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This blogger I heard about in a business forum talks about how to buy something by getting 100% ROI investing in a website, and have the asset pay for what you would've spent cash out of pocket into.
Thinking about doing it with my school tuition. Instead of paying $30,000 a year invest $30,000, get 100% ROI, and have that pay for school. Have that 30k pay for 2-3 years of school, and then be able to sell it and get 30k or more (if I manage to bring up the value of it). Heck even if I get 50% ROI instead of a 100% this sounds like a really cool idea.
My money is currently doing 2-4% in the bank anyway, and I'd probably learn a ton from investing and managing a business. Kinda risky, but I'm seriously thinking about it.
Just think about what your proposing.... if making 50 or 100% of your money in a year was as simple as deciding to take a little risk the stock market would be all but gone, companies devoid of employees. The reality is that if you manage to breakeven on your first year you've done amazingly well and getting 2-3x back in a short duration? Well, it has happened a few times but it's by no means practical to bank on.
Let's break this down a bit to see just how far 30k actually gets you...
Assuming you have low personal overhead, namely by living at home with your parents. You'll still probably want a car, gas for it, auto insurance, health insurance, a cell phone, some food, entertainment, etc. If you can keep that all under $1000 a month you've got an amazingly low burn rate but you've still taken 12k out of the equation leaving 18k to build your business. You'll need a server of some sort, an internet connection, domain, computer, probably some software, registration fees, licenses and of course any building costs. Doesn't leave much for buying inventory, marketing or sales to actually have a business or a customer.
2-4% earnings isn't spectacular but if your goal is school it beats the heck out of a 100% risk.
Thus the big question... why do it?
The simple answer is because you want too.
Building a business does mean you'll learn a lot, advance your skills, for the simple fact that you can afford a risk when you're young and unattached, for the boost to your career [people pay for skilled people] and then for the potential you could make a few bucks. You do not build a business with the assumption you will double your money anymore than you walk to a casino and assume you can beat the house.
Thanks for the breakdown Ted! I see the logic in what you are saying. A few corrections:
The idea is not to get 200%-300% ROI a year..but to get ~%100, which means that by buying a business that cashflows with 30k means it could take care of 2-3 years of tuition year after year, and have the principal when you are done. Not doing something like that means you LOSE $90,000 at the end of 3 years.
Also, I think I will going for something like the story I linked to buying an existing business (online business preferably), with existing customers and infrastructure. So the break down of what 30k will get you starting a business is different if you already buy a business that makes 30k/yr.
Investing in a stock market vs investing in a business is very different in my opinion. I think the stock market is much riskier than buying and running a business, especially when starting out. Since my goal is to be a successful entrepreneur this is a no brainer for me, because I am interested in business and like it!
So I guess my assumptions are:
Thanks for responding back! This is a great discussion to have and I hope others jump in too as I am certainly not the only opinion out there that you should hear.
Yes, I get that... And it's an ambitious goal to put it mildly.
I've got a couple degrees, 10 years of digital experience, and I'd honestly tell you that if you can pull a 100% return [over base] on a 30k investment in your first year of business you should not bother with school. Repeat it 5 times, go on CNN and sell books.
Buying something gives you a jump start at the risk of getting someone else's mess but you don't spend 30k and make 30k in profit off the bat. You spend 30k for a business that may bring in 5-10k net, or nets nothing but grosses a lot leaving room to optimize. Then you work to build that up to be bigger or more efficient [the two basic levers to net returns] over the course of time. How much time depends on how good you are and how good of a pick you made.
And of course you still have to eat, pay for that car, etc so you have to factor in all that to your profits too.
Huh? We've had one of the worst markets in all of history recently and even then we're talking about less than 40% losses [34% for the NYSE in 2008]. Last year if you had bought the NYSE you'd have made 5.5%. When you buy a business your risk is 100% and not over a year, you can lose it in an hour.
Now I'm not advocating sitting in the stock market but since we're talking risk, it's far easier to control when you have access to near immediate liquidity than when you've bought a business, are moving along and discover eBay just decided to enter your market this morning or the lawsuit you ignored wasn't a joke.
Investing money in business is better than paying it to the university.
I think it depends on what you want in life [you'd have a hard time becoming a doctor buying a web startup] but certainly being young means you can tolerate extreme risk so if you have have a passion, give it a try. 30k is nothing in the grand scheme of life.
I am confident I will be successful in business.
Great attitude. But don't underestimate the learning curve. Not because you can't get past it, you can. But because it will cost you time and money to learn which brings us to the last, and most important point you've raised.
It is possible to get 100% ROI investing in business. (this probably has a lot to do with the price you buy the business for, and how much work is involved).
Possible, yes, but again, if it was this everyone would be doing it. Set reasonable goals and make life work off hitting those, not the sky.
I think the discussion is purely academic, because any online business that can provide cash flow equal to $30,000 a year with a relatively minor amount of work will not sell for $30,000. And if you are buying an online business based on its "potential" to produce that cash flow for $30,000., then I have some domain names that I want to sell you.
There are a lot of ways you can make $30,000 online, but you will need to either dedicate a substantial amount of time, or you will need to invest a lot money and risk losing some of it in the process. For $30,000 a year with those risks, I might as well sell my skills/labor and get a job.
Because of the above, I think your assumptions are flawed.
I think you need to get a broader understanding of how business, especially internet business, works before making your assumptions. The website you referenced is based on the experience of one person who jumped into the online poker world at just the right time and made some money. He also had a PR triumph which probably helped him out a lot.
I doubt he made all that much money, though, because people who have really made money rarely operate blogs talking about how to make money.
So, if you have a plan to jump into a niche business that is a bit fuzzy when it comes to the law, then get some incredible PR for free, you can do pretty well. But, the author of the website/blog doesn't seem that credible to me
If you were consult some other sources of business knowledge you might get a more balanced view of how things work, and maybe you'd revise your assumptions, which I will address here:
This can't really be stated as a 'fact', and is a very questionable assumption.
Statistically, money invested in education has about the best return on anything you can possibly do. Getting higher education consistently increases lifetime earnings. Also, the statistics on business investment prove the reverse - small businesses and investors can get eaten alive and it's an extremely risky practice. Huge amounts of people lose their investments, and depending on which statistics you choose to believe, a large percentage of businesses fail.
Paying a university for a sensibly chosen degree path is a great investment, both financially and personally.
Great! How confident are you? Are you confident that you can learn the ropes, work your ass off, make mistakes, learn lessons, continue working your ass off, and eventually make it big? I bet you can!
But are you so confident that you think you can skip all the above stuff and simply succeed in business on the first try with no experience or training? That's pretty confident
It is possible to get much more than 100% ROI investing in business. It is also possible to get 100% loss. This isn't really a meaningful assumption because you could easily just say, "It's possible to go to Vegas with 10k and come home with enough to pay for your whole education". But, that's not much of a plan, is it?
The one thing that is missing from your statements is an answer to this question: "Why would YOU succeed with this plan that most people find to be unrealistic?". Maybe there is an answer - are you brilliant, well connected, have a killer product, or just the luckiest person on earth? I
I am the owner of Forever Jobless.
