You cannot buy a bad smartphone now - ARM

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Posted by Bagpuss - Mon 02 Mar 2015 09:17
I agree, I just bought one of those cheap Alcaltel Pop smartphones as a backup phone for the car glovebox and for just £35 it's quite impressive what you get for such a small amount of money thesedays, camera, wi-fi, Bluetooth,GPS, FM Radio, a decent quality colour touch screen and to my surprise it's more than fast enough to run Google Earth.

The only obvious cost saving area they seem to have cut back on in order to pack the phone with all the goodies seems to be the rather weak battery which won't last much more than a day if you use the more power intensive features for extended periods.
Posted by kingpotnoodle - Mon 02 Mar 2015 13:41
“You cannot buy a bad smartphone now” - So even the Intel powered ones are OK then are they ARM?
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Mon 02 Mar 2015 14:57
The A7 is a stonking core for the money, seems to have been a real game changer. Hopefully the A53 will take off in the same way and get us a 64 bit performance boost.
Posted by shaithis - Mon 02 Mar 2015 15:17
What utter tosh.

While the CPUs/SOCs to run these things are now VERY capable, for most people it is not the processor that causes headaches. It is low resolution displays, poor touch registration and lack of RAM…..None of which are addressed by ARM.
Posted by MrRockliffe - Mon 02 Mar 2015 15:58
I don't think ARM have ever used a cheap Sony phone before…

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