Originally posted by DArtagnan at 9/17/12 03:32 AM
But, I have to admit I am scratching my head a bit - - if it's double the speed of the Galaxy S3, why didn't the launch lead with specific metrics about its speed and the improved user experience it creates, instead of talking about the slightly bigger screen, slightly thinner body, and the other small changes? I mean, Samsung haven't held back from promoting performance in their communications, so it's clearly something the market is responding to.
Or am I missing something?
Apple did talk about the performance at the presentation. The iPhone 5 has twice the processor and graphics power as the 4S. 2x is a huge gain for any system! And Apple the past few years has really cut back on releasing any performance numbers. The reason being that Apple's products are designed for user function and usability. That's why their presentations and commercials tend to focus on the things you can do with their products rather than raw benchmarks. A random person who doesn't know anything about ARM Cortex processors isn't going to understand how amazing it really is that the iPhone 5's A6 processor is a work by Apple on their own which doesn't use the unreleased ARM A15. And the iPhone 5's 2x performance over the 4S is from Apple using the same GPU as the 4S but clocked slightly higher. The guts themselves are the same except for the processor and 1GB RAM (vs 512MB in the 4S), and Apple has managed to get 2x the processor and graphics power. That's a pretty big deal there. |