I would not recommend doing this.
In the example from the post, my friend K was an experienced investor, and we both had other money and other businesses making us money. I'd never recommend betting everything before you acquire some knowledge first. Knowledge will be the most important thing you can acquire at this stage in the game for you, moreso than money.
The main points I was trying to get across were that great deals are possible, and even sometimes easier to get because others will stay on the sidelines due to thinking something's off if they are too low to be considered "legit", and the fact that if you can correctly calculate EV, it makes things a lot easier.
Yes they will. They are not "easy" to find, but they are out there. I have bought several at 1x or less myself in the last 18 months.
They are "riskier" than other deals, but they are very +EV.
If you bought a business a such a great valuation without having do add value to it, you must have some kind of secret source of technique for finding such businesses. Any details, or just Cinderella stories?


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Gather up your spare change – it's bargain-book buying time.
The annual Spring Book Sale begins this week, brought to you by the Springfield-Greene County Library District Friends of the Library.
This hard-working army of volunteers has spent the last six months loading and sorting three semi-tractor trailer loads of books, CDs, DVDs in all genres and ages. If you were there last year, you know it's huge.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, through Saturday, May 1; and from 1 to 5 p.m. May 2 at Remington's, 1655 W. Republic Road.
The Missouri State University Lady Bears and coaches will be guest volunteers at the sale from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The Friends of the Library members-only preview sale is 5 to 8 p.m. Monday. Non-members may join at the door for $5.
The Spring Book Sale and Fall Book Sale are the ultimate recycling projects for bibliophiles: Gently used books and other materials are donated by the public or weeded out by the library district. The Friends sell them at rock-bottom prices – most 20 cents to $1 (better books individually priced) – and they are read by new owners…who may then donate them for the Fall Book Sale.
Meanwhile, the Friends provide grants to the 10 libraries for community members to enjoy: Summer Reading Programs for kids and teens; library furnishings, the bookmobile and special music events.
You get great bargains at the Friends sale. What's better, says Friends member Marijo Taylor, "They're not only helping themselves but they're helping the community. The money stays in the community."
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The market meltdown, along with some disappointing earnings reports, dragged down a number of large-cap retail-sector names. In addition, many former leaders have fallen from grace.
Ross Stores (ROST), which had a solid yearlong rally, has essentially been in free-fall since topping out at $70.82 on Aug. 20. Whole Foods (WFMI), another stock with a lengthy track of price growth, is down 7.1% this month and sliced its 200-day line in above-average volume Wednesday.
There is some clear divergence taking shape between various sub-sectors. Among DJIA components, Home Depot (HD) rallied to a multiyear high this week, while McDonald's (MCD) is down 15.7% year-to-date, closing at $84.62 Friday.
But Home Depot is not the only big-cap retail name outpacing the benchmark index by a wide margin. For example, rival Lowe's (LOW) rallied to a multiyear high earlier this month and is not holding between its 10-week line and a prior peak of $33.63.
I was scanning my list of the technical leaders among the big-cap retailers, and it struck me that apparel and accessory companies were well represented. Gap (GPS) delivers third-quarter results after the close Thursday. Heading into that report, the stock was up more than 81% year-to-date; however, it's been pulling back since September -- not surprising after a gain of 21.5% in August following its second-quarter report. Shares closed Wednesday at $33.63, 6% below its 50-day line but 14% above its 200-day average.
This is a turnaround in the earnings department; these situations often result in significant price gains, as well. The return on equity is strong at 24%; however, free cash flow per share has declined in each of the past two years. When the company reports later today, analysts expect earnings to come in at $0.63 per share on revenue of $3.82 billion. Those would be gains over the year-ago quarter.
Another large-cap retailer whose chart remains strong is sunglass-market dominator Luxottica (LUX). The fiscal cliff and European debt crisis don't matter -- people want to protect their peepers and look stylish doing it. For a large-cap, Luxottica has a rather high beta of 1.22. A glance at Luxottica's daily chart, however, shows a phenomenon that's not uncommon for American Depositary Receipts: an unusual number of intraday gaps higher and lower. These are due to currency exchange rates. That contributes to a somewhat high beta on many ADRs, even though the given stock appears to trade smoothly on a weekly chart. In any case, the stock has been trending nicely along its 10-week average, and is showing a year-to-date gain of 34%. Analysts see earnings growing 12% this year, to $1.54 per share. In 2013, that's expected to rise another 18%, to $1.78 per share.
Though the company has been steadily profitable in recent years, earnings growth is somewhat erratic, vacillating between double-digit and low-single-digit year-over-year increases. As with Gap, not all of the financial ratios are as bullish as I'd like to see. Return on equity is a bit on the low side, at 14%, and the free cash flow per share declined in each of the past two years.


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Analyzing the iPhone 5 Geekbench Resultsby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2012 8:31 PM EST
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softdrinkviking - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkI wonder if apple is risking backing themselves into a corner by tailoring their hardware so closely to the device. There are all kinds of supply problems that could come up, and, well, it's happened in the past. IBM OS2 died because it didn't support enough peripherals. Obviously, it's not exactly the same, but I think I like the idea of multiple hardware vendors interacting with multiple platform/OS builders. Reply
mavere - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkThey're still ARM licensees. If things go badly with their custom designs, they can always revert to generic A15 cores or something. Reply
MadMan007 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkI think the screen is supply-limited and that contributed to the pre-order sellout. Of course Apple didn't spin it that way, but if demand really was that much higher than anticipated they did a very poor job of production planning. I don't know why people don't realize that a product selling out when there is still demand is actually a failure by a company. Reply
aribencannan - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkit may not necessarily mean failure by the company. 4S was available too much too soon (from Apple's point of view). Queues in form of apple stores were short or non-existent. Considering this in the light of every previous iPhone released, this gave the impression that the demand for 4S was not on par with previous phones. This may very well be a marketing strategy to create demand for the phone by word-of-mouth advertising during the initial period. Reply
Sunrise089 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkI'm sorry, but this simply isn't the way it works with tech products people purchase infrequently and at non-random time points.
If beer sells out at the local supermarket or in a whole region someone probably did a bad job (forgetting about the Super Bowl, etc).
New phone releases aren't like that. Lots of customers want the buy the product immediately, such that total lifetime sales are HEAVILY front-loaded. In order to meet all that demand on day 1 you would need either:
1) Massive production capacity that would run under capacity for 75+% of the product's life cycle.
2) Lower production levels that start very early, such that a huge number of phones are available by release.
Option 1 isn't cost effective, and option 2 means you're late to market and EVERYONE has to wait for the device rather than SOME people.
The real solution, if you don't like queuing (which essentially makes people pay a 'waiting in line' cost to decide who gets a phone right away) is simply to charge a higher price at first and lower it dynamically as demand falls. That's considered unacceptable for various business reasons I don't pretend to be an expert on, but it's clearly not something any of the major players are willing to do.
Given that, long lines and shortages at launch that then clear up are pretty much the ideal solution. Reply
iwod - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkHow is that risking it when the SoC will be produced by Samsung whether it was apple designed or not?
