Apple iPhone 6 v. Samsung Galaxy S6 Ping!
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Posted on 04/01/2015 6:30:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A better camera, sharper display and faster charging put Samsung’s new flagship phones ahead in the smartphone race.
In this unpredictable world, it’s the constants in life that I can count on.
The sun rises in the East, Starbucks lattes always taste the same, and Apple’s iPhones are always better than Samsung’s Galaxy phones.
Since the dawn of the smartphone wars, there have been basic truths about Samsungs: They’re made of flimsy plastic, their cameras can’t keep up with the iPhone’s, and their modified Android software is ugly and intolerably cluttered.
With the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, which arrive at U.S. carriers on April 10, none of that is true anymore. I am not afraid to say it: I love Samsung’s new phones, maybe even more than my own iPhone 6. Like a child who just found out that Santa isn’t real, I have spent the past week questioning everything I know.
OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic for smartphones, but I’m serious about how drastic the change is. Samsung has taken direct aim at Apple’s smartphone, this time even seeming to copy some of the iPhone’s design and features.
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Will my text messages show up as green instead of blue? Then, no thanks.
Curious - what more do you expect your new “60s” phone to do that it doesn’t do already?
Same thing I expected cars to do that they didn’t start doing until the 90’s: Do what they do reliably.
As long as cell phones’ operating systems crash or freeze up, Or software gets confused they have not arrived. And even iPhones still do that. When I can say that I have never touched the screen of my cell phone only to have it not respond to my touch, that will be a breakthrough.
I have a Droid Turbo. Love it over the Apple phones.
I just upgraded my 10-year old Samsung x497 flip phone - to a new Rugby. Works great and the battery lasts a week at least.
“...I don’t do Apple for a variety of reasons, but their stance on Indiana sealed the deal.”
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Dude, based upon your prior posts on Apple related threads, your “deal” was sealed long ago for whatever reason(s) existed then.
I used to carry one of those damn things around in my 1911 shoulder holster when I was on call.
Fit pretty well, actually - but more bulky than the pistol.
Yeah! That’s what I’m talking bout! Two-three watts of brain burning cancer causing RF pulsing through my haid!
Not really. Their politics have grated at me for a long time. They are not the only one. I do my best to avoid companies that overtly run counter to my own religious or political values.
I’m currently rocking the Note 4, which is fabulous. Great screen, more than fast, removable battery/SD card, and a stylus for quick note taking. Hopefully Samsung didn’t change the formula in the years when it’s time to upgrade.
Wow, thanks auto correct. Last line should read: Hopefully Samsung doesn’t change the formula in three years when it’s time to upgrade.
THIS time???
I gave my iPhone to a homeless Obama voter I happened to be walking by and bought an LG that runs great! Better than my iPhone! And without all the gay propaganda.
Take a hike Tom Kook and take the resat of your sodomite Cupertino mafia with you!
The S6 went with a sealed battery case? Of all the idiotic things to copy from Apple, this wasn’t the it. Batteries are the weakest link in any electronic device. It’s the part that is actually ‘movable’, in that it charges and recharges. It fatigues the battery like motion or vibration fatigues other physical parts of a machine.
Just traded in my two year old Samsung for a Droid Mini. It was free with a two year contract form Verizon.
Finally traded in the 1986 bag phone?
I had 2 Samsung Galaxy S4 phones. The screen cracked on one and cost $215 to replace. The 2nd overheated. A known issue to Samsung. The motherboard was replaced under warranty.
I now own a LG G3 and it has zero problems and if the screen breaks I can replace it for about $110. Also the battery life is way better then the Samsung.
Sealed battery. The Samsung Galaxy i6
That, my FRiend, is impossible.Apple Computer Corporation had no company retail stores and no retail sales representatives when you claim to "turn you off" at the time you claim. Sorry. You walked in to some privately owned store that just happened to be selling Apple computers. . .and Apple cannot be held responsible for what happened to you. That is one of the reasons that Apple finally took the step to open their own stores. Apple introduced it's first computer 39 years ago today, and its first Mac 31 years ago in February of 1984, but Apple only opened its first company owned store in May of 2001.
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According to the benchmarks, not true. The iPhone 6 & 6Plus are still the fastest. . . without even using iOS Metal which can give a huge graphics boost. Here are the graphics Benchmark results:
"Samsung's higher resolution Galaxy S6 (or equally high resolution Galaxy Note 4 "fablet") both turn in benchmarks significantly lower than Apple's existing iPhone 6 Plus—and less than half that of last year's iPhone 5s. In terms of fps, the latest benchmarks show that Samsung's new "Exynos 7" powered Galaxy S6 drops down to 15 fps—just 78 percent of the framerate of iPhone 6 Plus—in the same test.Looking at the competitive low-level theoretical scores of the GPUs Samsung uses (combined with much higher clock rates and more RAM), it appears that the company's devotion to extremely high resolution numbers is a spec list checkmark (rather than a real feature that benefits users) and is a primary contributing reason for poor real life scores in rendering 3D OpenGL scenes.
In other words, the chips Samsung is choosing to use could theoretically match Apple's latest iPhones if they were not also driving tons of additional pixels that contribute little to no benefit to users. Think of it as a reasonably powerful engine installed into a monster truck with massive wheels it can barely turn. . . . . .Using Metal, developers can achieve higher frame rates (and animate more details at any target frame rate) on the same hardware, allowing games on iPhone 6 Plus to further outpace competing devices in its category, widening the nearly 2x performance gap it already enjoys over Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 in generic OpenGL benchmarks. The slightly faster Galaxy S6 can't catch up because it is tasked with running a tablet-style resolution screen that it doesn't quite have the graphics power to drive."
SOURCE: Samsung Galaxy S6 delivers poor graphics performance vs Apple iPhone 6Plus — Daniel Erin Dilger — April 1, 2015 — AppleInsider
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