Posted by julias
The iPhone 5 is the slowest smartphone among the best selling brands on the market, consumer watchdog tests claim.Technical tests to measure processing and memory speed ranked the Apple handset bottom of seven of the most popular phones on the market in the UK.It is slower than both the main Samsung models as well as rivals from Google, Sony, HTC and Blackberry for popular tasks such as playing games, editing pictures or using apps.
And the top ranked phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is almost twice as fast, according to consumer champions Which? who carried out industry-recognised laboratory tests.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sc[....]d-iPhone-5-TWICE-slow-android-
Posted by whentheleveebreaks
I like to see the same tests after a year of usage and see which is "faster".
[ This Message was edited by: whentheleveebreaks on 2013-06-25 16:43 ]
Posted by etaab
Yeah mines faster after a years use. So its pretty true imo.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
My GS2 is still blazing fast after 2years, I have never even done a reset to it only switched mem cards, it's running 4.1.2 beautifully.
My GS3 which I had for around 9months, also never gave that a reset, it ran like a well oiled machine and was one hell of a workhorse right up to the end.
Both are as fast as a friend's iPhone5. The whole slowing down over time thing seems to be something that ended long ago, I havent experienced it, not on Samsung Androids that is.
Posted by Miss UK
iPhone is so 2012 of course its going to be slow
silly link
Posted by Supa_Fly
Silly indeed. Geekbench scores ... which really translate into nothing measurable in the real world other than games (load times, frame rates, pixels used, visual colour acuity). There is no discernable difference in a proper mobile OS running on a Dual-Core vs a Quad-Core or higher multicore mobile cpu!
I thought we where done measuring swollen member size? Does anyone really go around to care or talk about how their smartphone measures on these scores as a measurement to state why they chose their phones, other than early teens?
Posted by Miss UK
Lol ^^
Posted by Bonovox
Benchmarks mean nothing to me and in everyday real life it makes little difference. Am sure the iphone is not the slowest. On another note I want an ipod touch 5th generation
Posted by Miss UK
I actually don't care either about bench tests
Before you decide on a 5th Gen. iPod touch have
A look on eBay cos you can prob get a iPhone 4S for the same
Price or a bit more, it would be a good spare phone aswell as music
Device, beats carrying around a lot of other phones too!
Posted by Bonovox
Well,I know the quality of camera and screen is apparently better than the 4th Generation but is the build?? The build of the 4th generation ipod touch was awful.
Posted by Miss UK
haven't got the foggiest to be honest
why not venture into the apple store when you can and make up mind from there
Posted by Bonovox
Haha why didn't i even think of that??
Posted by Miss UK
Lol cos you do anything to get out of going into that
Store right
Posted by Bonovox
No,actually what you said was a good idea
Posted by Miss UK
The iPhone 4S would make a better iPod touch
Than the iPod especially since you like taking photos
It's not good carrying a bunch of gadgets around either
Having just that one works out better well that's my
View on that
Good luck at the Store
Posted by Bonovox
True but i also don't like wearing my battery out on my phone with music when out and about
Posted by Miss UK
I use mine for commuting back and forth
And it lasts all day with Calls, Texts, Data and
The Music side doesn't use a lot of juice
Would be Nice little backup phone and iPod
for you Bonovox
Posted by Supa_Fly
On 2013-08-23 18:42:36, Miss UK wrote:
I use mine for commuting back and forth
And it lasts all day with Calls, Texts, Data and
The Music side doesn't use a lot of juice
Would be Nice little backup phone and iPod
for you Bonovox
confirmed for music playback. To be honest the iPhone is the BEST smartphone to actually enjoy music through - headphones/speakers/systems bar-none! The hard decision for me is selling the Z10 I have and coming to terms to get a BNIB IP5 at full retail just under 30 days when the new model (of same size and dimensions; whoops sorry 3mm thinner) debuts. I don't feel like a normal sucker (buying into BlackBerry thinking they really had a solid comeback chance), but a double fool (going back to iPhone when there was really nothing wrong with it).
Ah ... c'est la vie.
Posted by Supa_Fly
Double Post from work Mac; Sorry guys.
hihihans, many thanks for catching this and PM'ing me.