And the only ones that could afford to design their SoC for two different Fabs, Samsung or TSMC will only be Apple or Qualcomm. Other dont have the volume to afford it. Reply
Monkeysweat - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI also don't think OS2 sold 2 million devices in one weekend.
With the volume that Apple ships, they are not backing themselves into any corner, they are the designer from what you see and interact with all the way down to the corner, even if they don't manufacture 100% of it, they at least control every aspect. Not many companies can do this.
The tailored designs will be what they want so there is as little waste as possible in size or battery drain,,, if a SoC has even a couple features Apple won't use, they are taking up space and possibly some battery drain. Reply
vol7ron - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkwho said OS2 died? Reply
Yorgos - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkHow about getting a comparison chart with other high-end smartphones? Reply
dagamer34 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkWe will probably have to wait for the full review in 2-3 weeks. Reply
Samus - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThere won't be much comparison to other smartphones. The iPhone5 is only clocked at 1GHz, most highend smartphones, even new WinMo phones, are clocked at least 200MHz higher. Yes, I'm aware clockspeed isn't everything, but with ARM architecture it means a LOT.
Fortunately the iPhone GPU is still very capable, and it has to be to drive that resolution. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkAs the article stated, IPC means a lot as well, ditto OS optimizations. The iPhone and Windows Phone devices both ran faster and smoother than higher clocked (and ostensibly faster) Android phones released at the same time. Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkStarting from dual-issue in order designs with bad cache and memory performance there's a lot of room left for massive IPC increases. They just have to decide which ones to implement now, balancing performance with size & power. Reply
akdj - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkYou can check out the comparisons to other high end phones (including GSIII ad Nexus) at the site Anand referenced initially. Macrumors. Careful though...I like Apple but Many of those folks covet Apple:-)
Probably best not to get involved with the 500 very happy iOS posters. I'm proud of Apple and their engineering feat here. But I'll proceed with caution until we've had Anand and others that know what their doing break everything down over the next several weeks. In detail.
Otherwise, kudos to Apple's SOC engineering department. They deserve it. Definitely the biggest 'gains' in spec sheet performance since the beginning. Kinda like Moore's Law:-)
J Reply
jwcalla - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkSo it's on par with year-old chips. :)
2x the performance of the 4S doesn't seem like much of a challenge. Reply
Formul - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkthose year-old chips being ... what exactly? its dual core not quad core and on 1GHz at that Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkAnd it is apparently beating 1.4ghz quad-core smartphones released only 2 months ago by a good margin.
Efficiency has always been a strong suit of iOS, so we'll see how these translate to practical benchmarks in a few weeks. Reply
WinProcs - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - linkMacrumors reported that the iphone 5 was faster than the Galaxy S3 to the delight of the Apple happy clappers. Many were ecstatic that the iphone 5 scored 1601 on Geekbench. Apparently the S3 scored 1560. Quite a number were downright nasty. Many said it proved the iphone 5 was the fastest phone in the world.
I download Geekbench and ran it 3 times.
I got 1880, 1612 (email received during test) and 1903.
It is the international quad core running 4.04 and has been rooted. It has not been modified in any other way.
Numerous other people ran the test on their S3s. All got significantly higher scores than the iphone 5.
The comments changed quickly to disbelief, accusations of fudged figures by the S3 owners and also that the numbers didn't mean much. Some of the "numbers don't mean much" comments came from the same people who earlier were putting down the speed of the S3!
Check out http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=14432...
Perhaps they should have called it the iphone 4S2 instead! Reply
Samus - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkRight, I mean, it'll run iOS 6 super fast, but that's like running Android 2.3 on a Galaxy S III.
iOS 6 brings no visual improvements to the table, so the GPU, outside of gaming, it really being underutilized. Reply
MrAwax - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkYou mean "since iOS is GPU accelerated since 1.0, there is no need to add this feature later like it has been done on Android at last in its 2012 version". Reply
lkm32 - Sunday, September 23, 2012 - linkAndroid has been GPU accelerated since Honeycomb in tablets or 4.0 in handsets (the reason why a lot of handsets never got 4.0 ... no GPU).
Though 4.1 is so smooth I guess you can be forgiven for thinking it was the first. (and please don't be hipster troll and say that you still see it jittery, please don't be that guy) Reply
tipoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkNot sure about the only advantage being gaming, the new vector based maps are one example of where a fast GPU makes things fluid. You can think of lots other uses if you think about it. Reply
doobydoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkWhat jwcalla said:
'So it's on par with year-old chips. :)'
The reality:
'This one score also places the iPhone 5 ahead of the average scores of all Android phones on Geekbench' Reply
akdj - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkReally? Have you actually used a '4s'? I develop for both, Android and iOS. As such I own a half dozen devices of each (3gs, 4, 4s, iPad 1, 2 and 3--as well as a GNote, GSIII, Nexus, Nexus 7 and a Xoom). To date, the speediest, most 'fluid' phone on the market is the 4s. Bar None. I love my GSIII, I really, REALLY love my Note...but let's be real here. This isn't a 'fanboy' site or a silly forum for phone lovers. We are all geeks by nature, that's why we're on Anand's site:-)
The way iOS and Apple's hardware work together is incredible. Benchmarks aren't necessary to achieve this fluidity...the A6 is twice as quick as the 'new' iPad! And that, to me, is the pinnacle of speed as far as the tablet community is concerned.
To double the speed of the 4s in a lighter, thinner package is a HUGE challenge!!! To maintain the battery life or increase it is an even BIGGER challenge!!! I take it you're not an engineer or a software dork? (I am, both:)). It does take a bit of looking 'under the hood' to appreciated these challenges and accomplishments.
Hang Tight! Their coming---the reviews, benchmarks and comments from those that DO know what they're talking about:)
J Reply
Brian Klug - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkWe've run Geekbeench on Android phones (there's an Android port) but I'm not totally convinced it is directly comparable with iOS or as cross platform as they hope it is.
That said, here's their table for Android devices: http://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks, and iOS benchmarks: http://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks
-Brian Reply
Guspaz - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkTrue enough, but the results seem to be in-line with the "A15-like cores such as Krait perform on-par with quad-core A9" as expected. Reply
tipoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThe highest Android score I can find is the N7s Tegra 3 at 1550 points. So it's pretty impressive that this beats it with only two cores at 1GHz. Even Krait comes in behind the Tegra 3 just because of core count, it's obviously faster per-core but with twice the cores T3 beats it in raw compute, but the A6 is supposedly ahead of both. Most impressive, if true. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkApple is just pig vomit, no matter how fast it goes or how much lipstick they put on it. I tried to go to the qdoba home page on my iCrap. And guess what? It crashes. Every single time. I can do it over and over and over. Just one of many sites that crash. What a piece of trash. Reply
vshin - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkApple sucks because you can't access the home page of your favorite mexican restaurant chain? By the way, it works on my iCrap just fine. Reply
Spoony - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkWorks fine for me on my iTrash 4. Reply
akdj - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkWhy not just drive to QDoba yourself? Pick up your own burritos.
No matter which Apple/Mac or iOS product I've ever purchased, I'll agree. They can't cook worth a shit!
