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on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30PM
from the Can-I-get-some-dips-with-that? dept.
from the Can-I-get-some-dips-with-that? dept.
Rashek writes:
"Intel and Qualcomm just announced their roadmaps for mobile System on a Chip at this year's Mobile World Congress.
Intel presented performance numbers of their Merrifield SoC, a dual-core Silvermont based SoC that's effectively the phone version of Bay Trail, with some carefully chosen benchmarks that compared it to Apple's A7 SoC and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series. Meanwhile, Qualcomm revealed future 64-bit Snapdragons for its mid-tier Snapdragon series. The Snapdragon 610 and 615 will arrive in Android smartphones in Q4 of this year and are four and eight core implementations of ARM's Cortex A53."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday February 24 2014, @02:48PM
"Second, apps of today would be unthinkable 5 years ago"
Like what, I mostly use gmail, the web browser, radarscope, proweatheralert, google calendar, doggcatcher, tunein radio, baconreader. That's about it. I have to be careful not to bust my data cap. If either my data cap or my battery size expanded as much as processor speed has, then I'd have a real effect on my daily use.
The phone of the future will only have 5 minutes of battery, 5 megs of data cap per month, 50 GB/s peak transfer rate, and a $200/month bill... where the market is heading is a parody of what I actually want. Some company needs to upset the market. Badly.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Monday February 24 2014, @04:17PM
The phone of the future will only have 5 minutes of battery, 5 megs of data cap per month, 50 GB/s peak transfer rate, and a $200/month bill... where the market is heading is a parody of what I actually want. Some company needs to upset the market. Badly.
I have unlimited everything, including roaming and 911, internet, no data caps, no peak transfer rates, no contract, and I pay $40 per month. You're just looking at the wrong phone companies.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Natales on Monday February 24 2014, @09:16PM
That's a very narrow way of seeing things. There are apps that allow me to control telescope alignment in real time, 3D star maps, and a new wave of heavy multimedia apps like the Magic of Reality (complement for Dawkins' book) and the Modernist Cuisine at Home app (Myhrvold).
Additionally, I like to use a real time HD recording DVR function while I drive (in case I get into an accident or see something odd in the highway) while at the same time using Waze and dealing with a conference call or two. Even a year ago I was pressed to be able to handle all that in a phone.
The fact that you are whining about data plans is not a relevant argument for this particular discussion. It certainly deserves its own thread, but for many of us those are mute points, either because the company pays the phone bill, or because we live in a country where unlimited data is the norm.