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I went from an iPhone 5 to an SGS4. I definitely prefer the GS4, but the touch input response lag has bugged me from beginning. Even the iPhone's response speed feels distractingly slow when I use it for more than a couple minutes, but the GS4 is noticeably worse.
 
Something still isn't right about this. The latency of swiping is apparent on all touch devices, but typing doesn't seem to cause the same issue. Even on my Lumia 520 (not a high-end device, by any means), the tapping of keys registers quickly enough that I fail to notice any gap between touching the screen and seeing the key press.

The Lumia 928 apparently falls at 117ms response time, so I'd expect the Lumia 520 to be considerably slower to respond. 117ms should be painfully apparent while typing. Trying to play a guitar with 25ms latency is incredibly disorienting, so I don't really see how 50ms would make typing any less disorienting.

I'd guess there is latency in swiping because the software has to recognize what you're trying to do: tap, long tap or swipe.

Audio latency isn't straightforward either. There is latency caused by the electronics, software processing etc but also latency from sound traveling thru air (though it's generally negligible). Different audio drivers report latency differently so that 4ms you get from ASIO might not be the complete truth.

For visual latency I'd say we are far less sensitive to it. For example the average LCD display alone has input latency ranging from about 10 to 40ms depending on the model. Add to that the latency for LCD pixels transitioning from one state to another (6-16ms) and finally any latency that occurs in rendering that image.

So in short audio and visual lag aren't comparable although both do become disorienting if the lag is too long. Just by changing how long transition animations take on a phone can make it feel much faster.

BTW, did you guys know that iOS and Android have a 300ms latency on web pages before events (like clicking on a button) are fired so that the system can detect if you tapped once or double tapped?

PS. I tried Google Maps on my GS4 and don't notice lag - if there is any it could be any number of things from touch lag to rendering taking a while.
 
Lol what does this change? So it took a flagship Android from 2013 to finally marginally de crown the iPhone. You have to enable touch sensitivity no less. The top ten is mostly Apple devices and the S4 is on par with a 3.5 yr old iPhone 4.

Is this supposed to be impressive? Lol

Edit: As it seems, they turned off touch optimizations on the iPhone and got 72ms. While they turned on touch sensitivity for the Note3. Doesn't seem like a fair fight to me as the iPhone gets 55ms with the optimizations on, beating the Note 3.
 
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Lol what does this change? So it took a flagship Android from 2013 to finally marginally de crown the iPhone. You have to enable touch sensitivity no less. The top ten is mostly Apple devices and the S4 is on par with a 3.5 yr old iPhone 4.

Is this supposed to be impressive? Lol

When your wrong its best not to look butthurt over it.


But for the record.

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I'll take it that your not going to change your OP then? 😀
 
Lol what does this change? So it took a flagship Android from 2013 to finally marginally de crown the iPhone. You have to enable touch sensitivity no less. The top ten is mostly Apple devices and the S4 is on par with a 3.5 yr old iPhone 4.

Is this supposed to be impressive? Lol

You're sad man. You were jumping up and down excited when you thought iPhone 5s had the fastest touch sensitivity. Now you find out the entire point of your original thread was wrong and totally incorrect and Samsung Android phone is actually the fastest. Rather than admit and correct the mistake with a title change, you dismiss it and say you aren't impressed? You sure seemed impressed when you thought the iPhone was the fastest.
 
You're sad man. You were jumping up and down excited when you thought iPhone 5s had the fastest touch sensitivity. Now you find out the entire point of your original thread was wrong and totally incorrect and Samsung Android phone is actually the fastest. Rather than admit and correct the mistake with a title change, you dismiss it and say you aren't impressed? You sure seemed impressed when you thought the iPhone was the fastest.

They turned off touch optimizations for the iPhone while turning them on for the Note 3
 
Is high touch sensitivity turned off by default? If so, the S4 and Note 3 are even worse than previously thought out of the box.
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Phone	Touch Delay	Notes
Samsung Galaxy Note 3	67 ms	All gestures disabled, High touch sensitivity enabled
Samsung Galaxy S4	91 ms	All gestures disabled, High touch sensitivity enabled
Samsung Galaxy S4	120 ms	All gestures enabled, High touch sensitivity enabled
Samsung Galaxy Note 3	134 ms	All gestures enabled, High touch sensitivity enabled
Samsung Galaxy S4	165 ms	All gestures enabled, High touch sensitivity disabled
 
They turned off touch optimizations for the iPhone while turning them on for the Note 3

They turned off optimisations in the benchmark for the iPhone, they turned off touch gestures on the Note 3 device.

UPDATE: In preparing for our TouchMarks II release, we discovered an optimization in our iOS test app that was not present in our Android or Windows Phone test apps. To keep the benchmark consistent across all devices, we have removed the optimization from our iOS test app and updated the iPhone results and graph in this post to reflect the change. We’ll be exploring the effect of the optimization in a later post. I apologize for the error.
 
The iPhone 5 is 55ms speed at stock. You have to disable its optimizations to get the slower speed. On the Note3 you have to disable all gestures and enable touch sensitivity, but it's still not faster than 55ms.
 
The iPhone 5 is 55ms speed at stock. You have to disable its optimizations to get the slower speed. On the Note3 you have to disable all gestures and enable touch sensitivity, but it's still not faster than 55ms.

No. The benchmark was inconsistent across iOS and Android devices. It had optimizations for iOS that weren't there for Android. The iPhone 5 is 75ms at stock measuring the same thing as the Note 3.
 
The iPhone 5 is 55ms speed at stock. You have to disable its optimizations to get the slower speed. On the Note3 you have to disable all gestures and enable touch sensitivity, but it's still not faster than 55ms.

Wow man you are something.

The note 3 has options to increase speed response but the actual benchmark SOFTWARE on iOS has another optimization that boosts scores that's only on the iOS version of the APP

Run that optimization on the note 3 to get apples to apples numbers.that optimization has been removed from the iOS version of the software because its not present in the android version.

The note 3 will score even higher if it had a cheater version of the app
 
So you going to change the thread title?

I'm thinking

iPhone 5 touchscreen response 11% slower than competitor

Would be fair?

TBH I didn't care about this when Apple was fastest and I still dont care now. Its just funny because of the OPs motives.
 
No. The benchmark was inconsistent across iOS and Android devices. It had optimizations for iOS that weren't there for Android. The iPhone 5 is 75ms at stock measuring the same thing as the Note 3.

Ah gotcha. Kind of begs the question why the benchmarking tool is inconsistent in the first place. The Note 3 is the fastest if gestures off and touch sensitivity on.
 
Ah gotcha. Kind of begs the question why the benchmarking tool is inconsistent in the first place. The Note 3 is the fastest if gestures off and touch sensitivity on.


Benchmarking mobile hardware is ridiculously difficult.

The range of hardware, software, and usage patterns makes it useless. Best just to find a reviewer you trust and get them to give you a subjective analysis of a product and use some common sense.

The Note 3 has a high sensitivity mode if you want it and its got a lot of gesture based stuff which would interfere with benchmarking.

Edit: And stop being reasonable! I was having fun with my headlines. 😀 😛
 
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