:-) Reply
cdoubleu - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkI tried going to qdoba on a couple of iDevices and they work fine so it doesn't seem to a generalized problem. I'd suggest you call or visit Support and have them look at your device. Reply
Andhaka - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkCurious. It works quite well on my old 3Gs crap. :) Reply
kmmatney - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIt seems to work fine on my iPoop 4S....I was able to order online, go to all the main pages, etc... I think you just have an issue with your iFart. Reply
ahamling27 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkHave you ever rebooted your phone? People think you can still power your phone up on day one and never turn it off until you replace it. Smartphones are so much like computers it really helps to reboot daily. I take it a step further and turn the dang thing off for 1 night a week. Reply
mrtanner70 - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkNow Apple has brought its own cores to market will the A7 power an Air? Reply
Impulses - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkThat'd be a huge downgrade from any Intel i-series CPU... Unless this imaginary A7 is no longer ARM based. Reply
doobydoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkImaginary? Reply
MrAwax - Monday, September 17, 2012 - link"Imaginary" as in "just wait for this AWESOME A7 CPU that will fly unicorns and make coffee".
There is no doubt that Apple will sooner or later upgrade their CPU and that they will (surprise) call it the A7.
Now, except for Apple own ARM team, no one have any credibility telling anything about this A7 to be. Reply
bjacobson - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkFinally a phone with some oomph behind it!
-4" screen (check)
-dual core A15-like performance (check)
-1GB RAM (check)
aside from having to pollute my PC with iVirus this is everything I ever wanted from an Apple phone-- enough RAM and CPU for the future, and a 4" screen. Reply
MrAwax - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkbtw, how could Samsung have made a "it doesn't take a genius" ad listing 1GB of RAM while no one has talked about this and this "credible but not confirmed" Geekbench score wasn't out yet ?
That's a pretty efficient firewall you have in place between your component and cellphone divisions, Samsung. Reply
piroroadkill - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkUh, sorry, there have been phones with dual core CPUs and 1GB RAM for a while.
There are even phones with 2GB RAM and a 4.3" display (Xiaomi Mi-Two). Reply
agoyal - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - linkGive the numbers this 1 GHZ processor is performing at about 1750mhz level or about 1.75 times faster than A9. Krait is about 1.3 times as fast as A9. Is apple is able to achive this kind of performance at this power levels, this is nothing short of amazing. Wow!! And this is there 1st custom ARM chip. Reply
kpb321 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIt's different targets. The Krait or A15 processors are designed to run at higher speeds. Krait runs at 1-1.7 ghz so far and I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit 2ghz. The a15 is suppose to hit 1.5 ghz in phones and 2.5 ghz in server/router uses. Going higher mhz almost always means some loss in IPC if everything else remains roughly the same. Apple clearly wants to keep the clock speed lower on the A6 to keep the voltage down which lowers the power draw. Reply
serversurfer - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkHow do you know how high Apple plan to scale the clock in the A6? You seem to be assuming it'll be 1GHz forever. Maybe it'll be 1.5GHz in the iPad Mini, and 2.2GHz in the iPad 4. /shrug Reply
Zink - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkWow yeah with the big battery crammed into the new iPad it would be neat to see them go all out on CPU performance next gen and have twice the frequency and twice the memory bandwidth of the iPhone 5. Maybe a companion core set up to keep the high clock sections off most of the time?
The next gen iPads are probably just going to get thinner with 2x performance boost like the iPhone and iPods did though. Reply
MrAwax - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkWe'll maybe because it will burn too hot in the iPad and we'll get another warmgate.
The iPad 4 will be blazingly hot, like 80 freaking degrees (F). Reply
serversurfer - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkWell, I don't think it'll actually be 2.2GHz. My point was, we have no idea how high Apple intend to scale this thing. For that matter, we also don't know how much heat it produces. We do know that Apple said per-Watt performance was one of their primary design goals, which would have the knock-on effect of reducing heat output.
In any case, kpb321 points out that Krait is running at 1-1.7GHz, but then looks at the very first A6, running 1GHz, and assumes that at or near its top speed. That strikes me as a fairly baseless assumption. They bump the clock speed of the A5 by 25% when moving from the iPhone to the iPad. If they do the same with the A6, then you're looking at a score in the 2000 range, and that's with no other memory improvements, etc. (The iPads have a lot more memory bandwidth than the iPhones, mind.) And who knows if Apple's aggressive power saving measures will allow them to clock it even faster than that? At only 1.5GHz you'd be looking at scores of 2400 or so. Reply
kyuu - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIt's not that interesting, really. Krait is clocked at 1.5GHz in recent phones, and at that clock speed it should equal if not beat the custom SoC in the iPhone 5 in terms of raw compute. Given that the rated battery life of, for example, the Nokia Lumia 920 is equal or better than the ratings for the iPhone 5, it seems to do it with a roughly equal power draw (though of course there's much more to battery life than the CPU).
So, basically, it's probably roughly equal to Krait while coming much later, but with a better GPU than the Krait S4 (though I'm not sure how it compares to the Krait S4 Pro). Reply
doobydoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIsn't the point of these benchmarks that it's beating the performance of all the Android phones?
GPU wise yeah it will beat them all by a large margin too. Reply
kyuu - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThe benchmarks only show scaling of the supposed iPhone 5 Geekbench results versus the iPhone 4S. It isn't compared against Android phones at all.
Also, it's highly debatable whether the benchmark results between iOS and Android on Geekbench are even comparable. Anand specifically mentioned that when attempting to do so, things didn't add up, meaning it's likely Geekbench isn't OS agnostic and results, therefore, aren't directly comparable between different platforms. Reply
robinthakur - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIt's never seen as interesting when iOS wins, don't you know anything? The Samsung genius ad makes me laugh as an owner, especially all their pointless bullets they stick on the end like "Smart stay" which I could hardly say works as intended and the absurd claim that S Assist is anywhere like as good as Siri. Wow, you can pan between screens to move an app icon using your gyroscope and zoom in photos, how...useful. It's clearly not at all because you have to come up with workarounds to Apple's patents.
They forgot to add:
-a handful of apps that take advantage of the powerful graphics and quad core. Lots of major apps on iOS are missing. Others are the poor cousins of their iOS equivalents (e.g. Facebook, Shareprice)
-No practical way to put music on the phone other than old fashioned drag and drop which will lock your phone for the duration of the copy. Either that or attempt to piggy back on iTunes using DoubleTwist or iSyncr which are hit and miss and didn't support ICS when I tested. If iTunes is so bad, why not code your own solution Samsung, or is that what Kies is meant to be?
-The way the device begins to pause all the time when its internal memory approaches 3/4 full.
-Fragmentation and delay for the next OS when it was released back in June. Jelly Bean might well arrive just in time for the Galaxy 4's release
-A cheap plastic phone back that feels like it came in a christmas cracker. When the iphone 5 weighs less and is better constructed from quality materials it's time to fire your designers.
-Jealous and miserable owners. Every Android person I asked to try and help get my S3 working as I wished seemed shocked that I didn't prefer it to the iPhone while obsessed with the superiority of their device, sort of like they accuse iPhone owners of being. Anyone who thinks otherwise is labelled an iSheep or a moron, which is beyond deluded. I think this comes from a deep-seated fear that their device will be outdated within a couple of months when the latest and greatest is refreshed by HTC and Samsung, which is probably justified.
