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Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

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Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#11
i don't care.

what i care about is that the cheapest iPhone has a longer support period than the most expensive Android. it's actually insane and infuriating because I don't even like Apple but there literally is no other choice if you don't want to switch your phone every two years.

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#12

I just made a more expensive Android phone in my head, now this article is invalid. It's $100,000,000 if anyone wants to buy it. Samsung is the Apple of Android. Big marketing budget and bright screens to make you THINK quality.

Great, I’ve got $100,000,000, how do I buy that phone of yours?

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#13

The cheapest iPhone is also as expensive as some mid-range Android devices and completely inaccessible to a large chunk of the world's population. When a device that most will spend $449 on is "cheap" you have to admire Apple's price anchoring[0], they release a $1249 flagship and suddenly what the largest iPhone 5S flagshp cost ($442.09 inflation adjusted to 2020) at launch is considered "cheap." It is undeniably a…

Amen. It's pretty striking when with say the Samsung A30 you get a 6.4" OLED display, and 4000MAh battery, which costs the same as say an old iPhone 7 here in South Africa (which is still for sale!)

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#15

Serious question, has anyone installed Android on their iPhone? I love the idea of budget iPhone, but I hated iOS. Does it work as smooth as Pixel?

The great software and drivers (IOS) is why Iphones are so smooth. Not the hardware.

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#16
post #11

i don't care. what i care about is that the cheapest iPhone has a longer support period than the most expensive Android. it's actually insane and infuriating because I don't even like Apple but there literally is no other choice if you don't want to switch your phone every two years.

It really depends on what support you need - yes, the latest and greatest bling is dropped soon, but Samsung offers 4 years of security updates - that's quite a bit of time. You'll probably have a really bad battery by that point and it's probably worth an upgrade. You won't have all the latest and greatest OS bling, but you wouldn't have the latest and greatest anything but that point, and that's probably OK.

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#17
And yet, my cheap android phone has two things that are infinitely more important to me: an aux port and an SD card slot. My phone would be fundamentally less usable (for me) without them, while quicker switching between apps etc would be a minor benefit at most.

Chasing statistics (Fastest processor! Most megapixels! Longest battery life!) becomes useless after a certain point. Processors and megapixels are long past being a deciding criteria, while battery life (and picture quality, for that matter) still are important.

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#18

Tell me when it can use that powerful processor to run an engine other than webkit

Use an enterprise cert.

To sideload what? Is there a non-WebKit browser around for iOS you can sideload with an enterprise managed iOS device?

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#19
The SD865 still draws less total power for the same workload.

The A13 is a huge core with better-than-Skylake IPC, that trades blows with Skylake++ 9900K or Zen 2 3950X in many real-world benchmarks, despite the much lower TDP and clock speed:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15609/SPEC-S865.png

Re: Cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android

#20

Serious question, has anyone installed Android on their iPhone? I love the idea of budget iPhone, but I hated iOS. Does it work as smooth as Pixel?

The great software and drivers (IOS) is why Iphones are so smooth. Not the hardware.

I'm confused by your comment. Which is it? Do they run great software or iOS?
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