps identical for tablets and mobiles
Apps that don’t exist such as sky player
Publishers missing that won’t develop on Android but will on iOS
Dude! That’s ridiculous! OMG! I’ve had every gen of iPhone and there’s no issue with wear and tear!
About that other stuff though, you’re pretty much on the money…
I meant the whole smashy smashy glassy-breaky thing.
Oh yeah…. that.
Aaah, nothing like a glorified pissing contest to pass the day.
I know, I’ve donned a rain coat and umbrella.
This article is a joke.
It’s like you are the tech equivalent of the Sun.
Please change this article to be factually correct.
If the article was different then would it get so many reactions, comments etc..
It is not the Apple/Android debate that I’m annoyed about, that is why I left out my opinion of what phone is better than what. (And I know you can’t help but stir the shit.)
Its the quality of Journalism that is shit. And this is not the 1st article the week! The Google/Asus/Alyuin post was the most putrid vile of shitty sensationalism that I have ever read.
That post was only readable in the comment section, where us Nerds managed to source the facts and discuss it accordingly.
It doesn’t matter if your IOS/Android/WinPhoe/Gay/Strait/some other ungodly concoction. What we all are here are NERDS looking to fill our minds with tech news from around the globe. We used to turn to Gizmodo for the simple interface, well written articles and the beautiful faces we are all used to in the comments. BUT that is not the case anymore.
They on purpose flaunt shitty headlines designed to entice/anger us into viewing and commenting.
I saw an article about Samsungs new Chip with ‘next Iphone’ in the title! Both the orignal articles mentioned no word of apple… So why did giz decide that that was needed? Why do they want this bullshit flame war?
WE WANT REAL TECH NEWS. WE WANT FACTS (not hype)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9548287/Apple-iPhone-5-orders-top-2-million-in-24-hours.html
It looks like it might actually blow everything else out of the water.. after all.
Sam, by not updating the article with the facts you failed to research, you could have avoided this, but you didn’t for the exposure it gives you. So put down your rain coat and umbrella and dance naked in the piss
Unbepissed is a good way to roll.
Not wanting to add too much to the number of pedantic comments on this post, but I believe that ‘just to test its metal a little’ should read ‘just to test its mettle a little’.
Unless they were also testing what the outer frame is made from, then I apologise and carry on as you were!
You’re very right! Thanks dude.
Or they were going for a pun
Jeez, you blokes must be a bunch of laughs around the ol’ BBQ…when was the last time you used one of these things to, y’know, actually talk to someone?
Most importantly, I wonder if this version will be able to make calls ?
oh cmon, if an online tech forum isn’t the place for geeks to moan at each other, where is?!
The BBQ?
After paying a massive 69p for the app to test my device I pulled in 1892 on my stock (O2-UK branded) i9300.
As an current Android user and a past (and possibly again) iOS user, yes their hardware is impressive for what it is on paper but claiming it blows everything out of the water is simply incorrect.
Yes, I also spent 69p to disprove this article, with over 1900. With everything running.
I intended to get a refund on this app. But missed the 15 minute window
A faster CPU on a droid just means the device will crash sooner..
Never happened, but sure, believe what you will
Ladies and gents – Comical Tafi.
No no get it right… iTaf.
Works for me.
Gizmodo: the website where there’s more journalism below the article than there is in it.
Couldn’t be happier with my Xperia Ray with geekbench score of 533. The other 1000 points just don’t matter
Having read the article and considered all the points, I most side with Taf and concur that, the iPhone 5 is the best mobile device on the market, nothing compares and it will take years for the market to get over this technology power shock. The iPhone 5 is at least a whole generation ahead in terms of technology, a true market leader.
Sorry, I had an urge to just make a really idiotic and nonsense statement for a change – I don’t see way Apple fans should get the monopoly on talking complete and utter f*cking bollocks.
Haha.
It is pretty funny how many absurdly subjective comments fans and the media make about Apple products.
In a world of honesty Apple’s current marketing would read:
“The new iPhone, show your friends your totally disregard for money by spending more for a standard smart phone.”
And in a honest world Samsung’s would read:
“Sure, we copied an iPhone with the Galaxy S but we didn’t sit on our arse for two years – the S2 surpassed it, and the S3 is now best in class, still wanting more? The S4 just six months away. Samsung doing the things Apple don’t have the balls to do, and more.”
The obvious irony of your reply to markcgrant made me chuckle a wee bit.
Haha…android fanbois crying like little girls.
As you were.
I think that’s a diss to little girls..
Come on Token, show us your Windows phone geekbench scores, give us a laugh!
(Or whatever the hell it is you own)
Either way I’m guessing it’s not as good as my 1912 S3 HA HA HA
*sob sob*
TEARS OF JOY
Ya, its kinda sucky
, and metro annoys me. But just don’t get why everyone gets so worked up over it all. So trolling has been kinda fun the last week or so.
Fucking hell. Gizmodo is fucking awful when a new phone is out. Fuck up the lot of you.
literally – LITERALLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlWZ3mODJA
Would Giz please install an iPhone filter on the site, so I dont have to wade through the endless articles around the same frickin piece of hardware DAY IN DAY OUT!
Or better yet, remove it from Giz all together and have a dedicated iPhone sub brand, so that those of us who have no interest in the product arn’t projectile vomiting at regular intervals throughout the day owing to being force fed the f**king thing over, over, and over again.
Thanks.
I for one like Giz’s shameless disregard for milking a story, you will never miss the news as you get a few chances to read the same story each day, with another bias twist.
Wow, this has become a total war zone. I could only get through the majority of comments by blasting out the Lord of The Rings sound track.
I really don’t see why people feel the need to argue and troll about a freaking phone. People like different things, get over it and stfu.
because its all harmless fun, its just like football, all the teams are the same but have slightly different players.
and its fun taking he piss out of each other, if a person take it personally then I think that they need to calm the fuck down a bit, but its all just a fun game of one-upmanship
if someone gets shot or stabbed over it then I will happily say its ridiculous.
Well I enjoy a little piss take from either side, but a lot of it just seems childish (which isn’t really a problem if theres humour to it) and unfunny to me.
What they need is Tony Stark’s miniaturised ARK reactor in battery form.
ima firing meh lazer