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Nexus 5 vs iPhone 6: is an old Nexus better than a new iPhone?
Posted on 12/11/14 at 8:26 am
Posted on 12/11/14 at 8:26 am
Posted on 12/11/14 at 8:49 am to CAD703X
yeah, basically, but sheep gonna sheep.
I was trying to spread the word yesterday on the outrageously priced $750 iphone with specs comparable to my $350 nexus i bought two years ago (can not stop lol at this)
I was trying to spread the word yesterday on the outrageously priced $750 iphone with specs comparable to my $350 nexus i bought two years ago (can not stop lol at this)
This post was edited on 12/11/14 at 8:50 am
Posted on 12/11/14 at 8:53 am to CAD703X
WE HAVE A THREAD FOR THIS, CAD!!!
Posted on 12/11/14 at 9:08 am to CAD703X
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Despite looking incredibly well-machined, the new iPhones have suffered from some bad publicity over their aluminum internal framework, which has caused some rather public iPhone 6 bend tests and widespread assumptions that will all fold clean in half in your pocket. While it is a legitimate concern, it is unlikely the numbers of bent iPhones are ever going to impact more than an unlucky few. Having said that, I’ve never heard of a bent Nexus 5 at all. The main difference here is between the best feeling plastic around and the slipperiest metal around.
This pretty much sums it all up. A non existent problem is a problem and plastic feels better than metal.
Posted on 12/11/14 at 9:22 am to CAD703X
come one man you might as well add the Nokia 830 in there
Posted on 12/11/14 at 10:03 am to CAD703X
Well its obvious it is. Exception- the sheep will protect and honor the forbidden fruit no matter how damning the evidence.
Posted on 12/11/14 at 10:09 am to CAD703X
I need to upgrade the wife's nexus 4. But the reason is because the camera is crap on the 4. The 5 isn't much better.
Posted on 12/12/14 at 8:47 am to CAD703X
God damnit. Do I have to post all of this shite again?
Java (Android) requires 2x-8x more RAM to run as efficient as Objective-C (iOS)
Android OEMs are deceptive on CPU clock speed
Nexus 5 Geek Bench
1128 Single Core
2746 Multi Core
iPhone 6 Geek Bench
1632 Single Core
2924 Multi Core
About being "wall huggers", Wednesday when I got home from work, my iPhone 6 had 83% battery left. Granted, I didn't use it much. Yesterday I used the crap out of it. Waze for 6 hours, streaming podcasts for 6 hours over bluetooth, couple hours of browser usage, few phone calls, emails, about 30 text messages and when I got home I was at 24%.
Android is a great OS for tinkerers, hobbyists, and many others. The Nexus line are great phones. But to post a click-bait article that argues a year old Nexus is as good or better than a new iPhone is just trying to flame the board. I am now dumber for having read the article and I award you no points CAD.
Java (Android) requires 2x-8x more RAM to run as efficient as Objective-C (iOS)
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In other words, you need four or eight times more memory, than you are actually using to be super efficient. But when the memory becomes constrained, that performance goes way down.
This is why Android devices have all that RAM.
iOS does not use this style of garbage collection and does not slow down in constrained memory environments.
So 1GB for iOS results in more performance than 3GB for Android.
Android OEMs are deceptive on CPU clock speed
quote:
With a modest boost in CPU clock speeds from 1.3GHz to 1.4GHz (an 8% speed-up), the 25% improvement obviously comes from various other tweaks and tricks. Before diving deeper in benchmarks, though, here is the place for a quick insert about clock speeds and the state of the industry. Commentators in forums are quick to point out the apparent inferiority of Apple clock speeds in comparison to the much faster speeds declared in rival Snapdragon and Exynos chips, for instance. The most up-to-date example is the Snapdragon 805 with a declared clock speed of ‘up to 2.7GHz’. At first sight, Apple’s Cyclone core looks like a sore loser with its declaration for just half that at 1.4GHz.
Most people would call it a day at this point - the Snapdragon outperforms the A8 hugely, case closed. This, however, would be naïve: running real-world applications and games shows instantly that the 2.7GHz speeds can only be achieved for a very short periods of time, but after those short outbursts, the chip quickly throttles back to the much more sane ~1.3GHz. Put simply, the 2.7GHz number that you read about is not the nominal frequency, but maxed out turbo speeds that are not sustainable for the long term. In fact, Apple is being much more truthful as it declares actual nominal (and not turbo) speeds for its chip, plus, the company goes on to disclose a second big thing about its chip: sustained performance times. Apple actually claims its A8 is capable of running flat at its nominal speeds for (at least) 20 minutes.
Nexus 5 Geek Bench
1128 Single Core
2746 Multi Core
iPhone 6 Geek Bench
1632 Single Core
2924 Multi Core
About being "wall huggers", Wednesday when I got home from work, my iPhone 6 had 83% battery left. Granted, I didn't use it much. Yesterday I used the crap out of it. Waze for 6 hours, streaming podcasts for 6 hours over bluetooth, couple hours of browser usage, few phone calls, emails, about 30 text messages and when I got home I was at 24%.
Android is a great OS for tinkerers, hobbyists, and many others. The Nexus line are great phones. But to post a click-bait article that argues a year old Nexus is as good or better than a new iPhone is just trying to flame the board. I am now dumber for having read the article and I award you no points CAD.
This post was edited on 12/12/14 at 9:00 am
Posted on 12/12/14 at 8:45 pm to CAD703X
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This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 11:41 pm
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