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The iPhone 6 Review

jabberwock 12y ago
Curious to see no mention of the bending controversy given the huge furore about it(regardless of whether it's actually true or not). If the reviewer thought it was a non-issue, he could have written a single sentence clarifying the same.
- publicfig 12y ago
  That has to do with the iPhone 6+, not the iPhone 6.
- stephencanon 12y ago
  There is a passing mention right there on the first page: "As I discuss in the iPhone 6 Plus review, going by Consumer Reports' data it seems that there is a weak point near the bottom of the volume rocker, although it's far less likely to be an issue on the iPhone 6 due to its smaller size."
- n00j 12y ago
  "Along the left side, we see the standard volume buttons and mute switch that continue to have the same solid feel and clean clicking action. As I discuss in the iPhone 6 Plus review, going by Consumer Reports' data it seems that there is a weak point near the bottom of the volume rocker, although it's far less likely to be an issue on the iPhone 6 due to its smaller size." He mentions it on the third paragraph.
- axlprose 12y ago
  Speaking of which, there's a decent article about this here: http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_website_for_posting_iphone_6_plus_bendgate_video.html http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_...
bshimmin 12y ago
Great review, as always. I was pretty entertained by the second comment, which I think has the highest density of Apple hatred the web has thus far witnessed.
- masklinn 12y ago
  > I was pretty entertained by the second comment He posted the exact same comment in the 6+ companion review, disappointing.
  - bshimmin 12y ago
    I actually wondered briefly if it were a Markov text generator, but maybe this rules that idea out.
- Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
  I'm sure he feels better getting it all off his chest and it's good to have a hobby. And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead.
  - jbigelow76 12y ago
    And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead Judging by scope, being irrationally angry on the internet seems to be a hobby unto itself.
    - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
      I see it more as a state of mind. An angry, angry state of mind.
- akfanta 12y ago
  Reading that comment made me really wish someone paid him to do that. Otherwise that was just too pathetic.
- zalzane 12y ago
personZ 12y ago
"It remains to be seen if other SoC manufacturers will catch up in their CPU architecture at one point or another" This is surprisingly ignorant from Anandtech. Surely they know better. While Apple raced to win the spec war (I say that tongue in cheek, but the truth is that Apple tries really hard to give you bragging rights, buying the biggest PowerVR designs, jumping on incomplete ARM specs, etc), going to ARMv8 far before her peers by creating a derivative of early A57 designs (much like Qualcomm did with Krait, getting in early on the new A15 design), every other vendor has been soberly pursuing ARM A57 at their own pace: It isn't like there is some great lack of performance in competing devices, and this simply isn't a critical thing, so there seems to be no great rush. The Tegra K1 Denver will be the first salvo from alternatives, and early indications are that it will provide pretty extraordinary performance, and presumably we'll search for ways of using that power productively. Looks like I've stepped into the distortion field, where Apple is both uncatchably ahead of everyone, and simultaneously not even trying.
- pinaceae 12y ago
  Apple tries really hard to give you bragging rights through their processor!? are you posting this from bizarro world? apple is the one tech company that does not advertise tech specs. they mention them in the keynotes and move on. as if you ignored thousands of articles about this very fact. amazing.
  - personZ 12y ago
    I see comments like yours fairly frequently, and it really is bizarro world. It's buying into an obviously untrue narrative that hasn't been true...well..ever. Apple makes a really big deal about their cores and GPU, as they have every right to (they're pretty great). Quite aside from their keynotes that focus extensively on this, on the product page you learn, right near the top, about the A8 64-bit processor and M8 coprocessor, as if these facts have any relevance to an end user. They're bragging points. Apple talks about their 64-bit advantage ad nauseam. They absolutely brag about their chip. They boast specs (as they boast "retina" displays and thinness and grams and materials).
SwellJoe 12y ago
It's amusing how much space is devoted to the location of buttons and ports. I don't recall ever thinking, "I want a phone with the power button on the right side and the charge port on the bottom. Those are my primary requirements." Phone hardware just isn't interesting, anymore. We've reached the point that personal computers reached a couple decades ago: They're all pretty good and not much different from the model released two years ago (though they are faster and have more storage and RAM).
