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- >I mean, for the daily usage of almost everyone, I don't even see the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S3 (or an iPhone 5) and my phone which is a Wiko Cin

by sami36 14y ago

- >I mean, for the daily usage of almost everyone, I don't even see the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S3 (or an iPhone 5) and my phone which is a Wiko Cink Slim. I do.

p4bl0 14y ago
Could you expand a bit? I'm genuinely interested. What kind of activity do you use your phone for that requires so much computational power that you actually see the difference between a 1GHz dual-core and a 1.5GHz quad-core?
- coob 14y ago
  Editing video, multi track audio recording/synthesis, 3D gaming.
  - p4bl0 14y ago
    Okay, I guess that's more a tablet (iPad, Galaxy Tab) than a phone usage but it still is a valid answer here.
- sami36 14y ago
  Tasks as basic as browsing.
- mtgx 14y ago
  Speech recognition and Augmented Reality apps will benefit from it. Photo apps that stitch a lot of pictures together, like Google's new Photo Sphere panorama app. I figure the new chips will also make stitching more accurate in the future. Higher resolutions, especially for tablets. For example iPad 4 has only now gotten enough GPU performance to be as fast as iPad 2 running at its old native resolution. So iPad 4 at 2048x1536 is as fast as iPad 2 at 1024x768. So basically the iPad has stagnated for a year and a half in performance, just to get the benefit of that crisper display. And only with new upcoming chips, the iPad will start to get higher performance for native-resolution apps.
  - p4bl0 14y ago
    I see. However, about speech recognition for instance, it is for now done "in the cloud": your recorded voice is sent to a server which does the intensive computations and sends the corresponding text back to your phone. Why would that change? It even allows Google or Apple to train their speech recognition system so I think they will want to keep it that way. More generally, more and more computation are done in the cloud, even on the desktop (Chrome OS). That said, I agree about high-res gaming and augmented reality, etc.
    - dman 14y ago
      Latency isnt going down.
    - nutjob123 14y ago
      Speech recognition is done on device in android jelly bean. It takes about 1 second per word but it is very accurate in my experience.
- codesuela 14y ago
  I max out my 1 GB of RAM on my S3 easily when switching between Spotify, Whats app and Chrome with 10 Tabs open. Why do I open 10 tabs on my cell phone? My subway ride to work is about 35 minutes and the timeframe where I have HDSPA is 5 minutes after that no more mobile internet until I get back overground. It's enough for exchanging a few Whats app messages though.
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  Opening iBooks on my iPad 2 takes 3-10 seconds. I'd love to see that shrink to 20 milliseconds. Until then, I'm not satisfied.

by sami36 14y ago

- >I mean, for the daily usage of almost everyone, I don't even see the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S3 (or an iPhone 5) and my phone which is a Wiko Cink Slim. I do.

p4bl0 14y ago

Could you expand a bit? I'm genuinely interested. What kind of activity do you use your phone for that requires so much computational power that you actually see the difference between a 1GHz dual-core and a 1.5GHz quad-core?

coob 14y ago
Editing video, multi track audio recording/synthesis, 3D gaming.
- p4bl0 14y ago
  Okay, I guess that's more a tablet (iPad, Galaxy Tab) than a phone usage but it still is a valid answer here.
sami36 14y ago
Tasks as basic as browsing.
mtgx 14y ago
Speech recognition and Augmented Reality apps will benefit from it. Photo apps that stitch a lot of pictures together, like Google's new Photo Sphere panorama app. I figure the new chips will also make stitching more accurate in the future. Higher resolutions, especially for tablets. For example iPad 4 has only now gotten enough GPU performance to be as fast as iPad 2 running at its old native resolution. So iPad 4 at 2048x1536 is as fast as iPad 2 at 1024x768. So basically the iPad has stagnated for a year and a half in performance, just to get the benefit of that crisper display. And only with new upcoming chips, the iPad will start to get higher performance for native-resolution apps.
- p4bl0 14y ago
  I see. However, about speech recognition for instance, it is for now done "in the cloud": your recorded voice is sent to a server which does the intensive computations and sends the corresponding text back to your phone. Why would that change? It even allows Google or Apple to train their speech recognition system so I think they will want to keep it that way. More generally, more and more computation are done in the cloud, even on the desktop (Chrome OS). That said, I agree about high-res gaming and augmented reality, etc.
  - dman 14y ago
    Latency isnt going down.
  - nutjob123 14y ago
    Speech recognition is done on device in android jelly bean. It takes about 1 second per word but it is very accurate in my experience.
codesuela 14y ago
I max out my 1 GB of RAM on my S3 easily when switching between Spotify, Whats app and Chrome with 10 Tabs open. Why do I open 10 tabs on my cell phone? My subway ride to work is about 35 minutes and the timeframe where I have HDSPA is 5 minutes after that no more mobile internet until I get back overground. It's enough for exchanging a few Whats app messages though.
pooriaazimi 14y ago
Opening iBooks on my iPad 2 takes 3-10 seconds. I'd love to see that shrink to 20 milliseconds. Until then, I'm not satisfied.