3 ms·
Why is this the review that is making it to the front page? There are lots of sources that have, or will have, much better insights into the phone and tech that
by asafira 9y ago
Why is this the review that is making it to the front page? There are lots of sources that have, or will have, much better insights into the phone and tech that will spur much better conversation on HN; I hope one of those surfaces, too.
- Brendinooo 9y agoI think the author is a homer for sure, but his reviews are a lot more practical, more Walt Mossberg than Ars Technica. It's nice to know what's under the hood but it's also nice to know what the phone feels like in day-to-day use, and I think Mr. Gruber covers that well. And, for anyone who's already in the ecosystem, I think he's really good at relating new products to existing ones.
- asafira 9y agoCan you give an example of how Mr. Gruber covers something "day-to-day" well? Not that examples don't exist, but I have a pretty unhappy relationship with more touchy-feely metrics. Example: battery life. A good description of how battery life is dealt with in most reviews is "awfully": battery life depends on a crazy number of details that it is really hard to properly capture "day-to-day" usage in a review. A person that rarely uses their phone vs. one that plays games all day vs. one that uses the web browser all the time vs one that uses navigation all the time vs one that snapchats all day are going to see very different battery life performance; unless the phone is atrociously bad (which has happened before, too), it's hard to be able to properly gauge battery life.