Nice one, you compare second hand prices to brand new prices. Anandtech's goal is to guide you in the chip market buying it brand new, not hunting it on ebay. Also, what they say with the 1950x being the best compromise between number of PCIe lanes, processing power, maximum memory etc. If you didn't notive, performance is not their only criteria.
Basically, IPC in an Intel core is a bit better than in an AMD core. Keeping this in mind, you can compare core counts, frequency, power draw, PCIe lines or whatever floats your boat.
To compensate for a lower IPC, AMD will give you more cores (sometimes a lot) for the same price.
It all depends of what you need your processing power for.
Heat is known to degrade battery life/capacity. That's why middle range product (like those with a SD625) are better for battery life not only because they sip power, but because they don't heat up as much and you'll get a bettery life after one or two years compared to a more powerful SoC.
The author assumes this fact: "Assuming you are in fact getting a better product for that extra money". However it's not necessarily true.
Question really is: is it a better product, making it worth to spend more on it? Spending more on something doesn't always translate to a better experience. I guess the only way to know is to try both and people switching to android are going to find out.
For instance, people spending a lot of time on their phone will benefit way more from a better battery life than from tiny good looking bezels. Having to recharge your phone during the day can be quiet frustrating.
I don't get why this leak is a big deal, was there something new in the leak beside the design of the iPhone X and the "Face Unlock" sensors? These facts were known for at least a month. Maybe the fact that there will be an LTE Apple watch? That doesn't seem too much damaging to me.
Purely speculation, but that could be because fatty acid is easier to store, so you need to use it later, and because glucose would be kept in reserve of high intensity effort (like running away from a predator) in case you really need it. Several fitness websites suggest that when exercising at 50% of your maximum heartrate, you burn more fat compared to carbs than when exercising at, say, 75% of your max heart rate. But that may be completely false, I don't know.
My Bose headphones can be connected to two devices simultaneously, and paired to more devices (I don't know the limitation for pairing). Same for my 40$ bluetooth speaker.
I thought 130 litres/person was quiet high and probably included things like water to grow vegetables, but no, one shower is between 30 et 50 litres and each time you go to the bathroom, it's 10 litres of drinkable water.
Of course, I you have saltwater and no freshwater, you would probably use saltwater in your toilets, so that could reduce the daily usage of at least 20 litres. But then, if you consider agriculture and manufacturing, I guess that the number of 130litres/person would blow up completely.
At the end of the video, the inception sound made me think of the first few seconds of Horsepower, by Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQqnL38d0GY
But the song came out in 2011, so they probably were inspired by the movie soundtrack.
Also, the "BRAAAM" makes me think of a warhorn, and it's probably why it's used in movies, BRAAAM means to freak us out, like a warhorn.
I hope Firefox does something for the Windows 10 integration :/ I would like to use it in tablet mode, but the keyboard almost never pops up when in a text field, scrolling with the touchscreen is choppy, it is not really optimized for tablets. But performances are great.
I have a Surface Pro 3 and I confirm what wlesieutre said. Scrolling with the touchpad on the Typecover is completely smooth in Firefox, but for some reason, this isn't smooth when using the touchscreen. I don't know why.
> In short, your ability to maintain proper social skills and develop a sense of empathy is largely dependent on the physical affection, eye contact, and playtime of those early years. Even something as simple as observing facial expressions and understanding what those expressions mean is tied to your wellbeing as a toddler.
Crap, is that true? Anyone knows other studies confirming this?
Yes, I wear my Nexus 4 on my arm and it's not the nicest thing. I previously had a 4" phone which was much better. Also, the smartwatch is nice to see your speed and the time, so you would wear it anyway (I can't really check the phone's screen on my arm, but I have audio feedback). If you can get rid of the smartphone, which is here just for the music and GPS, that's perfect. An update to android wear is going to bring bluetooth offline music, perfect for my bluetooth headset I use. Why take your smartphone with you when you don't need it?
