The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera
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Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.
That's pretty astonishing.
>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.
It seems Apple's little cores are no longer so little.
- Pixel 3/3XL had best camera in phones until 11/11 Pro were released (yeah even better than XS). - Pixel 3 didn't have best screen in Android phones. Not even close. 3XL had good screen, was not oversaturated. Samsung in general have had the best screens overall. - Lot of people actually don't think Pixel 3 looks like a cheaply made toy. Look for reviews. - iPhones won't be supported 3 times as long compared to Pixel 3s. - App store is not full of garbage.
Source: I use a Pixel 3XL.
Disc: Googler but nowhere close to the Pixel/phone teams.
As someone who bought the very first Nexus phone (Nexus One, 2010), and several after that until the Nexus 5, I don’t believe this one bit and it’s why I moved to an iphone and never looked back.
Google’s long term hardware support commitments are worth less than their human technical support commitments. Apple has demonstrated their commitment to long term hardware support. My 2013 MacBook Air still runs the latest version of MacOS (Catalina) six years later.
AFAIK, all old update issues on Nexus were due to lack of driver support from Qualcomm[0]. Some of those have been mitigated in recent Android versions.
0 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/why-isnt-your-old-ph...
This was definitely true for low light pictures, but for all other cases I don't think it can be said objectively that the Pixel was better.
> Lot of people actually don't think Pixel 3 looks like a cheaply made toy. Look for reviews.
"Cheaply made toy" is strong wording but in my reading of reviews, it's very common for people to say it feels cheaper than an iPhone.
Also, pixel is a technology showcase and not always the best Android can offer. In a multi vendor market who is the best changes every quarter.
Disclaimer: writing this on a $400 Nokia from two years ago.
I don't think using a 4s in 2019 with the latest os and apps is a pleasant experience. While I appreciate apples commitment to iOS updates, I think 5 years of updates is a more realistic goal.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/22/apple-issues-ios-...
(Edit: an A series chip.)
A13 has single core performance on par with a 9900k or 3900X.
Apple is probably going to release ARM macs next year.
But Samsung is doing this now with some moderate success.
the drawbacks are large - you lose ergonomic touchscreen access to your phone.
With that said, it is scary how good Google and Amazon are in this area compared to the competition.
-messaging people -setting alarms -setting reminders -taking notes -weather queries -occasionally some informational thing like the time of a game (e.g. "When do the Lions play next") -set timers -query on the status of alarms and timers -occasionally sunrise, sunset -volume up/down / next / previous / skip -phone people
It operates at close to perfect effectiveness for the real-world usage that I have. I don't expect it to ever be as good as Google as it operates on a tiny fraction of the data that Google has on the average user, but it's perfectly effective for that.