Moto X (2015) or wait for Nexus 5 (2015)?

[kpkp]

The moto pure edition has a 3,000 mah battery compared to my S5 2,800 mah battery. Sure the difference isn't huge but I'm looking forward to getting timely updates and running stock android

Your S5 has a way smaller screen. I really hope they got some efficient LCDs and not something just to hit a price point.

 

[sweenish]

Moto uses AMOLED.

They have for a couple years now.

 

[s44]

Moto uses AMOLED.

They have for a couple years now.

They *did* for the X (not the G/E), but have abandoned it this year. Probably to keep costs down... Even if they used Samsung's "last-gen" Note 4 panel (or a 1080p RGB version for the Play!), that would have been great.

 

[Bman123]

Your S5 has a way smaller screen. I really hope they got some efficient LCDs and not something just to hit a price point.

I know the difference in screen size, was just talking about the battery size and android updates.

I'll check it out at best buy when it's available and see what the screen actually looks like

 

[soccerballtux]

So, first thing, what in the world does that have to do with the discussion? Are you this starved for attention?

Anyone on these boards know by this point that you like the G2. You don't have to go around shoving it down people's throats by randomly inserting the fact that you own one. Get over yourself.

hm. I'm actually not sure why I thought that was on topic. It definitely seemed it yesterday

also, the G2 can't reliably detect multi-tap on 4.4, which is a serious problem that I haven't solved yet. I think it's a LG bloatware software bug. My point being, it's not as perfect as ...whatever we're off topic

edit: I think I posted that as a branch of my thought while I was researching the CPU in these new MotoX's. The octo-core one is still only A53, which is a little faster than Cortex A8 and isn't even at A9 levels.

 

[Cakefish]

I thought that the A53 sits in between the A9 and A15 (but closer to the former);

Anandtech quote (from Galaxy Note 4 review):

"As far as performance goes, ARM tells us that A53 can match A9 in performance at equivalent clock speeds."

ARM website (A53 product page):

"It is smaller and lower power than the Cortex-A9 processor and delivers more performance on key benchmarks."

 

[soccerballtux]

I thought that the A53 sits in between the A9 and A15 (but closer to the former);

Anandtech quote (from Galaxy Note 4 review):

"As far as performance goes, ARM tells us that A53 can match A9 in performance at equivalent clock speeds."

ARM website (A53 product page):

"It is smaller and lower power than the Cortex-A9 processor and delivers more performance on key benchmarks."

2.3DMIPs vs A8's 2.0DMIPs and A9's 2.5DMIPs

 

[Cakefish]

So the Snapdragon 615 will not perform better than a Tegra 3? That's hard to believe.

 

[soccerballtux]

So the Snapdragon 615 will not perform better than a Tegra 3? That's hard to believe.

I think stuff like...more efficient and accurate branch predictor, better blah blah blah, higher memory bandwidth, and larger L2 cache

will provide performance improvements that should show up in the majority of use cases, whereas the DMIPs measurement is like an absolute best case throughput measurement. (If I recall correctly when reading about ARM's response to that question...) and so yes, it should be even better clock/clock than Cortex A9.

but this still leaves my concern at the 'it doesn't clock as high' stage.

but in general I'm a naysayer on this topic and absolutely think that little.little 4x1.7ghz/4x1.0ghz is just plain dumb. Either give me a 3ghz/1ghz option or go home. IMO.

 

[sweenish]

They *did* for the X (not the G/E), but have abandoned it this year. Probably to keep costs down... Even if they used Samsung's "last-gen" Note 4 panel (or a 1080p RGB version for the Play!), that would have been great.

Well I'll be.

I wouldn't have thought they'd abandon AMOLED, given the way they deliver notifications.

Maybe it's true, and the power savings AMOLED can offer really aren't all that great. Their specialized SoC might be what allows them to pull it off.

I don't entirely blame them. They can't get the latest and greatest versions anyway, and burn-in and dimming is still an issue. Even more so with the older AMOLED tech.