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Originally Posted by dangonay
Not meaningless at all. Apple claimed the 5 was 2X faster than the 4S. People were bitching saying it's too vague. 2X faster at what? Loading web pages, booting up, launching Apps, taking pictures? The benchmarks are showing they were being slightly conservative as it's about 2.2-2.5x faster on tests run so far. So it's tangible proof that Apple wasn't lying.
In reading over the reviews comparing the 4S to the 5 in terms of speed I've heard terms like "it feels zipper", "speedier", "smoother" and one reviewer who called the speed increase "barely noticeable". Clearly one of these reviewers is lying, but how would you know without hard data on how it performs compared to the 4S?
It's also highly useful information for App developers who might have ideas that are now feasible to consider based on the performance increase. Especially game developers who no doubt are awaiting the graphics benchmarks (for the ones who didn't get early access to the A6).
I don't buy my phones based on GHz or specs, but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in what's under the hood.
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Don't you get it yet?
Apple advertising gimmick is all base on speculation and personal opinion/preferences.
LTE
up to 100mbps
Lightning USB
A6
Twice as fast as the A5
And all the specs given are in percentages making it seem more appealing when really it's only 1.7mm thinner, 28g lighter, and they don't even state that it's 8mm taller.
One thing they are right is that the chip is two times faster, making the iphone 5 1ghz of ram from 512mhz. The CPU however is only a 200mhz increase.
They also advertised the
two times faster when they announced the 4s when in fact, it's the same spec from iphone 4. Placebo?