- MichaelApproved 12y ago
  Further, the buttons are designed poorly. I use a pinching motion to click the power button. My thumb and index finger grip the phone and I put pressure on my thumb to click the power button. Unfortunately, that means the volume button also gets pressed with my index finger. The phone won't lock when both those buttons are pressed at the same time. It's frustrating. I have to grip the phone unnaturally so that I don't click both buttons at the same time.
  - coob 12y ago
    I tried to replicate your problem but I can only seem to do it when holding the 6 with just the forefinger and thumb (right handed). What are you other three fingers doing? I tend to grip with thumb on the right edge, index finger resting on the back and last 3 fingers holding the right edge. Are you an amputee?
    - MichaelApproved 12y ago
      > What are you other three fingers doing? I tend to grip with thumb on the right edge, index finger resting on the back and last 3 fingers holding the right edge. Do you mean "last 3 fingers holding the left edge? That style seems to be a minority, based on a quick Google image search. If fingers are wrapped around a phone, the index is with the rest of the 3 fingers. This is how I hold my phone http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/isolated-woman-hand-holding-phone-screen-30928518.jpg http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/isolated-woman-hand-holding-p... Check out the image search for examples. Most hold it the way I'm describing: https://www.google.com/search?q=holding+phone https://www.google.com/search?q=holding+phone > Are you an amputee? no
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stevewepay 12y ago
I've had the iPhone 6 since Sept 19. In the 10 days since then, I've shattered the screen, when it slipped out of my pocket as I got out of a chair, and bent the phone just yesterday, after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it (and then immediately getting up when I realized what I did). Let me tell you that the bending issue is very real. My phone isn't bent like those consumer reports videos, but it is definitely warped. I realize that both incidents are my fault, but this phone is by far the most fragile iphone I've ever owned, out of 4. In the 10 days that I've owned it, I haven't changed any of my behavior and it already has been damaged twice. I'm pretty disappointed with the poor durability of the phone and am considering replacing it with my reliable iphone5, and waiting for the 6S which hopefully fixes these durability issues.
- georgespencer 12y ago
  > after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it > the bending issue is very real I'd suggest that the issue is that you're a guy who thinks sitting on $1,000 of glass and aluminium is a normal thing to do.
  - stevewepay 12y ago
    I did this all the time with my iPhone 3, 4 and 5 without any issues which is why it developed into a habit. The fact that I can't do that with the iPhone 6 is a surprise and disappointment.
    - ghshephard 12y ago
      I'm with the parent. If you think sitting on a phone in your back pocket is a problem, I don't think the solution is a "stronger phone."
      - hnal943 12y ago
        You're wrong. I also do this all the time and if my phone broke I'd be outraged because every phone built before the iphone 6 can handle that kind of stress. The phone is the outlier, not the use case.
mbillie1 12y ago
> At this point, it’s not really possible to revolutionize the smartphone I see this sentiment batted around quite a bit these days. Just because nobody has revolutionized the smartphone in the past few years doesn't mean it's not possible.
- Alphasite_ 12y ago
  No, but there isn't any low hanging fruit.
  - ZenoArrow 12y ago
    There are tons of ways to innovate with smartphones, but the technology to do so is either too young, too niche or hasn't made it beyond the drawing board. To pick three innovative features that have made it into real smartphones, you can look at the Samsung Galaxy Beam pico projector, Jolla's 'The Other Half', and the YotaPhone E-Ink backscreen. Some would argue that these are gimmicks, but isn't all innovation a little gimmicky before it reaches mass market adoption (I'd argue camera phones were in this category originally, and they certainly aren't gimmicks anymore). Jolla's The Other Half is especially interesting, as it allows for people to personalise the functionality of their phone (along with the look). Whether it takes off or not remains to be seen.
    - seunosewa 12y ago
      Shatter-proof screens would be more revolutionary.
      - ZenoArrow 12y ago
        Not really. Screens on most high end smartphones are already toughened, you'd just end up with an evolutionary improvement rather than a revolutionary one. Plus, there's no such thing as shatter-proof, so the screens should be easily replaceable as well.
  - BinaryIdiot 12y ago
