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Zenfone 5z to S10e – Is it an upgrade?

Apr 082019

Short answer – obviously perspective ridden.

The other day, out of the blue, I decided to get an S10e for myself. I have been quite keen about it ever since its launch but wanted to hold onto the purchase until the yellow one arrives in my country.

One thing led to another and I ended up buying this. Now, the other reason for my decision on buying it after it arrives here is my ex-daily driver. The Asus zenfone 5z, which I bought last July. What had me hooked was its memory management and the performance of its 6GB and SD845. Only discontent, the lack of an IP rating.

Anyway, the kinda huge 6.3 inch screen and the bright LCD panel are praiseworthy. I am not in need of a 2K screen. And my benchmark hereon is PubG mobile. Yeah, most of my ideas here revolve around PubG.

Waiting a few weeks for the season 8 update, I was given the gift of extreme frame-rate. Honestly, if ultra the graphics mode is enabled I will be sold.

The IP rating has come in handy many a time, rain and underwater photography. The Exynos 9820 isn’t as good as the SD855 but I do see the difference in performance. The excellent black AMOLED options, the night mode and the bounty of one UI features feels very nice.

Do we need that much power on our phones?

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Sep 282017

I use a snapdragon 820 with 4 GB RAM and 32 GB internal, with 128 GB for my media needs. A 2K screen, with a pretty quick fingerprint sensor and a 12MP/5MP combo camera.

This device is used for web browsing, casual gaming, some blogging, youtube, music. Most people I know use their phones for less if not the same. Everything is smooth but I always wonder, what amount of processor juice would I need to get these tasks done. I am sure that a SD820 is capable of doing much more complex and demanding tasks than these. A SD430 series too is able to do these things.

One area where I felt this power is needed is the operating system itself. Yes, I use split screen on my recently “Nougat’d” phone and running youtube and Whatsapp in parallel takes up some processor power. What if I didnt have the split screen functionality? What if I had to IM when I am IMing and YouTube when I am YouTubeing?

Able to content yourself?

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Jun 022015

Few years ago, we had a revolution called the S^3 from Nokia which brought a good front end to the then called smartphones. A 600MHz CPU with a well to do memory of 256 MB to 512 MB. Other features such as the connectivity, camera aside, these hardware specs defined the pinnacle in contemporary hardware (I own one of the devices).
This was a single core processor, a “single” core processor. Stressing on the “single” part here, as the stress wouldn’t have been valid at that time. A WOW for something called a smartphone here.
Then the speed of the processors increased to 800 MHz and 1GHz processors with devices from other (now) smartphone giants like Samsung(galaxy and wave series), Sony(xperia series), HTC(one series) and the like. A WOW for the processor as much as the screen size, memory size and GPU.
In 2011, Samsung launched the galaxy S2, which was a revolution in smartphones for its high end specs and the software. The wow here was increased processing capability (dual core), increased memory and screen size. Software changed too, but that was not necessarily the reason the phone performed so good in the market. Other manufacturers launched their own devices with similar, better/worse specs, but I used this device solely for the class of devices it was a part of.
The trend continued in 2012, with bigger screens, faster processors(enter quad core) and increased memory. Also entered, the tab rave. Crudely, a phone with a bigger screen and no phone capabilities(barring few devices which could be used for their phone features).
There hasn’t been much revolutionary ever since. The only changes seen ever since were the technical definitions of terms like flagships, mid range and feature phones. It has only been a bigger screen resolution, a bigger RAM, GPU, storage, camera. Nothing new from when smart phones became a household term.