What? You don't have any sort of formation on the area. You have no idea of what you are talking about.
The G3 has a QuadHD display. The unanimous decision? Both iPhones screens are just better. Do you understand how rational people measure screen quality? Pixels per inch is just one of many metrics, and it is increasingly irrelevant because the differences are just irrelevant. Again, you mentioned Displaymate's review, and that just goes on to show what kind of person I'm dealing with: Did you read that part in my post where I mentioned Displaymate? They haven't reviewed these new iPhones yet.
So there goes your flawgic: "The note 4 has the best screen". No. Everybody that reviewed an iPhone said that current devices have the absolutely best screens and while almost no one reviewed the new note 4 (so a direct comparison is still useless), all of them reviewed the G3. This is evidence one that your opinion doesn't count for everything, and you do well to represent the typical note user.
The note 4 doesn't run cycles around any single flagship from any single OEM, for obvious reasons. For starters, the best version will ship with a Snapdragon 805. If you are lucky, that's the version that you will have. It's a standard component, and every OEM will implement it when they feel like doing so. The difference is, just like a galaxy s5 is slower than the 100$ moto E (
Here, Have fun), the new standard components won't do the note 4 any favors (
More fun for you). Why? Everybody can use those components, every single OEM has lighter and more optimized skins, the S805 isn't a match for any iPhone because:
a) iOS vs Android, native performance Vs dalvik or even ART.
b) All of the more demanding software is on iOS, so even if there was a performance deficit it is irrelevant since only iOS devices actually have the "heavy" software to run;
c) Support. iOS devices are supported much longer, so having faster software for support-related reasons is a mute point.
d) Dev mentality: iOS first. Android an afterthought. (
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Iphones are boring? Nothing more than rows of icons? What a sick observation. The iPhones is a platform. More than any Android device could ever be. It's the pinnacle of electronics. Of software. You can do endless things with an iPhone. You can't even use Android for any audio-related tasks, due to latency.
There is no excuse for 1GB of ram, but the fact is that the iPhone runs cycles around the competition, on every single task. Games, browsing, audio, support, business, ecosystem. And guess what, consumers are voting with their wallets. Interest on the Note 4 nose-dived the moment the world met these new iPhones.
So yeah, it's a nice device. Enjoy it. It will become way more exclusive. But that doesn't change that you are wrong on every single sentence of that post.
How is the camera better, on paper? Where is the data about the images processing software? That's the difference. Almost everybody uses Sony hardware for the camera (besides some nice touches like sapphire). The iPhone blows them all out of the water by a big margin. It's the software. The note has no chance. It never had.
And this is where your lack of knowledge shows up. Yes, the Note has more RAM, but how do you measure memory performance? Every single time, the iPhone is number 1. it just has better hardware and software to take advantage of that power. The note uses off the shelve components that everybody can use, if they feel like it. Mini SD card, with current memory options, only caters to the same people that like removable batteries: A insignificant minority. Android police has a nice article on it, feel free to check if you want to learn something:
I'm glad Apple's doing this, if only because it'll light a fire under the collective asses of Samsung and other Android OEMs to offer more storage options to customers that don't involve the joke that is the microSD card. I would bet strongly on this model shifting over to the next iPad this fall as well. When it comes to pricing for phones and tablets, Apple is the one case where I believe in trickle-down economics: this is going to change the strategies of competing companies, probably benefiting consumers at large. Ever try even finding a 64GB Android phone in the US? It's essentially impossible - carriers do not offer them, because everyone buys the base model. Maybe this will at least get Samsung to up their standard storage to 32GB, because these days 16GB is not cutting it. For once, Apple is doing something right by customers here: letting us know that, no, NAND really isn't that expensive./
Again, you have no idea of what you are talking about. And obviously, iOS is the star. Better ecosystem, better support, better use of hardware features. It's a phenomenal ecosystem that only gets stronger, with more and more costumers of the high end market and a bigger % of interest by developers and accessory makers. Android is about scraps.
Android won't die, obviously. But it will be a very very small minority of the high end market. The rest will still be all-android.
Yeah yeah, enjoy that soon to be niche product.
Kitkat adds nothing. Android versions since 4.1 added nothing to regular users. Android stopped evolving, its all about changing launchers and wallpapers now, for users, and try to scale Android down for wearables.
iOS devices always run the latest APIs, and that makes an world of difference of what apps run and how they run. If you are a dev, you know it. Of course an iPhone 4s can't run every feature an iPhone 6 can, but it has the latest APIs and will be able to enjoy a much better app experience than 99,9 % of Android users, almost full blown iOS 8.
But even on Android, without kitkat you are out of superior apps and services, like Google Camera. Only recently was Google Now Launcher available for my Galaxy device. But clearly developers already saw it in the wall:
If iOS ecosystem is this strong during the smartphone growth period (powered by low end devices), it's unstoppable. Eric Shmidt predicted that Devs would see Android as "THE" first class citizen in 2011. Guess what. It never happened then, it won't happen. iOS just keeps growing and getting stronger. Devs love it more than ever, and the discrepancy in interest is actually growing.