    That's not necessarily true it simply means there are no low hanging fruit that you can think of. It's entirely conceivable that something could come out to revolutionize mobile devices that, in hindsight, was really straight forward. It's hard to say absolutes about the future.
mwcampbell 12y ago
Interesting that the only problem the reviewer could find with sticking to 1 GB of RAM is that you can't keep several tabs live in Safari. To me, that just highlights the inefficiency of the modern web stack, rather than any problem with iOS or with the iPhone sticking to 1 GB of RAM.
cle 12y ago
This is an amazingly detailed review. But, at the end of the day, fussing over curvy edges, chevroned pixels, and extreme CPU and GPU performance is irrelevant to me. I bought the iPhone 6, but then I took it back and returned to my Nexus 5. I just can't justify spending over $700 (upgrade fees, contract, etc.) for a phone that does nearly everything my current $350 phone does. I'm sharing this because I hope that some people will avoid this mistake. They're taking advantage of the denomination effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_effect), and I got sucked into it too. For most of the people reading this: your current phone is just fine, save your money and use it for something more important.
- ghshephard 12y ago
  This really depends on (A) How often you use your phone, (B) What you use your phone for, and (C) most importantly, how old your phone is. Anybody who actively uses their phone, particularly the Camera, CPU and GPU capability, definitely stands to see a pretty big improvement if they upgrade every three years, and definitely every four. The jump (for me) from the 3GS to the iPhone 5 was massive, particularly around the camera. The shutter is incredibly fast on the iPhone 5. And the Games/Display also were a pretty big leap forward. Anybody who is currently on an iPhone 4 can definitely justify moving to the iPhone 6 if they are an active user, and I would even suggest there might be value for 4S users. I'd concur with you that iPhone 5 users can probably wait another round before seriously considering upgrades though, and obviously iPhone 5S users under contract (unless they have some really huge need for the large screens), don't have any need to update anytime soon. All this is predicated on you owning your phone. Obviously anybody stuck in a contract with the carrier in which they are "subsidized" should just upgrade every two years and re-sell your phone. [Edit - I just checked out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5 - The Nexus 5 is less than a year old and already has a 4.9" display. Unless you are a professional phone reviewer, I'm not sure what would motivate you to pick up an iPhone 6. Returning it was almost definitely the right decision]
  - rsynnott 12y ago
    > Anybody who is currently on an iPhone 4 can definitely justify moving to the iPhone 6 if they are an active user, and I would even suggest there might be value for 4S users. I went from a 4 to a 5S, and was very happy, but I'm not sure that I'd have bothered if I had a 5, or even a 4. Phones don't generally need to be upgraded every year, and most people don't do this.
Diwoto 12y ago
One thing I think Apple should do is to license Nvidia's GPU for their SoC. Especially when Maxwell is ready for mobile. Nvidia clearly wants to license it out and I think Apple would be the best one to take advantage of it. Apple seems to be pushing the GPU side of their SoCs quite a bit.
- moogleii 12y ago
  How's the power draw on that thing? I'm not really familiar with it, but I'm under the impression apple is interested more in balanced performance than all out perf
- leonroy 12y ago
  I've always been a HUGE fan of the PowerVR tech (the GPU inside the iPhone/iPad), even going so far as buying shares in the company when I was a kid (I was an odd kid). From what I understand of the technology it was built with efficiency from the ground up as opposed to the nVidia tech of the time such as the TNT and Geforce which were designed for raw performance. Good article about it: http://www.anandtech.com/show/558/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/558/4 I think Videologic/Imagination Tech patented the heck outta a lot of the techniques they came up with so wouldn't be surprised if they're ahead of the pack on efficiency.
morbius 12y ago
The quality of writing has definitely dipped since Anand's departure. Though this review does contain a lot of information, it seems like it was written in a very sophomoric way.
- leonroy 12y ago
  First thing I noticed was how many authors it took to write that article. Believe Anand used to write past iPhone reviews solo - think they're gonna find it tough to replace him.
morbius 12y ago
The quality of writing has definitely dipped since Anand's departure. Though this review does contain a lot of information, it seems like it was written in a very sophomoric way.
zyngaro 12y ago
"On August 30, 2014, Anand announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple, and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnandTech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnandTech

