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OnePlus has been caught again messing with phone performance in a way that might frustrate phone consumers. How is this different than previous instances of benchmark rigging? How should we test and describe phone performance?
Let’s chat for a bit… Continue reading “OnePlus Throttling Performance, Anandtech Analysis, and GeekBench’s Reaction”
OnePlus 8 BENCHMARKS!
I’ve been tracking phone performance for a couple years now. Sharing my early testing and impressions, let’s compare some numbers! Welcome to the first episode of By the Benchmarks!
How do these phones compare against last year’s OnePlus? Benchmarks don’t tell the whole story, but they’re a good place to start!
EPIC smartphone throttle test!
If we want phones to start replacing laptops, they have to handle heavier workloads. I’ve gotten criticisms that my video rendering test is too short, so let’s REALLY drive some phones hard. What if we rendered a WHOLE MOVIE on a phone? Can our mobile gadgets hand with laptops? Will phones run too hot?
Only one way to know! We gotta do it!
I love GaryExplains. Easily one of my favorite tech channels on YouTube. He’s one of the only TechTubers I feel actually explains things worth explaining.
Gary recently put out a video (embedded at the top of this article) where he explains why he doesn’t test network performance in his smartphone commentary. His reasoning is absolutely sound.
But, just because network speedtest apps can’t be counted on for consistency, doesn’t mean we can’t control for SOME variables on our own. Continue reading “We CAN test SOME Network Performance: Where I respectfully disagree with GaryExplains!”
The main takeaway, which became resoundingly clear over the last 48 hours?
Marketing works.
Tuesday we all sat through a round up of new product announcements from Apple, with the stock boiler plates of innovation and improvement. The most amazing products yet created. The most powerful products on the market. We were shown this year’s collection of bar graphs touting the huge lead Apple hardware enjoys over the competition.
Revealing “pro” versions of the iPhone, Apple leaned heavily into video creation to showcase the new cameras and the new A13 chipset.
The iPhone 11 Pro is so powerful you can make movies on it! Just don’t pay attention to the multi-million-dollar sound-stage, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on equipment, lighting, and the talented team of filmmakers behind the phone, but I digress…
It’s those bar graphs though. Since the PowerMac days, Apple has had a love affair with simplistic, unlabeled bar graphs. We’ve seen them through so many keynotes over the last decade, that we just take them for granted. It’s just common knowledge that iPhones are more powerful than Androids.
But what happens when we test Apple’s performance claims against their video production claims?
iOS fans on Twitter get REAL flustered… Continue reading “Sorry Apple, iPhones aren’t for pro video! -OR- What I learned arguing with people on Twitter!”
When a new phone is announced, manufacturers often point to improvements like new processors and GPUs as things consumers desire. We want more powerful gadgets, but what does that really mean? What do we actually get with these generational improvements?
More gratifying benchmark scores don’t correlate with performance improvements for your favorite services.
Continue reading “What do we really get from “more powerful” smartphone processors?”
Synthetic benchmark scores don’t always reflect real world performance. App speed runs look fun, don’t actually measure performance. What are some tests we can perform to gauge improvements from year to year on our electronics? How can we compare processing power looking at the differences between Android and iOS?
Continue reading “How should we benchmark the iPhone XS (and every other phone)?”
Another pair of companies have been caught rigging benchmark performance. How does this affect fans? Should this be considered false advertising?
Continue reading “Is it False Advertising if a Smartphone Manufacturer Rigs Benchmarks? – Pocketnow”