Cheers
[ This Message was edited by: Supa_Fly on 2013-08-23 21:07 ]
Posted by Miss UK
Supa_Fly, why wont you just buy the iPhone 5S?
the iPhone 5 is literally the same? yes and no the problem with the iPhone 5
here in the UK is that it will not work on all Service providers for services like data
(4G etc only runs on EE here at the minute the 5 operates on there bandwith but it will not work on 02 + Vodafone)
so the 5S should have that covered
Ps Yup the 4 and 4S have perfectly good sounding speakers in them both they made me think of my old HTC
which did sound like a tin can
Posted by Bonovox
Nah i like Beats Audio or Sony for best sound but Sony hardly seem to make any MP3 players over 16 gig lately. And Beats Audio is dropping HTC as well.
Posted by Miss UK
Dr Dre
lol
Posted by Bonovox
Well,yeah don't like the music but Beats does sound more beefy sound wise than Apple's headphones
Posted by Miss UK
Perhaps so I was talking about actual "Apple iPhone" itself for sound / not headphones Nevermind
Posted by Bonovox
Oh I see sorry mis read the post
_________________
Don't be an iSheep,follow the exclusive sheep!!
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2013-09-04 00:48 ]
Posted by Miss UK
Haha
Btw 10th September we will know what Apple
Are launching there's already speculations floating
Around a lot lately too, plus iOS 7 is hitting in full swing
Shortly after that date
Posted by Bonovox
Well the cheaper iPhone is coming. How CHEAP that'll be is another question
Posted by hihihans
appeared to be not really cheap.
I had some connection problems lately with my lumia800. I found myself looking at iPhone5 adds twice today. Is that a sign?
Posted by Miss UK
hans gets fruity buy a apple its tastes nice
Posted by below24
Separate Devices for music and comms is always a winner. I have had an iPod classic for years and would only use my iPhone for music if I knew i would be near a charged within 8 hours.
The speed differences, I am sure, will not stop people from buying what they know and love, i have been trying to move to Android for nearly a year, and speed is not a reason for that.
My life is Apple, through and through, i have samsung tablets and Galaxy devices but they seem to just gather dust. What am i missing here.
Posted by Miss UK
Lol at the end of the day my phone seems to need recharged
Whatever I use it for but I generally give it a good thrashing
On data calls music games etc
One device for me workouts better then having 2 gadgets on me
The phone is clearly a better winner for me too
Posted by DSF
On 2013-06-25 23:18:31, Tsepz_GP wrote:
My GS2 is still blazing fast after 2years, I have never even done a reset to it only switched mem cards, it's running 4.1.2 beautifully.
My GS3 which I had for around 9months, also never gave that a reset, it ran like a well oiled machine and was one hell of a workhorse right up to the end.
Both are as fast as a friend's iPhone5. The whole slowing down over time thing seems to be something that ended long ago, I havent experienced it, not on Samsung Androids that is.
It's funny because I own a S2 since it was launched and an iphone 5 for more than a year.
And boy! The experience is so much better on iphone than on the droid.
I don't know why you say it's as fast as the iphone 5 because it's not, and I can clearly say:
- animations starts as you tap, on the android it's a micro delay
- in app performance
- performance when updating apps in background
- reduced random lags
- way better gpu: just test epic citadel. S2 and s3 both lags
- etc etc
I simply cannot stand those false statements. Again, I own both phones and used them a lot. Since I got the iphone, I, an android fan, switched my main phone. It's simply much better: less lags, using without problem and shutterings 6 mail accounts, way better battery life (and that with lower capacity battery
), better memory management (apps stays much longer in memory, without reloads), many intuitive little things (shake to undo, top bar for top, global swype for delete, mute button, etc), individual privacy per app (contacts, photos, gps, etc), etc.
One thing that annoys me many times is the limitations, but gladly with jailbreaking you can do so many stuffs.. Better than flashing roms for feature x and y. And xposed is nowhere near cydia mobile substrate
But have to admit I am missing the following features from android:
- adobe flash
- battery status
- data usage
- music storage
- global storage (apstore apps have local storage, sansboxed). There are some workarounds with symlinks on jailbroken devices but still..
Anyway, It's funny, since I was always blaming iphone...
.
Now when I need to use wifi on galaxy s2 I get lots of frustrations: since I dont have data/wifi active on s2, many things are outdated and need to be updated (yes, play store apps) and the device is practically not usable for minutes: if i try to do something I have to wait from dozen of seconds to minutes, even simple tasks.
I've owned htc hero, galaxy s, galaxy s2, lg g pad 8.3.
I've tested also galaxy s3, nexus 7, couple low end from zte, samsung, lg... all had the specific android lag, including random lag. Too bad.