Curious to see no mention of the bending controversy given the huge furore about it(regardless of whether it's actually true or not). If the reviewer thought it was a non-issue, he could have written a single sentence clarifying the same.

publicfig 12y ago
That has to do with the iPhone 6+, not the iPhone 6.
stephencanon 12y ago
There is a passing mention right there on the first page: "As I discuss in the iPhone 6 Plus review, going by Consumer Reports' data it seems that there is a weak point near the bottom of the volume rocker, although it's far less likely to be an issue on the iPhone 6 due to its smaller size."
n00j 12y ago
"Along the left side, we see the standard volume buttons and mute switch that continue to have the same solid feel and clean clicking action. As I discuss in the iPhone 6 Plus review, going by Consumer Reports' data it seems that there is a weak point near the bottom of the volume rocker, although it's far less likely to be an issue on the iPhone 6 due to its smaller size." He mentions it on the third paragraph.
axlprose 12y ago
Speaking of which, there's a decent article about this here: http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_website_for_posting_iphone_6_plus_bendgate_video.html http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_...

bshimmin 12y ago

Great review, as always. I was pretty entertained by the second comment, which I think has the highest density of Apple hatred the web has thus far witnessed.

masklinn 12y ago
> I was pretty entertained by the second comment He posted the exact same comment in the 6+ companion review, disappointing.
- bshimmin 12y ago
  I actually wondered briefly if it were a Markov text generator, but maybe this rules that idea out.
Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I'm sure he feels better getting it all off his chest and it's good to have a hobby. And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead.
- jbigelow76 12y ago
  And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead Judging by scope, being irrationally angry on the internet seems to be a hobby unto itself.
  - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
    I see it more as a state of mind. An angry, angry state of mind.
akfanta 12y ago
Reading that comment made me really wish someone paid him to do that. Otherwise that was just too pathetic.
zalzane 12y ago

personZ 12y ago

"It remains to be seen if other SoC manufacturers will catch up in their CPU architecture at one point or another" This is surprisingly ignorant from Anandtech. Surely they know better. While Apple raced to win the spec war (I say that tongue in cheek, but the truth is that Apple tries really hard to give you bragging rights, buying the biggest PowerVR designs, jumping on incomplete ARM specs, etc), going to ARMv8 far before her peers by creating a derivative of early A57 designs (much like Qualcomm did with Krait, getting in early on the new A15 design), every other vendor has been soberly pursuing ARM A57 at their own pace: It isn't like there is some great lack of performance in competing devices, and this simply isn't a critical thing, so there seems to be no great rush. The Tegra K1 Denver will be the first salvo from alternatives, and early indications are that it will provide pretty extraordinary performance, and presumably we'll search for ways of using that power productively. Looks like I've stepped into the distortion field, where Apple is both uncatchably ahead of everyone, and simultaneously not even trying.

pinaceae 12y ago
Apple tries really hard to give you bragging rights through their processor!? are you posting this from bizarro world? apple is the one tech company that does not advertise tech specs. they mention them in the keynotes and move on. as if you ignored thousands of articles about this very fact. amazing.
- personZ 12y ago
  I see comments like yours fairly frequently, and it really is bizarro world. It's buying into an obviously untrue narrative that hasn't been true...well..ever. Apple makes a really big deal about their cores and GPU, as they have every right to (they're pretty great). Quite aside from their keynotes that focus extensively on this, on the product page you learn, right near the top, about the A8 64-bit processor and M8 coprocessor, as if these facts have any relevance to an end user. They're bragging points. Apple talks about their 64-bit advantage ad nauseam. They absolutely brag about their chip. They boast specs (as they boast "retina" displays and thinness and grams and materials).

SwellJoe 12y ago

It's amusing how much space is devoted to the location of buttons and ports. I don't recall ever thinking, "I want a phone with the power button on the right side and the charge port on the bottom. Those are my primary requirements." Phone hardware just isn't interesting, anymore. We've reached the point that personal computers reached a couple decades ago: They're all pretty good and not much different from the model released two years ago (though they are faster and have more storage and RAM).

