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Interestingly, I have a $99 smartphone with quadcore 1.3GHz cpu, 1GB of RAM and a 720p 5" screen, and it works marvelously. No lag, keyboard works as it should,
by milankragujevic 11y ago
Interestingly, I have a $99 smartphone with quadcore 1.3GHz cpu, 1GB of RAM and a 720p 5" screen, and it works marvelously. No lag, keyboard works as it should, can play 1080p video without any issues, 2100mAh battery lasts for a day. I don't think that 2012 phones are the same as 2015/16 phones. As a x86 dual core 1.6GHz cpu from today and 4 years ago is not the same.
edit: cpu 1.6 to 1.3 ghz
- trymas 11y agoCan you share what exactly smartphone do you have?
- milankragujevic 11y agoVery no-name-ish, but Prestigio Muze C3. I was wrong about the CPU, it's QC 1.3 GHz
- hudo 11y agoI had Moto G 2nd gen which is similar specs. Said I had, because it was so slow I couldn't use it at all. So slow that calls would drop because phone app took 10sec to open.
- avian 11y agoJust to give a counter-anecdote: I still use a 1st gen Moto G. I previously had a mid-range HTC and a low-end Samsung phone. The Moto G is without doubt the best Android phone I owned so far.
- imaginenore 11y agoI have Moto G 1st gen, and the phone app starts instantly, loads fully in around 1sec. You probably have some malware running, or forgot to close all the apps in the background.
- abrowne 11y agoStrange – I'm reading this on my first gen Moto E. I see occasional lag, mostly in web content, but generally I think it works great.
- bobajeff 11y agoI use the first Moto G LTE they came out with. (The specs really don't change much from phone to phone.) It works for me the only other phone I've used before it was a Galaxy S III US Version. At first it had a horrible bug that unloaded apps all the time. I and many others assumed the 1GB of RAM was the culprit. It wasn't. Unfortunately, we had to wait for the Lollipop update for it to get fixed. If it weren't for the firmware issues and the fact that they waited so long to fix it I would buy another Motorola/Lenovo phone to replace it. Since it broke sometime ago.
- Kurtz79 11y agoAs good as it is, I don't think it can play 1080p videos on a 720p screen, without downscaling.
- milankragujevic 11y agoI meant it can decode 1080p video.
- AstralStorm 11y agoDownscaling is relatively cheap, most smartphone SoCs have enough of a GPU to do that in hardware.