[ This Message was edited by: DSF on 2014-03-09 13:49 ]
Posted by aussieland1
DSF
I owned an iPhone 5 and the battery which was good on iOS 6 became terrible on iOS 7. I can't speak of Samsung Galaxy S2 (had one but long time ago) but the app stays open definitely longer on my Note 3 than on iPhone (I have an iPhone 5s now).
More so since IOS 7 apps began to crash (Safari is crashing constantly on my ipad air).
I am glad you are enjoying your iPhone 5 but iOS is far from a smooth experience since iOS 7
Posted by DSF
@aussieland1 regarding the battery difference from ios6 to ios7, I felt too that. But what I want to say, that even with ios 7 I have better battery life than on galaxy S2 with extended OEM 2000mAh battery. Some says it's the amoled screen, I don't think so.
And don't forget about low capacity battery used in iphones vs higher capacity battery used in androids.
Note 3 has also a bigger display => more battery hungry, so that's another reason for a bigger battery. Also Note3 has more RAM (3GB vs 1GB). I was comparing the S2 with i5 which both have 1GB RAM.
Honestly, I got some very rare resprings when using Safari and couple of force closes. But that's very rare.
Other than that i5 is stable
. S2 is also stable but laggy.
Edit: ios7 may feel slower because of new animations: the transitions are longer.
[ This Message was edited by: DSF on 2014-03-10 14:22 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
DSF
You and I are having two different experiences then. My GS2 doesn't lag, although I barely use it now as my GS4 and my iPad4 are my daily drivers, I also have a lot of apps on it that aren't up to date but I can use it without a problem from bootup, do you have Auto Update Apps on? Rather turn that off.
I multitask happily on the GS2 as well, at any given time I have WhatsApp, BBM, Opera Mini, Instagram, Twitter, GMail, FB Messenger, LinkeIN, Calender and S Memo minimized and they stay in memory just fine, I never have apps close in the background.
I've got my iPad4, and my parents iPhone4S, iPhone5, iPhone5S, and iPad4s (a 16GB and a 128GB) to compare my GS2 and GS4 to, I actually deal with a lot of iOS devices here at home, and to me they are no faster than my GS2 and GS4, especially now with iOS7, they are all fast devices, they all have areas where they may slowdown a bit as with any device, but overall, my real world experience with them, I can't say iOS is faster, sorry.
WRT Battery life:
The GS2 is a whole year older than the i5, you seem to conveniently miss that, the GS2's CPU is based on the 45nm production while if I'm not mistaken the i5 is based on a far more effecient 32nm or 28nm? That alone means a world of difference, and then lets not forget Android has far more overhead to run in the background than iOS, you can't just compare battery capacity when comparing an Android and iOS device.
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2014-03-10 15:02 ]
Posted by DSF
Tsepz_GP
1) yes i was using auto update, as i've already stated
2) android system performance is affected when you download apps from store. Saw this on htc hero, galaxy s, galaxy s2, s3, lg g pad 8.3... virtually on any android device i've owned. On iphone5 is barely noticeable.
3) compare s3 and iphone 5 side by side. Go in multitask window, click on an app. Can you feel the delay between the touch and action? It is noticeable.
4) battery sucked on s2 since i've got it. It may be a little the hardware architecture but I blame more the software. Anyway, you can compare ip4 and ip4s, both have better usage times. And the multitask example it's not fair. If I disable all services then only run the browser on android I get: 1) a display that I can happily boil the eggs on
; 2) poor battery life. Again, just one app running in foreground without services or sync in background. Android flagships have bigger battery but usage times kinda sucks (if we look at the battery capacity).
5) whatsapp runs really good on s2. Actually it starts faster on android in comparison with i5
Iphone 5 runs much cooler than s2 and s3. I think the amoled screen generate some extra heat.
Anyway, that's my experience.
[ This Message was edited by: DSF on 2014-03-10 18:19 ]
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Posted by Miss UK
I will need to change myphone next year I reckon ios 9 will render it useless and slow
Posted by Babyface88
I-phone (if we are speaking, at least, of the I-phone 5 and higher) is not slow. Could never accuse this model (I owned most of I-phones, starting from the 2nd) of being slow. However, I have heard this about Android many times, that people get irritated, because they need to charge their devices all the time. From my experience: the full battery is enough for the whole day (listening to music, 2-3 hours of messaging and speaking are included).