Samsung Note 5 rumors/hype thread

[mnewsham]

HTC makes much better phones than samsung:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEChU1k3JM

Thanks I guess?


I dont really see how that has to do with anything seeing as this is a thread on the Note5 and that video is talking about the Galaxy S4 vs. a 2014 HTC M8.



Not to mention, the current generation Exynos 7420 runs much cooler than any current HTC phone.

 

[zaza]

Thanks I guess?


I dont really see how that has to do with anything seeing as this is a thread on the Note5 and that video is talking about the Galaxy S4 vs. a 2014 HTC M8.



Not to mention, the current generation Exynos 7420 runs much cooler than any current HTC phone.

Chips are not the point (and I'm 100% sure Snapdragon 820 will run cooler than the latest crapsynos cause it has Qualcomm's custom cores)

What matters is:

Samsung wraps and traps their chips in both an inner layer of plastic and an outer layer of plastic. Heat is localized solely on the chip and not allowed to escape, causing performance throttling.

HTC surrounds their chip with a copper sheet and a 100% metallic shell that makes contact with outside temperatures, which leads to a phone that never throttles.

Samsung don't give a redacted if user experience is terrible as long as they score high in synthetic benchmarks (in which they cheat by disabling thermal throttling and using DVFS).

Nuff said.





You again, are using profanity in the tech fprums.

Stop it now.





esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[foghorn67]

I have a VZW note 4 that does this a lot. Usually putting it in and out of airplane mode fixes it. I am pretty confident that this is a VZW issue as all my previous VZW phones did this.

Same with my work's iPhone 6.

 

[dawheat]

Chips are not the point (and I'm 100% sure Snapdragon 820 will run cooler than the latest crapsynos cause it has Qualcomm's custom cores)

What matters is:

Samsung wraps and traps their chips in both an inner layer of plastic and an outer layer of plastic. Heat is localized solely on the chip and not allowed to escape, causing performance throttling.

HTC surrounds their chip with a copper sheet and a 100% metallic shell that makes contact with outside temperatures, which leads to a phone that never throttles.

Samsung don't give a shit if user experience is terrible as long as they score high in synthetic benchmarks (in which they cheat by disabling thermal throttling and using DVFS).

Nuff said.

Did you really bring up a youtube video with a phone released in the spring of 2013 as your evidence? Laughable on one hand, and confusing on the other hand for being brought up in a Note 5 thread when the phone doesn't have any real Android competition in performance this year.

If I recall, HTC was also found to still be "optimizing" for benchmarks after Samsung stopped that practice last year.

Got my free wireless charger in the mail yesterday. I was expecting 3-6 months or some crazy wait time since it was free from the samsung pay promotion. But I wont complain about a couple of weeks.

Works great, it's not the fast charger so it does take a little while, but I generally am just using it to top off my battery, not for a full 0-100 charge. (at least so far)

Oddly enough I got 2 chargers from Samsung for free from the Samsung Pay promotion - in two separate shipments a couple days apart. Mine are both white however.

 

[dawheat]

I have to say that it hasn't gotten old using Samsung pay at stores where clerks tell me they don't accept Apple Pay and then look confused when it works.

Though I did find it strange that Rite Aid doesn't support contactless transactions at all - when trying NFC first it then prompted me to enter the card into the chip slot. Holding my phone next to the magstripe then had it go through fine.

For all the ballyhoo about EMV cutover last fall, I still run into more stores I use the magstrip feature vs the NFC.