I'm not really bothered that you can flash it with a custom rom and use a small selection of widgets on the lock screen. I'm not even bothered that Android does "proper" multi tasking when it works so much worse in practice than Apple's "fake" multi tasking which doesn't muller the battery life. Considering this is Samsung's flagship device (for now) it feels unpolished and cobbled together in some places, like the support software. Most of the benefits of Android can be summed up for most of them by saying "It's not Apple". Reply
Sufo - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkI completely agree with the criticisms concerning device polish. I'm certainly with you on your points about handset quality, too. However, to criticise an Android device for using drag and drop to transfer files seems crazy to me.
This feature is one of the biggest selling points for me. I can drag and drop any type of file (FLAC, Vorbis, anything) without having to launch any shitty 3rd party application. Having done that, I can then listen to my music with *true* gapless playback.
Android has its fair share of criticisms and I think it's as simple as, until you're a legitimate power user (you're going to flash a custom ROM, you're going to be using linux features etc) then an iPhone is more likely better suited to you. Reply
agoyal - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkKrait was an improvement over the A9 but required a process shrink to 28nm. A6 is 1.35x krait despite the same process node (if not higher at 32 nm - Samsung).
There is no reason to believe that apple could not have gone with higher clock. They have always chosen battery life and small form factore over performance. Suspect Ipad will see slightly higher clock. Once the process node shrinks to 20-22nm, this will likely get clocked higher. Reply
SanX - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkiphone will get down the drain starting from April quarter if Apple will give up larger formfactor models to the competition. Should make 4.5" and 5.0" phones and phablets asap, current gear is not usable for any serious work at all. Reply
serversurfer - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkSo you're predicting that iPhone sales will start to drop off 6-9 months after the new models are released?
That's a pretty bold claim there, champ. Reply
reddog007 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI'm a little iffy On that benchmark.
1 what is geekbench? Barely been downloaded on Play Store. A few thousand times.
2 a Samsung nexus at the same clocks is just 200 points away from the SGS3 Krait edition.
3 the krait version of the SGS3 scored a lot less then the tegra 3. We all know, especially in single thread performance that the krait beats a tegra 3. Even nudges it out in multithreading.
4 if the A6 is 1ghz and does own any CPU, apple skipped the A15 generation. Leaped frog it. I find kinda hard to believe as Intel can't even beat ARM still.
5 If it is at 1GHz, and 32nm, dual core, with just a 4in screen, how the heck does it not improve battery life over the smaller older tech 4S? The SGS3 is just 20g heavier with a much larger screen and owns it in terms of advertised battery life. Reply
doobydoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkAdvertised battery life being the key word.
The SG3 is a brick - it's heavier, wider, taller and fatter.
As a result they managed to fit a larger battery in, but Anandtechs own real world tests prove that even the iPhone 4S beats the SG3 in battery life benchmarks (winning in 2 of the 3 tests, and overall), despite having a far smaller capacity battery.
Since Apple claims to have improved battery life, we can be relatively confident that the iPhone 5 battery outperforms the SG3 in the same way.
You have to remember that the iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, and way lighter than most Android phones. Reply
kyuu - Monday, September 17, 2012 - link"You have to remember that the iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, and way lighter than most Android phones. "
Sure... but at what point does thinner and lighter cease to be desirable? I've carried an iPhone 4 since its release and the thought of carrying a device that's thinner and lighter just isn't something I find appealing. I'd much rather have a bigger, better screen and more features. Plus, iPhones are so fragile that you have to slap a case on them if you want it to survive an accidental drop, which adds bulk anyway. Reply
web2dot0 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkSo you are saying that iPhone 5 is "too light".
What's next, the GPU is "too fast"?
I guess that is a hugely undesirable feature. hahaha.
Why don't you wake up to the real world. People like lighter phones. Longer battery life.
"Survive in the case of a drop"? It's called getting a protective case with your iPhone. That's what "AFTERMARKET" assesories are for! You wouldn't want Apple to kill that market too right? ;-D You need a lesson on business buddy. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - link"So you are saying that iPhone 5 is 'too light'."
Yes, that's right, iPhone 5 is too light. You won't believe how many people said S3 is too light as a negative point against iPhone 4S. Now that iPhone 5 is lighter, it will produce the inferior product feeling. Of course, iSheeps always back track and find other arguments. "Oh yes, 3.5" is perfect. " turns to "hell yea, 4.0" is the king." LOL
Let's not forget how "inefficient" Apple utilize their phone. We're only comparing screen sizes here, 3.5" to >4.5" screens of most Android phones. We forget to compare the actually size of the phone. iPhones are large phones with tiny screens by many standard. My gf's iPhone 4S is only fractionally smaller than my 4.5" TMobile SGS2 in terms of physical size. Reply
KPOM - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkAs soon as you use the word 'iSheep," you've lost the argument. Reply
Stas - Sunday, September 23, 2012 - linkYou like a lighter phone...
I found my SGSII too light. It was too hard to operate with one hand, as it didn't stay put - due to light weight it would slide easily. Grippy case helped, but I would prefer extra 15-20 grams.
So you're saying Apple purposely makes a fragile device to feed the 3rd-party companies? You're delusional. Reply
robinthakur - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI quite liked the lightness of the S3 despite its cheap construction, so the fact that the metal IP5 is actually LIGHTER than the S3 is mind boggling to me. Agree that you reach diminishing returns at some point though. I'd like a bigger battery in there, but whenever they do something like that a la iPad3, all the whiners and Android jihadists come out in force. I think the iPhone will still be a bit more fragile than the S3 though, as even though it won't crack if you drop it, it will dent now. I suppose that is better, but the best solution as with any phone is "don't drop it" without a cover on. I've dropped my 4S a few times onto concrete from standing height, and the case has prevented any damage to it. Reply
KitsuneKnight - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI've dropped (more like tossed, since it flew out of my hand after tripping) my 4S a few times on concrete, without a case, and it survived perfectly fine. There's a couple scratches on the metal band on one corner, but you'd never notice without inspecting it closely. Luck probably played a bit of it, but it's certainly not super fragile as people like to imply. Reply
lilmoe - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkspoken like a true fanboy... no use arguing with you. Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkspoken like a true fanboy... no argument was presented by you. Reply
reddog007 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThat is the key word for battery life: Advertised!
SGS3 is not a brick, far from it. How is 20grams heavier than the iPhone 5 a brick? It is one of the lightest, if not the lightest Droid phone with the largest screen before being a phablet.
I guess that the iPhone 4S is one small fat brick then. Screen is 1.8" smaller with a much smaller battery and the thing still weighs more.
Yeah, it is taller and wider, but lets think here. Oh yea, it has a 0.8" larger screen. Wouldn't that be why it is taller and wider?!
Ok, yep the SGS3 is fatter, but also just by 1mm. Im actually surprised that it isn't more because the new LCD tech Apple uses plus the nonremovable battery.
If you wanna get a little more technical in terms of who is more a brick, lets take screen size into account. SGS3 actually weighs less per inch of screen then the iPhone5. SGS3 is more than likely also going to have the larger battery.