MichaelApproved 12y ago
Further, the buttons are designed poorly. I use a pinching motion to click the power button. My thumb and index finger grip the phone and I put pressure on my thumb to click the power button. Unfortunately, that means the volume button also gets pressed with my index finger. The phone won't lock when both those buttons are pressed at the same time. It's frustrating. I have to grip the phone unnaturally so that I don't click both buttons at the same time.
- coob 12y ago
  I tried to replicate your problem but I can only seem to do it when holding the 6 with just the forefinger and thumb (right handed). What are you other three fingers doing? I tend to grip with thumb on the right edge, index finger resting on the back and last 3 fingers holding the right edge. Are you an amputee?
  - MichaelApproved 12y ago
    > What are you other three fingers doing? I tend to grip with thumb on the right edge, index finger resting on the back and last 3 fingers holding the right edge. Do you mean "last 3 fingers holding the left edge? That style seems to be a minority, based on a quick Google image search. If fingers are wrapped around a phone, the index is with the rest of the 3 fingers. This is how I hold my phone http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/isolated-woman-hand-holding-phone-screen-30928518.jpg http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/isolated-woman-hand-holding-p... Check out the image search for examples. Most hold it the way I'm describing: https://www.google.com/search?q=holding+phone https://www.google.com/search?q=holding+phone > Are you an amputee? no

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stevewepay 12y ago

I've had the iPhone 6 since Sept 19. In the 10 days since then, I've shattered the screen, when it slipped out of my pocket as I got out of a chair, and bent the phone just yesterday, after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it (and then immediately getting up when I realized what I did). Let me tell you that the bending issue is very real. My phone isn't bent like those consumer reports videos, but it is definitely warped. I realize that both incidents are my fault, but this phone is by far the most fragile iphone I've ever owned, out of 4. In the 10 days that I've owned it, I haven't changed any of my behavior and it already has been damaged twice. I'm pretty disappointed with the poor durability of the phone and am considering replacing it with my reliable iphone5, and waiting for the 6S which hopefully fixes these durability issues.

georgespencer 12y ago
> after putting it in my back pocket and sitting down on it > the bending issue is very real I'd suggest that the issue is that you're a guy who thinks sitting on $1,000 of glass and aluminium is a normal thing to do.
- stevewepay 12y ago
  I did this all the time with my iPhone 3, 4 and 5 without any issues which is why it developed into a habit. The fact that I can't do that with the iPhone 6 is a surprise and disappointment.
  - ghshephard 12y ago
    I'm with the parent. If you think sitting on a phone in your back pocket is a problem, I don't think the solution is a "stronger phone."
    - hnal943 12y ago
      You're wrong. I also do this all the time and if my phone broke I'd be outraged because every phone built before the iphone 6 can handle that kind of stress. The phone is the outlier, not the use case.

mbillie1 12y ago

> At this point, it’s not really possible to revolutionize the smartphone I see this sentiment batted around quite a bit these days. Just because nobody has revolutionized the smartphone in the past few years doesn't mean it's not possible.

Alphasite_ 12y ago
No, but there isn't any low hanging fruit.
- ZenoArrow 12y ago
  There are tons of ways to innovate with smartphones, but the technology to do so is either too young, too niche or hasn't made it beyond the drawing board. To pick three innovative features that have made it into real smartphones, you can look at the Samsung Galaxy Beam pico projector, Jolla's 'The Other Half', and the YotaPhone E-Ink backscreen. Some would argue that these are gimmicks, but isn't all innovation a little gimmicky before it reaches mass market adoption (I'd argue camera phones were in this category originally, and they certainly aren't gimmicks anymore). Jolla's The Other Half is especially interesting, as it allows for people to personalise the functionality of their phone (along with the look). Whether it takes off or not remains to be seen.
  - seunosewa 12y ago
    Shatter-proof screens would be more revolutionary.
    - ZenoArrow 12y ago
      Not really. Screens on most high end smartphones are already toughened, you'd just end up with an evolutionary improvement rather than a revolutionary one. Plus, there's no such thing as shatter-proof, so the screens should be easily replaceable as well.
- BinaryIdiot 12y ago
  That's not necessarily true it simply means there are no low hanging fruit that you can think of. It's entirely conceivable that something could come out to revolutionize mobile devices that, in hindsight, was really straight forward. It's hard to say absolutes about the future.

