Apple iPhone 5's A6 chipset performance examined in detail

22 September, 2012
The iPhone 5 made easy work of the competitors in browsing tests and its GPU did quite well, too.

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  • 23 Sep 2012

Anonymous, 23 Sep 2012 ok. let's try this simple task on your ip5: copy a fil... morei don't have iphone 5
But having the memory on board the phone seems good enough.
HTC OneX users aren't worried.
You have to shut the phone down and reboot.
Easier to transfer with a cable.
Taking the backcover and removing the battery to access the mircoSD is a pain like the S2.
How often do you ready pull out your SDcard?
Just like how often do you pull out your battery of your phone? I charge it via cable. That's great if people remove there battery and put in a charge unit.
I don't see the point in that.
The reliable of Phone battery are at the point now the
agument i can change it when it fails is pointless.
Sony Xepria users don't need to remove their batteries daily like HTC one owners, don't think they are worried either.

I used phones with a removable battery.
Have no reason to remove them. Only needed for rebooting android from a hard full lockup.

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    • u7m
    • 23 Sep 2012

    Anonymous, 23 Sep 2012 ok. let's try this simple task on your ip5: copy a fil... moreWhy do you need SD card if you transfer your file through bluetooth or iCloud or even iTunes for non Apple device?

    Why do you need backup battery if the built-in battery is so reliable?


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      • Anonymous
      • ucx
      • 23 Sep 2012

      AnonD-59657, 23 Sep 2012You're totally damn wrong. iPhone 5 is at least 5 years a... more
      ok. let's try this simple task on your ip5:

      copy a file to your sd and put the sd on your ip5 and copy that file from your sd into your ip5.

      very simple. once you have done that, we will go to the next simple task: replacing the battery with a backup.



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        • AnonD-66012
        • u44
        • 23 Sep 2012

        AnonD-59657, 23 Sep 2012SGNote2 is another piece of useless plastic junk that caus... moreYou are narrating a crazy joke!

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          • AnonD-66012
          • u44
          • 23 Sep 2012

          Can we assume iPhone 5 as a mini computer ? No!
          S3 ? Yes!
          I can live with S3 without computer, but with iPhone 5..? You think ?
          Upcoming jelly bean 4.1.1 + tweaks + mod will give S3 horse power+. I'm on test with jelly bean leaked, so far so greeeeaaaaaaat!

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            • Anonymous
            • vMe
            • 23 Sep 2012

            Love it how they've only shown u only a few results of many tests.. hmmm wonder why lol
            Also those figures r completely incorrect, s3 users getting results much higher than the article states

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              • u7m
              • 23 Sep 2012

              AnonD-397, 23 Sep 2012Note 2 is coming... iPhone 5 dont have chance...SGNote2 is another piece of useless plastic junk that causes pollution to environment.

              It should be totally banned.

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                • u7m
                • 23 Sep 2012

                Anonymous, 23 Sep 2012 agree with you 1,000,000 times. that power is used for... moreYou're totally damn wrong.
                iPhone 5 is at least 5 years ahead of SGS3 in all areas.

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                  • Kxt
                  • 23 Sep 2012

                  Apple never said it would support whatever Android can support, like Flash for example. In fact, it is doing Android a favour by not supporting Flash. But for what it does, Apple does a marvellous job of hardware and software integration. Besides brand consciousness, it is the smoothness of use that attracts many to Iphone.

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                    • AnonD-65268
                    • tRD
                    • 23 Sep 2012

                    resolution related benchmark should be in point per pixel. Iphone always is winner in graphic benchmark because it often has lower resolution. So I think that iphone always is "PR" unfair.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • ucx
                      • 23 Sep 2012

                      AnonD-56991, 23 Sep 2012Admittedly it has a lot of power but what are they gonna us... more
                      agree with you 1,000,000 times.

                      that power is used for benchmarks only because the device can't be used for anything more than as a phone and social media. no customization, limited connectivity, not HD. that power is a waste.

                      whereas android devices are a phone, a mini pc, a gaming console.

                      ok i've got to hand it to crApple: " nice design "

                      but that's eye candy. overall performance (not benchmark results), it barely scratches the sgs3's and can't match the sgs3's versatilty as a device (not just as a phone).

                      if ip5 is good only on a visual pov and barely catch up with sgs3, imagine how it will compare to upcoming android devices.

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                        • Kenpoi
                        • K7e
                        • 23 Sep 2012

                        Apple advantage is the combination of quality OS & hardware. Not like samsung they cant make they OWN powerful OS. CPU Speed of samsung is best but, the OS not specialized for its Hardware because Android OS came 1st from Google not from Samsung.

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                          • 23 Sep 2012

                          tanzen90, 22 Sep 2012hey guys, I'm an Android fan and think that all the Apple's... more@tazen90
                          I'm an android fan too I think you're right... apple is pricing the iP5 out of the budget

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                            • orca811
                            • vur
                            • 23 Sep 2012

                            just to point out some thing to you all
                            if you notice there are a few test were they didnt compare the s3 to eg like the google v8 benchmark test
                            i think the reason is because they want the iphone 5 to look fast as i ran this test on my s3 just now and my score was 2282 now thats 50% faster again compared to iphone 5.
                            i just find it funny how they skiped showing the s3 in several of the test i wounder why this happened

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                              • AnonD-59657
                              • u7m
                              • 23 Sep 2012

                              iPhone 5 is superior in both hardware and software.
                              It makes other phone like SGS3 looks inferior and stupid.

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                                • AnonD-58527
                                • PZU
                                • 23 Sep 2012

                                [deleted post]So your saying Xiaomi isn't well known for reverse engineering and cloning tech then?
                                Trouble is they do a 'Chinese quality' job at it at well.Screen and Battery quality is....

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                                  • Kxt
                                  • 23 Sep 2012

                                  AnonD-58527, 23 Sep 2012it probably willAt least Xiaomi 2 is 100% made in China.

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                                    • PZU
                                    • 23 Sep 2012

                                    AnonD-59596, 23 Sep 2012I hope S4 doesn't print its "made in korea" label... moreit probably will

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                                      • 23 Sep 2012

                                      AnonD-58527, 23 Sep 2012China copy it of samsung iphone it run the buggy Lagdriod.... moreI hope S4 doesn't print its "made in korea" label in China as well. But I wont be surprised if it does.

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                                        • sr3
                                        • 23 Sep 2012

                                        Note 2 is coming... iPhone 5 dont have chance...