Sure it uses a lot of plastic, but don't underestimate plastic.
The only reason why the A6 did so well in Geekbench is because it owned in the memory tests. As far as CPU tests, 33% slower than the Tegra 3. Sure, it is Quad, but Cortex-A9 quad. We all know already in benchmarks that the S4 in Multithreading is still usually faster than Tegra 3. That is what makes me iffy about this Geekbench.
Plus for phones, I'm more interested in single threaded performance, and the A6 should still own a Tegra 3 in single threaded tests easily. Reply
sansh1r0 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - link"You have to remember that the iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, and way lighter than most Android phones."
Both the Huawei Ascend P1 and the Oppo Finder are thinner than the iPhone 5.
Apple lied in their presentation and the media and readers didn't care to get facts straight. Reply
PeteH - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkAccording to that first link, the Huawei Ascend P1 is 7.7mm thick, which is not only thicker than the iPhone 5 (7.6mm), but also significantly thicker than advertised (6.68mm).
I dug around a little, and from the photos I found it of both phones it looks like they have "bulges" either at the top or bottom of the device. I'm betting both companies are defining the overall device thickness as the average thickness of the entire device.
Does anyone happen to know the worst-case thickness of those devices? I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone 5 is actually the thinnest smartphone when measuring worst-case thickness, while these phones are both thinner when measuring average thickness. In other words nobody lied, they just used different definitions of thickness. Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkYou are correct.
The Huawei Ascend P1 is much. much thicker at its thickest point.
There seems to be no consensus or authoritative documentation on the Oppo Finder - in terms of how fat it is at the bulge, some say 7.1 some say 7.8 having navigated around.
What all these phones which people are claiming are thinner have in common, as you state - is thicker points so they shouldn't really claim to be as thin as they are.
Either way - when you have to cite the 'Huawei Ascend P1 or the Oppo Finder' to find a questionably thinner phone - I think you make Apples point :-) Reply
xype - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI like it how short of being ~8 times faster than anyone else in the market for the next 4 years a custom Apple-designed CPU seem to be a dissapointment to the enlightened audience of AnandTech. :)
Good thing it's built into an iPhone 5, too, since that's obviously going to sink Apple as well, being as lame as it is, eh? Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThey mad Reply
tipoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI'm not disappointed, if this is true I'm pretty impressed. Reply
nitram_tpr - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThe only people who care are geeks who can run benchmarks. Normal punters really don't give a rats ass, the majority of people who have pre-ordered or are gonna queue are doing it because they have to have the latest version, because it's the latest, not because it's the quickest.
iPhones (iDevices as a whole) sell in huge amounts regardless of the performance. I think the 5 will sell better than the 4s because it is visibly different, you can put it next to a 4 / 4s and other people will see and say 'ooooh thats the new iPhone'.
the 4s is a pretty smooth running phone, it makes me laugh, every single increment of the iPhone has been smooth running comapred to the last. When being reviewed the new one makes the last one seem like a piece of crap. Reply
doobydoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI think you make a good point.
But there's a reason why iPhone users don't generally concern themselves with performance - for them, performance has never been an issue - as you state.
Contrast to Android phones, the vast majority of which are laggy and glitchy when being used - particularly those which run older versions of Android (which is the majority). iOS users can almost forget hardware specifications as an issue because everything just works smoothly on their phone and apps are designed for their hardware. Android users aren't so lucky - which is why they need to focus so much on benchmarks.
A large part of why Apple managed this is the optimisation of iOS for their specific hardware, and lack of fragmentation. For example, an app developer for Android can't optimise the app for every Android phone to make sure it doesn't lag - but iOS developers can.
The second reason is that the GPU's in iPhones of late dominate the benchmarks, and I believe a faster GPU is more perceptible for the end users, as it affects the graphical rendering (the part which can appear stuttery). An end user doesn't feel if an app takes 0.1 seconds longer to load. But they sure as hell feel it if graphics start to stutter. Reply
pjc78 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkWhat's sad is that the realization that good GPUs give a good user experience does not extend to the iMac or Mac Pro, and even the MacBook Pro to a lesser extent. Seriously, Radeon 5870 is the best Mac Pro GPU? Reply
web2dot0 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkHow the hell are you gonna put a 300W GPU into a iMac buddy or in a MacBook Pro? What you some sort of thermo genius?
The target market for iMac and MacBook are people trying to get 100fps in Crysis.
What's sad is you still don't get it. Reply
lkm32 - Sunday, September 23, 2012 - linkEngineers kind of need some sort of GPU processing for simulations.
Also, they don't seem to be doing that well when it comes to heat anyhow, with some of my colleagues with Macbook Pros getting the things damn hot.
I personally have a T430s and a W520 ... most reliable things I have ever bought (Other than my sonofagun Moto Defy running CM10 ... that thing has been to the Arctic, mountain climbing, deep sea fishing and back and still runs smoothly thanks to Jelly Bean).
On that note, I need a new rugged phone with a bit of oomph. Not the iPhone5 as somebody got it and showed it to me and it is nowhere as rugged as I want ... sure metal is great to touch, but it feels a bit too fragile (I guess it's awesome for most people, but I need a heavy duty phone and that it is not).
Any suggestions (since you get it and all)? Reply
robinthakur - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkTrue that, having put Jelly Bean onto the Nexus 7, it still isn't as smooth as even the first iPhone, which is completely mental. Scrolling in Chrome is hardly "buttery smooth" as Google would have you believe, its more like vaseline mixed with sand. The G3 behaves differently depending on how much free internl storage it has available also. 2/3 full, and it starts to lag and stutter in a way i've never experienced on iOS. Even loading times should be positively impacted by the faster Nand in the IP5 which is great. Due to the fragmentation, there are hardly any apps which can be used to demo the extra speed on Androids other than benchmarks. The main game I used to show off the power of my old quad core Exynos Galaxy 3? Angry Birds Space. It ran almost as smoothly as it did on iOS. I'm very glad Apple have pushed the capabilities of the GPU, as it should be very noticeable to end users. Reply
Touche - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkPlease, give us more iPhone 5 articles. Surely I should scroll much longer to find any other topic. At least five articles daily, covering every separate detail as you miraculously discover it. Reply
krumme - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkYeaa like:
Ip5 have a15.
No its not
Its better - its a a7v custom custom custom custom custom !!!
I look forward to the geekbench scores
Ohh here they are
Look its 2.3 times as fast Reply
Stas - Sunday, September 23, 2012 - linkThis. Or just incorporate aPPLE logo into the header of the main page, so I can just skip to the forums. Reply
darrenliew96 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkYou should use my iPhone 4s benchmark:
So its 2 times faster, the iPhone 5. Reply
WuJen - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkhttp://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/... Reply
Aenean144 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkYour link shows a comparison between an iPhone 4S (835) and Galaxy Nexus (1513) overclocked to 1.65 GHz. You're not proving anything other than Apple's done an awesome job designing a CPU that can generate a 1600 score at 1 GHz.
A Galaxy Nexus would score about 1100 at its stock 1.2 GHz frequency.
