Yeah but the screen is only 20% more efficient when its on. When they are off the power draw of both of them is the same.
Not really.
Samsung is a huge conglomerate. Sure, it's profits went downhill in 2014 but it still made more profit than Toyota and all Japanese electronics companies combined. Don't believe me?
For fiscal 2014 (Samsung's worst year since 2011), Samsung still made $21.45 billion USD in net profits. That's more than these companies combined: Toyota ($17.76 billion USD), Sony (-$1.4 billion USD), Panasonic ($1.1 billion USD), Sharp (-$1.65 billion USD) Canon ($1.5 billion USD), Hitachi ($1 billion USD) and Toshiba (-$0.251 billion USD) combined ($18.059 billion USD in profits combined for the biggest Japanese automaker, Toyota + all the Japanese electronics "giants").
I think it's Apple which is most in danger of going downhill if smartphones and tablets ever become less popular. Of course, we don't see this happening in the foreseeable future. But Apple is much less diversified than Samsung.
And if Samsung ever halts supply of its technologically advanced parts to Apple, then Apple's in big trouble as everyone else like TSMC and Qualcomm are way way behind in FinFET technology. And Micron, Toshiba, etc are way behind in DRAM technology.
What I meant is that if my GS4 has 4 day standby time and presumably the GS5 has better than that, then the standby time is not really relevant compared to screen-on time.
Nowadays, I consider the minimum standard for screen-on web browsing time to be 8 hours (I get 4 with my GS4 but I hear the Note 4 gets 12 hours!!!!).
No kidding. I had the s4 active and liked it. With that battery boost the s6 active probably got a lot more appealing to people.Oh, that's a huge and nice battery for the Active.
What? Not really what? Also, I wonder if they took a write-down for all those unsold S5s...
Samsung: Galaxy S6 Is Quite Different To S5, Could Ship 50 Million In 2015
Wow, the Note 3 screen still looks pretty good to me, so the Note 4 and S6 must be really nice. Can't wait until OLED takes over for LCD.
And heads-up: Samsung is still manufacturing A8 chips. It didn't have 14nm ready in summer 2014, when iPhone 6 production started. Don't be surprised if there's an iPhone 6s this fall which uses 14nm A9 chips.
They sold all the S5s by now.
I asked multiple carriers about having too much S5 stock and they said they eventually sold a whole chunk of them and slowed down on ordering more S5s around mid-December of 2014.
http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks...ifferent-to-s5-could-ship-50-million-in-2015/
That could be more than the iPhone 6 / 6 Plus shipments in 1 year.
Considering the fact that probably not even 50% of the 70 million iPhones that Apple sold in Q4 2014 were iPhone 6 / 6 Plus models.
The GPe program seems to be dead.Why can't Samsung sell a "pure" version of the S6 with stock Android and sell it on the GooglePlay Store? (With the ability to receive OS updates like Nexus phones.)
What's stopping them? Why not?
You "asked multiple carriers"? Who are you, a Samsung manager?
Barrons has been whoring Samsung securities for over a year now, saying they're the next big thing. Their analyses was dead wrong on both counts so this advert can be dismissed.
I saw my parents last weekend and set up a WiFi on their S4s for a new router. I frankly thought the S4 still looked very good. I imagined their phone might be suffering worsened lags from updates and usage, and thought their screens could show visible burn-ins. I was wrong.
The phones felt as smooth as they did 2 years ago, and I did not see a sign of burn-ins on either. Of course the perceived smoothness should be considered in the context of Touchwiz running on S4, which means janks all around, but from what I can tell they at least did not get worse. This is a stark contrast to my Nexus 4 which got progressively slower over time (lags), despite having much fewer janks.
I know they want new phones (my dad wants a phablet!) but after seeing their perfectly functional S4s.. hmm.. I will have to think about options when the S6 comes out.
The GPe program seems to be dead.
The did have a S4 GPe, but that was it.
Do I have to be a Samsung manager to ask multiple carriers about sales of phones?
I guess you can dismiss anything you don't like to hear, right?
When can we expect the first reviews?
I don't know of anyone that has the time and interest to ask "multiple carriers" about how much S5s they have in stock unless they work for the firm that makes them or are heavily invested.
As for your 2nd sentence, in January 2014 Barrons said Samsung was going to have a record year in 2014. They recommended the stock. 9 or 10 months later they stuck to their guns. 2014 was a disaster for Samsung, relatively speaking...
I have s4 and I liked it very much, I mean I loved it and honestly, I'm tempted to upgrade with the beautiful,awesome display of S6 and its features. I reckoned it looked good with an IQ Shield screen protector.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s6-review-1227.php
It seems like the modem is indeed a lot more inefficient compared to qualcomm since the 3g talktime is only 17hrs compared to 27 of s5
The first test is the talk time test, which measures how long it takes to deplete the battery by making voice calls. Bearing in mind that most screens automatically turn off during a call, we've made sure our set up accounts for this. We close all applications which may further strain the battery, too.
^From their testing methodology
That takes out the screen for the most part and while it does have a more powerful processor it would be idle most of the time anyway on the 3g talk time test. As for the battery its only a 10% deficit a far cry from the almost 40% deficit from the S5 3g talk time. Also the web browsing and video playback times, which do use screen as well as to some extent the processor, didn't suffer as much as the 3g talk time.