Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Are 2016 Smartphones Too Powerful?”.
If you guys already haven’t heard of the Oppo find 7, it was an incredible phone released in March 2014. It had mind-blowing specifications, a gorgeous, looking display and was one of the most powerful phones to ever hit the market. In July this year, rumors started to circulate about the phone successor, the Oppo fight 9, and they predicted a pretty beastly specification, and it’s only recently in sort of December time that rumors have begun picking up again this time, all of them pointing towards the phone. Having 6 gigabytes of RAM, this combined with the Snapdragon 820 CPU and the Adreno 530 GPU would make this a true next-generation device.
But what I actually made this video for, and the kind of dilemma that I’m kind of having in my own head is – is there actually a point to any of this? Now sure specifications are great for nerds. Like me, I mean, if I see a phone which has the six gigabytes of RAM. That alone would make me very tempted to buy it, but then is that what the smartphone market has become? Is it just this arms race to throw in as many components as you can into your next smartphone, even if it doesn’t really yield any noticeable benefit? You may remember the original Galaxy S smartphone, which was probably the the first true Android smartphone that could safely compete with Apple, because to begin with, at least the iPhone was well ahead of the competition, and since then, Android has developed its moved ahead, leaps and bounds. More powerful components, larger and sharper displays have really genuinely enhanced the experience, but I think it’s kind of reached a point where that is plateauing a little bit, even if they double the power on current smartphones, would it really be any faster? I mean if you get a Galaxy Note. 5, for example. Everything you do is silky smooth. Every action you take happens almost instantaneously, there’s no bugs and glitches. The screen is well above Retina quality, and it’s so big, but making it any larger would always definitely make it unprofitable. When you play games just about any high-end, Android device will slice through anything with, and what surprised me is the Android games really aren’t getting much more complex in terms of graphics 1995. Maybe even 99 % of them are still 2d games or very basic 2.5 D or 3d titles there’s very little development on that front, and I think it’s mostly just because of the touchscreen nature, these devices playing a game like modern combat 5. Well, it does look and feel quite nice just doesn’t live up to the console, feel that it’s trying to replicate and it never will because of the form factor. There will never be mainstream phones with physical buttons on them, because that doesn’t make sense for the majority of people. So, as a result, these smartphones just won’t become a hardcore gaming alternative and, what’s really confusing, is that, while the next smartphones they’re getting exponentially more powerful every time, battery life basically hasn’t budged, since they begun our smartphone camera quality is undoubtedly improving from generation to generation, But it just will never be able to replace a dedicated DSLR, because those huge optics won’t be able to fit in a space. This small and whilst increasing the power of your smartphone may be able to help you capture higher megapixel images. It just won’t be able to physically replicate the optics of a larger camera.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that the smartphone market is stagnating, because it’s not there’s constantly innovation, because there has to be this styluses. There’S fingerprint sensors this virtual reality. All these things could become the next thing, but it’s just.
Why are we actually increasing the power of these smartphones? What is the actual purpose of it now? I would actually quite like the star discussion on this, because I’m genuinely curious and if you guys have any insights on this I’d, love to hear your opinions in the comments below thanks once again for watching guys. I missed you who’s the boss, and this is insanely cool deck. .