Geekbench looks pretty variable depending on what else is running on the system. I presume one can go in and stop all extraneous processes running (turn off phone, WiFi, Bluetooth, all notification, timer, push/fetch processes, anything auto) and can probably get something 10% better than a run of Geekbench on a vanilla system. Reply
WuJen - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI wouldn't read too much into the scores on Geekbench, my year old Samsung Galaxy Nexus gets a 1513 on geekbench2. What I'm more interested in is how it will hold up under LTE data transfers. My poor little sammy nexus will burn out downloading on LTE in short order, the only problem I really have with the phone. Reply
Achtung_BG - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkApple A5 SoC 2 core cortex A9.......... =>2*2.5*800=4000 DMIPS
A6=4000dmips*2=>8000DMIPS=>4000DMIPS per core(1GHz)=> 4 DMIPS/MHz
Perhaps Apple core is more powerful than the cortex A15 per MHz? Reply
RogerShepherd - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThe integer performance doesn't look like 2x the A9 in the iPhone 4S. It's clear that a lot of the "2x" performance is coming from memory which doesn't get reflected in dmips.
I still think this could be an A15.... It will be interesting to see Cortex A15 v. Apple A6 benchmarks. Reply
tipoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThe highest Android score I can find is the N7s Tegra 3 at 1550 points. So it's pretty impressive that this beats it with only two cores at 1GHz. Even Krait comes in behind the Tegra 3 just because of core count, it's obviously faster per-core but with twice the cores T3 beats it in raw compute, but the A6 is supposedly ahead of both. Most impressive, if true.
Then again Krait is pretty old now and there is also a quad core Krait coming out. Reply
UsernameAlreadyExists - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI've probably missed something, what is this Microsoft reference about?
"Many smartphone workloads (under Android, iOS and Windows Phone despite what Microsoft may tell you) are still very CPU bound. " Reply
tipoo - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkProbably them using single cores in WP7.5, but in WP8 they will be using Snapdragon S4 so they're among the fastest now. Reply
mikelsyn - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkprobably microsoft's claim that windows phones aren't really CPU bound, thus justifying them using single core in the era of dual core and practically transitting into the quad core era. Reply
edsib1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkGeekbench shows a SG2 as scoring 1133, and a GS3 as 1700 - x1.5 increase
CFBench shows SG2 as getting 11200, and SG3 as 24000 - x2.2 increase
Antutu shows SG2 as getting 6000, and SG3 getting 12000 - x2 increase
Suggests to me that Geekbench has some issues. Reply
reddog007 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkPlus if you look into detail in geekbench, the A6 doesn't do well in CPU tests vs Tegra 3. 33% slower in float and integer. We already know that Krait owns Tegra 3 in single threaded, and usually does better or just as good in multithreading from other better known and uses benchmarks.
The A6 scores so high because it just basically owns in the memory tests. 2x and 50% faster than what Tegra 3 scored.
The A6 should also do a lot better than Tegra 3 in at least single threaded apps.
A6 scored 100 points less than the high SGS3, but got owned in CPU tests but returned the favor in the memory tests.
I think the A6 will be faster clock for clock than the Krait, as I expect any other Cortex A15 to do, but overall CPU performance I think that it will still be slower because of its clock speed. Reply
edsib1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIf I look my HOX for the memory scores,
geekbench gives my read sequential as 290.8MB/s, yet the write sequential is 1.55GB/s
Theres something funny going on there - the read should faster than the write speed. Reply
zero71 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkI think a lot of people are in danger of splitting hairs here, no?
The current king of Android Handsets is clearly the S3, ios it's iPhone 5, and Windows it looks like the new Nokia. These are all phones with really similar specifications - for example the difference in Geekbench results between the S3 and iPhone 5 range from nothing to 20%. If you are upgrading from a two year old phone then there's a far greater differential between your old phone and new than on any competing phone you might buy.
What it comes down to for most, is what OS they prefer. I like iOS. I don't like Android. The girl that sits to my left prefers Android and loves her unpocketable Galaxy Note, and the guy on my right, he wants the new Nokia because OS be damned, he's a Nokia fan.
You choose your OS and your phone choice will naturally follow suit,
Is the S3 faster than the iPhone? Probably. Is it fast enough to notice, in real world use, on an OS not necessarily optimised for it? Probably not. Does it really matter?
I want a phone that will integrate with my Mac and iPad more so than my company Linux loaded laptop. I want a phone with iOS because I like it and am heavily invested in apps for it. I need a phone that integrates into my corporate email service and security requirements. That last one alone rules out the S3 and favours the iPhone. Doesn't mean I think all other phones are shit. Reply
Stas - Sunday, September 23, 2012 - linkI agree. There is no reason to argue about performance when the OS is what really sets the devices apart. I mean, seriously, would any tweaking/customizing Android user consider an iphone, if it was 20 times faster than SG3? Would any iphone user switch to Android because the latter rendered more pixels per second than former (something they likely don't even understand)? The answer to both is - of course not.
I would never use iOS for countless reasons, no matter what phone it was on. Neither would I use MacOS no matter what laptop it was on. And that's what dictates my choices.
Now, if I actually liked macbook or iphone, I wouldn't be opposed to using it with Ubuntu, Win7, or Android OS. But that's a different story. Reply
edsib1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkLets face it Geekbench is a rubbish benchmark tool, and is not suitable for cross platform comparisons.
My HTC one X scores 1500, an SG2 scores 1100 - even though my One X is clocked at 1.7Ghz, and has 4 cores.
On other benchmarks my hox is around 2.5 times faster than an SG2 - 13,300 on Antutu, 27,600 on CFbench
The Geekbench benchmark is almost certainly badly written, and inaccurate. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkGeekbench uses a mixture of single and multithreaded integer/fp benchmarks as well as single threaded memory benchmarks. So you would never get 2x scaling with twice the number of cores - the memory scores stay the same and only half of the int/fp benchmarks are ~2x faster.
So I don't see any reason why Geekbench would be bad for cross platform comparisons - as long as you understand what the score means. So the Galaxy S3 score of ~1900 and the iPhone 5 of ~1600 doesn't accurately show how much faster the S3 is due to being quadcore. Reply
vision33r - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkThere are so much ignorance here because the Apple hatred has clouded their visions.
A lot of people can't understand efficiency > raw power. Reply
edsib1 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkLooks like someone has posted a real Iphone5 Benchmark score - 979
Integer Processor integer performance 924
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 1055
Memory Memory performance 1143
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 583
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1041269 Reply
Aenean144 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkHere's a third benchmark:
Geekbench score: 1645
Processor integer performance 126
Processor floating point performance 2107
Memory performance 1854
Memory bandwidth performance 941 Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkThe 1645 and 1601 suddenly look credible - and the 979 looks like the work of some angry rival, lol.
These tests can easily be faked and you can't compare cross-platform anyway. Reply
RazelDazel2 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkthanks, looks quiet different Reply
mytexel - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkHumm... Galaxy S III running 4.1.1 gets 2062 vs 1601 for iPhone 5.
If you omit the stream copy portion of the benchmark, which looks suspect; the iPhone 5 processor seems less impressive.