mwcampbell 12y ago

Interesting that the only problem the reviewer could find with sticking to 1 GB of RAM is that you can't keep several tabs live in Safari. To me, that just highlights the inefficiency of the modern web stack, rather than any problem with iOS or with the iPhone sticking to 1 GB of RAM.

cle 12y ago

This is an amazingly detailed review. But, at the end of the day, fussing over curvy edges, chevroned pixels, and extreme CPU and GPU performance is irrelevant to me. I bought the iPhone 6, but then I took it back and returned to my Nexus 5. I just can't justify spending over $700 (upgrade fees, contract, etc.) for a phone that does nearly everything my current $350 phone does. I'm sharing this because I hope that some people will avoid this mistake. They're taking advantage of the denomination effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_effect), and I got sucked into it too. For most of the people reading this: your current phone is just fine, save your money and use it for something more important.

ghshephard 12y ago
This really depends on (A) How often you use your phone, (B) What you use your phone for, and (C) most importantly, how old your phone is. Anybody who actively uses their phone, particularly the Camera, CPU and GPU capability, definitely stands to see a pretty big improvement if they upgrade every three years, and definitely every four. The jump (for me) from the 3GS to the iPhone 5 was massive, particularly around the camera. The shutter is incredibly fast on the iPhone 5. And the Games/Display also were a pretty big leap forward. Anybody who is currently on an iPhone 4 can definitely justify moving to the iPhone 6 if they are an active user, and I would even suggest there might be value for 4S users. I'd concur with you that iPhone 5 users can probably wait another round before seriously considering upgrades though, and obviously iPhone 5S users under contract (unless they have some really huge need for the large screens), don't have any need to update anytime soon. All this is predicated on you owning your phone. Obviously anybody stuck in a contract with the carrier in which they are "subsidized" should just upgrade every two years and re-sell your phone. [Edit - I just checked out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5 - The Nexus 5 is less than a year old and already has a 4.9" display. Unless you are a professional phone reviewer, I'm not sure what would motivate you to pick up an iPhone 6. Returning it was almost definitely the right decision]
- rsynnott 12y ago
  > Anybody who is currently on an iPhone 4 can definitely justify moving to the iPhone 6 if they are an active user, and I would even suggest there might be value for 4S users. I went from a 4 to a 5S, and was very happy, but I'm not sure that I'd have bothered if I had a 5, or even a 4. Phones don't generally need to be upgraded every year, and most people don't do this.

Diwoto 12y ago

One thing I think Apple should do is to license Nvidia's GPU for their SoC. Especially when Maxwell is ready for mobile. Nvidia clearly wants to license it out and I think Apple would be the best one to take advantage of it. Apple seems to be pushing the GPU side of their SoCs quite a bit.

moogleii 12y ago
How's the power draw on that thing? I'm not really familiar with it, but I'm under the impression apple is interested more in balanced performance than all out perf
leonroy 12y ago
I've always been a HUGE fan of the PowerVR tech (the GPU inside the iPhone/iPad), even going so far as buying shares in the company when I was a kid (I was an odd kid). From what I understand of the technology it was built with efficiency from the ground up as opposed to the nVidia tech of the time such as the TNT and Geforce which were designed for raw performance. Good article about it: http://www.anandtech.com/show/558/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/558/4 I think Videologic/Imagination Tech patented the heck outta a lot of the techniques they came up with so wouldn't be surprised if they're ahead of the pack on efficiency.

morbius 12y ago

The quality of writing has definitely dipped since Anand's departure. Though this review does contain a lot of information, it seems like it was written in a very sophomoric way.

leonroy 12y ago
First thing I noticed was how many authors it took to write that article. Believe Anand used to write past iPhone reviews solo - think they're gonna find it tough to replace him.

morbius 12y ago

The quality of writing has definitely dipped since Anand's departure. Though this review does contain a lot of information, it seems like it was written in a very sophomoric way.

zyngaro 12y ago

"On August 30, 2014, Anand announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple, and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnandTech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnandTech