> iPhone 5 was a radical new design
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5Comparison.jpeg
Yeah that's FREAKING RADICAL, MAN!
Different form factor and replacing the glass back with a unibody aluminum shell was pretty dramatic. When you cherry pick one picture that only shows a portion of the device, yes it is harder to see.
Not innovative enough for a new model number huh?
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers? But anyways the Apple 'S' releases have traditionally focused more on software (Siri, bio metrics) than major hardware redesigns. Not sure why Apple would want to do major 4S->5 redesigns every year.
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding. When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
There were dozens of MP3 players out before the iPod, dozens of tablets before the iPad, and dozens of smartphones before the iPhone. None of these companies were "colluding" with Apple.
Apple doesn't do things first, they do it *right* first. Then the Asian copycats come out.
Two years? The iPad 3 was released March 2012. That's not even a year and a half ago. In any case what they should be comparing it to for an apples to apples (no pun intended) comparison is the iPad Mini, which has a similar form factor.
I agree, and the benchmarks show that the nearly year-old iPad mini does darn well in comparison. The new Nexus 7 isn't a benchmark horse by any means.
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7176/56538.png
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Compared to?
According to TFA, it's "up to 9 hours." The original Nexus 7 had 10 hours, so it's an hour less. But considering it has to drive that Retina-like display, it's pretty darn good.
Battery life as tested in a lab, rather than leaving it up to the manufacturer.
Tablet Battery Life
Nexus 7 (2013) 7:15
Apple iPad mini 12:43 (WiFi)
Apple iPad (late 2012) 11:08 (WiFi)
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/29/nexus-7-review-2013/
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why does Apple like to use proprietary chargers/connectors so much in the first place? It may be that poor-quality third-party chargers could damage the device. But then I have to ask, why are iDevices so fragile in the first place? It seems most other smartphones have a standard USB port and can work with any old 5V power supply.
-Micro USB is terrible. Charges slow, isn't reversible, etc.
-The iDevices aren't 'fragile', the knockoff chargers are just poorly made. Nothing to do with the device.
Shows how far behind Samsung is in terms of hardware engineering. They stack the deck and still can't touch a 9 month old phone. Both browser performance and gaming performance, the 2 most stressful use cases on a smartphone, are way behind Apple. http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6914/54305.png
Look at your link. It shows the S4 beating the iP5. Also Sunspider is kind of weird. I think that current Windows Phones with underpowered SoCs post the best scores in more recent comparisons, and that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Regarding your other links, yes, the iP5 has oddly good GPU performance.
The S4 beats the iPhone 5 while in a freezer. It has heat dissipation issues due to poor built quality.
I always thought the point of a benchmark is to show what a device is capable. So if the "phone does indeed let its GPU run at a higher frequency when particular benchmark software is running", Its just showing what its capable of. Though I would definitely want to run benchmarks the whole day and see what happens.
For mobile, benchmarks need to balance with heat dissipation and battery life. If you can't run at that clock speed for an extended period of time due to heat or battery life, this is very misleading.
Also when 80% of the apps on the Android platform are unstable POS then I don't care about how fast they crash. Even Chrome quits unexpectedly repeatedly and this is by the company that makes the Android platform on their own Nexus brand devices.
Your fault for not doing research ahead of time. I have literally hundreds of games on both my iPad and iPhone and never experience crashes. Android is a terrible gaming platform.
Hate to burst you bubble, but how many American companies flat out lie about there products?
A small minority compared with these Asian knock-off companies.
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