Gary Jones
http://www.anandtech.com/show/439 Reply
RazelDazel2 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkthanks, this answers my question.
was this run more then once? Reply
RazelDazel2 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linki doubt it is but some of the specs look a bit like the OMAP 5 or like an updated OMAP 4 Reply
RazelDazel2 - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linki am seeing no results in the Geekbench browser for the IPhone 5. The highest result i found was for the IPad, presumably the 3rd gen with a score of 800 which is pretty meager. Even the supposed 1600 for the IPhone 5 is beaten by the SGIII .. clearly Reply
PeteH - Monday, September 17, 2012 - linkIt's under iPhone5,2. Reply
serversurfer - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkPeople should keep in mind that the Android scores, particularly the GS3 scores, have gone up significantly since the first iPhone 5 score was posted. The GS3 did have an average score of 1560 at the time, but it's since climbed to a whopping 1728. Basically, butt-hurt Android fans have ruined the results for the top Android devices.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1570257... Reply
doobydoo - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkThe fact that people can influence these numbers and that they can change so drastically shows how little weight we should put on them.
As Anand states:
'Although Geekbench is cross platform, I wouldn't recommend using this data to do anything other than compare iOS devices. I've looked at using Geekbench to compare iOS to Android in the past and I've sometimes seen odd results.' Reply
big_adventure - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkI've got a GS3 i9300 and here are the results running CM10's latest experimental:
Android 4.1.1
Exnyos 4412 1.40ghz
Memory: 779MB
Score: 1812
Integer: 1565
Mem: 1136
Stream: 636
single-threaded 655
28.8 MB/sec
multi-threaded 2127
87.2 MB/sec
Text Compress
single-threaded 616
1.97 MB/sec
Text Compress
multi-threaded 1858
6.10 MB/sec
Text Decompress
single-threaded 613
2.52 MB/sec
Text Decompress
multi-threaded 1191
4.75 MB/sec
Image Compress
single-threaded 771
6.37 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress
multi-threaded 2525
21.2 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress
single-threaded 630
10.6 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress
multi-threaded 2265
37.0 Mpixels/sec
single-threaded 1195
460.4 Knodes/sec
multi-threaded 4339
1.67 Mnodes
single-threaded 584
388.6 Mflops
multi-threaded 2214
1.45 Gflops
Dot Product
single-threaded 1120
541.2 Mflops
Dot Product
multi-threaded 4455
2.03 Gflops
LU Decomposition
single-threaded 242
215.4 Mflops
LU Decomposition
multi-threaded 490
429.7 Mflops
Primality Test
single-threaded 1393
208.0 Mflops
Primality Test
multi-threaded 3018
560.3 Mflops
Sharpen Image
single-threaded 1904
4.44 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image
multi-threaded 7016
16.2 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image
single-threaded 2339
1.85 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image
multi-threaded 8616
6.77 Mpixels/sec
Read Sequential
single-threaded 474
594.7 MB/sec
Write Sequential
single-threaded 2073
1.42 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded 773
2.89 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write
single-threaded 843
1.75 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy
single-threaded 1521
1.57 GB/sec
Stream Copy
single-threaded 558
781.6 MB/sec
Stream Scale
single-threaded 708
941.2 MB/sec
Stream Add
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981.4 MB/sec
Stream Triad
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serversurfer - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkEngadget has confirmed the score, saying they averaged 1628. No link to the breakdown, unfortunately, but the ~1600 scores on primatelabs.com are likely legit.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/apple-iphone-5-... Reply
serversurfer - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkOh, Engadget also clocked a 924 on Sunspider. Reply
Aenean144 - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - linkSub 1000 score on Sunspider? Wow! Was expecting that actually. So not that surprising.
What I would like to know is how does Samsung get 1400 on an Exynos 4412 at 1.4 GHz. They must have added some special sauce to the Android JavaScript JIT compiler. Reply
Qciphone 5 - Monday, September 24, 2012 - linkI actually got higher scores on almost every one of your results.
Not too much higher but still higher.
iphone 5, 1 (at&t)
I posted my results Saturday on both Geekbench and GLBenchmark (offscreen)
Geekbench overall 1646 score. It consistently shows 1.04GHz
Its my wife's phone LOL!! Reply
Qciphone 5 - Monday, September 24, 2012 - linkhttp://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1071508 Reply


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Carrie Prejean is living in sin
RadarOnline reports "traditional marriage" crusader and former Miss California Carrie Prejean is living with in sin with her fiance Kyle Boller of the St. Louis Rams where they're no doubt eating shellfish. BURN THEM!:
Carrie and Kyle got engaged in early February after a whirlwind romance and a sexy trip to Hawaii.
A source close to the couple confirmed to RadarOnline.com that Carrie has indeed moved in. "She's living there. He's remodeling the house and she's helping him."
Of course learning an outspoken Christian with fake tits is a hypocrite isn't exactly news, but check out the trend Carrie Prejean has started. Here's Laura Ashley, Miss Beverly Hills 2010 telling FOX News gay people should be stoned:
"If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them. The Bible is pretty black and white."
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"Ahead of this system is an area of snow which will affect Southern Manitoba today. The main band of snow will push into the region this morning. A general 5-10 cm is expected, however the Swan River area will be the most likely to see 10 cm total by this evening," the weather warning noted.
It's not just the snow, though.
The big problem is wind blowing that snow around so much that you may not be able see very far in front of you, especially on highways. The Perimeter Highway and open areas are going to be the worst.
Environment Canada issues warnings like this when visibility is cut to one kilometre or less and wind speeds are 30 kilometres an hour or more for three or more hours.
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2013 Weekly Football Press Conference: Gardner-Webb
Liberty Head Football Coach Turner Gill held his weekly press conference on Tuesday afternoon in the Donor Room of the Williams Football Operations Center.
During his weekly meeting with the local Lynchburg media, Gill discussed the Flames' double overtime setback to No. 6/4 Coastal Carolina and looked ahead to Liberty's road matchup at Gardner-Webb.
Both Liberty and Gardner-Webb are coming off loses to Coastal Carolina and stand 0-1 in Big South play (Gardner-Webb lost at Coastal Carolina 42-7 on Oct. 12 and was off last weekend).
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People can tell you how great a place is, but the best way to know whether it's right for you is to see it -- and experience it -- for yourself. Over 25 families from all across the state of Indiana experienced Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for themselves at Explore Your Future Day on July 26, 2012.
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
British Library PACCAR Gallery, London.
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic
20 October 2017 - 28 February 2018
British Library PACCAR Gallery
Journey to where magic and myth began
Have you ever wanted to delve into Divination, ponder the peculiarities of Potions and discover enchanting creatures? Now you can.
We unveil rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from the British Library's collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories. Marvel at original drafts and drawings by J.K. Rowling and illustrator Jim Kay, both on display for the first time.
See the gargantuan 16th-century Ripley Scroll that explains how to create a Philosopher's Stone. Gaze at Sirius in the night sky as imagined by medieval astronomers. Encounter hand-coloured pictures of dragons, unicorns and a phoenix rising from the flames.
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with this extraordinary new addition to J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World.
In partnership with Bloomsbury
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