I think that Anime release groups are also a lot less "regulated" than US TV rip scene. For animes, you can just ask your friends to help you translate an uncovered anime in your country, you get the "raw" from japan and you sub. For TV, they have rules as complicated as this: http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2011_TV_X264_u2.nfo if they don't follow them, they're excluded from the scene.
Also, I don't know if this is already implemented in some codec, but it would be interesting to re-use key frames from previous shots. For instance when you have a dialog and the camera switches from one person to another, a conventional codec probably creates a new i-frame for each shot whereas an intelligent codec would recognize that this is the continuation of the previous shot.
I agree for TV, but what about the case of the author, where he gets the episode from iTunes? Blu-Ray and iTunes episodes have a chance to have the intro timed perfectly the same as they are probably exported from a kind-of video editing workflow where they copy-paste the intro. At least, that's what I imagine. So the intro in their workflow is probably the same (I mean, the same video file), but somehow the export to h264 makes it different for each episode. Maybe the psy optimizations use dithering or another trick involving randomization.
Sorry, I didn't see the GPS. So if there are apps compatible with this, then it can distinguish itself from other smart-watches. Would be nice to go running without a smartphone and still tracking the speed.
Then we'll see in a few years :) It seems like phone specs are being more and more stable anyway, the 3 last iPhones all have 1GB of RAM, the iPhone 6 only has a 17% CPU boost over the 5S whereas the 5S had a 92% advantage over the 5! On the android side, flagships still have 2GB of RAM, same as 2 years ago, the CPUs are generally Snapdragon 8XX, with a small improvement over last year's Snapdragon 800.
Also, I guess I'm spoilt by the PC and Android world where you can install new software on old devices.
So yeah they are better than one of the worst. This doesn't mean they should not try to do even better. Why can my 2008 Vista laptop be upgraded all the way to 8.1 and use software that come out today and my 2008 pocket computer / smartphone cannot do that? Especially that this year, smartphone specs are a little stuck. We should have an OS as independent as possible from the hardware, on any device.
In some countries (like mine), WhatsApp is not popular at all because unlimited SMS is cheaper than unlimited internet. We've had unlimited SMS for a long time now.
For all of those countries where maybe the best speed for internet is EDGE or GPRS, but where SMS are cheap, if not unlimited, this service is huge. I don't think the target is rich western world with LTE.
But before that, does having a PCI-E tunnel mean that you have to turn off the USB protocol? Or can you use both at the same time? How many pins are necessary to transmit a basic (no power, just data) PCI-E 1x? And 4x, which would be the minimum viable for gaming? I'm interested to know more about this PCI-E tunnel thing.
I hope so. Just by switching to a Cortex A7 or A53 @ 22nm instead of Cortex A8 @ 45nm, this should add 78% more battery life (according to the benchmark of Ars Technica). And by having a round battery instead of a square one, 57% more capacity. So if this 360 lasts 12h, we're looking at more than 33 hours of battery life. But the 78% improvement with a Cortex A7 would be under heavy load, probably not the same story for IDLE usage.
On the other hand this means that a second iteration of the Moto 360 will easily have a better battery life just by having a Cortex A7 CPU or even better, a Cortex A53, 50% more efficient than A7 and due next year. Something like a Snapdragon 410 with only 2 cores and no LTE modem would be great. The target is 130mw / core.
EDIT: apparently the G Watch and Gear Live have a Snapdragon 400 with 3 core deactivated. So I guess they could do the same with a 410.
If that's really the reason, then that's pretty much a failure. According to ars' synthetic battery life test, the Moto 360 is the worse. It has a slightly bigger battery than the Samsung, and has only 56% of its battery life.
PS: it's not only in ars' synthetic test but also real life reviews said the battery life is too low.
Maybe because the original post mentioned "right size" (so 4.5") and the smallest Coolpad is 5". Also, I wouldn't consider importing a chinese phone and buying a phone from Amazon or a physical store to be comparable. Good luck with your warranty on you chinese import, good luck with the roms to get a translation, etc... Maybe down-voters thought the same. Not the same category. If you go to the chinese import way, then there are many, many phones comparable to this "Coolpad".