Only one manufacturer implemented OIS and now it's a MUST? It's a nice to have, and soon it will become a standard, but look at overall camera performance first. The iPhone still has a great camera and it doesn't have OIS.
Only one manufacturer implemented OIS and now it's a MUST? It's a nice to have, and soon it will become a standard, but look at overall camera performance first. The iPhone still has a great camera and it doesn't have OIS.OIS should be standard on a flagship phone these days.
Only one manufacturer implemented OIS and now it's a MUST? It's a nice to have, and soon it will become a standard, but look at overall camera performance first. The iPhone still has a great camera and it doesn't have OIS.
Thats just it thought, you're tallying up achievements from years ago, and comparing it to what Samsung is doing right now, which is what always happens in these comparisons. (Because it's basically all that can be done). Apple gets endless *ahem laurel-resting* credit for things like Siri (never mind I was using Google voice commands a solid year before that) but we're all supposed to not count that Samsung has bigger displays, higher resolutions, Wacom pen integration, power user features like removable battery/expandable storage, etc.Don't get hung up on the numbers Apple's iterations haven't always been as overtly dramatic, but they have been big strides forward (even the 4S rolled out major improvements to the CPU and camera, and introduced Siri). The company was the first with an ultra-sharp display, built-in natural language voice search, a 64-bit mobile processor (though ARMv8 is the meaningful gain right now) and a fingerprint sensor you'd actually want to use... I'd say those are big achievements.
This has all been hashed over a million times- Apple's done plenty of deliberate copying of its own, it's just that once again, since the expectation bar/update frequency from Apple is set so blazingly low, those too get stacked high in the "major innovation!" column rather than greeted with "meh."I do want more from Apple, but you've got a somewhat selective memory of who's innovating what. Remember, the Galaxy S and (to a lesser extent) S II were deliberate copies of Apple's overall design language and interface.
Wait, wait, let me guess. The iPhones never-wonky, perfectly working "AMAZING! REVOLUTIONARY!" fingerprint sensor gets gold stars and top place in the major innovations' column, whereas we've already declared Samsung's a failure. Sounds about par for the course.(see the GS4's eye scrolling or the GS5's already wonky fingerprint sensor).
I think you simply missed the point- you're RIGHT about constant overhauls being unrealistic. Where you're missing it, is the reason its taken differently when its Samsung. Fans of Samsung don't expect to wait several years for a Galaxy 4S, they've come to expect an actual upgrade worthy of a full model number bump. (And STILL not wait years for it). IN Appleland, ho-hum S updates to the same model number are expected... no wait.. they're MAJOR INNOVATIONS, I forgot.At any rate, the point is that it's difficult and unrealistic for any company to completely overhaul its flagship device every year. To pretend that Samsung is somehow immune from that reality is just as naive as a die-hard Apple fan claiming that the iPhone doesn't need a screen bigger than 4 inches. The GS5 looks like it should still be a nice phone in many respects, but we're going to have to accept that it's not a game changer for anyone but fitness junkies.
Eh? The S4 was actually just as loud as, if not louder than (device variation) the One.
Anyway, they should call the S5 the S4S... I see no significant advances anywhere over the Note 3 half-generation, except Exynos Infinity which won't be in the US versions anyway.
Ugh... I think this is the point where Samsung loses a noticeable group of people. The S series has gotten way too physically big, and with this release there's little reason for it. Waterproofing is what people blame but I don't know... My s4 active isn't much bigger than the s4.
On the plus side I don't have much of a desire to get one.
Ugh... I think this is the point where Samsung loses a noticeable group of people. The S series has gotten way too physically big, and with this release there's little reason for it. Waterproofing is what people blame but I don't know... My s4 active isn't much bigger than the s4.
On the plus side I don't have much of a desire to get one.
Ahh, good point. So it's the S4AS, not just the S4S.Actually it seems extremely close to the S4 Active - slightly taller and wider, but thinner.
The Galaxy S5 feels like karmic payback against everyone who insisted that Apple was done with major innovations, and held up Samsung as a shining example of how to improve phones.
The boring reality: even the best companies can't reinvent their product every year. Feature development can take a long time, and you may need some elements in place for others to work. My guess is that Samsung just doesn't have any major breakthroughs (assuming there are some in the pipeline) that are in a state it's comfortable with releasing.
You don't have to like that a company is releasing an iterative upgrade, but be careful about accusing the firm of resting on its laurels... that statement may come back to haunt you later on.
Problem seems to be getting the fancier components at low enough costs to sell subsidized versions of the device on US carriers and still make huge margins, so they launch a S5 made out of cheap materials as a misdirection for those that will only ever buy $200 subsidy phones thereby saving the premium S5 for markets that pay top dollar out of pocket for flagships.
Told you folks. Samsung lowballed this model's specs to build a higher-end "Project F" S5. Problem seems to be getting the fancier components in the super high volumes that the S5 sells.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Meta...as-part-of-a-luxury-F-line-by-Samsung_id53225
Told you folks. Samsung lowballed this model's specs to build a higher-end "Project F" S5. Problem seems to be getting the fancier components in the super high volumes that the S5 sells.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Meta...as-part-of-a-luxury-F-line-by-Samsung_id53225
Hardware and design wise the Moto X successor would be too far in development for Lenovo to change it. The phone is coming out in roughly 6 months, about 4 months after the samsung s5 comes out. Remember Lenovo still hasn't officially even bought Motorola yet, it still in the process of doing so.With Lenovo running Moto I don't think the X successor will be the Android darling the original one was. Now that could change if the X2 continues to beat Nexuses for getting updates, but if the update cycle slows so will the enthusiasm.
I've heard about the luxury 'F' line, but all the sources I read claimed that the price would be somewhere north of $1000.
It's basically a phone to cater to the people that bought 'gold' iPhone 5s phones on eBay for $1,800 during the launch craze. That market is relatively small but it does exist, and I suppose that's what the 'F' line is for.
But what would please you guys?