Samsung Galaxy S III keeps the top spot in British smartphone market in October

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davygee said:

wick said:

davygee said:

wick said:

rocketpig said:

-Newcloud- said:
It's because every iPhone owners knows the galaxy SIII is a better cooler phone that's worth the money. while the iPhone 5 is just a slightly better version of the 4s and the 4s is just a slightly better version then the iPhone 4

As an iPhone owner apple need to step it up, or lower there prices.

The iPhone 5 is just as powerful as the Galaxy in a package around 2/3rds the size of Samsung's flagship. I consider that "stepping it up" quite a bit.

If you're talking about iOS, then I somewhat agree but hardware-wise, the iPhone 5 is the best thing going right now.

Hardware-wise, my Galaxy Note 2 would disagree with that statement ;)

I beg to differ.

http://www.glbenchmark.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=glpro25&showhide=true&certified_only=1&D1=Samsung%20GT-N7100&D2=Apple%20iPhone%205

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTe1fqAzw8

The guy sitting directly accross from my desk has an iPhone 5 and we compared them.

In real world tests, my Note 2 blew it out of the water.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks

http://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

Its a FACT that, yes the CPU in a Note 2 is better than the A range of chips in Apple products, but in reality when GPU performance comes into it, it's the total opposite.  Apple have designed their chips to include extremely powerful GPU's as most of modern applications require extensive use of the GPU rather than just the CPU.

Geekbench tests CPU and Memory performance combined but not GPU performance, so although the the iPhone 5 is 20% slower in Geekbench tests, the iPhone 5 blows the Note 2 out the water when it comes to GPU performance, which to be honest is the REAL test people want the results from.  It is generally double as fast and sometimes even more.

Well I can only go off what I've seen in front of me.

In everything we did apart from the camera app opening, the Note 2 was quicker than the iPhone 5. Sometimes by a fair margin.